Thank you Milo, I have enjoyed connecting with you here and by email. You know I have you on my list of people on myspace what I would like to meet.
Now the other day nobody asked me what my favorite time period in my life was and I would have to say it was the decade from 1967 to 1977. Particularily 1970-75. To me that is like the golden age of something.
IN them days they was no cable. We got three and a half chanels on the black and white TV and the half was PBS. After Johnny Carson some preecher would come on and have a devotional and they would play the National Anthem with images of fighter jets and Iwo Jima in the back ground and then the test pattern and then static, until 5 or 6 AM, when they would start with The National Anthem with pictures of churches and Washington and Lincoln. My parents were still on a party line for their phone, which they rented from the phone company for $3 per month.
Early in this time, 19 August 1972 to be exact, come Wolfman Jack and the Midnight Special. And so on Friday nights after Johnny Carson they was something else to watch. And it was a big deal when your 9 years old and they TV goes off you have nothing but the lighteneing bugs and the stars and late night radio which got a lot easier to listen to once I got a transistor radio, AM only. Billy, Don't Be A Hero.
But damnation the acts he had on, Sly and The Family Stone, The O'Jays, Ike and Tina, Joan Baez and AC/DC and for a while Helen Reddy was the hostess. Now you know there has got to be a story in that conglomeration.
I got to see a DVD of some of it tonight, one of them like you order off the TV, and it was so cool. Got to see this guy from my town, Curtis Teel, who played bass for the O'Jays. He was this VERY white guy with a really big afro. I rememebr his brother Keith was a few years ahead of me and in the band at school and once I got to wear a three cornered patriot hat for one of them pre-bicentenial programs what had his name in it.
And yes I love the run on sentance, it is the best kind of sentance, just keeps you moving right allong to some tangential conclusion that maybe the cable bill is worth it after all.
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