When I was about 15 years old, a guy I was going to school with showed up at our house in an MG Midget. On the rare day when that car was even running. A convertible. John. I was really surprised. Twice. First that John figured out where I lived and secondly that my parents let me leave the house that day. Many episodes later he bought me my first beer ever at an underage bar.
John died at the age of 43 in Taiwan. Heart attack. Diabetic, probably didn't monitor his condition well enough. He and his son were there. Sketchy. Everything was a bit sketchy with John.
But he turned me onto music. The Beatles. He had a Beatles collection. To show what a sheltered life I had lived, I'd heard all of those songs on the radio but I didn't know those same guys did all of them. I only knew I already liked those songs.
Now, at 61 years of age, I finally YouTubed a Pink Floyd concert. That was the soundtrack when I was in school, Dark Side of the Moon.. And I mean "high" school. Whoever you could buddy up with, who's got a car, who's got the weed? I didn't even like pot, didn't like the effect. Much less than beer. But I did it, I guess trying to fit in.
Anyhow, watching that Pink Floyd concert video, that was a letdown. That's just a few guys with musical instruments. Like, back then it was some message sent down from somewhere above. Nope, that's just some guys with musical instruments. And their studio recordings were so overdubbed and engineered, they had to play part of that over the PA system before they actually started playing the rest of the song live.
John died at the age of 43 in Taiwan. Heart attack. Diabetic, probably didn't monitor his condition well enough. He and his son were there. Sketchy. Everything was a bit sketchy with John.
But he turned me onto music. The Beatles. He had a Beatles collection. To show what a sheltered life I had lived, I'd heard all of those songs on the radio but I didn't know those same guys did all of them. I only knew I already liked those songs.
Now, at 61 years of age, I finally YouTubed a Pink Floyd concert. That was the soundtrack when I was in school, Dark Side of the Moon.. And I mean "high" school. Whoever you could buddy up with, who's got a car, who's got the weed? I didn't even like pot, didn't like the effect. Much less than beer. But I did it, I guess trying to fit in.
Anyhow, watching that Pink Floyd concert video, that was a letdown. That's just a few guys with musical instruments. Like, back then it was some message sent down from somewhere above. Nope, that's just some guys with musical instruments. And their studio recordings were so overdubbed and engineered, they had to play part of that over the PA system before they actually started playing the rest of the song live.
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