Hi Abaris, I remember listening to the family radio when the news about the crash of Buddy Holley and his friends came out.
Rock and roll was an abomination to my dad, It was baby music compared to the syncopated noise of today, transistor radios had come out, school was miserable, bully issues in school, hippies doing marijuana was spoke about never seen by us country kids.
Field cars, 20 cent gas, riding home made mini bikes at night. We rode to a drive-in and snuck in the back to see Rock around the clock (well, some of it anyway -probably an old flick then).
Onto girls and hot rods, My back was very messed up so Vietnam was by-passed.
The 70s came.
Grass was real expensive at 5 dollars (a nickel bag) - more than 2 hours pay at a good job.
Too expensive for me and real dangerous on my motorcycle ( a state of the art 1970 750 Honda which would run 13.3 at the drags).
In the 70s I began to question what I am doing here and where I am going.
I was married, good job, house, fast bike (fast at the time) new van (yeah- G-10 Chevy)
dealing with some back pain, but doing OK.
That question and the resolution of it is how I got where I am.
It was resolved radically in 1972.
Rock and roll was an abomination to my dad, It was baby music compared to the syncopated noise of today, transistor radios had come out, school was miserable, bully issues in school, hippies doing marijuana was spoke about never seen by us country kids.
Field cars, 20 cent gas, riding home made mini bikes at night. We rode to a drive-in and snuck in the back to see Rock around the clock (well, some of it anyway -probably an old flick then).
Onto girls and hot rods, My back was very messed up so Vietnam was by-passed.
The 70s came.
Grass was real expensive at 5 dollars (a nickel bag) - more than 2 hours pay at a good job.
Too expensive for me and real dangerous on my motorcycle ( a state of the art 1970 750 Honda which would run 13.3 at the drags).
In the 70s I began to question what I am doing here and where I am going.
I was married, good job, house, fast bike (fast at the time) new van (yeah- G-10 Chevy)
dealing with some back pain, but doing OK.
That question and the resolution of it is how I got where I am.
It was resolved radically in 1972.
