Guys my age drank rye out side the dance and the girls were inside. We had duck tail haircuts, my buddy had a 51 chevy with the spinner thing on the steering wheel, and our boots were pointy. I mostly worked changing oil at a gas station. I just don't remember hearing much in the way of music except what my Mom played on the radio in the kitchen.

In the 50's | spent my summer on one relative or other's farm, and they had radios, but it wasn't rock and roll. In the 60's I was setting pins at a bowling alley, working at a gas station, and had little time for school dances and such, but if we showed up we usually stayed outside and smoked. I phoned up a bunch of guys today who go and they were kind of at a loss for suggestions too.

Our school did a musical and a classical play every year, I was in 3 penny opera (Mack the Knife), and played Hamlet.

Being the oldest of 5 kids I got tired of my cousins 2nd hand clothes, so I got jobs.

John Conley
Musica est vita