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40 Years Ago...

August 1968???
15 years old too and rockin', getting ready to be a HS junior and get my driver's license next month.
Watching the Chicago PD take it to the proresters at the 1968 convention. After that I never even THOUGHT about screwing with a Chicago cop :no:
 
I was in a hotel/motel in Tacoma, Washington, waiting, with my family, to move on base at Ft. Lewis, WA.

August 21st and 22nd I was trying to understand what was happening in Czechoslovakia... It was a moment of political awakening for me, having just returned from 3 years in Germany. I was 12, like hifi nut, and to this day it is all crystal clear in my memory. I had many friends whose fathers had died or been wounded in Vietnam, and to me it looked like the "invasion" of Prague would be the start of another war.

It was a year in my life that needed music as a background and timeline, in a sense, to carry me away from things I could not change at 12... I started listening to the words in music.

Alexander Dubček was a very popular and brave man that Brezhnev made into a ghost, but the possibility of "human rights" in a socialist country changed the direction of history in the Warsaw Pact nations. I guess it changed me a bit too.
 
I was ten years old living in Chicago listening to Am radio WLS/WCFL:yes: On the family's Longer then a car Magnavox console stereo:music: To all of those tunes:music: The Dells were and still are one of my favorite soul groups
(From Harvey Illinois) Just outside Chicago:thmbsp:
 
Spent most of the summer at Rehoboth Beach, DE in '68 at the age of 10. My grandparents rented a place for the summer, and my mom was a teacher, so we were there alot. My dad would come on weekends, and on his vacation.

Those were the days.
 
I was also wondering why I was starting to "Like" girls instead of running them off all the time, & why I liked seeing the ones whose chests had started to swell...
 
40 years ago I was being farmed out to the neighbors by my dad. We had just moved into a new house in a new track and somebody had to rake out all the dirt and plant grass seed...:sigh:
 
With my honey foggin' up the windows in my 57 Chevy (complete w/3 shades of primer)...being entertained by the 50,000 watt voices of WLS, KAAY & KOMA...all the while counting the few days left until departing for college. (GO JOHNNIES!!!)
 
My first memory of any music.My older sister was listening to Hey Jude on a tt.(we had a tt??)Was all of seven years old and was probably playing with my brother(RIP).I remember KOMA.That was the only decent am radio at night in our parts in the 70's.
 
st about to finish my Air Force basic training in Armarillo, Texas and be sent to Biloxi, Mississippi.
 
I was 8 yrs old in Pocatello, Idaho. My Dad had just brought me a few hundred demo 45's he picked up from a friend at the local radio station. I had already been collecting records for 2 years at that point. Then as now I was jammin'.
 
Being a kid, 10 years old, already had a vinyl collection of sorts. Sneaking into my brothers room to listen to his "progressive" 8 track tapes.
To all you guys in the service back then, thanks. It must of been tough, there was so much crap going on in the world.
Anyway, glad you are here to talk about it.
 
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