re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We fell into that odd cusp, sort of baby boomers, all my (older brothers and sisters) never got into anything hippie or alternative, my youngest sister liked Beatlemania but lost interest in them when they went psychedelic.

Some years later, I “rediscovered” Sergeant Pepper and Satanic Majesties, early Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and bands like that thanks to the underground FM stations in Chicago, but always felt rather out of place with my peers, who were into thud bands Bachmann Turner Overdrive or disco.

I like disco. I never went to one until I was in the Navy though (callback to the Village People there).

The first popular song I ever heard was “Roundabout” (in 1974) at Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, as my grandparents (who with I grew up) prohibited all popular music.