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I have No Idea, how long the wait actually was(in a hot/cramped 65' Mustang), but I wound up falling asleep. I woke to a very loud thud of the passenger car (which this guy's brother was sitting) slamming, I said:" I didn't get to meet him !!!". This crass m.f. said, "You fell asleep, we tried to wake you !!!" I didn't believe that to be true. Fast forward to the Summer of 1982, my mother F-I-N-A-L-L-Y left this dude (stealing the car he rented), I Did Not Like BUT only having traveled the breadth of the entire country with him. We returned to my hometown[in which I wasn't "officially" reared until this period]. Here, my personal/social existence would dramatically shift"inward" from the life I once knew (and preferred) in L.A. (and to a certain degree Honolulu). Although I was a reckless, adventurous child(who lived to be Dared)in the previous places we lived St.Louis would render me a depressed socially awkward introvert, with an opportunity to meet music(unobstructed).I had an early love for drums, my uncle had a set(which you could hear him playing 1/2 a block away); I would always grab his sticks. There was a pic of me at 3, playing a wind-up Snoopy guitar. Mom used to "promise" to have me take lessons, but she was too consumed with the "Night Life" which seduced most people in Los Angeles. The last quarter of 1982 would force me to"sit still" and focus. This was often said in an apartment complex,1/4 of a block away from where Fishbone would rehearse[I would learn decades later]. Music "sounded" different to me in the Midwest, it seemed to have more intensity. The Time and Vanity 6 were constantly on the radio. I had no idea they were Prince produced. I remember The Time songs in L.A.[on, "Dance to the music;1580 KDAY!!"], but never knew it was the same group. One of the major shifts would include attending Catholic School(which would have a life-long effect). I remember my mother making a concerted effort to enroll me and my sister in L.A., but the waiting list was too long.1999 was one of the 1st "45's" I bought. A then classmate(who would later become a Billy Cox-like bandmate) later raved about his excitement for the upcoming show on December 2nd. I don't know "why" I didn't ask for a ticket (maybe because no one had a car and it was my 1st concert), but I remember that Friday night I sat in the dark of my grandmother's living room again disappointed. A similar disappointment would happen about a year later when Run DMC would play a High School exactly 1 mile away from where we lived. #princeblog #princenews #purplecurrent #prince1999deluxe #fishbone #KDAY #losangeles #LA #1982 Get the Jupiter Cannons CD here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/ev9 www.jimibl.com
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