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"content": "HOW I GOT TO PUT A ROCK BAND (CLIMATE CHANGE) TOGETHER AT AGE 62!<br /><br />I was a young teenager sitting in my living room when my father came home from work, parked his car and pulled a guitar case out of the back seat. I started jumping up and down yelling to my friend “I got a guitar! I got a guitar!” It was an old ‘50’s Kay guitar with f-holes and with the action on the strings way too high. But what a great happy moment! <br /><br />My dad set me up with lessons. First time out I learned Little Brown Jug. The second lesson saw me checking in with Yankee Doodle. Then I told all my friends I was gonna learn how to play Apache by The Ventures. I mentioned this to my teacher, who played the song for me, but he told me to stick with Little Brown Jug and Yankee Doodle. I quit! I ended my glorious teenage years as a guitarist with a one-string guitar, the strings broken from heavy sessions with the basement pots and pans band.<br /><br />So time moved on and was growing up at Hampton Beach where I met everybody from everywhere. Soon I was running away from home, hitch-hiking all over New England pulled in a few trips to New York City. Kicked out of high school just before graduation, I split for California where I had incredible fun ... until I got drafted! So I hitched back east with everyone from the West Coast who were headed to Woodstock. At least I got to experience the spirit of Woodstock in this manner. But they took a left for the festival and I forward for my dreaded step into the military. <br /><br />The war dragged on and I opposed every bit of it from within. After a huge administrative challenge I eventually got an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector (that story is a book in itself!). The next several years saw me doing everyday work with the Peace Movement, the active-duty GI Resistance Movement and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. After the Movement wound down, I got into union-organizing where we won the union vote, but I got fired from my job.<br /><br />So now I was living in Boston’s Back Bay near the Public Gardens and collecting unemployment when I met one of those fascinating rare of a kind crazy girls. she was full of beauty, bliss and art. From New York City, she lived in the old Puffer Building on Cambridge Street at the foot of Beacon Hill. Her forte was Boston’s underground arts community. <br /><br />With everything going as great as great could go, we decided to throw a huge party. She lined up the artists and I, using my peace movement connections, gathered the musicians and over a hundred people. It became one of the best parties ever thrown in the history of Boston -- we went all night long and they couldn’t shut us down ‘cause every time the police came they were greeted with a contingent of well-known attorneys who met them at the door. These members of the bar fought for our Right to Parrrr-teee!!!<br /><br />Party we did!<br /><br />Next thing I know I’m managing a rock n’ roll band after I organized the musicians from the party into a rock band. The band centered around a slick Asbury Park lead guitarist named Johnny Tomorrow. It became one of Boston’s first glitter rock bands at the edge of punk music. The band’s name was Harlow. At one point the Boston famous Tom Scholz, just before his multi-gold album band, answered my ad in the Phoenix for a Hammond B-3 keyboard player. <br /><br />Imagine that. A guitarist of his caliber answering a keyboard ad! Scholz immediately was pronounced “In the band” and we got very, very good doing many of the songs which went gold. But after a few months fate took it’s turn and the band broke up. For historical purposes, somewhere out there is an incredible four-track cassette recording of Harlow w/Tom Scholz. (I’ve since lost my copy, but maybe N resident Jonathan Herndon (Harlow roadie back in the day) has a copy.)<br /><br />I tried putting a few new bands together afterwards but I was always plagued with the fact that I wanted to play -- I no longer wanted to manage other people’s talents. Eventually I leave Boston-Cambridge scene and move back to Portsmouth, NH where I was born. I got a job driving a taxi, bought three very great Gibson guitars and I began teaching myself how to play. To hell with Little Brown Jug/Yankee Doodle and that oddball teenage teacher guy (Gus Fiore was his name) ... I knew at that precise moment I was actually gonna pull it off and become a musician.<br /><br /> When learning my first chords I the divine inspiration toook a very deep grip as I cam to become best friends with an ole’ Black bluesman who accidentally got to Porsmuth in the ‘40 from Mississippi where he settled for the remainder of his life. His name was Robert \"BJ\" Johnson. <br /><br />Also a story teller of great magnitude who also held a deeply-rooted penchant for Schlitze Beer, he claimed the famous Robert Johnson -- renown for inventing the blues -- was his nephew ... even though BJ was way younger than he. I never asked ... I just went with it. As far as I’m concerned? It’s true!<br />Anyway, BJ told me, “Michael, I’m going to show you three chords -- E, A and B -- and if you learn these chords they’ll take you all over the world.” I learned his chords and when I barely knew them he put me on stage with him at The Press Room, me slouched at the back of the stage winging it. But it felt great!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/michael.r.weddle/media_set?set=a.1295112187240293&type=3\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/michael.r.weddle/media_set?set=a.1295112187240293&type=3</a><br /><br />Myself and Robert \"BJ\" Johnson at the Edgewood manor Nursing Home in Portsmouth NH<br />When old-timer illnesses caught a grip on him and he ended up in a nursing home, my buddy TJ Wheeler, an authentic bluesman in his own right, and some very good musicians friends would visit him frequently in the nursing home, play music for the folks and we’d even get him out to perform at the local clubs. We even put together a high level crack softball team which played for the nursing home. BJ would be there in his wheelchair in front of the bleachers, packing a harmonica around his neck.<br />He stayed a strong musician right to the very end!<br /><br />But me? Well, I’ve always been me. Always will be. And I always did what I wanted. Always an impossible student, everything I’ve learned has come mostly from the politics of experience. I went off in a variant way and began inventing my own chords immediately delving into an improvisational form of guitar-playing, immediately writing my own folk songs. Sadly, I always kept the E, A and B chords in my back pocket instead of my front pockets so I never became proficient at the blues. <br /><br />So one night, with incredible irony, I get dispatched in my cab to pick up a fare at The Dragon Seed, a Chinese restaurant doubling as a country-western club located in Kittery, Maine just past the ole’ Seagull diner. I go in to locate the ride and lo and behold whose on stage but that same guitar teacher who told me to stick with Little Brown Jug and Yankee Doodle. In further irony, he was the main vocalist in a band that was performing the famous C&W tune Cab Driver--lol! I interpreted this as divine inspiration!<br /><br />I knew then: I was gonna become a musician!<br /><br />The bands I managed were original bands, not cover-tune bands. So I determined I’d be the same way. In my young ‘30s, I began writing my own songs, pretty much evolved into a folk guitarist. Yeah, I learned a few Dylan and Donovan chestnuts from the ‘60s but overall all I did was original. This has never changed. I eventually got pretty good and had written enough songs I was close enough to start performing on the folk circuit.<br /><br />But gentrification and housing issues began hitting my community and my political blood boiled to a point where I ended up elected as a Democratic state representative, representing Portsmouth NH. Now ‘The People’s Choice,’ I went straight into the hard-hitting issues and stopped playing music near-completely. then it seemed like I wasn’t gonna be a cab driver, I wasn’t gonna be a guitarist ... I was gonna be the governor--lol!<br /><br />After serving two terms in the legislature I concluded I wanted to hang with musicians, not politicians. I figured the best way for me to get out was to take the most difficult issue possible and run for congress knowing I’d lose the election. So after a strong campaign calling for drug legalization I lost and moved back into Cambridge where I become a Harvard Square/Subway street musician -- a step up on the pedigree chart--lol! <br /><br />Now happy and back in the city living near Harvard Square one day I found 110 bottles of boxed and corked bottles of wine which got tossed from the Harvard University Alumni Party from the Class of ‘67. With wine for all I threw a spaghetti party for musicians. For the next eight years this party carried on every Thursday night with three to five dozen regular attendees. <br /><br />Somehow, fate had me not only throwing best party in Boston, I now had Cambridge under my party belt--lol! These were musical spaghetti parties -- the best parties ever held on the planet. Everyone was party-trained! But because I only performed original songs and all the other musicians carried the energy I always yielded to them and would only pull my guitar out just before the sun came out. In effect, although the parties were spectacular, I had become a backbench folksinger.<br /><br />Eventually I become an online stock trader and fall in love with a girl and move to New York City just in time for the stock market to crash. We recovered by eventually settling in Hull, Massachusetts (Nantasket Beach) ... where I live today with cats instead of her--lol But due to parties I always kept a full drum kit and a PA system. I remained party-ready for live music.<br /><br />Eventually my old friend Gideon (Stephen Eisner), who once played in the Harlow Band I managed back in the mid-’70s, moves to Hull where we rented a winter mansion. He and old Boston rocker friend Bruce Scott teamed up into a unit with Gideon and myself on acoustic guitars and Bruce sporting a double-necked lap steel guitar w/whammy bar and wah-wah. My first real band ever, together, Gideon had over 100 originals, I had 70 and Bruce had a few tucked away. Our vocal harmonies were right on and we became The Rolling Beatles. This project went very well until Gideon sadly passed away.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFsp6oSzw0\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFsp6oSzw0</a><br /><br />Next, I discover my new housemate Kat was a damn good drummer with natural talent. I knew another woman who also was a drummer and I was going out with a female bassist. Thus, I converted my acoustic folk songs into rock songs and finally had a legitimate rock n’ roll band at age 62. <br /><br />We called ourselves Heavy Weddle & The PrettyKats and did two great gigs: Occupy Boston and The Merry Wanna Ball, sponsored by the pro-pot lobby organization of Massachusetts. But the PrettyKats turned into PsychoKats and this experiment ended quickly--lol! To this day, I continue to insist that the two female drummers in one band was and remains a great idea ... oh, well! Perhaps someone else can pull that one off.<br /><br />So then from the world of Facebook comes Matt Gilbert whom I met on the Rathskeller (The Rat) thread. Our conversations led into founding a concept of The Rat Beach Party, an annual concert featuring 30 to 40 bands, held at Nantasket Beach which brings together a wonderful and amazing reunion of former Kenmore Square Rat Club Musicians. With guitar virtuoso Matt on ead and myself as a rhythm guitarist, vocalist and songwriter formed the Climate Change Band. Old buddy Bruce is on board. Jerry Yalmokas is doing the drumming and Reno Daly chips in often on bass.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCZQn2WnAyA\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCZQn2WnAyA</a><br /><br />All in all? It was a long hard road to no fame and fortune but I pulled it off--lol! I’m as happy as anyone performing music at my age!<br /><br /><br />",
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"content": "HOW I GOT TO PUT A ROCK BAND (CLIMATE CHANGE) TOGETHER AT AGE 62!\n\nI was a young teenager sitting in my living room when my father came home from work, parked his car and pulled a guitar case out of the back seat. I started jumping up and down yelling to my friend “I got a guitar! I got a guitar!” It was an old ‘50’s Kay guitar with f-holes and with the action on the strings way too high. But what a great happy moment! \n\nMy dad set me up with lessons. First time out I learned Little Brown Jug. The second lesson saw me checking in with Yankee Doodle. Then I told all my friends I was gonna learn how to play Apache by The Ventures. I mentioned this to my teacher, who played the song for me, but he told me to stick with Little Brown Jug and Yankee Doodle. I quit! I ended my glorious teenage years as a guitarist with a one-string guitar, the strings broken from heavy sessions with the basement pots and pans band.\n\nSo time moved on and was growing up at Hampton Beach where I met everybody from everywhere. Soon I was running away from home, hitch-hiking all over New England pulled in a few trips to New York City. Kicked out of high school just before graduation, I split for California where I had incredible fun ... until I got drafted! So I hitched back east with everyone from the West Coast who were headed to Woodstock. At least I got to experience the spirit of Woodstock in this manner. But they took a left for the festival and I forward for my dreaded step into the military. \n\nThe war dragged on and I opposed every bit of it from within. After a huge administrative challenge I eventually got an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector (that story is a book in itself!). The next several years saw me doing everyday work with the Peace Movement, the active-duty GI Resistance Movement and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. After the Movement wound down, I got into union-organizing where we won the union vote, but I got fired from my job.\n\nSo now I was living in Boston’s Back Bay near the Public Gardens and collecting unemployment when I met one of those fascinating rare of a kind crazy girls. she was full of beauty, bliss and art. From New York City, she lived in the old Puffer Building on Cambridge Street at the foot of Beacon Hill. Her forte was Boston’s underground arts community. \n\nWith everything going as great as great could go, we decided to throw a huge party. She lined up the artists and I, using my peace movement connections, gathered the musicians and over a hundred people. It became one of the best parties ever thrown in the history of Boston -- we went all night long and they couldn’t shut us down ‘cause every time the police came they were greeted with a contingent of well-known attorneys who met them at the door. These members of the bar fought for our Right to Parrrr-teee!!!\n\nParty we did!\n\nNext thing I know I’m managing a rock n’ roll band after I organized the musicians from the party into a rock band. The band centered around a slick Asbury Park lead guitarist named Johnny Tomorrow. It became one of Boston’s first glitter rock bands at the edge of punk music. The band’s name was Harlow. At one point the Boston famous Tom Scholz, just before his multi-gold album band, answered my ad in the Phoenix for a Hammond B-3 keyboard player. \n\nImagine that. A guitarist of his caliber answering a keyboard ad! Scholz immediately was pronounced “In the band” and we got very, very good doing many of the songs which went gold. But after a few months fate took it’s turn and the band broke up. For historical purposes, somewhere out there is an incredible four-track cassette recording of Harlow w/Tom Scholz. (I’ve since lost my copy, but maybe N resident Jonathan Herndon (Harlow roadie back in the day) has a copy.)\n\nI tried putting a few new bands together afterwards but I was always plagued with the fact that I wanted to play -- I no longer wanted to manage other people’s talents. Eventually I leave Boston-Cambridge scene and move back to Portsmouth, NH where I was born. I got a job driving a taxi, bought three very great Gibson guitars and I began teaching myself how to play. To hell with Little Brown Jug/Yankee Doodle and that oddball teenage teacher guy (Gus Fiore was his name) ... I knew at that precise moment I was actually gonna pull it off and become a musician.\n\n When learning my first chords I the divine inspiration toook a very deep grip as I cam to become best friends with an ole’ Black bluesman who accidentally got to Porsmuth in the ‘40 from Mississippi where he settled for the remainder of his life. His name was Robert \"BJ\" Johnson. \n\nAlso a story teller of great magnitude who also held a deeply-rooted penchant for Schlitze Beer, he claimed the famous Robert Johnson -- renown for inventing the blues -- was his nephew ... even though BJ was way younger than he. I never asked ... I just went with it. As far as I’m concerned? It’s true!\nAnyway, BJ told me, “Michael, I’m going to show you three chords -- E, A and B -- and if you learn these chords they’ll take you all over the world.” I learned his chords and when I barely knew them he put me on stage with him at The Press Room, me slouched at the back of the stage winging it. But it felt great!\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/michael.r.weddle/media_set?set=a.1295112187240293&type=3\n\nMyself and Robert \"BJ\" Johnson at the Edgewood manor Nursing Home in Portsmouth NH\nWhen old-timer illnesses caught a grip on him and he ended up in a nursing home, my buddy TJ Wheeler, an authentic bluesman in his own right, and some very good musicians friends would visit him frequently in the nursing home, play music for the folks and we’d even get him out to perform at the local clubs. We even put together a high level crack softball team which played for the nursing home. BJ would be there in his wheelchair in front of the bleachers, packing a harmonica around his neck.\nHe stayed a strong musician right to the very end!\n\nBut me? Well, I’ve always been me. Always will be. And I always did what I wanted. Always an impossible student, everything I’ve learned has come mostly from the politics of experience. I went off in a variant way and began inventing my own chords immediately delving into an improvisational form of guitar-playing, immediately writing my own folk songs. Sadly, I always kept the E, A and B chords in my back pocket instead of my front pockets so I never became proficient at the blues. \n\nSo one night, with incredible irony, I get dispatched in my cab to pick up a fare at The Dragon Seed, a Chinese restaurant doubling as a country-western club located in Kittery, Maine just past the ole’ Seagull diner. I go in to locate the ride and lo and behold whose on stage but that same guitar teacher who told me to stick with Little Brown Jug and Yankee Doodle. In further irony, he was the main vocalist in a band that was performing the famous C&W tune Cab Driver--lol! I interpreted this as divine inspiration!\n\nI knew then: I was gonna become a musician!\n\nThe bands I managed were original bands, not cover-tune bands. So I determined I’d be the same way. In my young ‘30s, I began writing my own songs, pretty much evolved into a folk guitarist. Yeah, I learned a few Dylan and Donovan chestnuts from the ‘60s but overall all I did was original. This has never changed. I eventually got pretty good and had written enough songs I was close enough to start performing on the folk circuit.\n\nBut gentrification and housing issues began hitting my community and my political blood boiled to a point where I ended up elected as a Democratic state representative, representing Portsmouth NH. Now ‘The People’s Choice,’ I went straight into the hard-hitting issues and stopped playing music near-completely. then it seemed like I wasn’t gonna be a cab driver, I wasn’t gonna be a guitarist ... I was gonna be the governor--lol!\n\nAfter serving two terms in the legislature I concluded I wanted to hang with musicians, not politicians. I figured the best way for me to get out was to take the most difficult issue possible and run for congress knowing I’d lose the election. So after a strong campaign calling for drug legalization I lost and moved back into Cambridge where I become a Harvard Square/Subway street musician -- a step up on the pedigree chart--lol! \n\nNow happy and back in the city living near Harvard Square one day I found 110 bottles of boxed and corked bottles of wine which got tossed from the Harvard University Alumni Party from the Class of ‘67. With wine for all I threw a spaghetti party for musicians. For the next eight years this party carried on every Thursday night with three to five dozen regular attendees. \n\nSomehow, fate had me not only throwing best party in Boston, I now had Cambridge under my party belt--lol! These were musical spaghetti parties -- the best parties ever held on the planet. Everyone was party-trained! But because I only performed original songs and all the other musicians carried the energy I always yielded to them and would only pull my guitar out just before the sun came out. In effect, although the parties were spectacular, I had become a backbench folksinger.\n\nEventually I become an online stock trader and fall in love with a girl and move to New York City just in time for the stock market to crash. We recovered by eventually settling in Hull, Massachusetts (Nantasket Beach) ... where I live today with cats instead of her--lol But due to parties I always kept a full drum kit and a PA system. I remained party-ready for live music.\n\nEventually my old friend Gideon (Stephen Eisner), who once played in the Harlow Band I managed back in the mid-’70s, moves to Hull where we rented a winter mansion. He and old Boston rocker friend Bruce Scott teamed up into a unit with Gideon and myself on acoustic guitars and Bruce sporting a double-necked lap steel guitar w/whammy bar and wah-wah. My first real band ever, together, Gideon had over 100 originals, I had 70 and Bruce had a few tucked away. Our vocal harmonies were right on and we became The Rolling Beatles. This project went very well until Gideon sadly passed away.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFsp6oSzw0\n\nNext, I discover my new housemate Kat was a damn good drummer with natural talent. I knew another woman who also was a drummer and I was going out with a female bassist. Thus, I converted my acoustic folk songs into rock songs and finally had a legitimate rock n’ roll band at age 62. \n\nWe called ourselves Heavy Weddle & The PrettyKats and did two great gigs: Occupy Boston and The Merry Wanna Ball, sponsored by the pro-pot lobby organization of Massachusetts. But the PrettyKats turned into PsychoKats and this experiment ended quickly--lol! To this day, I continue to insist that the two female drummers in one band was and remains a great idea ... oh, well! Perhaps someone else can pull that one off.\n\nSo then from the world of Facebook comes Matt Gilbert whom I met on the Rathskeller (The Rat) thread. Our conversations led into founding a concept of The Rat Beach Party, an annual concert featuring 30 to 40 bands, held at Nantasket Beach which brings together a wonderful and amazing reunion of former Kenmore Square Rat Club Musicians. With guitar virtuoso Matt on ead and myself as a rhythm guitarist, vocalist and songwriter formed the Climate Change Band. Old buddy Bruce is on board. Jerry Yalmokas is doing the drumming and Reno Daly chips in often on bass.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCZQn2WnAyA\n\nAll in all? It was a long hard road to no fame and fortune but I pulled it off--lol! 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"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=politics\" title=\"#politics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#politics</a><br /><br />Once Called OBOR & Now BRI, It Has US Middle East War Policy Baffled<br /><br />MICHAEL WEDDLE · SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2018<br /><br />If America had a stronger Peace Movement folks would be paying closer attention to what’s now happening in Syria. It’s extremely serious and the war clock ticks thinly!<br /><br />At present, no matter what the US does short term in Syria or the upper Middle East, in the long haul it'll have to come to grips with a very strong Russia-China-Turkey-Cross Shiite Crescent-Stan Region and Lower Asian alliance pushing for China's One Belt, One Road Project, now known as The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).<br /><br />Using trillions of dollars and green infrastructure, BRI aims to reopen ancient Silk Road land and sea trading routes. Tction will be supported by a new currency rivaling the US petrodollar. You may recall both Saddam and Qaddafi's want for a new currency made them both of them lose their country and their life. Not so with China!<br /><br />So remember “BRI” -- you'll hear a lot about it in the future.<br /><br />As currently aligned the board game position doesn't favor the US at all. This is precisely why everything is now dangerous. Daily, it becomes increasingly probable the only way the US can change its short and long term future in the region is by expanding the war using devious ill-intended proxy mercenaries in Syria, pretty much as they’ve been doing but this time they’ll be an increased US military role. As we know, the US is fond of bombing, controlling oil fields and pipeline routes.<br /><br />The situation is akin to an irate chess player tipping pieces on the board over in mid-game, this in the realization of entering a well-established losing position. Yes, there’s a few of ‘em out there who behave like that. And the US never has been shy at starting a war given it’s been at war for 93% of its existence as a nation.<br /><br />No wonder America doesn’t have a Peace Movement!<br /><br />The stakes at home see both Democrats and Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly voting to beef up the defense budget to a tune of 720 billion dollars. Both parties also voted to give the president (Trump -- of all people!) increased spying powers. As always, but more now, Western media has dutifully delivers Pentagon-CIA reports as news and indoctrination -- very similar to the table set we got of the Iraq War!<br /><br />And because there is no Peace Movement in America, everyone just sorta goes: “Oh!”<br /><br />Couple all of the above with Trump facing rabid calls for impeachment due to so-called Russian collusion, this tends to enhance the imperative Trump will quickly need become a “war president” in order to go against the Russians in order to starve off his being removed from office, improve GOPwinger positions for the 2018 elections and maybe even guarantee his re-election. No US “war-time” president in history has ever lost a bid for re-election. The GOPwingers know this.<br /><br />Sadly, I hold a terrible feeling that a lot of people are about to die!<br /><br />Anybody up for a new American Peace Movement? The last one was during Vietnam!<br /><br />Anyway, for a deeper understanding to much of the above, please read the below:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Xi-Silk-Road-is-here-t-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-And-Latin-America_China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Plato-180303-352.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Xi-Silk-Road-is-here-t-by-Pepe-Escobar-China-And-Latin-America_China-New-Silk-Roads_China-Politics_Plato-180303-352.html</a><br /><br />",
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"content": "<br />Me, Led Zeppelin & Boston Tea Party <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=Music\" title=\"#Music\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#Music</a><br /><br />What a blast writing this one. Listening to Led Zeppelin I while writing, I got brought right back in time.<br /><br />[Photo credit: Stefano Toma]<br /><br />On this extremely fateful night nearly 50 years ago, in 1969, I was 19-years-old and visiting Boston from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire where I grew up. I went to see my neighborhood friend Jack Hebert (RIP) who was living on the 11th floor at the Boston University West Campus high rise dorms on Babcock Street.<br /><br />The moment I arrived Jack gave me a hit of acid and said, \"Good timing, eat this, we're hittin’ a concert!” I said, \"Where and who we gonna see?\" He said, \"Tea Party. Led Zeppelin.\" I said, \"Who are they?\" He said, \"Don't worry about it, they're great.\" We then talked about The Yardbirds. Instantly, I was clued. Previously, I’d seen the movie Blow-Up, already was a Jimmie Page fan and got dialed in good on what was to come. <br /> <br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3d_UOgHYbw\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3d_UOgHYbw</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffBRhtWjEQ\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffBRhtWjEQ</a><br /><br />Without even knowing it, I was on my way to the show that would change my life completely--lol!<br />After listening to some Zeppelin tunes, we eventually collected ourselves and elevated down to the Green Line in front of T Anthony's. We missed the train but ran hard to catch it at the next stop. The running must have caused the acid to kick in. Once on the train the riders with their heads moving side to side, including the burly subway driver, began getting stranger and stranger. The tunnel was defining, I could hear everything and I was now in sharp contrast with my rolling reality. It had become an out of body/inner train experience--lol!<br /><br />We got off at Arlington Station, meandered down Berkeley Street, marveled a bit at the Goodwill Store and then took our place in the Tea Party’s psychedelic human line (we were relatively early!). Lots of very hip people, then more affectionately called \"freaks,\" moved up and down the line selling hash, grass, acid, speed, you name it -- everything imaginable was offered! Meanwhile, the tingle of excitement increased as I clicked my boot heels on the pavement and noticed how each person I saw got more and more interesting. <br /><br />Something was in the air, it was a sweet green smell and we were about to enter a church of a very different kind. Finally the door was opened. We got in and since half of the main seats were taken we settled into the center front row balcony -- not a bad spot for any concert. <br /><br />It was an instant change moment when Zeppelin started. I said “I’m getting closer!” and bolted to the front. It turned out no seat in the house was good enough. Everyone stood in wild frenzy. Wherever someone started out, they abandoned that spot and rushed the stage. It got to a point where nobody had seats anymore. <br /><br />Now near the stage and watching both the restless crowd and the band, I was lucky to get a glimpse of ushers coming at everyone, trying to get people to take seats again. Seeing them coming my way, I wiggled my way in front of a second row aisle seat about 15 feet away from Page. As the ushers struggled, the show was stopped and everyone was forced to take seats wherever they were. I sat down and found myself sitting next to JJ Jackson of 'WBCN. The acid in me was now prime time and joints were passed back and forth, row to row. The show was paused again this time to stop the smoking, but that didn’t stop the joints--lol!<br /><br />I saw The Greatest Show on Earth! My memory hold is so strong, so great and so magnificent it will go with me to my grave and well into Edge City!<br /><br />When Led Zeppelin I finally came to a halt, the band left the stage and wandered deep into the audience as strobe lights flashed and flashed and flashed and flashed ... and flashed. Page walked closely right by me, Plant was nearby and people surrounded both of them. I easily could have begun a conversation. But I couldn't move as I was standing motionless and frozen in the flash and flash and flash of continuing strobe lights. <br /><br />When the room near emptied, my friends found me and pulled me back onto the street. Beyond asking, “where’d you end up?” we were each speechless on the way back to the dorm. Turned out I made out best of all. Two of my friends remained in the balcony and another ended up shifted off to the side of the room. (In the above photo, I was to the left of Page.) <br /><br />The concert changed my life forever! I eventually ended up managing hard rock bands and became part of the Kenmore Square Rat scene in my mid-twenties. In my thirties I taught myself how to play guitar eventually becoming a backbench folksinger until my sixties when I concluded I had missed my teenage calling, so I put my first rock n’ roll band together at age 62. I’ve now got a band called Climate Change!<br /><br />The hold of music became so strong after serving two terms in New Hampshire’s legislature I gave up being a state rep so I could become a Harvard Square street musician and I ended up throwing the greatest live music parties in the history of Cambridge throughout the ‘90s. Today, I organize The Rat Beach Party, an annual Rat reunion fundraising event and monthly concert series which brings back elements of the old Rat bands. None of this would have happened had I not gone to this concert!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPh3Ii9mfA4\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPh3Ii9mfA4</a><br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/january-26-1969\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/january-26-1969</a><br /><br />ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/recalling-the-legendary-rock-club-the-boston-tea-party_us_58839212e4b0111ea60b968c",
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"content": "\nMe, Led Zeppelin & Boston Tea Party #Music\n\nWhat a blast writing this one. Listening to Led Zeppelin I while writing, I got brought right back in time.\n\n[Photo credit: Stefano Toma]\n\nOn this extremely fateful night nearly 50 years ago, in 1969, I was 19-years-old and visiting Boston from Hampton Beach, New Hampshire where I grew up. I went to see my neighborhood friend Jack Hebert (RIP) who was living on the 11th floor at the Boston University West Campus high rise dorms on Babcock Street.\n\nThe moment I arrived Jack gave me a hit of acid and said, \"Good timing, eat this, we're hittin’ a concert!” I said, \"Where and who we gonna see?\" He said, \"Tea Party. Led Zeppelin.\" I said, \"Who are they?\" He said, \"Don't worry about it, they're great.\" We then talked about The Yardbirds. Instantly, I was clued. Previously, I’d seen the movie Blow-Up, already was a Jimmie Page fan and got dialed in good on what was to come. \n \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3d_UOgHYbw\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffBRhtWjEQ\n\nWithout even knowing it, I was on my way to the show that would change my life completely--lol!\nAfter listening to some Zeppelin tunes, we eventually collected ourselves and elevated down to the Green Line in front of T Anthony's. We missed the train but ran hard to catch it at the next stop. The running must have caused the acid to kick in. Once on the train the riders with their heads moving side to side, including the burly subway driver, began getting stranger and stranger. The tunnel was defining, I could hear everything and I was now in sharp contrast with my rolling reality. It had become an out of body/inner train experience--lol!\n\nWe got off at Arlington Station, meandered down Berkeley Street, marveled a bit at the Goodwill Store and then took our place in the Tea Party’s psychedelic human line (we were relatively early!). Lots of very hip people, then more affectionately called \"freaks,\" moved up and down the line selling hash, grass, acid, speed, you name it -- everything imaginable was offered! Meanwhile, the tingle of excitement increased as I clicked my boot heels on the pavement and noticed how each person I saw got more and more interesting. \n\nSomething was in the air, it was a sweet green smell and we were about to enter a church of a very different kind. Finally the door was opened. We got in and since half of the main seats were taken we settled into the center front row balcony -- not a bad spot for any concert. \n\nIt was an instant change moment when Zeppelin started. I said “I’m getting closer!” and bolted to the front. It turned out no seat in the house was good enough. Everyone stood in wild frenzy. Wherever someone started out, they abandoned that spot and rushed the stage. It got to a point where nobody had seats anymore. \n\nNow near the stage and watching both the restless crowd and the band, I was lucky to get a glimpse of ushers coming at everyone, trying to get people to take seats again. Seeing them coming my way, I wiggled my way in front of a second row aisle seat about 15 feet away from Page. As the ushers struggled, the show was stopped and everyone was forced to take seats wherever they were. I sat down and found myself sitting next to JJ Jackson of 'WBCN. The acid in me was now prime time and joints were passed back and forth, row to row. The show was paused again this time to stop the smoking, but that didn’t stop the joints--lol!\n\nI saw The Greatest Show on Earth! My memory hold is so strong, so great and so magnificent it will go with me to my grave and well into Edge City!\n\nWhen Led Zeppelin I finally came to a halt, the band left the stage and wandered deep into the audience as strobe lights flashed and flashed and flashed and flashed ... and flashed. Page walked closely right by me, Plant was nearby and people surrounded both of them. I easily could have begun a conversation. But I couldn't move as I was standing motionless and frozen in the flash and flash and flash of continuing strobe lights. \n\nWhen the room near emptied, my friends found me and pulled me back onto the street. Beyond asking, “where’d you end up?” we were each speechless on the way back to the dorm. Turned out I made out best of all. Two of my friends remained in the balcony and another ended up shifted off to the side of the room. (In the above photo, I was to the left of Page.) \n\nThe concert changed my life forever! I eventually ended up managing hard rock bands and became part of the Kenmore Square Rat scene in my mid-twenties. In my thirties I taught myself how to play guitar eventually becoming a backbench folksinger until my sixties when I concluded I had missed my teenage calling, so I put my first rock n’ roll band together at age 62. I’ve now got a band called Climate Change!\n\nThe hold of music became so strong after serving two terms in New Hampshire’s legislature I gave up being a state rep so I could become a Harvard Square street musician and I ended up throwing the greatest live music parties in the history of Cambridge throughout the ‘90s. Today, I organize The Rat Beach Party, an annual Rat reunion fundraising event and monthly concert series which brings back elements of the old Rat bands. None of this would have happened had I not gone to this concert!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPh3Ii9mfA4\n\nhttp://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/january-26-1969\n\nttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/recalling-the-legendary-rock-club-the-boston-tea-party_us_58839212e4b0111ea60b968c",
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