My first exposure to music was sitting in the back of my parents’ car. In my memory, it’s always summer time and it’s about to reach the boiling point inside the old Ford Taurus because of my father’s refusal to turn on the AC. I’m 5 foot 7, 275 pounds at eight years old. A behemoth of a boy. The air pressure in the tires on my side of the vehicle is definitely LOW. I’m about to tip the damn thing over on its side. My dad is playing Frank Sinatra or Rosemary Clooney or something similar. Now, don’t get me wrong- I’m an adult now and I love me some RC, but when you’re a kid its hard to really dig songs about the loneliness that accompanies hereditary alcoholism. Sometimes they’d turn the CDs off and put on the radio, which was always the same station: Oldies 103.3. When they found out how to pre-set the station numbers the first three options were Oldies 103.3. Hit 1 for Oldies 103.3. Hit 2 for Oldies 103.3. And so on. Oldies played some hits, but as far as I can remember they only played one rock n’ roll song and that was “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones.
The Stones at Sixty
The Stones at Sixty
The Stones at Sixty
My first exposure to music was sitting in the back of my parents’ car. In my memory, it’s always summer time and it’s about to reach the boiling point inside the old Ford Taurus because of my father’s refusal to turn on the AC. I’m 5 foot 7, 275 pounds at eight years old. A behemoth of a boy. The air pressure in the tires on my side of the vehicle is definitely LOW. I’m about to tip the damn thing over on its side. My dad is playing Frank Sinatra or Rosemary Clooney or something similar. Now, don’t get me wrong- I’m an adult now and I love me some RC, but when you’re a kid its hard to really dig songs about the loneliness that accompanies hereditary alcoholism. Sometimes they’d turn the CDs off and put on the radio, which was always the same station: Oldies 103.3. When they found out how to pre-set the station numbers the first three options were Oldies 103.3. Hit 1 for Oldies 103.3. Hit 2 for Oldies 103.3. And so on. Oldies played some hits, but as far as I can remember they only played one rock n’ roll song and that was “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones.