Virginia Beach is Quiet and needs a bit of Music.

https://youtu.be/a2EHRBAixfA

 

https://youtu.be/8VgRL8Htv7k

 

https://youtu.be/0XVCc5zwPlU

 

The first time that I heard this song was in 1982 in a D.C. strip club. I was underage and in a part of town that I shouldn’t have been in but had the time of my life. I will never forget that night.

 

Obscure Canadian band

Today's (double) dose...The Headstones. Smile & Wave.



And the double shot, cuz the did an awesome cover of Gordon Lightfoot's (not so obscure) Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

That's a pantie dropper!

 

https://youtu.be/nng92efL2f8

 

You did not!!

 

https://youtu.be/yQIJuu3N5EY

 

https://youtu.be/eCAFfX_va_I

 

https://youtu.be/MRj5KT3742o

 

https://youtu.be/yuC6GzEP674




Halloween at the Palladium was an annual show, and I was in the audience for this one.

Frank would hang out in a bar across the street after the show and a few of my friends got in (very lax drinking age enforcement back then) and talked to him about guitar playing- different times for sure.

 

https://youtu.be/YG8FFJQYoTM

 

Yeah, those were certainly different times.

 

When I was growing up, the drinking age in New York was 18, so of course me my friends were drinking in the bar at age 16, since nobody cared.

My oldest son did his senior year of high school in Germany as an exchange student- drinking age in Germany is 16 for beer and wine, and his first trip was to a brewery where he was drinking legally as he was still 16 (September birthday).

When he came back, he had to wait 4 more years for another “legal” drink.

But he could enlist in the armed forces at 17...

 

The Germans have a different outlook on drinking, beer especially. I bet your son was frustrated. Maybe not so much from not having a drink, but from not being allowed to have a drink.

I attended Tech school in Phoenix in 1985 and at that time the legal age was 19. And I turned 19 while I was there. I LOVED it! First time living away from the family (out of state), young ladies everywhere, and living in an apartment with all of my classmates. It's a wonder I survived it.

I am of French ancestry and at every family gathering wine flowed like water. Didn't matter the age, everybody was expected to at least have a little...
The times have surely changed.

 

https://youtu.be/8QYdIswhbY4