ok for some reason, while listening to this and walking tonight, i was struck with some vivid memories. good ones. great ones.
when i was younger, there was a pretty tight knit group of us, 4 or 5 guys. we all lived in the same neighborhood, varied in age over 2 or 3 years and did most everything together for several years. one of the guys name was mike vismore, and he lived just around the corner from me. mike had a sister named maria, she was a couple of years older than me (and i was a year older than mike), she was hot, she sunbathed in the back yard and i'm not sure if it was the first summer that she did it or if was the first time we "noticed," but i do remember we hung out at mike's house a lot that summer. he also had a brother named tim, who was 5 years older than me.
ok... i digress, the "flashback," tonight i remembered like it was yesterday, walking into mike's house one afternoon, his mother was still at work and tim was playing this record. loud. we heard it and were pretty much blown away, it was released in july of '68, so i would have been 12 or so. i asked tim about the record and he invited us into his room to listen, he was burning insense, his room had posters all over, etc. it was pretty cool to us and he played it through for us from start to finish. he told us about "the band" the dylan connection, etc. he was very into music and as i said, he was older, a senior in high school, had grown his hair long, yep...a budding hippie. he thought it was very cool that we were interested in and liked this music and as he bought new stuff, he always went out of his way to play it for us or let mike take it into his room so we could listen to it. i heard the allman brothers, traffic, cream and i'm sure many others for the first time in that house. and i remember mountain's "mississippi queen" being played so loud one day that the next door neighbor called the police. tim also exposed us to "something else" a year or so later that enhanced our love of music, but that's another story better discussed elsewhere. ;=) :=)
this is a great record that led to me learning a lot about music, and in turn, emotion and life. thanks tim, wherever you are.
apparently, it's influenced a couple of others too...
"You hold me just the same way
Levon would play
And The Weight is my favorite song
We’re gonna pull through
Breaking our own rules
We’re gonna pull through
Maybe, sorta, kinda
If I really had to say
Something good is on its way
And we’re gonna pull through"
from: We're Gonna Pull Through | Snow Angels
(Words and Music: Bergquist/Detweiler)
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