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NorCalVol67 said:
I went to my first period class my senior year about 4 times. Think it was typing for the second time. At least it was the same teacher anyway.
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Hey I think I took typing 1 twice in high school over in Hawaii because it was easy and then took art classes and so forth and left at 12. It was a very layed back school, they had a bomb threat one time, probably someone that did not want to take a test, but anyway I was in science class at the time and the teacher had all the students check the cabinets in the room.
 
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Hey I think I took typing 1 twice in high school over in Hawaii because it was easy and then took art classed and so forth and left at 12. It was a very layer back school, they had a bomb threat one time, probably someone that did not want to take a test, but anyway I was in science class at the time and the teacher had all the students check the cabinets in the room.
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Oh my gosh.😂
 
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got to meet and talk to The Logo one year working the Portsmouth Invitational. Was very courteous and friendly. Kept asking questions about me that I barely got to acknowledge how awesome he was.

Later, in a more fan centric area I pointed him out to a friend. Friend asked who he was, and in what is unfortunately normal for me, I was louder than I should have been. I said "He's the NBA logo!" and it seemed the whole room heard me, including the 70% or so who were drooling over Larry Bird. They all turned and started acknowledging Jerry West. Larry Bird looked at me like I just killed his favorite dog.
 
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volfanbill said:
got to meet and talk to The Logo one year working the Portsmouth Invitational. Was very courteous and friendly. Kept asking questions about me that I barely got to acknowledge how awesome he was.

Later, in a more fan centric area I pointed him out to a friend. Friend asked who he was, and in what is unfortunately normal for me, I was louder than I should have been. I said "He's the NBA logo!" and it seemed the whole room heard me, including the 70% or so who were drooling over Larry Bird. They all turned and started acknowledging Jerry West. Larry Bird looked at me like I just killed his favorite dog.
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nice post
 
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Hubs was a professional musician as long as he could make it work*, and in his early 20’s, he was in a band with a couple of guys whose father was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer (big time, including Andy Griffith Show and One Day At a Time.) The band would practice in their house, nice Jewish mom bringing homemade cookies saying “I know you’re hungry” as the smoke boiled out of the room.

For breaks, they’d walk around the neighborhood (Mar Vista, next address down from Santa Monica.**) There was a park farther down the street, and Jerry West lived on the other side of the park. It wasn’t over-the-top McMansion territory at that point, but it was definitely LA-up-and-coming, and West lived in a relatively modest home with a basketball goal at the end of the driveway.

Hubs is still amazed that someone could get away with having a basketball hoop in that neighborhood, and moreover be able to use it

*which realistically, was not very long, this being Cali, although he hung in there for a long time

** Hubs never lived anywhere near a neighborhood like this, lol, although when his parents put their Westwood house up for sale, Leonard Nimoy actually checked it out not long before he died. 🖖🏻 Spock was my First Big Crush in sixth grade age 11, from the very first broadcast on our black and white TV, and it has never gone away. LA, you gotta love it, although I didn’t and still don’t.

- He is full of dreadful musician dad jokes, including this one:
Q: What do you call a musician who breaks up with his girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
 
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VolNExile said:
Hubs was a professional musician as long as he could make it work*, and in his early 20’s, he was in a band with a couple of guys whose father was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer (big time, including Andy Griffith Show and One Day At a Time.) The band would practice in their house, nice Jewish mom bringing homemade cookies saying “I know you’re hungry” as the smoke boiled out of the room.

For breaks, they’d walk around the neighborhood (Mar Vista, next address down from Santa Monica.**) There was a park farther down the street, and Jerry West lived on the other side of the park. It wasn’t over-the-top McMansion territory at that point, but it was definitely LA-up-and-coming, and West lived in a relatively modest home with a basketball goal at the end of the driveway.

Hubs is still amazed that someone could get away with having a basketball hoop in that neighborhood, and moreover be able to use it

*which realistically, was not very long, this being Cali, although he hung in there for a long time

** Hubs never lived anywhere near a neighborhood like this, lol, although when his parents put their Westwood house up for sale, Leonard Nimoy actually checked it out not long before he died. 🖖🏻 Spock was my First Big Crush in sixth grade age 11, from the very first broadcast on our black and white TV, and it has never gone away. LA, you gotta love it, although I didn’t and still don’t.

- He is full of dreadful musician dad jokes, including this one:
Q: What do you call a musician who breaks up with his girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
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so much cool information in such little writing! all of this is fascinating
 
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volfanbill said:
so much cool information in such little writing! all of this is fascinating
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Apparently growing up in LA in the 60's was pretty amazing. (Hubs was born in 1950.) His dad used to take him to local music clubs like the Ash Grove to see folk and blues musicians, and along the way they saw all of what became the super acts of the late 60's and 70's breaking in. Neil Young was knows as "Squealy Neily" (for his high-pitched voice.) Plenty of middle-class kids were plugged into this whole club scene, nothing unusual about seeing them there, and those who survive today will bend your ear about it. lol

His parents had dinner with the producer/screenwriter and his wife when he (Hubs) moved east with the two brothers in hopes of making it big (didn't happen, and he had his first unpleasant intro to cold weather.) At the dinner, the two couples pondered the move and the hopes behind it and decided that it wouldn't lead anywhere, but probably wouldn't result in any permanent damage. Insert *shrug* here.

But yeah, how rare is it to be born into a cauldron of revolutionary, culture-changing arts (music), just some ordinary high-schooler with a guitar and a taste for Dylan and Muddy, once in a blue moon bumping up against someone famous. I don't know that something like this is ever likely to happen again for kids in our carefully "curated" world.
 
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VolNExile said:
Apparently growing up in LA in the 60's was pretty amazing. (Hubs was born in 1950.) His dad used to take him to local music clubs like the Ash Grove to see folk and blues musicians, and along the way they saw all of what became the super acts of the late 60's and 70's breaking in. Neil Young was knows as "Squealy Neily" (for his high-pitched voice.) Plenty of middle-class kids were plugged into this whole club scene, nothing unusual about seeing them there, and those who survive today will bend your ear about it. lol

His parents had dinner with the producer/screenwriter and his wife when he (Hubs) moved east with the two brothers in hopes of making it big (didn't happen, and he had his first unpleasant intro to cold weather.) At the dinner, the two couples pondered the move and the hopes behind it and decided that it wouldn't lead anywhere, but probably wouldn't result in any permanent damage. Insert *shrug* here.

But yeah, how rare is it to be born into a cauldron of revolutionary, culture-changing arts (music), just some ordinary high-schooler with a guitar and a taste for Dylan and Muddy, once in a blue moon bumping up against someone famous. I don't know that something like this is ever likely to happen again for kids in our carefully "curated" world.
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As to your last paragraph, I agree, don't see that happening again. I would say the last comparable culture shift in music was grunge, though that was a much smaller scale. Before that, the LA punk scene and hip hop out of the Bronx.

Imagine if Cumulus were around in the 60s. No San Francisco sound, no Laurel Canyon scene, no Village scene. They probably would have still had the local scene, but doubtful it would have had the national impact.

I miss music with a sense of time and place.
 
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VolNExile said:
Hubs was a professional musician as long as he could make it work*, and in his early 20’s, he was in a band with a couple of guys whose father was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer (big time, including Andy Griffith Show and One Day At a Time.) The band would practice in their house, nice Jewish mom bringing homemade cookies saying “I know you’re hungry” as the smoke boiled out of the room.

For breaks, they’d walk around the neighborhood (Mar Vista, next address down from Santa Monica.**) There was a park farther down the street, and Jerry West lived on the other side of the park. It wasn’t over-the-top McMansion territory at that point, but it was definitely LA-up-and-coming, and West lived in a relatively modest home with a basketball goal at the end of the driveway.

Hubs is still amazed that someone could get away with having a basketball hoop in that neighborhood, and moreover be able to use it

*which realistically, was not very long, this being Cali, although he hung in there for a long time

** Hubs never lived anywhere near a neighborhood like this, lol, although when his parents put their Westwood house up for sale, Leonard Nimoy actually checked it out not long before he died. 🖖🏻 Spock was my First Big Crush in sixth grade age 11, from the very first broadcast on our black and white TV, and it has never gone away. LA, you gotta love it, although I didn’t and still don’t.

- He is full of dreadful musician dad jokes, including this one:
Q: What do you call a musician who breaks up with his girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
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thanks for sharing
 
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VolNExile said:
Apparently growing up in LA in the 60's was pretty amazing. (Hubs was born in 1950.) His dad used to take him to local music clubs like the Ash Grove to see folk and blues musicians, and along the way they saw all of what became the super acts of the late 60's and 70's breaking in. Neil Young was knows as "Squealy Neily" (for his high-pitched voice.) Plenty of middle-class kids were plugged into this whole club scene, nothing unusual about seeing them there, and those who survive today will bend your ear about it. lol

His parents had dinner with the producer/screenwriter and his wife when he (Hubs) moved east with the two brothers in hopes of making it big (didn't happen, and he had his first unpleasant intro to cold weather.) At the dinner, the two couples pondered the move and the hopes behind it and decided that it wouldn't lead anywhere, but probably wouldn't result in any permanent damage. Insert *shrug* here.

But yeah, how rare is it to be born into a cauldron of revolutionary, culture-changing arts (music), just some ordinary high-schooler with a guitar and a taste for Dylan and Muddy, once in a blue moon bumping up against someone famous. I don't know that something like this is ever likely to happen again for kids in our carefully "curated" world.
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I love music, but my passion was always sports. I managed to fall into a lot of situations like the one I mentioned, so it's certainly possible. The crazy situations where I've got to meet famous sports figures is wild. Mine were 15-25 years ago, so maybe it's even changed since then. I dunno. It's wild. But even in the Army I've stumbled into wild moments. I straightened the Secretary of Defense's tie one time. The next SecDef (previous SecArmy) knew me by name. Most military people never even meet a SecDef.
 
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I love music, but my passion was always sports. I managed to fall into a lot of situations like the one I mentioned, so it's certainly possible. The crazy situations where I've got to meet famous sports figures is wild. Mine were 15-25 years ago, so maybe it's even changed since then. I dunno. It's wild. But even in the Army I've stumbled into wild moments. I straightened the Secretary of Defense's tie one time. The next SecDef (previous SecArmy) knew me by name. Most military people never even meet a SecDef.
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I sold a former SecDef a BB gun for one of his grandkids.
 
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volfanbill said:
I love music, but my passion was always sports. I managed to fall into a lot of situations like the one I mentioned, so it's certainly possible. The crazy situations where I've got to meet famous sports figures is wild. Mine were 15-25 years ago, so maybe it's even changed since then. I dunno. It's wild. But even in the Army I've stumbled into wild moments. I straightened the Secretary of Defense's tie one time. The next SecDef (previous SecArmy) knew me by name. Most military people never even meet a SecDef.
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My closest brush with Fame was when I worked at a hospital in Knoxville, now closed, and rode an elevator with Stella Parton, when their daddy was there in his last days. I resolutely kept my eyes on the closed doors. (Dolly was smuggled in and out via a different set of elevators.)

Oh, and when an ole-skool pop singer was taken ill on-stage while in concert and admitted, and as the sole HIM staffer overnight, set up a password system with his wife in NYC to keep the press from getting details. It was amazing how many New York Park Avenue cardiologists called in at 4 am to ask about their patient. Yeah, right. Never laid eyes on the patient, although now I am once again stuck with hearing his sweet but schmaltzy song in my head. 🎶
 
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VolNExile said:
My closest brush with Fame was when I worked at a hospital in Knoxville, now closed, and rode an elevator with Stella Parton, when their daddy was there in his last days. I resolutely kept my eyes on the closed doors. (Dolly was smuggled in and out via a different set of elevators.)

Oh, and when an ole-skool pop singer was taken ill on-stage while in concert and admitted, and as the sole HIM staffer overnight, set up a password system with his wife in NYC to keep the press from getting details. It was amazing how many New York Park Avenue cardiologists called in at 4 am to ask about their patient. Yeah, right. Never laid eyes on the patient, although now I am once again stuck with hearing his sweet but schmaltzy song in my head. 🎶
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that's so crazy it has to be legit! I bet that was a wild night
 
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