Here's where I really date myself.

I was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. Got to hear Joplin, Hendrix and the Doors (among others), at a joint called 'Pandora's Box' on the Sunset strip. This was around 1964 and just a few years before Joplin and the others became famous.

Some of you might remember the infamous 'riot on the Sunset Strip', now a footnote in rock history, caused by forced closing (and demolishing) of 'The Box'. Heard a lot of other groups play there before THE MAN trashed the place :(

I still run into Lee Freeman of "Strawberry Alarmclock" and Bobby Sherman and I have lunch now and again, (I trained Bobby as an EMT-P  - Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic). Bob's now a record producer and has the coolest scale model of Disneyland Main Street in his backyard. Has a train running through the whole thing. (Bobby has a BIG backyard).

Met and heard a lot of rockers growing up here in LA. 'Course living in LA I see lot's of people you see on TV or in the movies. See a lot of well known people at supermarket. It's kind of embarassing to be standing behind someone in the checkout line and at the same time see their face plastered on the cover of  The National Enquirer.

Odd, never thought much about until this thread.

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