Time Frame I.V.

[Michael Bailey]

kelber wrote:
> Thanks, Bekah and bandwraith, for stories that the rest of us can merely envy.
>

yeah, nicely said.  I was 14 in 1969 and the sweet treat that was my
portion was reading - everything I tried in the baby-boomer line, on
the physical plane, went sour in embarrassing ways that are still
painful to think of.

My 2 sweet spots were reading, and, I guess, watching ("I like to
watch") - the weather was more sensuous and romantic back then, for
one thing; and the beautiful strangers and Vivaldi's red jacket, as
Bob Dylan mentioned on liner notes somewhere; album covers, for that
matter, were a more generous swatch of beauty back then; Marlboro
packs were a cherrier red (and there were ashtrays in grocery store
aisles); gay meant happy - not that there's anything wrong with other
meanings...

...but that does remind me, there was a song called "Let's Go Bareback
Riding Baby" ("I want to ride like Geronimo used to ride") and it was
hetero, I think it had some harmonica background, and I thought it was
Eric Burdon but when I looked for it last night, all I could find were
a bunch of horseback videos and references to unprotected gay sex...
anybody remember an old hetero sex song about bareback riding?

...well, my 3 sweet portions were reading, watching, and listening -
"bareback ridin'" but also "Barefootin'" (great tune), Motown, Dylan (
I remember saying to my sister, "there isn't really any tune to it,
but it still sounds cool - how does he DO that?") MacArthur Park,
Angel of the Morning, Alice's Restaurant, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Mrs
Robinson...little AM radio with a tiny earphone, mowing the lawn with
Mrs Robinson playing...