OT/Music again.

[Ron Mummert]

Since OT seems to be the holiday theme....
On Friday I went into Costco for my usual healthy choice afternoon meal, a large hot dog & drink for $1.50. After inhaling this combo, I walked back into the store with no particular thing in mind. I moseyed down the CD aisle. Three disc compilation of The Mamas & the Papas - $18.00. Hmmm... I loved this group (especially Michelle, heh-heh) & have the vinyl & cassettes scattered about the house somewhere.
But I considered that I had an holiday party to attend that evening & it was raining, & the party was a good hour's drive away.
So I bought the CD package to keep me company. I walked past a Y****w Suby Baja on display at the store's exit. This has no bearing upon this thread, but maybe somebody cares.

So, after going home to shower & change clothes, I set off in the darkness & rain with my beloved '60s group compressed into shiny plastic pancakes lying on the passenger seat.
I slip disc 1 into the totally stock SVX CD with its totally stock paper speakers everywhere, & listen to the start-up silence between slaps of the wipers. Then I hear California Dreamin'. Then more.
Forgive the continued geezin', but John, Michelle, Denny & my real true love, Mama Cass, created something almost 40 odd years ago that
still enraptures me. What a sound. What a time it was. The party was fine, but I couldn't wait to get back in the car to play Disc 3 on the way back home. It was still raining. I didn't care.
I know - 40 years from now the "kids" will be saying the same things about Eminem & "What ever happened to (good) music"?, as they're transported in their propulsion modules with the music chips imbedded
in their molars blasting away the "oldies".
Oh, well - I've had a good run. Life is good.

"Words of Love" (Thanks again, Cass)- Ron.