Things I learned by watching Eddie and the Cruisers...

6. Certain song arrangements are better with caesarians.

7. Investigative reporters often refer to their peers as "kiddies".

8. Aging rock stars love pizza after shows.

9. If you score with the lead singer's girl, he'll call you Toby Tyler.

10. Fairleigh Dickinson College is sometimes referred to as Fairly Ridiculous.

11. That a 20-year old record of what date master recording tapes were checked out of a record company archive would have been kept but that this list would not have not a record of the person who checked out those tapes.

12. That the deaths of black sax players in the late '50s were written off as 'heart attacks" when there were injection/track marks literally all over the man's body.

13. That you could get a 1962 Fender Stratocaster in the late 50s.

14. That even when the only guitar in the band is not being played you still get the sound of one and even two guitars (not counting basses here).





take care,
cormac


"One star in the sky
so I named it Otis Redding"
-- John Hiatt

15. French Lit 105 was required in the early 1980s, at least for certain majors at certain colleges.

16. Class differences are easily set aside when the girl you want to date is hot.

17. Black saxophone players in early rock and roll bands were mute.