Set the way back machine Sherman 1968 Detroit, Michigan. Muscle cars,RockinRoll festivals with Ice Cream trucks selling Strawberry Hill Wine, Ted Nugent Rules. And one 6'4" 150 lb high school kid kinda looked like a nerdy Allen Ginsburg who reads City Light Books and is itching to fly west to San Francisco or east to Harvard Square. Back then record albums were HUGE compred to current CD cases, when I saw Joni's Blue Eyes and the Red Two lips on Clouds I was a goner,( Margaret a Chanel # 5 wearing Neil Diamond girl friend could not understand me) it was up on my shelf in my bed room till For the Roses Came out.When I opened up the inside of that album I knew I had to catch that jet plane to the West Coast and Hitch Hike up the coast highway to Find that rock to stand on and have a moment of nirvana. I did but only got to Cresent City California before I got Detoured up toward the Applegate River to be with a blond who played old folk tunes real sweet on her guitar next to the waterfalls filled with Naiads and Satyrs smoking local weed. Cool Cool Water!
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