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Forkbeard Jon's avatar

...it was all we knew and easy too,

So we wouldn't get it wrong

All we did was bend the string like

Dee dee dee dee dee dee deedle diddy deeeeeee

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Ha ha ha! I think I used to sing that song! Thanks Jon

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James Ron's avatar

Sharron, I think I heard that band! My notes say I arrived in California springtime 1968. I don't remember. : )

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Well, if you don't remember, then that's probably correct! Wild times.

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Linda Brown's avatar

Love it!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks, neighbor!

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Janice Walton's avatar

That sounds like my image of Santa Cruz! I visited for the first time in the late 70's, but have been there many times since.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

.Not much has changed around here now, just bigger and more of it... Thanks, Janice

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Psychedelic rock, baby. I love that sub-genre.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

What's not to love? Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stones! No doubt they started in garages, too.

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

Ten years before I arrived in Santa Cruz. That was a place to soak up all kinds of street wisdom by osmosis.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Well... I am not sure what kind of wisdom is out there on the streets of Santa Cruz these days...

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Brilliant! You always keep me guessing, Sharron - I love it!

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Thomas D’Arcy O’Donnell's avatar

..had me guessing too !

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Glad you liked it, Timber. Thanks for letting me use your cool photo.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks, Rebecca.

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just mud by Ron's avatar

Weren't they scheduled for Senate hearings? I love those guys! Great fun, Sharron. (like the new sketch for your profile!)

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Ha ha ha! Who knows! Thanks for reading, Ron!

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T. D. Wolf's avatar

Ha! I was five in 1969, so no, I don’t remember much of the Sixties! But I was in California!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

It was a great era for music, if you ask me.

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Jim Cummings's avatar

Love it! You made me laugh out loud at the end. I guess every great band has to start somewhere.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Great. I thought it gave itself away at the first suggestion of a pungent smell and smoky haze.

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Meg Oolders's avatar

"Piercing cries, like the unholy howling of wolves. A rhythmic incessant pounding of wood on stretched skin. A bashing of metal on metal."

Rock on.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Keep the faith, baby!

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palmisanocj@yahoo.com's avatar

Wonderful, Sharron! Gives a whole new meaning to Garage Band (the app).

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Glad you liked it, Connie. Kind of silly. Thanks for the very sweet gift that was hand-delivered today. Yum Yum!

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

"They say, though, if you remember California in the ‘60s, you most likely weren’t there." great line, intoxicatingly so.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

I can't take credit for the line, but it sure rings true. Yes, a largely intoxicated era in California, I have to say.

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Thomas D’Arcy O’Donnell's avatar

.. muchos gracias .. is my great pleasure..!

And what other delights & treasure might be inside that portal !

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Stay tuned, Timber.

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

For a newcomer to CA, the street life on Pacific Avenue Mall was astounding. The buskers. The energy. Can't say the stores were any great draw, but it was just different and stimulating. I was a mall walker back in SLC, so Santa Cruz was beauty even in winter and inspiring.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Such happy memories, Sue! In the seventies, there were so many garage bands in Santa Cruz, it was hard finding a venue. The town was rocking.

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

One of my new friends in SC took me to see Lacy J. Dalton at the Catalyst back in the early 80s. That tiny woman with the big guitar would throw her voice to the back wall and it would whup my up the backside. God what an experience. It was no surprised she went to Nashville and became a star. You're right, Sharron, Santa Cruz was music city. Oh, and my apartment manager would faithfully attend the Dixieland bands at the Catalyst every Friday afternoon. The music would pour into the street any day of the week.

The bookstores, the coffee places and restaurants, the Polar Bear donuts and ice cream. Holy friggin' merde! And if you want to trip over to my Ring Around the Basin page, I've posted a poem in honor of David Crosby and weird disorientation at Mr. Toots.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks for reminding me. Lacy J Dalton! I will check out your other posts. Thanks

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