Category Archives: youth

Berth on Nantucket

August 16, 2010 – 10:57 pm

Frank Sinatra brought his 21 year-old bride Mia Farrow to Nantucket in a rented yacht. My family was holidaying on that mythic isle. Mia had just finished filming ROSSEMARY’S BABY. I was 16. My love was reserved for Janet Stetson. She was the head cheerleader for my hometown’s football team. I was true, but when […]

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JETS OVERHEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

August 16, 2010 – 7:15 pm

Falmouth Foresides was a quiet neighborhood in the 50s. Ships blew their horns leaving Portland Harbor and channel buoys tolled out their passing wake. At night I listened to the Celtics game on a small transistor radio from Japan. The volume turned to almost silence. My older brother was a light sleeper. Mornings belonged to […]

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The Yardbirds – I’m A Man (Hullabaloo)

August 16, 2010 – 7:37 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWexhbYaOY

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AIN’T SUPERSTITIOUS Jeff Beck 1968

August 16, 2010 – 7:12 am

Unbelievable band with Rod Stewart as front man and the ex-Yardbirds’ guitarist playing his Fender Stratocaster covering Willie Dixon’s 1961 classic. I bought the LP. $2.99 Still have the CD. Go to this URL to hear AIN’T SUPERSTITIOUS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSHFhkj-hm4

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January 24 1970

August 7, 2010 – 1:46 pm

Everything is true if interesting – Pascha Ray

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