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2/16/2018, 8:54 AM
the concerts on the roof
So I was born in farm country, small town, all of that. Went to college at a state school which was also in the country. When I graduated my best friend and I decided we wanted to move to the big city, and we did, we moved to LA. Ended up in a high rise building downtown where I got a job as a security guard. There were some thrills about living in the city that I had never experienced. The Sunset Strip was an exciting place. Also Westwood was a crazy college town that I really loved when we visited there. but the biggest thing was just experiencing the city. I had keys to get up on the roof of our building and it was really a close up view of the LA skyline, the biggest buildings were just across a bridge that I could walk on just outside our building. It was electric, that view. Anyway I had just gotten my first nice acoustic guitar and really enjoyed going up on that roof and playing. I did it by myself a number of times, and eventually we started to make some friends, we invited them on the roof and I would play these little shows, the air was crisp and I was young and the world was looking up at that time. I really loved doing those shows on the roof.
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2/17/2018, 3:17 AM
I lived in LA just out of the service (Army). Got together with some army buds and went up to a local band concert in the Angelest National Forest Mts. They would take a generator for power and just go for it. 2-3 hundred people would show up each year and a couple of bands. One friend was good friends with one of the bands and their bass player was late. My buddy ask if I could play bass till the regular player arrived. I played about 4-5 songs and the missing person finally showed up. I asked if I could play a few tunes on guitar, and they let me. Me and the lead player got into some great double riffs and had the crowd jumping and cheering us on!! One of my best memories ever!! D.