Song Of the Day: February 13, 2005
Tonight I made a trip to one of the local vomitoriums to see Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Do not miss them should they venture into your burg. They are, as promised by MC/guitarist Binky Griptite, a "funky soul experience."
Anyway, I noticed a patron wearing what could have been a Salem 66 T-shirt. This piqued my interest, as they were a band that were making waves during the years of my formative musical experiences. I moved closer thinking "Hell, I don't know what the kids are doing these days; maybe it's some other band called something like, I dunno, 'Salem 60' or something." As I moved closer, it became apparent that this was in fact actually a Salem 66 shirt. I approached the gentleman upon whose person the shirt rested, and said something clever like "Hey, is that a Salem 66 T-shirt?"
I was taken aback by his curt reply, which was something similar to "Yeah, I know. I'm old." Perhaps my shock was apparent because he then informed me that he knew my name, and that I had approached him previously in a similar setting when he was wearing a Texas Instruments T-shirt. "Is that a Texas Instruments T-shirt?" I had asked. He responded in the affirmative, foregoing a wide variety of available sarcastic comments to the effect that, yes, in fact the shirt did represent the band named thereon as opposed to Aerosmith. I then tactlessly informed him, "You're old."
He quickly re-introduced himself in a much friendlier fashion. Turns out he's a faculty member at KU. We had a brief chat about common musical interests. The point here is not that I'm a bit boorish, as that is far too obvious. It's also not that I should try not to drink so much; again, perfectly clear. The point is...well, I'm not sure what the point is, but I'd like to thank him for making me recall how much this particular song meant to an 18-year-old kid driving around in Pratt, Kansas, blaring the tape player and looking forward to the time when he would leave the place he had lived all his life.
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