froggy on JJ and Me Chapter 2

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:54:51 +0000

It’s been a few months since my meeting with J and I keep myself busy with my music. My bands been fortunate and has had a lot of paying gigs. We travel all over the New England States, playing clubs and dances.

I met a lot of girls during this time and tried to keep the heart set of the 60’s alive, you know “ if you can’t be with the one u love, then love the one your with” None where as exciting and crazy as J, how I missed her even when in the arms of an other. How is it possible that after only one night to be so stricken with someone.

A few girls wanted to travel with us but I declined the offers, I guess I though maybe she would show up somewhere. Of course the other members of my band had no problem having guests travel with us and they gave me a real hard time about it. I think it was because I was one of the younger members and easy to tease.

When we returned home I found that J had called 3 times looking for me, but no one got hold of me while on the road so I could call her back, by the time I called her she was long gone from that hotel… Can’t really blame them, they didn’t know her and at the time we did not have cell phones or answering machines, I think we might still have had a party line “not like today’s party lines ”

Then in late July my best bud and our drummer “Stan the Man “ said he wanted to go to the Newport Folk Festival in RI and I should go with him. Well let me tell you I am not a big enough fan of folk music to go to a festival… Stan persisted said he needed someone to go and If I was really his best friend then I would at least go with him…SHIT all day folk music AHHHHHHHH. But I agreed, I figured we would do a few doobies an it would be ok.

So there we are at the Folk Festival and I am so not impressed, I don’t even look at the bill boards, what for I figure Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary what ever.. So I am toked up pretty good and I have a pint of SC so I ‘m good. When all of a sudden I hear the voice of an angel/she-devil coming from the stage. We are so far back I can’t see her but I know who it is. I scramble to get to the front, tripping over people, pushing and shoving, people are cursing all around me, as I fight to get to the front.. As I catch her eye I am yanked back with a vicious force by security, who then dragged me out of the festival and turned me over to the police. Within minutes I am in a cell.

The next day I was released, I was held on Protected Custody and no charges were filed.

J is gone again and I’m stuck in F*%king Rhode island

froggy on JJ and Me Chapter 1

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:53:45 +0000

Feb 23, 1968... yes I remember the date quite well.. Forget what I did this morning but 2/23/1968 I remember. I was at a club in Boston, my band had played a few sets and tonight there was a new band in town, not really big but they were in from San Francisco where the flower power was thriving..

Here I was 15 years old but I looked at least 19.. I had been the lead singer and guitarist of several bands already, this one was one of my best "Reunion" we were called and we had been playing at The Psychedelic Supermarket a club in Boston for free....This club was actually the lower level of a parking garage but it was cool..

I ran into the lead singer of the SF band " I actually ran into her" and after a few moments of embarrassment and yelling at each other, we started to talk. there seemed to be some sort of attraction between us. She asked if I'd meet her after their set and of course I said yes..

So I hung around to listen to them, as the words of "summer time" came to my ears I froze. Never had I heard such raw, sensuous, vibrant blues. This girl had an amazing voice for such a little thing.Then she batted out "piece of my heart" and I was struck. I had to get to know her better. I might have been 15 but being a musician I had plenty of experience with girls/women and I knew she was one of a kind.

After their set, we met up... I think i talked unending for an hour about how great she was. Finally she told me to shut the F^&k up about her, she was just a girl from Texas who made her own clothes for stage and lucky to have gotten a gig with an up and coming band.

We spent the next few hours talking bout normal things, drinking a little Bourbon, smoking a few joints, drinking a little Southern Comfort to ease our throats, and went back to a small hotel in Boston for the night. Being a gentleman and this a family forum I cant describe the joy of that night, use your imagination then add 2000 percent... A fireball she was, if I died that night, my life was fulfilled.

the next day was horrible, their equipment was stolen that night, the band even suspected me... I was not welcomed by them. It was so bad security did not let me in the next night. Now I admit I knew some seedy characters, that happens growing up in South Boston,but nobody I know was involved... I was heart broken. I was in Love/Lust with someone I now couldn't get near..... I figured this was it, I had my night and now its over.....But

J had my number and used it several times......

If you haven't figured out yet Janis J. and the Big Brother Holding Co.

Chapter 2 later that year.................................

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