#2. To: Turtle, Christine, Jethro Tull, Itistoolate, Diana, All (#0)
Suddenly, I feel so old. What a collection. So many of these groups sang what became prophecies - and you knew that's what they were, when you listened to them.
Now, they are appropriately being revived from what were though to be the ashes and dust of time, long gone.
That's great, as the current generation has been conditioned to deny reality & not believe in what was once a great America. No passion left - or permitted.
#38. To: Itistoolate, christine, Jethro Tull, Diana, All (#6)
"The Letter"
Talk about inducing nostalgia!
When I was a senior in high school, I fell in love with a gal (out of Texas) living in a village about 200 miles away & flew my Aeronca Champ over & through some weather that should have earned an award for stupidity - with that song banging around in my head.
What an adventure that ultimately led to. I'd give anything to be able to talk to her long enough to apologize for the outcome. I was one of those who couldn't make the distinction between thoughts & feelings. There was logic & pleasure; (God, 'feelings' hurt, what can these gals be rattling on about?)
I was 42, before the fog lifted. Kinda like driving down the road, doing 70, seeing the oil pressure light come on, realizing that you forgot to secure the oil filter. (Too late, now!)
When I was a senior in high school, I fell in love with a gal (out of Texas) living in a village about 200 miles away & flew my Aeronca Champ over & through some weather that should have earned an award for stupidity - with that song banging around in my head.
I just read your post and I have to say this:
An Aeronca Champ?
A VFR-only plane with "no electrical system" that must be hand-propped to start? (hopefully it had both magnetos operational!)
You were one kewl high school senior to actually leave the ground and fly through bad weather (a nein nein with VFR only aircraft) and I would have assumed that the chick would have been impressed.
Turtle never had an airplane...or a car. He did have a minibike that he rode down by the railroad tracks. It had a lawn-mower engine, and when Turtle had a girl on the back it wouldn't go up the slightest incline.