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Member Since: 10/11/2005
Band Members: Some of you are not fortunate enough to know what most of this is...AHHHHHHHHHH MEMORIES!!!Close your eyes...And go back.......Before the Internet or PC or the MAC..........Before semi-automatics and crack........Before PlayStation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari.......Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail........way back........way.....way.....way back.....I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at duskRed light, Green lightRed Rover....Red Rover.....
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the
first...no...second...no...thirdStreetlight came onRing around the RosieLondon BridgeHot potatoHop ScotchJump ropeDuck....duck....GOOSE!!!YOU'RE IT!!Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to
come
home - no pagers or cell phonesMother May I?Hula HoopsSeeing shapes in the cloudsEndless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows
openThe sound of cricketsRunning through the sprinklerHappy MealsCereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottomCracker jacks with the same thingIce pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend...but wait.....there's more....Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoonsFat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man,Schoolhouse RockWatchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)Wonder Woman & Super Man UnderoosFONZIE.....AYYYYYYYYPlaying Dukes of HazardCatchin' lightning bugs in a jarChristmas morningYour first day of schoolBedtime Prayers and Goodnight KissesClimbing treesSwinging as high as you could to try and reach the skyGetting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor TruckA million mosquito bites and sticky fingersJumpin' down the stepsJumpin' on the bedPillow fightsSleep-oversA 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICHRunnin' till you were out of breathLaughing so hard that your stomach hurtBeing tired from PLAYINGWORK: meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishesYour first crushYour first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and
your
eyes OPENRainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman" in
The classroom, Remember that?Oh, I'm not finished yet....Kool-Aid was the drink of the summerSo was a swig from the hoseGiving your friends a ride on your handlebarsWearing your new shoes on the first day of schoolClass Field Trips with soggy sandwichesWhen nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got thereWhen a quarter seemed like a fair allowance;
and another quarter a MIRACLEWhen ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him
to carry groceries...And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of
it.When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOLWhen being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited you at home.Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of
us are still afraid of em!Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
that!"Well, let's keep going!!Let's go back to the time when...Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!""Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire eveningIt wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.Being old, referred to anyone over 20. (CRAP! I'm officially old!)The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.Nobody was prettier than MomScrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made betterIt was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people"
rides
at the amusement park.Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest
protectorIf you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Type of Label: Indie
