chuckv97 - Posted - 10/20/2022:  17:48:29

humiliating living in their basement beside the dusty coal bin.

They started up an online business

OM45GE - Posted - 10/20/2022:  17:57:24

offering remote babysitting services.

Parents thought it was

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/20/2022:  21:13:18

fine as long as they paid the rent and internet charges.

They had many clients who were heroin addicts and couldn’t look after

OM45GE - Posted - 10/21/2022:  05:31:43

themselves, let alone their children.

They wondered about

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/21/2022:  07:14:02

buying a banjo and a Buick and heading to Nashville.

Eventually

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/21/2022:  09:14:04

they made to Nashville and became very well known.

Finally it looked

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/21/2022:  09:20:20

like they had “arrived”.

But the road became rough

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/21/2022:  12:31:03

as often is the case for new musicians trying to get started in country music.

Luckily they met

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/21/2022:  21:02:28

Colonel Tom Parker’s grandson who booked them for 45 straight one-nighters.

They got 10%

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/22/2022:  08:45:31

of the take which was 10% more than they had before.

Turns out

OM45GE - Posted - 10/23/2022:  06:01:19

that 10% of nothing is nothing.

It was

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/23/2022:  07:04:02

a cold rainy morning in Cleveland with foggy mist rising from the lake.

An slow moving vehicle

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/23/2022:  09:23:21

carrying Acme Accordion Club members drove off the short pier into the lake.



Luckily for them

Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/23/2022 09:25:23

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/23/2022:  10:06:24

the lake wasn't very deep this time of year.

Its now known as

OM45GE - Posted - 10/24/2022:  03:18:31

Squeeze Box Shoals and has become a popular tourist attraction.

There are signs

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/24/2022:  07:21:24

erected by the Dept. of Historical Sites listing the surviving accordionists.

Topping the list

OM45GE - Posted - 10/24/2022:  15:55:10

was Lawrence Welk with special mention of the Lennon Sisters.

There were a lot of

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/25/2022:  08:19:32

folks who were more interested in visiting the Rock Hall Of Fame.

Very seldom

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/25/2022:  08:56:30

do you find accordionists at the RHoF.

Bill Haley

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/25/2022:  09:41:32

once said that he loved to rock around the clock but it was getting old.

Turns out he

OM45GE - Posted - 10/26/2022:  04:04:04

had never expected to be taken seriously.

He was surprised

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/26/2022:  06:47:08

to find out that they never wound the clock he had been rocking around.

That might explain

OM45GE - Posted - 10/26/2022:  07:49:01

why he’s never on time for anything.

He was even late for

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/26/2022:  08:45:32

for his long awaited party to get started when evening came.

There was lots of

Edited by - KyBanjo on 10/26/2022 08:48:26

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/26/2022:  10:03:35

Benzedrine on the Cleveland waterfront that evening.

Some rockers were up for a week

OM45GE - Posted - 10/26/2022:  11:18:49

and were heard expounding on bizarre topics with great conviction.

I’m sure they

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/26/2022:  13:56:26

where awake for for the whole week but never seemed to answer the question.

From this day on

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/26/2022:  14:33:25

I’m not playing any more games with my temperamental record player.

It doesn’t want to switch out of 78 rpm

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/26/2022:  14:44:45

and seems to relay high speed demonic messages when I play my old Beatles albums backwards.



It is interesting to

Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 10/26/2022 14:45:58

OM45GE - Posted - 10/27/2022:  02:15:36

look at all the turntables available these days.

Some of them

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/27/2022:  07:07:44

are really expensive.



I don’t necessarily 

Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 10/27/2022 07:08:30

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/27/2022:  09:41:37

spend a lot of money on frivolities.

My Pa always tole me

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/27/2022:  10:02:33

to spend my money very carefully and not waste it.

The first thing I bought was

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/27/2022:  11:33:14

a brand new, 1969 SS 396 Chevelle with a Muncie 4-speed. 

 

I'm pretty sure

Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 10/27/2022 11:34:02

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/27/2022:  12:41:43

it wasn’t made in Muncie, Indiana but who cares about small details.

The first week I had it

OM45GE - Posted - 10/27/2022:  17:16:37

I got three speeding tickets and won over a thousand dollars in street races.

That made me think

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/27/2022:  21:49:32

about quitting high school and going into racing full time.



I auditioned at The Old Brickyard

Edited by - chuckv97 on 10/27/2022 21:49:59

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/28/2022:  06:31:33

and subsequently became stone mason specializing in custom fireplace construction.

It’s really

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/28/2022:  08:43:51

wasn't what I prefer doing and it doesn't pay very good.

Sometimes I

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/28/2022:  09:28:48

dream of genie with the light brown hair.

Barbara Eden

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 10/30/2022:  07:38:20

had a part-time job at Hooters.

She was in charge

KyBanjo - Posted - 10/31/2022:  16:19:54

of all of the girls that worked for their tips.

The next night

chuckv97 - Posted - 10/31/2022:  16:56:37

they burned all their bras in the restaurant fireplace.

The smell drove out

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/01/2022:  04:50:58

both of the customers.

Eventually

KyBanjo - Posted - 11/01/2022:  14:53:49

one did return to the establishment.

Things were

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/01/2022:  15:38:13

humming at the Apiarists Convention.

Honey dripped from

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/02/2022:  04:31:18

hives and beekeeper’s protective netting.

A woman named Honey

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/02/2022:  09:52:04

wearing a beehive hairdo gave a long talk at the podium.

The buzz around the tables

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/02/2022:  14:19:16

centered on those that were sweet on Honey, but consider asking her on a date to be a sticky subject and are afraid they might get stung. 



Her sister "Bea" 

Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 11/02/2022 14:21:51