Songs of the Dead Roommate

[DemoTex]

My roomy at Auburn in 1966-67 was KIA in the 'Nam in '68. He was a red-neck Army ROTC guy who lit a cigarette every morning when his feet hit the floor from the bottom bunk (I was on the top bunk, and I never smoked .. so I hated it). He was a bomb defuse (master blaster, as he called it). His name was Ronnie.

Ronny loved C&W, and I loved classical and jazz. I called Ronnie "Puss" and he called me "Pussy." It was not sexual.

But I got Ronny loving Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World." And Brubeck.

Ronnie got me loving the "Pozo Seco Singers." Those tunes swirled in my mind when I saw Ronnie's name on The Wall in Washington, DC.

So I am now listening to a Pozo Seco album (thanks to I-Tunes), thinking about the good damn years before Viet Nam.

Mac

[csziggy]

1. K&R for Ronny

:cry:

[stevedeshazer]

2. Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor and Dave Brubeck?

Hey, man, you're just fine in my book.

That is some good shit.

[DemoTex]

3. Hi Steve!

Snow coming? Looks like a bastard of a storm in the Gulf of Alaska. Keep safe.

Mac

[stevedeshazer]

7. I rate my days on the number of Cascade volcanoes I can see.

From here in Portland, the best day is a Five Mountain Day. That happened today.

I can see Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Jefferson.

From here, if you get up high enough like Larch Mountain (~4200 ft), you can see the Three Sisters. Which makes it an Eight Mountain Day, exceptional.

:hi:

Sadly, these days are few and we're socked in cloudy weather and rain and drizzle and sleet and snow most of the time.

Good to see ya.

[virgogal]

4. How nice. I think music does more to recall memories than anything else.

[Remember Me]

11. I love music, but I think

fragrance or odor actually outperforms music in the memories department.

[The Straight Story]

5. Thanks for all of your posts, I always enjoy them, especially this one

Music touches me in many ways.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R !!! n/t

[pinboy3niner]

8. To the roommates we lost there

:toast:

:patriot:

[thelordofhell]

9. Bob

by Primus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34RfY4luLCY

:cry:

[Tuvok Obama]

10. Thanks for introducing me to the Pozo Seco Singers

After reading this I went to Amazon and listened to samples of their "Complete 1966 Recordings" album. It's on my list. (I'm already a fan of Dvorak's ninth.)