Music

  I can’t recall exactly when I started taking an interest in music but I do know that it was pretty early. I’ve only recently been carbon dated at 63 so that the formative years in taste establishment focus on the late 1960s to mid-1970s. However, the Summer of Love’s free-wheelin’ sex and associated humidity didn’t really wind their paths to suburban Abbotsford….at least as far as I remember. The influences that did matter were far more tangible and much easier to peg. Strange or bent pop music always caught my ears when I was a very early teen. The Beatles never really attracted me but I quite liked Brasil 66’s rendition of Fool on the hill . Other noteworthy attention-getters included Thunderclap Newman’s Something in the air , the Doors’ Touch me and Gun’s Race with the devil . Pop music was all the go in those times and Top 40 countdowns were everywhere on the dial of my black transistor radio. Most of the stuff which is now eulogised (Elvis Presley, The H...