If you are from the baby boomer generation then you will agree with my quote from John Mellencamp's song Cherry Bomb. Yeah in the '60's dancing meant everything. You waited
all week for your boring classes to be over so you could hit the clubs-check out your favorite
band and dance, dance, dance. Much different then the clubs now. Drinking age in New York
State was 18 but the clubs always did all ages and stamped the drinking age folks different than
the underage. There was always someone who would ask you to dance and it was fun.
And if anyone into Heavy Metal and has followed Ronnie James Dio -here's a little
secret: Ronnie had a cover band in the '60's and they packed 'em in at the dance clubs.
Bet Ronnie made more than the bands make today back then. It was also when the
Viet Nam War (the goverment never recognized it as a war and called it a conflict. Conflict-
it was a war and we lost lots of young men for no reason. Does that sound familiar?) was
gearing up and we really wanted to make it go away. Do I even want to mention Civil Rights?
I think I started enough rabble rousing by having a Black dance partner for certain dance
clubs. We only danced and practiced all week long after school if we had a dance to go to
together. Other times I just went to the clubs with a bunch of girlfriends. Sometimes a
boyfriend would enter my life for a few months and then I would go to clubs with him.
Sound familiar -sound like a simpler life? Yeah, that's the past.
all week for your boring classes to be over so you could hit the clubs-check out your favorite
band and dance, dance, dance. Much different then the clubs now. Drinking age in New York
State was 18 but the clubs always did all ages and stamped the drinking age folks different than
the underage. There was always someone who would ask you to dance and it was fun.
And if anyone into Heavy Metal and has followed Ronnie James Dio -here's a little
secret: Ronnie had a cover band in the '60's and they packed 'em in at the dance clubs.
Bet Ronnie made more than the bands make today back then. It was also when the
Viet Nam War (the goverment never recognized it as a war and called it a conflict. Conflict-
it was a war and we lost lots of young men for no reason. Does that sound familiar?) was
gearing up and we really wanted to make it go away. Do I even want to mention Civil Rights?
I think I started enough rabble rousing by having a Black dance partner for certain dance
clubs. We only danced and practiced all week long after school if we had a dance to go to
together. Other times I just went to the clubs with a bunch of girlfriends. Sometimes a
boyfriend would enter my life for a few months and then I would go to clubs with him.
Sound familiar -sound like a simpler life? Yeah, that's the past.
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