Jam sessions

For those of you that do not know what a "jam session" is, it's when musicians get together and just play music. Now for the musicians and their tag alongs... this is kind of cool and "creative."

For me and my sibs, the garage was never far away enough and even if my freinds all thought my house was the coolest because my dad had happening"visitors"... I really just wanted mom to wear curlers and make cookies and dad to wear a tie and come home at 5:00. By the way, did I mention these sessions usually started around 2 in the morning?

The music was very cool. The timing was not.

One time my dad converted a poolside changing room in our backyard into a studio. He "soundproofed" it with bags of sand. That summer was totally rockin, until my parents separated and divorced.

That was the summer I went touring with dad for the last time. I spent most of my vacation sharing space with a couple PA systems and an amplifier. I recall the 2am breakfasts (I wonder why I am such a night owl?) and waitresses and a bunch of inuendo flying around.

I also remember lots of science related talk. My dad is very very intelligent. If he hadn't been a musician, he could have been anything else. He can fix a car with duck tape, rewire your house with paper clips, and can explain how almost every civilizaition came into being, what their primary religious beliefs are, and if you really want a deep conversation, relate all of it to metaphysics and/or particle physics. What impressed me the most was that he could listen and respond to the conversations and still keep one eye peeled (and winking) at the watiress. That guy could run for president.