Sorry for the double post. Sherifs have mercy on me!
I had to say this before I ...
"Any special moments from rock past? "
OMG, where should I begin!?
In 1966 after recording just one more or less good (not terrible) album that didn't sell because of lack of distribution (the producer was arrested for theft), we were the youngest band, actually the FIRST band from San Juan (Puerto Rico) to be asked to play in the US Virgin Island of St. Thomas.
St. Thomas at that time was the "mecca" of musicians of all of the caribbean. Like the Beatles' Hamburg.
Playing there was considered an honor.
The Mamas and the Papas had made a second home of it.
Duffy's was THE place.
Imagine when he came to Puerto Rico (PR) looking for a band to play one or two weeks during the slow summer months...
He listened to the other bands in PR which were in their early twenties. We were 16 (the oldest, me) and the youngest was 14 (the bass player).
He chose us because he couldn't believe that five little children like us could sound so good. And that it would be more entertaining and interesting to the audience to see this in his night club. In the HIP, ADULT world that DUffy's was (as we quickly found out after the playing the first song!).
There were the legal problems that in those days were resolved with money. We were technically too young to play in an adult club.
Money *did* solve that problem. But it wasn't our problem. We were too young. We just found out later. We were just extra-excited to be playing there!
One night Sidney Poitier came in and we dedicated one song "Lillies of the Field".
We were playing the "top-40" songs, BTW. That meant a lot of Beatles of course. When the songs were new.
We grew up at the speed of light in those two weeks! They liked us so much that we were asked back in the summers of 1968 and 1969.
I would like to die there!