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I just heard from an old acquaintance I used to hang with when I was going to school in Philadelphia in the early seventies. His dad was a Jewish jeweler from Philadelphia who had married a woman from Puerto Rico, and moved there, where my friend was born and grew up. He had never been to Spain (yet) and I had never been to Latin America (yet), so though we usually spoke Spanish together, we knew only a few songs together.
He got us a brief gig in a downtown Jewish coffee house. I don't speak or read Hebrew, and he didn't know much in the way of Jewish songs either. He wormed his/our way into playing by saying we sang Sephardic songs (yeah, right!). But in those days, anything for $5 and a cup of coffee. They thought I looked the part, but I know about as much Hebrew as Chauncey Gardener knew Russian, so I shut up and played.
What I didn't know was that someone had taken a picture of us while playing: 47 years ago. I was 20, he was 22. He just sent it to me. I don't know whether to be horrified or amused!
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,909 posts)Those were the days, hey?
DFW
(54,592 posts)It all seems a blur to me now.....
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The rest of us will be amused on your behalf and then some.
What. A. Great. Picture. At least it looks like you're both playing the same chord, which is more than I would be able to say for any extant photos from that time in my life.
DFW
(54,592 posts)I taught him to play better. He was not as successful with my voice...
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I am honored to follow in your artistic footsteps.
DFW
(54,592 posts)NOW you can be honored. Not for some $5 gig in a forgotten Philadelphia coffee house!!
Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)The remorse and nostalgia about growing up.
DFW
(54,592 posts)NOW you tell me?
Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)aikoaiko
(34,186 posts)DFW
(54,592 posts)Just kidding!!!!!!!!!! Before you throw that tomato
tazkcmo
(7,310 posts)Neat story. Happy memories to you!
DFW
(54,592 posts)NBachers
(17,209 posts)DFW
(54,592 posts)Open them and you see another.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Groovy man! Peace.
DFW
(54,592 posts)I just stared and said, yup, that's us..........
nolabear
(42,018 posts)Marvelous photo. Those were the days, my friend...
DFW
(54,592 posts)There wasn't room for both of us to sit.
kcr
(15,333 posts)And that song... My oldest is almost twenty.
DFW
(54,592 posts)They probably haven't the faintest idea who Neil Young is.
yardwork
(61,857 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,221 posts)Thank you for sharing a great photo and memory, DFW!
Amazing universe, this.
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