It is here that My Musical Evolution forks again into a third thread. On February 3rd, 1984 I ran into a guy that went to school with at Franke Park Elementary. Bob was going to IPFW as well. I hadn’t seem him since second or third grade. We chatted a bit and discovered that we both had old Galaxie 500’s his was a black 1962, mine a blue 1963. We both liked The Beach Boys. We decided to hang out that evening. Chance encounter number one.
The Beach Boys – Surfin’ USA
At 6:00, Bob came over and we took my car out to the usual places, video arcades and such. We played The Beach Boys and generally were having fun. Bob remembered that a friend of his girlfriend’s was having a party at her apartment on Hobson. We were close by so we went. At first it seemed kind of boring. I didn’t know anybody and I really wasn’t into it. Chance encounter number two. I meet a girl named Lisa. She was pretty and as it turned out a couple years younger than me. She was a junior in High School. I’m not sure what we could have talked about but whatever it was, it was working. It was getting late and she was missing her curfew. She gave me her phone number and told me to call. I would and as we kissed beside her car, The Rise & Fall Of ’84 began.
Billy Joel – Uptown Girl