I’ve been spinning my wheels and and trying to keep this transitional period organized. As I probably mentioned before, so much seemed to be going on at this point in my life. In my mind the timeline is written on a piece of paper that is crumpled and wadded up so it seems that things are out of order and everything touches everything else. I’m trying to smooth it out to its original linear form. I had just completed 6th and final grade at Franke Park and thus would be changing schools when the fall semester started. I was still heavily invested in KISS but something else happened that summer. I saw Star Wars about 50 times. It is so odd to come to this realization at this very moment but it just occured to me that my Franke Park Elementary school friends whith whom I shared KISS, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet Of The Apes and so much more, we never talked about Star Wars. We didn’t because it happened after school was over.
Anyway, like the rest of the world, I was hooked on Star Wars. I couldn’t get enough of it. Books, magazines, posters, toys, T-Shirts and of course the original soundtrack. As I mentioned before in the disney era, before VCRs were everywhere, records were as close as we could get to reliving the film in our homes. I acquired the soundtrack and would play it over and over visualizing the film in my imagination. At first I loved it because of the movie but I also believe that it gave me a deeper appreciation for a full orchestra. All of those instruments teaming up to create such a wide range of sound and emotion.
I was the perfect age when Star Wars first hit theaters. I was 12 years old and fit the target demographic to a T. As the Disco era was coming into prominence, a Disco version of Star Wars was to be expected.