{"id":1094,"date":"2012-07-19T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T20:31:21","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-134-academy-days-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/07\/19\/my-musical-evolution-part-134-academy-days-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 134 Academy Days Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Go-Gos<\/a>The summer of 1982 was a blast. Instead of going back to Fort Wayne, for the summer, I stayed on campus and worked. Vermont Academy would host these big science or language conferences in the summer.\u00a0 About a dozen of us students stayed on and worked as waiters and waitresses or in the kitchen. The work wasn’t hard and I had a rather large amount of fun.<\/p>\n

Thursday nights were Drive-In nights. We’d fill a cooler with wine and ice then head of to Bellows Falls Drive-In in Ralf’s 1940’s truck. We’d park the truck backwards and just hang out and have a good time.\u00a0 I saw about half of a lot of good movies that summer.<\/p>\n

Vacation<\/em> by the Go-Go’s came out in August of that year and it was probably the first time that I knew that a new album was being released and was in a position to buy it almost immediately. I’ll be honest and say that after all this time I still prefer Beauty And The Beat<\/em> but Vacation<\/em> was good and has several tracks that are near and dear.<\/p>\n

I actually included the lyrics of the song Vacation<\/em> in a card to a young lady that I was interested in at the time. We had worked together all summer and some unexpected sparks flew. It was at the close of the conference and I was headed out to Indiana for a month.\u00a0 When I got back to Saxtons River in September, we hung together once or twice but the magic that we discovered at the drive-in had faded.<\/p>\n

Vacation<\/em>
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