{"id":633,"date":"2012-06-09T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2012-06-09T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:08:32","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-72-bfms-found-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/09\/my-musical-evolution-part-72-bfms-found-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 72 BFMS Found On The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>So what can you do when you are a middle school aged boy living in the foothills of the Green Mountains in a town that would make Cicely, Alaska look like a booming metropolis? You ride your bike and run on the miles and miles of hidden trails and old dusty roads.\u00a0 Exploring. One day as I was jogging along a stretch of\u00a0 a little used roadway, something in the woods caught my attention. Amongst all that green were a few colors that I didn’t expect. Upon further investigation, I found a box that contained half a dozen 8-Track tapes and a few other items that were of such low interest that I’ve forgotten what they were. I remember it was a box full of “stuff” but only three of the items became mine.<\/em> Three 8-Track tapes. The Ventures – Walk Don’t Run<\/em>, John Denver – Greatest Hits,\u00a0 <\/em>John Denver – Back Home Again.<\/em><\/p>\n

First, The Ventures – Walk Don’t Run.<\/em> If you have been following along from the beginning, you’ll recall that the Ventures’ Hawaii 5-0 theme was an early favorite and that later on the anonymous “Doo-Doo-Doo” song.\u00a0 Somehow though,\u00a0 for me, The Ventures didn’t exist as an entity until this 8-Track.<\/p>\n

I remember being nervous about putting an 8-Track that I found by the side of the road into my Aunt’s 8-Track player. Would it even play? Worse yet, would it destroy my Aunt’s 8-Track player? Eventually curiosity put its foot down and I was delighted with the twangy, early 60’s sound of surf guitars.\u00a0 I became of fan instantly. There is something about the Ventures. I won’t say timeless <\/em>because it is quite the opposite. Their music always seems to make me think of life on the west coast in 1963.\u00a0 Maybe it is because the Ventures never seem to make the cut when it comes to the Oldies<\/em> radio stations. So much other music from bygone era’s seems to get recycled in some fashion and thus can transcend in a way.\u00a0 Think about it, when was the last time you accidentally <\/em>heard a Ventures song? Maybe Rebel Rouser <\/em>sneaked onto the Forrest Gump<\/em> soundtrack but that was Duane Eddy.<\/p>\n

So who gets the credit for this influence<\/em>? As I think back on it now, the contents of that box in the woods had to have been stolen from somebody’s car and abandoned there. Why else would a box of perfectly useful 8-Tracks make it’s way to the side of a dirt road in Vermont? If I take a minute to think about it, so many things had to happen just right in order for me to know about the Ventures. Somebody bought the 8-Track, somebody else stole it out of their car [probably] and left it on the side of the road. I happened to be in Vermont and discover it while on a run before it was destroyed by weather or cunsumed by wild animals, my aunt had an 8-Track player and the the tape worked. The result is that I’ve been a fan of the Ventures since the late 1970’s.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what happened to my Walk Don’t Run <\/em>8-Track. I’m pretty sure that it was discarded along with my last 8-Track player which would have been some time in 1984. I’m pretty sure that it didn’t end trasgically like so many of the casssettes that I owned did. We’ll get to them later. Perhaps my cousin is to blame. As you’ll see in the next post, my John Denver 8-Tracks were abducted.<\/p>\n

For me, apart from those early entries in the Scratchy 45 Days<\/em>, this 8-Track was my Ventures world until I’d pick up some CD’s in the late 1980’s but that is getting ahead of the story.<\/p>\n

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Night Train<\/p>\n