back to a night in DC, riding with friends near Rock Creek Park, windows down, warm, steamy air, and Shotgun on the radio.
Looking back, it was like being in a
Scorsese film that hadn't been made yet.
Shotgun was still new in April of that year.
1965....

The violence in Scorsese films you might want to pick a different director if you don't want things to go bad. Thrilled that you must be older than I, 1965 was very pivotal for me, I lived in the midwest, my parents were getting a divorce and by August my mother sister and I were on a train headed for glorious California

seeing Washington for the first time with my friend from school on a weekend break.
It was not the violence in Scorsese films I was thinking of but the dreamy combo of music and atmosphere in some of the films. There's often a smoky bar of course.
But, even at the time, that ride had a dreamy, surreal quality.

Thx. for Jr. Walker. Good any time and I love that first scream of the sax in Shake.

What rock saxophonist I heard first, I do remember while quite young choosing Joey Dee And His Starlighters over a song by Yogi Bear as my first record I (my parents) bought. Used to be City Country City by War was my favorite saxophone performance for decades, now it's this