You know, back before I/we knew George and John & Joe, me & Woody used to be the East Coast hard core Chad & Jeremy dudes, you know? We did a killa (sorry) killer version of Dirty Old Town, and even figured out the rather complicated chord structure to Teenage Failure. I'm gonna have to find one of our Chad & Jeremy B&W shots to put up here.
So I'm remembering that I walked in a snowstorm to E. J. Korvette's in the Trumbull CT Shopping Mall to buy the first C&J LP, for, I think $2.52. This actual LP has since been lost in a divorce (I have since replaced the songs and am happily remarried, thank you very much), but I remember that the cover shot showed two pretty happy looking English boys in front of a rather lackluster background, with the words Yesterday's Gone sort of scrawled above their heads. My initial impressions were that these guys needed our help to make a go of this music career, seeing as Peter & Gordon had that Beatles connection, and the Stones might open that can of whoop ass anytime in England, and these 2 dudes were coming across with this sweet and gentle sort of nylon stringed music in competition. But damn if they weren't funny, articulate, parent-friendly, and well dressed on top of it. I know that all of this is sounding a bit metrosexual, but the 60's were rather unsettling in more ways than one. I can say no more.
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