I was born in 1950, yeah, Jack Kerouac just published 'On The Road' which defined the coming beat generation. My first 'close encounter' with the beats was when my buddy Eddy Rehberger and I took a job mowing the lawn of a group out of Grenwich Village called the Fuggs. They gave us their album for a tip. I put it on the victrola, my Dad promptly smashed it to bits, I guess the line "Leon Trotsky, f**k you" was a bit out of touch for that era. From Jack I took, "Music is the only truth"-Jack ...