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The Who destroying their instruments on stage. The Smothers Brothers show, 1967.

 

When I, the young "Teddy," was seven years old my neighbor played for me a rock 'n' roll single called Classical Gas by Mason Williams. Listening to the music the young Teddy was at peace with himself, and he could let his mind wander freely.

As I got older, the teenage "Ted" discovered WPLJ FM, the premiere FM rock station in New York. The music hit me like a drug and made my daydreams scream. The harder the music rocked, the more my daydreams would scream. It was awesome.

Although I, the teenage "Ted," had a low-quality record player from Radio Shack, I had a high-quality record collection. I brought hundreds of records. At that early critical time in my development two albums stood out in my mind, The Who's Tommy and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Both were concept albums, the Who rocked hard, and destroyed their instruments live on stage, David Bowie played other-worldly characters to crazed Oriental audiences in only a jock strap. Fuck yea!

 
 
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David Bowie singing All the Young Dudes in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Check him out shaking his hips on the line, "juvenile delinquent wrecks." It certainly is delinquent.

 
 

David Bowie performing in a jock strap to a crowd of crazed Orientals, 1972.

 
 
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In college, I was also influenced by my first Pink Floyd laser show I saw at the Vanderbilt Planetarium on Long Island. When they played Welcome to the Machine and projected huge, rotating star-chart sundial gears, I never forgot it. Later, it inspired me to do what I call "planetarium poetry." Although this is an example of a Pink Floyd laser show, it is not the show I saw growing up, but does it matter? Hell no! Why? Because cosmically, all Pink Floyd laser shows spring from the same unified-field stellar dweller source of stonedom, PUFF! PUFF!

 
 

The Vanderbuilt Planetarium on Long Island where I saw my first Pink Floyd laser show.

 

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