A dozen of us took ourselves to see Ain’t Too Proud, The Life and Times of The Temptations, now playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley. It was wonderful. And so was the audience, which grooved along song after song as if they remembered, as most of us did, the moment each melody first
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Published on October 03, 2017 18:20
That count did not include the albums.
It was the Temptation's Psychedelic Shack that moved me a new direction ~ I did not care for that new FM radio 'hippie' music that was finding its way onto my most listened to AM radio stations.
Since then I have been exposed to music from many cultures, and even learned to appreciate the sounds I once shunned. It seems to me it would be a much better world if sounds from many cultures "sold" ~ not just to make others famous or wealthy ~ but to make citizens of the world richer for the experience of knowing different sounds and cultures.