Thank you, JR Tomlinson. More stuff is in the pipeline, but you left a comment on the last post, prompting this one. Some shot-gun writing prompts most definitely go more smoothly than others. This one below is a complete mess, recounting (in 1979) how I lucked into tickets for The Rolling Stones Some Girls tour in 1978.
For some reason, over the years I have had a great deal of good luck with things Stones-related. This was the first time.
As for prompts, JR makes a good point: a lot of rough drafts are subjected to all sorts of on-the-fly editing, what Anne Lamott calls "the shitty first draft." Other times, things spring forth like immaculate conceptions or tiny smiling monsters.
This scrawled account gives some idea of how concert-goers had to acquire tickets pre-internet and cellphone era. The friend evoked was Marc Pinotti; a girlfriend at the time, Ariana B., was met through him. Even then I was arguing with Republicans -- at that time, in defense of Jimmy Carter. The more things
change . . .
The actual Hampton Coliseum concert on June 21, 1978, was a wild experience, to which I'd conveyed other peeps as well -- including JC, Ken Randall and Scott Jones. I was seventeen at the time.
Today's Rune: Breakthrough.
3 comments:
I am willing to bet that if someone other than yourself had to read that they would have been considering Seppuku. Not for the function but for the uncrackable lines.
Erik-I would have loved to know you at 17! I think we would have rocked it...
I've seen some things like that in my own early drafts back in the day. Now I do 'em all on computer so they look a lot neater. I should do a story all with markup though and see how it looks.
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