after reading this wonderful piece in HuffPo I went straight to my closet. there in the back is a brown sports jacket. it's mentiond in #29 of Postcard Memoirs.
in the fall of 1966 Bob Kidney needed some quick cash. I no longer remember the specifics of his offering to sell me his jacket nor the price. because there is no label in the jacket I have the feeling that it was tailord for him. back in those days I didn't have that many sports coats & wore it often.
it's been years since I last heard the Numbers Band. in my drunk days when I driftd thru most of the bars in Kent I heard them more often than any other band in my life. I was always stumpd that they never went on to a huge career. but now that I'm older I'm happy they didn't. because they continue to play great music. & finally the world is catching up with them. finally the world is coming to Kent to hear the Kidney brothers.
so a local legend begins to spread. how sweet for them. & for the town that's known from the beginning that this was something special.
in the fall of 1966 Bob Kidney needed some quick cash. I no longer remember the specifics of his offering to sell me his jacket nor the price. because there is no label in the jacket I have the feeling that it was tailord for him. back in those days I didn't have that many sports coats & wore it often.
it's been years since I last heard the Numbers Band. in my drunk days when I driftd thru most of the bars in Kent I heard them more often than any other band in my life. I was always stumpd that they never went on to a huge career. but now that I'm older I'm happy they didn't. because they continue to play great music. & finally the world is catching up with them. finally the world is coming to Kent to hear the Kidney brothers.
so a local legend begins to spread. how sweet for them. & for the town that's known from the beginning that this was something special.
2 comments:
I have a friend who grew up in Kent and she still talks about the great concerts the Numbers Band put on.
"The Eye Game" is one song I recall her mentioning.
Bob Kidney sent me this background on the jacket:
It originaly had a belt. I bought it at Richmond Bros located in the State Rd shopping center next to the co-op supermarket where I worked as a bagger and on the night crew. The salesman's name at Richmond was Jack Eagars.
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