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Mickey's Highway Concert

From: Joey L.
Email: jlatunski@aol.com
Remote Name: 172.195.226.215
Date: 05-Oct-2002
Time: 02:26 AM

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There has been a time now since I last posted, and I have had a chance to say that my well's done run dry. The tracks of my tears are more a baranca now, which has started the mending of my heart.

These past days have found me reading all the wonderful tributes to Mickey and comments from Laura Shayne, Annaleah, Susie that I know the healing has started. The old songs are a' playing as I type.

I don't post much nowadays. But I want to relive two aspects of how Mickey's music first reached me, and what I/we once did with it ... back then.

I was introduced to Mickey's voice/lyrics back in '70 when I was visiting my brother in Aurora, CO. He simply said "Put these ear phones on and listen to this". He played "Frisco Mabel Joy" and I was hooked. I read the words, strained to hear the notes, and I was an ardent fan since then. His circle of fans grew.

In 1976, during a "lull" in my employment career, I decided to widen my life experience and went for one month with a h.s. friend of mine Robt. Smith, as he hauled Pop Shoppe crates from Simi Valley, CA to wherever. Got a chance to see lots of the West, visit Denver a couple of times. Well, one time when we were between radio stations, we decided to sing Mickey's tunes. No music, but just two fans trying their best singing "Frisco Mabel Joy" songs while speeding through the deserts of Nevada/Utah. Thank God there was never a recording of this "concert", but it was one heckofaway to pass the night away on a lonely highway.

Oh, by the way, this Robt. Smith is one of my guests to the Perdido Key Gathering in 1999.

God Bless Mickey and his omnipresent family.

Good night dear hearts and gentle people.

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