May 3rd, Bob Stroud did a Time Warp back to May 3, 1970 and May 3, 1975, on his weekly Rock and Roll Roots Show on WDRV, 97.1 FM. The depth of his knowledge about the sixties and seventies is amazing. The show streams live in www.wdrv.com from 7 to 10 AM Central. Once a month, he does a Time Warp, usually the first weekend.
The rest of the time, he features a band (usually if a member has a birthday. Yesterday, he did a Dozen of Donovan, in honor of Donovan Leitch's 63rd.
In May of 1970, I was a freshman at Northern Illinois University and pledging Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. The house was on Augusta Avenue, 242 I think, and east of campus. Most fraternities and sororities were north of campus out toward Greenbrier Street. We were planning on moving to Greenbrier the following year.
Delta Sigma Phi was a colony, having just affiliated with the national after being a local, Phi Delta Psi.
I sure was enjoying the Greek life and my grades were suffering.
Little did I know that the next day, at a demonstration protesting the US intervention in Cambodia at Kent State University in Ohio, four students would be killed by the National Guard, setting off and unbelievable week of civil disobedience and rioting at campuses all across the US, including some violent ones at NIU.
More to Come. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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