Perhaps I should move this here
Quote from hughb:
Holy crap! Sounds like fun!
Yeah, it probably was exciting. Should've put a disclaimer on that about 30 yr. old memories.
Also on my street, Social Distortion started, but Mike Ness is the only one who stayed with that band. It seemed like nearly every other guy was in a band back then, but Ness is the only local dude that I knew of that made it big.
Van Halen was an up and coming band while I was in High School and played at local HS dances.
BTW, that mid-1950's microbus had a top speed of about 50mph, maybe 60 downhill with a good tailwind. And very slow off the mark. We were honked at and flipped off just about everywhere we went.
It had cargo doors on both sides. One December night, probably in the late '70s, we were chugging through some parking lot and decided to steal a Christmas tree for kicks. We just opened those doors, swooped one in, and chugged away. We got it to someone's apartment and decorated it with empty cigarette packs and beer cans. We called it the anti-Christmas tree. We thought we were clever, but mostly we were just drunk.