The Kingston Trio. My friends and I formed the New BAD Trio in response. We knew there were 3 of us, we knew we were bad (Bob, Art, & Dick) and nobody could play an instrument, circa 1962. Pin-striped shirts. We were Basketball players who had to come up with something for the year-end high school "talent" show. LOL

We had a guitar, Art held it, untuned. Dick "played" bongos, I sang lead. Shaking in front of the whole school as we did our rendition of "Tom Dooley." INSTANT FAME!

1966, 2nd week of February, I began to play the guitar. I did find somebody who knew how to tune a guitar in '62. But those were my Basketball years, so the real start came in '66. Boy those strings were MUCH stiffer than untuned...

Then I met Paul Geremia, Ken Lyon, & others and found out that some people were taking this Folk thing seriously.

Canada brought the introduction to the Brits. And for them, Folk was life itself. Sea shanties,
TRADITIONAL, and lots of history. A learning process for me.

So many wonderful, talented people...Memories...Peace to all...bob