Wow! Les Paul is from Waukesha? Hey so is Peter Stampfel! We used to go to dances at a "teen hangout" called The Attic. We being my Shorewood HS buddies, Ken Haferman, Jim Cole, Bobby Kleinow. We would play Waukesha HS in basketball, football. We usually beat them especially back in the early fifties when my cousin Elliot played for Shorewood.

Things change.

Peter Stampfel evolved into a modal rounder (holy as I ken) Ken became one of the best clawhammer (fretless) banjo players In Wisconsin, Bobby died (don't know how), I joined the Air Force, they built freeways all over the place and my cousin Elliot reps printing companies.

Racine and Milwaukee Joe Offer? Ever go swimming at the quarry in Racine? Place looked just like the quarry in "Breaking Away".

jeez I must be gettin old.

CB