THOSE WERE THE DAYS , MY FRIENDS
I THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER END
I THOUGHT THEY'D LAST FOREVER AND A DAY

And they certainly have lived forever and a day! Those were grand days and even today, I think of them often.

I still feel the excitment, just remebering Lord Buckley appearing on stage. And his APPERANCE was like an olde time magican's apperance ... smoke ... beautiful ladies ... flashy costumes ... glitz ... and above all, excitment as to what was going to happen!

The most mesmorizing thing to me was to watch his abilty to controll a tavern crowd. By this time in my life, I'd been on stage a bit, and I knew some of the ends and outs of performing. He was on stage in front of a very large crowd, at the ANCHOR STEAM HOUSE, in Sausilito, California. And the crowd was mostly rowdy, drinking a bunch, and ready for whatever.

I watched him come on stage, with his ladies, and by SILENCE ... bring the crowd to silence. Within moments, you could have heard a pin drop. And I was on the floor within a crowd of probably 200 people. In absolute silence, his cape was removed. by his ladies in waiting, he adjusted his mike, and began to speak ...!

THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS

CHEERS, bob