We may be boomers by the book but culturally we never had anything to do with the dirty hippies and disco clowns. We cast off the largesse and went back to basics, drawing from rockabilly, old Memphis twang bar rock and roll and surf guitar. We cut our hair and thrashed away in the pits of innumerable dives and ad hoc venues. And to think, I still have all my own teeth - it truly is a miracle!