Saturday Psychedelia

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (#54) – The Next Phase

April 17, 2021

Once I settled into the apartment I was subletting, I started inviting friends over to jam. I was no longer living with a musician and was missing that sharing of music. I had also booked a gig for a month and a half away, knowing that although I was just learning to play the guitar, […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter #53) – The Bitter End

April 10, 2021

My life was now starting to unravel in all directions. I had taken a big leap into my vagabond life with Paul when I was still pretty young, became a mother two days after my twenty-second birthday, and moved from one coast to another and back again twice. We’d settled in upstate New York because […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter #52) – Nearing the End of an Era

April 2, 2021

I always said that if any of my partner ever got violent, I would not stay with him. I had become accustomed to physical and emotional abuse at an early age, but although I knew that I couldn’t tolerate physical abuse anymore, the emotional abuse was harder to recognize. Maybe I was also a bit […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 51) – Having a Third Child

March 20, 2021

After counting the years until I would move out on my own, without the responsibilities of raising a family, I was having another child. Jessie, who had recently decided to abbreviate her name to Jes., was almost fifteen and Justin was eleven. I felt as though I was in the home stretch. Now, I was […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 50) – Our Amazing and Heroic Dog

March 13, 2021

Soon after we reunited following our seven-month separation, we decided that we should have a dog and found a husky through a shelter that had families host dogs until they could find them a home. Rory a big, muscular dog. He was three years old and wasn’t well trained. We decided to take him on […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 49) – Learning to Be a Parent

March 6, 2021

In the late eighties, I was in my mid-thirties, and we were still struggling to survive financially with two kids. We did manage to do it one way or another and even occasionally had a little cushion. But Paul jumped from job to job, never figuring where he belonged, and my work didn’t pay well. […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chptr 48) – Unusual Gigs and Many Parties

February 27, 2021

General Eclectic played a lot of incredible gigs including clubs, colleges, outdoor venues, private parties, live radio and television. We even played as a duo at a campfire at the Petrified Sea Gardens in Saratoga Springs, New York. We were also scheduled to play at a warehouse in Troy that was located by the river, […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 47) – Band Members Through the Years

February 20, 2021

I was incredibly lucky to have played music in the 1980s and early 90s with a wide variety of fine musicians, so I thought I would write about some of them. During our time with the band, Paul and I worked with four different drummers. Charles Ross, who was going by Chuck then, was the […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 45) – Learning to Be a Single Mom

February 6, 2021

We had done a lot of work over the summer trying to make the trailer livable, but there was still a long way to go when Paul moved out. I was also facing being a single mom of two for the first time. Although, I had done most of the caretaking for our children, I was […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelia – On Becoming a Hippie (Chapter 46) – Playing in the Band

January 13, 2021

Now that Paul and I were reunited, we focused even more on our music. We had always written songs together­, and I had missed that in addition to missing him. We both had gained a different perspective having had the time to think about our music as individuals for the first time since we had […]

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