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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 (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 44) – Visiting Some Old Friends

January 30, 2021

When you relocate often, you learn to set roots quickly and those roots are deep. The strongest ones are the ones grown during hard times or just big changes. When I lived in California. I was in my early 20s. I had arrived by hitchhiking across the country, gotten married and had my first child, […]

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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