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I had an older brother. He passed away. I have two sisters. Both my parents are gone. There was six years between me and the next youngest so I was like an only child. Messing around with explosives was not that uncommon actually. At the time you still could buy dynamite at the farmer's Co-Op or if you wanted to save money you just used potassium nitrate and diesel oil. They actually had books at the public library on how to make explosives and fireworks and stuff. I'm not the only kid that did it.
You have to remember I grew up in an old mining town and there were people used to working around that kind of stuff.
We stopped when we blew a five inch hole in the sidewalk. All the terrorist stuff wasn't going on. It was the 1970's. If you were a resourceful kid like I was, you could get stuff. They sold gun powder in our local drug store. LOL! One day I just walked in and bought a one pound can of it. Fun times.
I made a cool rocket one time. You packed black powder real tight into a cardboard cylinder and that would be the rocket engine. My first one blew up and the second one worked great but the parachute didn't pop and I lost that one. I made one that had two stages and it actually worked. Nothing from a kit, I built them all from cardboard and balsa wood.
I was the kid that would tear stuff apart to see how it worked.
I saw this show on TV and they had this guy from India on TV that said he stayed heathy from drinking his own urine and I thought that was an interesting concept so I tried it and decided that guy from India was nuts.
I'm still fascinated by pyro. There's a commercial fireworks factory in Logan, Utah and I had to get a tour of the place and saw the whole process. I think I liked KISS as a kid because of the big show and pyro. I found David Lee Roth's book fascinating because of the pranks, the wildness, breaking rules and getting away with it, their Denace the Menace special effects. All interesting. Alex Van Halen trying to light a big pile of tires on fire just for the hell of it. Gluing furniture on the ceiling.
That's why I'm a VH fan. As someone said Van Halen was riding down the road in a big truck full of girls and booze driving over small animals with the stereo blasting. Fits my personality. Rebellion with style.
I see the authorities trying to pack people into little boxes now to be domesticated and controlled. Now I'm seeing the people aren't digging it. It's going to be great when the big pushback begins. You know what kind of music that rebellion is going to spawn? The latter part of this decade may be a magical time just like the late 60's was and then the cycle repeats.
One of my partners in crime who helped me build all the bombs and fireworks and stuff. He now works for the CIA. LOL! I shit you not. I have no idea what he does. I went to a friends dad's funeral and he came up and one of my grade school buddies said he was working for the CIA. We all broke out laughing because he was the kid fascinated with military stuff, spies and shit. LOL! Life is weird. Enjoy!
You have to remember I grew up in an old mining town and there were people used to working around that kind of stuff.
We stopped when we blew a five inch hole in the sidewalk. All the terrorist stuff wasn't going on. It was the 1970's. If you were a resourceful kid like I was, you could get stuff. They sold gun powder in our local drug store. LOL! One day I just walked in and bought a one pound can of it. Fun times.
I made a cool rocket one time. You packed black powder real tight into a cardboard cylinder and that would be the rocket engine. My first one blew up and the second one worked great but the parachute didn't pop and I lost that one. I made one that had two stages and it actually worked. Nothing from a kit, I built them all from cardboard and balsa wood.
I was the kid that would tear stuff apart to see how it worked.
I saw this show on TV and they had this guy from India on TV that said he stayed heathy from drinking his own urine and I thought that was an interesting concept so I tried it and decided that guy from India was nuts.
I'm still fascinated by pyro. There's a commercial fireworks factory in Logan, Utah and I had to get a tour of the place and saw the whole process. I think I liked KISS as a kid because of the big show and pyro. I found David Lee Roth's book fascinating because of the pranks, the wildness, breaking rules and getting away with it, their Denace the Menace special effects. All interesting. Alex Van Halen trying to light a big pile of tires on fire just for the hell of it. Gluing furniture on the ceiling.
That's why I'm a VH fan. As someone said Van Halen was riding down the road in a big truck full of girls and booze driving over small animals with the stereo blasting. Fits my personality. Rebellion with style.
I see the authorities trying to pack people into little boxes now to be domesticated and controlled. Now I'm seeing the people aren't digging it. It's going to be great when the big pushback begins. You know what kind of music that rebellion is going to spawn? The latter part of this decade may be a magical time just like the late 60's was and then the cycle repeats.
One of my partners in crime who helped me build all the bombs and fireworks and stuff. He now works for the CIA. LOL! I shit you not. I have no idea what he does. I went to a friends dad's funeral and he came up and one of my grade school buddies said he was working for the CIA. We all broke out laughing because he was the kid fascinated with military stuff, spies and shit. LOL! Life is weird. Enjoy!
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