4/3/2024 0 Comments Supertramp school kidJust out of Mead High School in Spokane, I was hired for a Spokane Falls Community College work-study job, and I saved all of my wages to buy a high fidelity stereo. My love of this album continued through the decade. ![]() But I did know enough to identify with the feelings of fear, confusion, competition, and all of the rest. I wouldn’t understand what conformity meant for years to come, or that going through a public school system was designed to produce a certain kind of kid end-product. “They tell you not to hang around and learn what life’s about. “School,” the album’s opening song, led out with the harmonica for almost a full minute before the vocals of co-lead singer Roger Hodgson began to tell the story, about his experience going to school. I was 15, just starting to feel my way through life, and I so identified with the words of these songs, and it was as if Supertramp had somehow gotten inside of my head and read my thoughts. My brother was with me, and my older cousins were playing us their latest musical find, Supertramp’s “Crime of the Century.” It was 1974, and I had just entered high school. ![]() ![]() The low wail of the harmonica rose and sang to me as I sat in the basement of my uncle’s home in Mead.
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