Remembering When....

I love to listen to all kind of music. Rock, counrty, metal, some rap. I was listening the other day to the local metal station and started to remember things. many years ago there was a Night club that always had live bands. My girlfriends and I woudl go there and listen to the bands all the time and sometimes Big acts would come in to town and play there. I ended up working there doing stage lighting for the club. Some of the local bands would use me at other venues and if the national acts did not have any one I would do theres. So, as I listen to the radio I think of all the bands I worked for and wonder where thy are now. Are the local guys still playing. Or are they like me all grown up.
I am able to tell my kids that I met all sorts of famous people and I inform them that I was not and I repeat was not a Groupie. I always got respect from the bands and their crews. I would be invited after the show to hotels and on buses and sometimes I would go with their understanding that I was not a toy to be payed with like some of the other girls they had with and I demanded respect. I remember standing outside a tour bus and refusing to get on because they and porn on and I was not there for that. They turned it off right away. We just sat around and BS'd for a while and the looks I would get from the "groupie" girls as they were escorted off the bus were to die for.
I am glad I have those memories and I am glad I can look back proudly and tell my kids that I did lead a cool past.