1981-1

We moved back to Detroit before we were really ready. Visited the house of some mook from Alcoholics Anonymous, we're gone just as quick and in the home of a couple of my brother's school buddies. Phil and Steve were a couple of jagoffs. In a whole fucking family of jagoffs.

I have memories of this period that I feel are disproportionate to the actual period. 

Alan Parson's Project Games People Play

I don't remember how long we stayed in their house, but the girls folded-in with the girls and the boys with the boys. 

Rush Tom Sawyer

Between me and your phone, I didn't realize that I can remember the release of Rush's masterpiece, Moving Pictures, but, yep, there I was, barely nine. They were doing shit like nobody else at the time. 

J Geils Band Just Can't Wait

I think some of the songs in my memory are the result of our hosts. I remember them listening to music with my brother a lot. 

REO Speedwagon Don't Let Him Go

The bros reminded me of the dude from REO Speedwagon. Country but not southern. 

Taxes rolled around, as they did and we were finally back in not-somebody-else's-house.