Draft Dodging Days - A Naterock Sampler Part 4

 

The less said about these years the better, I think. 

 

 

As I stuck out my thumb on the berm of I90 heading west one more time, I knew that I wasn't yet a fugitive. It was several days before I was scheduled to report for military duty & then when I was a no-show, it would take the Selective Service just a few weeks to issue a Federal warrant. I had maybe three weeks tops before this whole standing out on the edge of the roadway in plain sight for any Johnny Law, hitch-hiking, which was quasi-legal to down-right illegal depending in which particular bailiwick I might find myself would no longer be safe.

So I set my sight for Scott's Bluff, Nebraska. I knew two ex-high school buddies that were going to Hiram Scott College there (Whalebait & Lucas). Whalebait's place was a cool crash pad, but the sheer volume of people & dope passing through there seemed less than low profile. Lucas, on the other hand, was the anti-social type. He had a leather shop in town. It seemed perfect. I hooked up with him & he gave me a place to crash in his shop. Spare room with bathroom & shower, a hot plate in his work area. It was perfect. 

 

I hung around Scott's Bluff for a few months, I helped Lucas around his shop, cleaning up mostly, but also learning a little about leather work. It never hurts to have a trade. I gradually made acquaintance with some of Whalebait's more level-headed associates & started earning some decent dinero moving some of their organics. In February 72, a friend of Bait's approached me with an offer I couldn't refuse. He had a quantity of magic mushrooms he needed deliver to some folks in California. Wanted to know if I was the guy for gig.

I flew in to San Francisco two weeks later & for the next few years I just traveled from San Francisco to Flagstaff to Boston to Scott's Bluff to Taos to San Francisco...well, you get the picture. I had some fake ID that was pretty thin if it had to undergo heavy scrutiny but I kept under the radar, so no problems. I was David Williams until the first days of 1977. 

 

 

K-Tel Records presents... A Naterock Sampler, NØ Comps, 2021.

Vol. 4 - End of College Safety/Draft Dodging Days 1972-1976

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Part One -
1972
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Alice Cooper - Luney Tune
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Tim Buckley - Sweet Surrender
David Bowie - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
War - The World is a Ghetto
1973
New York Dolls -  Looking for a Kiss
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire
Iggy & the Stooges - Gimme Danger
Blue Oyster Cult - Od'd on Life Itself
1974
Hawkwind - Lost Johnny
Funkadelic - Alice in My Fantasies/I'll Stay
Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris
David Bowie - We are the Dead/1984
New York Dolls - Chatterbox
Parliament - All Your Goodies are Gone

Part Two -
1975
U-Roy - Trench Town Rock
Burning Spear - Slavery Days
Nazareth - Beggar's Day
David Bowie - Win
Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Doctor on the Go
Patti Smith - Birdland/Free Money
1976
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River
Parliament - Children of Production
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
The Runaways - Dead End Justice
Ramones - Beat on the Brat
Bunny Wailer - Armigideon (Armagedon)
Max Romeo - War ina Babylon
Patti Smith Group - Ask the Angels

Next in the series: Vol. 5 - Proclamation 4483/Just in time for PUNK 1977-1979
Enjoy,
NØ