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The View from Green Island GI Central - my 'net home' for several years, more or less hibernating for the last few years, but like any growly bear apt to wake up hungry and grumpy at any time, ready to engage whatever needs engaging - lots of venting, lots of good writing, lots of 'out-of-the-box' ideas you aren't EVER going to hear on the CBC (not for people who get triggered by intelligent ideas or certain words not allowed on the said CBC...) The Democratic Revolution Handbook by Dave Patterson
And a book for younger readers too, Dave's an eclectic sort of person - Aquila 
These and Dave's other books can be found at Dave's Smashwords EPUBS page - and for the curious, if anyone cares, a few words on From Hastings to Green Island - the (very) short form story of Dave's own journey.. Knowledge is like a candle. When you light your candle from mine, my light is not diminished. It is enhanced and a larger room is enlightened as a consequence. - Thomas Jefferson |
Another very important part of my life, both musical and spiritually. At some point in my high school years, perhaps grade 12, after I got my own musical act more or less together, I was of course looking to form a band, and this young and handsome and very polite guy walked up to me one day in a hallway at the high school and said he'd like to try out for my band - I said ok, and the rest as they say is history. His name was Bill Carpenter, Just as a teaser - one of my favorites, and that I do generally the lead on, is called
Loser
 One Way Ticket to the Moon - my life was getting crazy into and through my 20s (aka the '70s, I was born in 1950), sort of a slow motion train wreck in various ways, the main stability I had through Bill's and my music and the nirvana-like retreat of the cottage and my 'second family' the Carpenters, and I'll do my own songs from those years on the next page - but I did want to mention one here - a song called One Way Ticket to the Moon. A bunch of us were sitting around a fire at the back of the cottage one evening having beers and tunes, and Bill's Mom, One Way Ticket to the Moon - the vid!! (and note, I've noticed that sometimes there's some kind of buffering problem for this and the other few vids on this site - if you want the 'uninterrupted version', I've also got the vids on Dave's Songs Youtube Page - isn't that just too social-media competent of this old guy now?!?)  So - just a short sojourn in my musical history, but of great importance in my life - so time to take a look at kind of the main part of my musical life, the music of my 20s, or some of it, at least, just including what I consider the 'A-listers' here -
Dave's Songs part III - The 70s
- or back to part I Dave's Songs - The Beginning
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and we pretty much immediately gelled, much as our heroes Lennon and McCartney - he was a total Beatles fan too - had done. We played well together, we sang well together - and we wrote well together. Over the next few years we wrote a lot of very great music together - and his parents had a cottage on a place called Crowe Lake not too far from Hastings that became kind of the center of our creative space, alongside to some extent a certain 64 Oldsmobile about which more anon. 
for a 2-year CUSO contract in 1994 and wound up staying, we managed to put together a CD of our 'A-list' songs - or to be really honest, Bill managed to put it together with some input from me, as while I pursued a somewhat more bohemian lifestyle during the 70s Bill moved to the Toronto area after getting married and worked in the music business in various ways for many years, including a lot of studio experience. Longer stories for other times - but it's a great CD with a lot of really good music on it - we called it It Goes Alright after one of our first and always favorite tunes - the cover is somewhere around here, and you can order it at Apple 
kind of my second Mom for a bunch of years, said 'Dave, you should write a song about a one way ticket to the moon!' - I have no idea now where she got that idea from, maybe some of us whining about girls as we often did, can't live with em can't live without em etc, and I thought it a kind of silly idea, but for some reason it stuck with me, and sometime in the very near future I sat down and wrote it, and it's been a fun 'keeper' to this day - maybe not quite A list, but certainly a strong B list contender -