Jimmy Crammer and I got one of our parents to drive us to the Commack Arena to see a concert. The then current popular band— signed to Apple Records by the freakin’ Beatles— was Badfinger, who was performing on a bill with two other acts—Cactus, who was the headliner, and Bull Angus— being the last band of importance. (Thanks Google. BTW–Tics were five bucks.) Commack Arena was a 6700 seat; dilapidated, old and tattered building, that looked like a huge airplane hangar, and once the house of the very popular Long Island Ducks hockey team, and the semi-popular New York Nets. It was also visited (separately) by - my personal acquaintance— then campaigning— John Kennedy, and Tricky Dick slithered in the same year. {By the way, the
