Anyone here grow up on Vancouver Island?
Specifically the Comox valley?
Edit:
I just wanted to relate something from my teens that was truly amazing.
We used to frequent a cafe called Raggles End. It was a relaxed atmosphere of low old leather chairs and ancient tables that lured a mixed bag of suits, bikers, school kids and hippies... Damn near magical in their own homemade brewing of coffees and cheesecakes with a view to the street that was like a wide screen tv. Perfection.
Every Friday they'd have local talent show up and we'd pay a 5 buck cover to get in the smokey, loungey Raggles we loved. One night a gent by the name of Milo showed up, guitar in hand... I asked if he took requests and he said sure. I was sitting next to the mini stage my dad built for the owner, "Jack Raggles", and asked him to play Imagine.
He played. People stopped. Stopped everything as he played. The lines stopped moving, customers stopped paying, everyone just froze... Everyone was fixated on Milo playing Imagine. I turned to see everyone in a trance I've never witnessed since... A moment and sign of the times, rarely seen and understood only by those swallowed by a certain epiphany of clarity. A truth of being one.
When he finally stopped it was gone. We got more coffees...people ate their cheesecakes...but I'll never forget how the music Milo played held us captive, if only for a moment. I felt we were all in a singular direction, a unified voice, a community moved by an Idea, like a school of fish in the ocean we were there and gone. So was Milo.
I saw him playing in a laundry mat months later. I'm not sure he captured the same magic...but I got married, had 4 kids, and 20 years later I still remember what it was like to imagine with Milo at Raggles End.
No, I'm from Minneapolis.
I think Minus_me lives in Vamcouver