back in the 60s,

back in the 60s, my dad was in a band.

That's a pretty cool thing to say to someone, and you just kind of leave it there.

He was in a band. It was the 1960s. You can leave the rest to the imagination.

Maybe he was in a really amazing or famous band. Who knows? Of course, a lot of people's

dads were in bands, and my dad's band was not actually a famous band, though I think they were kind of amazing.

Despite that fact, his band was a big part of my childhood, which in turn means they were a big

part of the musician that I grew up to be.

I love it. From my love True by loving

Baby, I need your good loving

From 1965 to 1967, a band called The Apocalypse played gigs around the greater Baltimore area.

They were college boys, several of them fraternity brothers at Johns Hopkins University,

which already kind of undercuts the mystique of the whole,

My Dad was in a band thing.

But they weren't aspiring professionals, at least not in the way today's supercharged collegiate musicians might understand the term.

They were just guys studying normal stuff at a school near where they grew up. not in the way today's supercharged collegiate musicians might understand the term.

There were just guys studying normal stuff at a school near where they grew up, and they all liked R&B and soul music and decided they wanted to learn to play it.

Tony Capuano played guitar and sang lead vocals.

John Shorb and Jean Maros played alto and tenor sax, respectively.

The great Greg Novick played bass and was the de facto band leader, and a young guy named Augie Hamilton, my dad, played drums.

This is them playing James Brown's Good Good Lovin, recorded in 1967, the last year The Apocalypse

played together. I have heard this recording so many times, and yet each time I hear it, something about

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