Paul Swain

Truths, Halftruths, and Other Lies Paul Swain

These stories are about the life of musicians on the road from the late 60's, through the late 80's. Music changed after the advent of all the electronic whiz bangs that now include ipods, and electronic keyboards that have true instrument loops in them. But before, when you could get live music almost every night of the week, and musicians traveled on circuits for large Motel chains, and you could pick up gigs in almost any town that had a "Tavern" or "Beer Joint," those were the days. Musicians could and did do some of the strangest things imaginable. Some of them are funny, some crazy, some make you wonder what in the world were these guys thinking. Most of the time we were not thinking, we were just living life to the fullest, the best way we knew how.