Old Enough to Forget

SAGA is one of my favourite bands hands down. Having said that, I'm not as obsessive as a true die hard. I mean I never pored over the lyrics trying to piece together The Chapters but I did make a point of getting The Chapters Live when the band put the songs out in chronological order. Living in Canada the opportunities to see the band live are few, so I settled for the live DVDs the band released. Eventually I did get to see them in a festival setting. They were on second after Haywire (oh how I wished Ian and Paul would have done a song together, oh well) on one of the hottest days of the summer. It was as Eric Idle would say, "Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum." Anyway this is all just prattle, but it's sort of relevant ...I think. Back to the obsessive comment, while I may not be a die hard who has to dissect everything into little pieces, I am a completist and when I get into something, I generally don't go in half way, if I like it - I want it all. Wit...

I remember seeing a SAGA button on some cool kid's jean jacket when I was in high school. I didn't know what kind of music it was, but I assumed it was heavy metal or something, as I figured that's what all the jean jacket-wearing cool kids were listening to back then. Apparently, it wasn't metal - but it was cool. Real cool. I did eventually find that button too. It's in a box in the basement, and I need to find it. Back in the early '80s, premium movie channels were starting to be a thing, and where I lived I think it was called First Choice or something. It doesn't matter, but I was trying to remember because I thought it might enhance the story - sadly, it was just more meandering rambling gibberish. Anyway, on the channel guide I saw a listing for a music special by SAGA - Live in Montreal - or something very close to that. I had a large ghetto blaster I could hook up to the TV connection for stereo sound, and I got some tapes ready. I was going to rec...