248. When I Was Young by The Animals 1967

Eric Burdon & the Animals - When I Was Young
Number 2 in Australia when I was young. This song was just mind blowing for this pre-teenage mind. The guitar that sounds like a dive bomber. The sitar and violin competing with each other. Eric Burdon introduced me to the Love Generation moreso than perhaps The Beatles who on Peppers were quite conventional really. I just loved listening to this record. And singing along
It must have been quite strange to be singing along to a song called When I Was Young when I was only 11 or 12 myself but there you go. In 1967 I was in Grade 6 at Box Hill State School. We were living on Whitehorse Road so I'd walk to school each morning past the hospital and through the park. What do I remember about state school. Hot Dogs at the canteen on Fridays, games in the shelter sheds, the teacher reading us "The Hobbit", Monday marching and wishing I was in the drum squad. The day I let go of the glass door in the wind and it slammed shut and just exploded. The sickening smell of free milk on a hot day. My Mum coming to the door of my classroom when I forgot my lunch or my glasses.