When I Was Young

My friends and I drove across three state lines to see Eric Burdon and the Animals. No, this wasn't in 1965; this was just last month. They were performing at the Hard Rock in Biloxi, Mississippi.

As a child of the '60s, I'm not sure what I was expecting, my mind's eye remembering a scruffy young group of working-class kids belting out countless bluesy hits like "House of the Rising Sun," "We Gotta Get out of This Place," and "It's My Life," to name but a few. We were in the second row, stage right, but still had a Read more