EAST SIDE STORY

Today, we had the TV on for the noontime news and an ad came on for Optique 2000...If you have watched television in france in the last few years, you have to be familiar with the ad campaign with aging reptillian rocker Johnny Halliday singing some old nugget and then seguing into his now almost comic howl, "Optique Deux Mille!".....
So today, Johnny came on singing Old Time Rock and Roll, in French, of course before howling, "Optique Deux Mille!".
I said, "I hope Bob Segar is getting royalties for this."
My wife said, almost as an embarrassing admition, "I always liked Bob Segar." Me too, I always liked him even at the commercial end of his carreer with the Silver Bullet Band. But, speaking of him brought back memories of living in Ann Arbor and knowing Jeep Holland and the A Squared Music scene and before that when Bob Segar had a band called The Last Heard in 1965 and had a local hit with a song called East Side Story.
This was about the first time I really heard fuzz distortion guitar used as the hook.
It came out around the same time as the Stones "Satisfaction" but this was some of the beginnings of the revolutionary music scene in Detroit in the mid 60's.
Segar and the Last Heard also had a great hit with a song called Noah and 2+2 which was a riveting powerful anti war song from a very personal emotional view point.
Perhaps I will post 2+2 as there seems to be a few good takes of it on YouTube.
Let's all sing the refrain from East Side Story, "She said NOOOOO, Johnny, Johnny, NOOOO! Johnny, Johnny NOOOO! She said NOOOOOOO!"