Another Good Old Bad Old Days memory: It must have been the next year after I had seen the show, and I was asked by the debate coach of my high school to come on a debate meet in Tempe, Arizona, despite the fact that I wasn't on the debate team. She wanted me to give some sort of "Persuasive Speech", which I wrote about the then-recent obscenity trials regarding "Carnal Knowledge." Anyhoo, right after I committed and my parents bought my fare, what should happen but Sergio Mendes announced a concert in SLC for that very weekend. I was verklempt--as many of you know, my love for Sergio's music is fairly unbounded. But anyhoo I went to Tempe. On one of my afternoons off, I went across the street to a huge record store and was perusing through their records when what should I see but the Original London Cast of GOBOD. I was gobsmacked. I had no idea (back in those days) that there would have even been an album. So of course I bought it (I still have it to this day) and considered it a worthy trade off for having missed Sergio.
