THE GREATEST
JUNIORPRO
IN THE
HISTORY
OF THE
WORLD
WESTPORT’S
STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL
BY DAN WOOG
must have been pretty cool to have the Blues Project play in your high school gym, as the band for your junior prom.
Rascals, and Sly and the Family Stone. It was only later – with the passage of time, and the induction of many of those musicians into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – that you realized your high school years were something special. So you told anyone who would listen that those bands really did played at your prom, and in your auditorium. Yeah, yeah, yeah, your friends said, rolling their eyes and wondering what you’d been smoking back then.
It
Then again, you might have been a bit jaded. After all, you’d already been to concerts in your school auditorium. You know, to hear the Animals and Beau Brummels. You didn’t really think anything of it, at the time. Nor did you think much of subsequent concerts at your high school, by groups like the Doors, Cream, Yardbirds,
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE REAL ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL 1960-1975 BY MARK SMOLLIN
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