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4<br />
From the Editor<br />
Music and cars. Cars and music.<br />
Growing up in the 1970s you couldn’t have one without the other. In my senior year of<br />
high school I had the car—a ‘69 Camaro SS 327—and it had a radio and an aftermarket 8-track<br />
player. It was so much cooler than I ever was.<br />
In 1977, I was 16 years old. The car was in my family but not yet mine. More on that later.<br />
Like most teenagers at the time, my main source of music was Top 40 on the radio and watching<br />
“American Bandstand” on TV. I remember I would listen to each band, each performance and weed<br />
out who I liked from who I didn’t. There weren’t many I didn’t like. Turns out, I really like the music<br />
from the 1970s.<br />
That’s not to say I’m not a fan of music produced in the late 1960s and 1980s as well. I am. But<br />
with the rock bands of the ‘70s, for me, there is no comparison. It’s the music of my youth and, like<br />
many of you, when I hear a song from that decade, it puts me right back to a specific place and time.<br />
In that year of 1977, Fleetwood Mac released the monster album “Rumours.” I remember hearing<br />
it for the first time while hanging out at a friend’s house. I’m pretty sure I bought my copy within<br />
hours of that visit, if not minutes. I, like the rest of the planet, was mesmerized.<br />
Around the time I wore out the grooves in the “Rumours” record, another monster album—Meat<br />
Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell”—was released. Totally different, but just as mesmerizing. If you can’t sing<br />
every word—and I mean every word—to “Bat Out of Hell,” then you are not a fan.<br />
Now, back to that car. My dad bought the Camaro from a relative for $700. The color was<br />
Frost—army green to my eye—and it had about 70,000 miles on it and a hitch, used to tow a popup<br />
camper. Ouch.<br />
My brother had it first, using it to get back and forth to college. By the time I got it in the fall<br />
of ‘78, it was pretty beaten up, having been run off the road by a dump truck. But thanks to my<br />
brother and a friend, they transformed the car, spending hours repairing rust and dents and painting<br />
it a deep metallic blue. Coolest car in the high school parking lot.<br />
When I left for college, my sister used it during her senior year of high school. (She put a dent<br />
in it—I don’t want to talk about it.) I reclaimed the car as soon as I came home for the summer.<br />
So, picture it. Me and Stevie, Meat Loaf, Freddie, Barry (yep, Gibbs and Manilow—told you<br />
I wasn’t that cool!) in a metallic blue SS, windows down (you know, “air conditioning”), singing<br />
together.<br />
We had a good run until about 1982, when the car was becoming unreliable and a bit dangerous.<br />
My dad sold it, getting $700 despite its problems and 200,000-plus miles.<br />
And ever since, I’ve been driving sensible cars.<br />
Music and cars. Kind of a theme in this issue of the magazine. And getting the content for these<br />
stories brought me right back to that time in my life.<br />
This was especially true while shooting photos for Ellen Wilkowe’s story about local musician<br />
Randy Artiglere, a member of Tusk, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band. (See page 20) I loved this<br />
band the first time I saw them in Morristown several years ago. This time<br />
around it was at a more intimate venue in New Hope, Pennsylvania. What<br />
a concert!<br />
And if you haven’t heard the Hopatcong band Lost in Place (see Melissa<br />
Summer’s story, page 6), go—it’s the music you want to hear—done well!<br />
I also became nostalgic while shooting images for another story by Ellen<br />
(see page 22)—the cover story about a local classic car group. So many<br />
classics to swoon over, so many cool cars.<br />
Makes me want to trade in my Subaru.<br />
—Karen<br />
ake Hopatcong News<br />
INFORMING, SERVING AND CELEBRATING THE LAKE REGION<br />
Local car club keeps the classics on display<br />
SWEET HARMONIES<br />
BASS MENTALITY<br />
INTO THE WOODS STATE OF THE LAKE<br />
MIDSUMMER <strong>2022</strong> VOL. 14 NO. 4<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG NEWS <strong>Midsummer</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Anthony Vassallo, right, uses a control box<br />
to make the suspension on his 1960 Chevy<br />
Impala move up and down and side to side.<br />
-photo by Karen Fucito<br />
KAREN FUCITO<br />
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