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My top five

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Self Portrait (above): I practiced the drums six hours a day the summer I turned thirteen. When my sister grew up and had kids, she would not let them take up the drums. I’ve never figured out why.

What Inspired Me to Be a Musician

— and Activist

by Lloyd Ferris

BA, Research Methods in Social Science
MA, Social Psychology
BS, What I like to spread around

In my generation, called the baby boom, everybody wanted to be a rock star.  Some of us aspired to more doable goals, like saving the world from nuclear obliteration, or eliminating poverty from the face of the Earth.

I kinda wanted to do all three. This website is my humble attempt to do exactly that (why not have it all?) before I go join that great garage band in the sky. In the process, I want to glorify myself by telling my life story.

Let’s start with high school. I went to High School in The San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s (Click here for some nice, mellow Acid Rock). It was the afterglow of the Summer of Love, the height of the Vietnam War. All my friends were in the peace movement, and I wanted to be with them with all my heart and soul.

But… (continued on the About page)