Doug Bloch:  

Life "...and I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus...rollin' down highway 41..." Oh wait..that was Gregg Allman. This is Doug's biography: I was born in Wappingers Falls, New York in a blizzard on January 7. I lived in a house overlooking the Hudson River. Some of my earliest memories are ice skating on the river during the winter and taking the train to NYC. When I was nine, we moved to Woodstock, NY (and Yes, I did attend the festival a few years later) I was visiting a friend and he asked me if I wanted to go to, "a concert". We moved to Boca Raton, FL in the late 60's and for the first couple of years lived just off A1A. I spent a lot of time surfing, fishing and snorkling and somehow found time to go to school. In the early seventies my dad bought some land out in the boonies, West Boca and my brother and I built a dirtbike track in our backyard. My neighbor raised Arabian horses that we rode when we weren't riding motorcycles. We had all kinds of pets: raccoons, snakes, gators and even monkeys. It was an exciting place to live. I had a great graduation party at my house. Some of you were there :) When I graduated, I bummed around Boca, Went to Jamaica for awhile with a friend from HS. Later we drove cross country in his sports car and spent 3 months just following the open road. That was the first time we had been west of the Mississippi. We had made a plan to save money and go to California when we graduated and I'm glad we followed through. He ended up moving to CA. I had a lot of jobs, such as a gardener, bartender, mechanic. After a couple of years I moved up to Tallahassee, FL to go to Florida State. While in school I worked as a DJ on campus radio. I got an internship at the local TV studio. I produced and directed a weekly cable show. When I graduated I was promoted to TV studio manager. When I graduated from college, I married my High School sweetheart. We bought a VW camper and we spent a year travelling around...Expand for more