William Harper:  

Well, let's see.......Sept. 24th, 1969 I enlisted in the U.S.A.F. after going to summer school to get my diploma. Sorry, I just couldn't get interested in English Literature, or World History, I was bored with it all, I wasn't really stupid, I was just bored with it all !!! All I really cared about was music, those of you that knew me at least knew that much about me I hope. So.......Uncle Sam took me halfway around the world to the Riyukin Islands, a lovely little place called Okinawa, where I was a Security Police officer. I was 18 years old halfway around the world wearing a badge, and carrying a gun !!! Guarding uploaded alert force fighter jets, missle silo's, B-52 bombers, Sr-71 Blackbird spy planes, and atomic weapons,and still loving music. Needless to say, I has some very good times, and some very very bad times until I was discharged. (Honorably of course) When I came home, I wanted nothing to do with Law Enforcement or anything to do with firearms, all I wanted to do was play music, and so I did. I'll post a few pictures from those days so you can see me then. Anyway, I wound up in So. Jersey, Ocean City in the early '70s, where I also attended Stockton State College for a year on my GI Bill benefits, and then moved down to Wildwood, and started playing and singing in the locol bars, Henrys, The Harbor Inn, The Manor Bar, The Oceanic, The Ugly Mug, The Library III, Bayshores Lounge in West Cape May, just kinda all over the place, thru the mid '70's to early '80's......oh yeah and also all summer long in Philadelphia for Philadelphia '76 during the Bicenntenial celebration. The Good times were far outweighing the bad. In 1982 I moved to s...Expand for more