Boys’ rock band, summer of ’66
t was another glorious Lower Cape summer, the warm breeze almost viscous against your skin. Tim Dickey played bass, or ersatz bass, tuning his Gibson SG Special down an octave. I played drums. My brother John and cousin Dave Scherman traded leads. Tony Kahn was a good guitarist, but with the surfeit of guitarists, he played organ. We practiced at the Dickeys’, across Great Pond, Truro, from the Big Cabin, my family’s house. These were the days when the bourgeoisie owned summer homes on the Cape, or in the Hamptons,
