what's good?

everybody had/has musical mentors. i believe there are a small percentage of people who are born with distinct taste and i can only think of one guy when i was growing up as a teenager who just had his finger on everything cool and right on yet he told me he had some guidance also. i had two early ones when i was probably sixteen telling me what is really the stuff and one was a guy named joe hudson. don't know where joe is today but he knew what seemed like everything good - movies and a caustic sense of humor were what i actually liked most about him however he would drive me to zed records in long beach and along with some mix tapes being played on the drive, i got an education. one of the first punk shows i went to was the weirdos , the plugz, the suburban lawns and i believe the penatrators at baces hall in hollywood. it took my 16 year old head completely off and to this day, i thank you joe hudson. if i recall correctly, joe's favorite band was the screamers however they were history in mid-1979 and his next favorite was the weirdos. i can't hear "we got the neutron bomb" without thinking of that great show and joe - a true musical mentor and the guy never played a note on any instrument but he could honk his horn on his car like nobody else.