I always liked "Have You Ever Seen The Rain," so now you all have to endure a story. I was a kid staying with my relatives and my grandma in Greece with my two U.S. cousins in 1971.
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We were all 10 and we were stuck in what was then a small town in Greece (now a bigger city, Patras) and pretty much nothing to do but get yelled at for playing outside and chasing chickens around while Greeks were having their siesta, and we were so homesick and bored. /2
And we pulled up the AM radio one day, and somehow we caught a lucky bounce off the ionosphere and picked up US Armed Forces radio in Crete, and it was "Have You Ever Seen the Rain." And we were the happiest kids for three minutes. /3
To find a snippet of U.S. rock in small-town Greece in pre-globalized days was like a water in the desert, and to this day, I hear that song and we're all crowded around the radio under a grape arbor a zillion miles from home trying to drink in some American rock and roll. /4x
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