Saldy posting this record today. Over on Facebook - all my old, dear sweet pals from high school today have posted comments and tributes and sweet rememberances of a hometown tragedy that happened 32 short years ago that shook our small home town. In short - it was a accident involving a small airplane carrying members of two close families, and other dear friends from my home town. The song on this record - Goodbye Stranger to everyone then - seemed to catch a raw nerve for most of us. It came out at the time and the lyrics are and were haunting in their subtle references. Many don't know that a year or two before the accident, I got to fly in that plane when the pilot, a fellow Boy Scout's dad - flew out to the gorgeous and historic Boy Scout camp in New Mexico and took the 9 or 10 of us scouts up for a stunning look from above at where we had just camped and hiked for the past two weeks. Anyone reading this that I know - I hope you are not offended by this post.
Well, we can certainly respect what the song means to you; there's no denying that. Our views on Supertramp selling out with this album are separate from the emotional feelings one song musters.
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