supermarket symbol of the high standard of living in this country today. and that is what interested the people in the outer most were the products in the so called navy exchange the commissary which was actually the americans department store. the navy exchange just wanted to sell as much as possible they didn't care if you were american or spanish however they go to you severely in front of the base did they check just like they were running a customs checkpoint back because. they had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didn't have and sports magazines everything you can imagine every brand of tobacco a huge selection of food the meat for example was delivered from germany in

refrigerated trucks it was fantastic meat if you could afford it. if. there was some american products that you can buy everywhere today but at the time chocolate bars and cookies as well as rape and sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base bought them in large quantities and then sold them out of their garages eloy indiana. although i always asked 1st i did get a lot of things from the base here. i went so far that one day an american commander his name was captain yang said to me father if you go on like this and take everything with you will have to swim back to america. i took everything i could see people who know me knew that i didn't keep anything for myself it was all for the people of rota. you

know me one day the chaplain told me he wanted to buy a stereo for a friend but he didn't dare take it off base because the civil guard would confiscate it he asked me to pick it up for him i said sure so he bought it on the base and brought it to me i told him to put it in the car next to me he said but how would that work they'll see the packaging won't they i told him just put it there because i'm going to tell them the truth as i drove through the gate the civil guard stopped me and asked me what i was carrying so i said i'm smuggling their reaction was oh you're always making jokes father and they let me pass. him it was. in my nobody else my brother a record player because it was very rare in spain back then because he came from the base free philco the american brand of phillips and i loved music.

but i was mainly influenced by a black man who was married to a woman from toronto. his name was chase. he owned a bar traces place. he played bass guitar and i used to sit there and listen to. people and apparently he noticed that and that i loved his music and so he used to give me all the records he didn't want anymore. and that's how i started listening to blues jazz rock. no there's other new music here. he told us i must. truly really used to look after the soldiers overseas to make them feel at home the most of the records went on sale there at the same time as they did in stores in new york chicago or london. and my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until

the cows came home. because i can look at my home of. the radio station to which we still have the day r.t.s. . back then they actually play great music truck that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and i am believe that's the same thing that happened when england played music from the bases and it was heard throughout back in the fifty's back in the sixty's that everyone would pick up on that my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and rode a summer $5960.00 and they started out with just radio and then they added television. hello there welcome once again to america's pop because this is a good mansfield and i'm here to bring you our entertainment is

a good musician. listening to the bass radio station most like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you went or not and. you'd be walking down the street and going somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio the 1st time around yourself who the hell is that. this was an incredible stroke of luck for our village who we could hear new releases at the push of a button. it took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the world if at all you could want to completely get. you can go the day you don't separate but he love the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and janis joplin and iron butterfly rolling stones the doors sprains everybody loves the supremes. gosh jimi hendrix.

and all the base housing you can walk in a corner and you sure use it moving cranked out of one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear carlos santana abraxas coming out of another stereo so jeff only the rock n roll was a. must win for them in our main hobby as teenagers was music them into them and one thing led to another we tried to form a band. we were very young back then maybe 12 years old i played guitar but if i

took a classical guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my fingertips up and the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar of that meeting just for both our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with coffee paper. this is one of the. other component is one of the members of the band the radar's was a carpenter a cabinet maker a very good craftsman. he made my guitar neck by hand. and cut out the body with a saw. and i could i. just wondered if i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me don't go down i know there's something not just. sort of what is this i mean there were there were other ways to get to school but we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue to san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city. but then i wrote actually consisted of 2 different towns

one along. very traditional and the other along up a need of something under very american that's right the american bars are casinos were the last thing on. it and that you got the longest so yeah there was this girl from london her name was janet. she was pretty and dressed in a way we were used to here and john. b. and she was very funny and a mini skirt. and a kind of fur jacket and if i got the. most freaked out she was the real thing. right here in december 1718 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pockets and i

remember my parents saying to me what are you going to do for a living what are you going to do and the next day i started looking at the crazy cat. in. the in which let's say many.