'Finally, here is a reference source of images by people who lived it and had the audacity to remember. So get to it. No more wasting time on make-believe digitized, pasteurized, or homogenized visualizations of how it probably was. Here is the good news. Check it out and feel good.'From the foreword by 'Cousin Bruce' MorrowGarret Mathews contacted more than 75 pop singers and musicians who gave us the music of the 1950's and 60's.'You were in millions of our basements for dance parties, ' he told them, 'and in millions of our transistor radios. Tell me a story from those days.' And they did.They Came To Play: Stories from the Early Days of Rock is the result. Stories about a unique time and place in all our personal memories abound. What they saw, heard, and thought as they blazed a trail into our memory banks...Dick Peterson of the Kingsmen remembers that theband was making $20. per week playing at grocery-store openings when they recorded 'Louie, Louie.'Barry Melton, guitarist for Country Joe and The Fish tells that he is still asked to do the 'Fish Cheer.'This is the music, and the people, which the baby-boomers grew up with.