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Happy New Year 2011: Dancing for Life with Reckless Abandonment on a Roof Top

Celebrating Life!

That has been a major theme in my adventure finding happiness being a journey, not a destination.

Along the way, in 1969 I discovered the Sons of Champlin (the Sons) a seven piece band with drums, guitars, keyboards, trumpet, alto sax, and vibraphone.   They had been together since 1967, and by 1969 the San Francisco music scene included the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms for music performance, and as the Sons joined that music venue, they earned a reputation as a group of R&B and jazz musicians far above the caliber of the electrified folk-rockers who made up most of that scene.

GoCliff bands have a lively horn section
The horn section puts fire into songs and brings them to life. Celebrate Life!

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