Oddly this past weekend I was at an outdoor arts festival in Columbus Ohio 
for a north campus neighborhood.  Over the loudspeaker they were playing, 
"Hitchin' a Ride" by one hit wonder, Vanity Fair (if memory serves?).  I 
think I was still in elementary school, or early junior high at  the time. 
 

What struck me was how long it had been since I actually heard this song, 
which I remember fondly on AM Radio.  Also,  there was some serious 
cowbell in the last half of the song which I had no recollection of.   It 
also was way more on the psychedelic side than I remember.  It caught me 
off guard.

Was everything psychedelic at that time and this didn't stand out?  Could 
my memory be seriously flawed?  Could I have been having an acid flashback 
when I heard it this past weekend and that was making it more psychedelic 
that it actually was?

So many questions for which I may never know the answer.......

Tom Warfel,  51,  gracefully aging boomer boy