When I was posted in Germany
I'm in the standing-room-only crowd on the floor at theJethro Tull concert in Frankfurt, West Germany, April 27, 1982. The crowd is constantly shifting; a single organism trying tomake itself comfortable on the concrete floor of the arena. Theair is thick with the smells of beer, wine, and smoke (cigars,cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and hash). Voices of the hawkers canbe made out above the noise of the crowd advertising (in Germanand English) their wine, beer, posters, and T-shirts. Cannedmusic...