![]() ![]() He’d been giving lectures on Bob Dylan, and drug guru Timothy Leary had been a guest at L’Abri. ![]() I was trying to be “cool” that day on the light show crew… and I wasn’t too pleased to find my brief escape into the rock world from the world of my Dad’s evangelical mission was no escape from my God-world at all. ![]() Eric Clapton had given Page the book as it turned out. This was back in the days when Dad was a sort of hippie guru for Jesus catering to Beats, hippies and dropouts hitching across Europe. I met Jimmy Page and noticed he was reading one of my dad’s first books, ESCAPE FROM REASON. ![]() Meanwhile, I was growing up in Switzerland in a mission (L’Abri Fellowship), and my “almost famous” rock-n-roll high point came when I got a job helping with the Led Zeppelin’s light show at the Montreux Jazz/rock festival. Pepper’s” became my personal sound track of liberation back then…Genie, my wife of 44 years… grew up in the Bay Area and as a teen had the distinction of seeing the Beatles three times (!) live and the Rolling Stones four times (!) live. His son Frank wrote recently about the impact of SGT. I read a story about you and I wanted to ask you if it is true. Francis Schaeffer talked about the views of the Beatles and other 1960’s Rock Groups including CREAM. ![]()
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