Loudon Wainwright lll at Town Hall, NY 1983 Part 27 ————————————————————————- After the War my father Loudon came home with his bride Martha . My parents had sex and nine months later I was born albeit almost backwards. My youth was spent in Westchester County, New York and Beverly Hills, California.Iremember being particularly happy when we lived in Southern California.However there was romantic agony – I had a tremendous crush on Liza Minnelli who happened to be a classmate of mine in the 3rd Grade. In 1956 the family moved back East to Westchester.6 That year I bought my first record – a 45 rpm single of “All Shook Up” by Elvis and music suddenly seemed terribly powerful and important. In 1961 I was sent away to a boarding school in Middletown Delaware called St. Andrew’s (seen on screen in Dead Poets Society), where my father had gone 20 years earlier. It’s not such a great idea to go to the same boarding school as your old man especially when you both have the same weird first name. Incidentally, a few years later I wound up seeing my father’s shrink – another bad move. I started playing the guitar around 1960 and after seeing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1962 I acquired a brand new musical role model. I was unhappy at St. Andrews, but thank God for teenage rebellion – it can get you through. I graduated in 1965, went on to drama school at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, dropped out in 1967 and headed west …