See, when I was a kid growing up, I used to be kind of mixed up about my mom,
you know.
I mean, she was so sweet and everything,
except when I did something wrong, you know.
And, uh, you know what I'm talking about.
I used to get really mixed up because I watched
TV, you know,
and mothers on television never acted like
real mothers.
You what I'm talking about?
You know, on
TV, you know, when kids do things wrong,
you ever notice?
They never do anything
to them, man.
All they ever say is,
young man go to your room.
Go to your room. I don't know about you
guys, but my
mother never said that to me when
I did something wrong.
When I did something
that was really wrong,
she'd look at me and say, I brought you into this world,
I'll take you out.
We're talking violence on
TV, they never met
my mother, you know what I mean?
You
ever notice too, when mothers get really
mad, they don't talk normal either?
David
Meeks, do you understand what I
am trying to say to you?
Are you listening to me?
Oh!
Look at this room!
Look at this room!
I'm looking at him, I'm looking at
him, I'm looking at him.
I got clothes all over the floor,
but that way I don't get the carpet dirty.
Watch your step though, mom.
There's a cat down there. I know there's
a cat under there somewhere.
That's my brother
Dwayne.
Come on out,
Dwayne.
You've been down there three days, man.
See, my brother wasn't
much help either, you know.
He was three years older than I was,
and he's the one that corrupted
me.
You see, my mother had a lot of rules around the house,
you know, and you just didn't break those things,
you know, unless you wanted to be
turned back to dust or something and
I'd be real careful you know.
Well he and I
had an agreement going where he wouldn't tell on me if
I wouldn't tell on him you
know when we did something wrong
you know.
We figured we'd both live longer
that way.
You see one of those rules my mom had to do
with the kind of music you
listen to.
See my mother didn't want anything but classical
music in the
house.
She didn't want any of that rock stuff
or that beat. not gonna have that in my house.
Not gonna have any of that country western
garbage either.
For years I
thought that was the name of the music,
Country
Western
Garbage, you know.
A guy said he liked country western music.
I said, oh, you like garbage, oh.
Got my jaw handed to me.
Now, we didn't even have any religious
records
in the house or gospel music, you know,
unless it was written by
Bach,
Brahms, or
Beethoven,
and I couldn't really get
into that.
You know, it was all in
German, you know.
Ach,
Striefe,
Streich.
Sounded like somebody with
sinus trouble to me.
I was in there practicing the piano one time,
and I saw my brother
Dwayne coming in the
house.
You see, there's something about
Dwayne you've got to realize.
My brother
Dwayne never came in the side door of the house
unless he was smuggling something
in.
He shouldn't, you know.
Did you know that he had in
his possession a
Beatle record?
I said, man, do you want to die?
He took me into the back room and he played me
some of it.
And I've got to kind
of admit, you know, I kind of liked it too.
You see, we had a problem then.
because we could only play it when my mother was out of
the house.
Of you could always tell when my mother left
the house because she had a bad muffler.
And we're not just talking your average,
everyday bad muffler either, gang.
You we're talking bad muffler.
You know what I mean?
I mean, walls would shake, buildings
would collapse, mothers would take children off
the streets.
You we're talking bad muffler,
okay?
So the way we'd work our music is very simple,
you see.
I'd be in there practicing my
Mozart.
And I'd hear my mother driving off,
you know.
20 years ago today,
Sgt.
Pepper taught the band to play,
and my brother'd come in, he'd
say, is mama gone?
I said, I wouldn't be singing
this if she was here, nerd.
So he said, why we sing together,
know, until we'd hear her coming back, you
know?
Should I say, what a nice young man?
Look at my brother and say, why can't
you be more like your little brother?
there.
And he'd always say, I am.
David Meece 
