Sun Ra 1914?-1993
"I hereby declare myself another order of being. Will you give up your destiny?"
Legally, I was too young to be in a nightclub; by about three years. I had a tendency to take advantage of my older appearance to get into places where musicians I wanted to see were performing. Sometimes it would be to places like the Smiling Dog Saloon on Cleveland's West 25th St., where a sixty year old man dressed in gold lame with a pharoah's hea…