When I was a lad of 19 I used my fake I.D. (true confession alert!) to get a job at a seedy rock club in Kenmore Square called Storyville. Back in its heyday it was a posh jazz club where Billie Holiday once sang (this always sort of gave me goose pimples when I'd look around the place, especially since it still had its original red banquettes, etc. ). At any rate, that top-flight job led to a sideline of being a roadie for up-and-coming bands, one of which, The November Group, had a song with the refrain "put your back to it," which came into my head today as I was doing my current gig: muling firewood. Alas, The November Group never quite got the notoriety they deserved, but at least their beat lives on in my feeble brain.