Alte Muhle, 1971, U.S. Army Europe

One of the great secrets of the Cold War went down as the Alte Muhle Pact, or the exact location of an old mill somewhere north of the Neckar River that some imaginative German had converted into a dance bar in the middle of nowhere. Aside from how hard the place was to find, it was also nearly impossible to know about, since maps and directions were passed along from person to person in our battery on a sacred basis. If you were told about it, let’s say by Al Bowerman or Greg Perla, there was a certain implication that you were judged as having the integrity to keep the secret for the rest of your life. I'm fairly certain the Alte Muhle, with its hodge-podge of European bop rock and Motown, eventually went to the same grave as disco. But, even if I could tell you where the old mill was 35 years after the fact (which I couldn't do in a million years), I would still be honor bound to kill you.