tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72305892011-12-14T19:03:28.075-08:00ROCK JOTS is about music, musicians, rock'n'roll, concerts, bands, vinyl records, retro and memories - from my point of view.epiclectichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00751378376382024597noreply@blogger.comBlogger1641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230589.post-66554057968232510552008-11-22T00:58:00.001-08:002008-11-22T00:58:42.746-08:00

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For LD

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I Think I Can I Think I Can, originally uploaded by Epiclectic.

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Hot blondes singing rock - definitely will hear more about these two.

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Plaid Nauseum, originally uploaded by Epiclectic.When hair, fashion and image packaged music to the masses. May they rest in peace.

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Gassy!

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Loved this song.

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Wonderful video for Ian Hunter's latest single from his Shrunken Heads album. It's about time the world recognized Ian's talent big time. Share this with your friends.

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Extremely infectious little ditty from the Rogue Traders. Bite your lower lip, shake your head up and down and bounce that heel.

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NPR.org, June 22, 2007 · At 68, Ian Hunter continues to create hard-driving, memorable music, but he remains most famous for his guitar heroics and vocals in the '70s glam favorite Mott the Hoople. Hear Hunter, who was instrumental in laying the foundation for punk and metal, perform a concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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Some of the earliest footage I've seen of Mr. Ian Hunter. Hey, Mr. Bass man!

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My Finnish friend, Kimmo, posted this link in the Record Collectors Guild forum. For those of you who are into progressive rock, here is an opportunity to discover some bands from the early-mid '70's that you may never have heard. There is something mystical about listening to music in a language you don't understand.I encourage you to explore the site. Even though you may not understand what you

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Lightning strikes twice in Southern California!Here we are, not even a week after Ian Hunter played The Grove of Anaheim, and I find out he has penciled in yet ANOTHER visit to Southern California on June 16 to promote the release of his new CD "Shrunken Heads". Even more bitchen, he will be playing The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano - 10 minutes down the freeway.Check out the first single to

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This is NOT a shot of his performance at The Grove of Anaheim on Saturday, March 17, but it demostrates the energy the man brings to his craft. ROCK ON!

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If you never heard of the Wildhearts, I suggest you check out the collection of videos posted on youtube. I love their harmonies and sound; a throwback to some of my favorite rock bands from the 70's.

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Them Dutch boys can kick some rock'n'roll butt.

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Get some extra money from grandma this Christmas? Don't feel like buying something responsible with your pocket change? Do you wonder when is the right time to go shopping for vintage vinyl records at garage sales or thrift stores?Add this conversation starter "Hi-Fi Kid" clock, from Epiclectic's Vintage Vinyl to your wall to remind you of the important things in your life.

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One of the few Ian Hunter videos that aired on MTV. Also, one of the rare occurances of seeing him without his requisite shades.

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Listen to your parents, kiddies, or you will turn out like Dee Snider - rich, famous and ugly. Cool video from the scariest bunch of guys in the early 80's.

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The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators,

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The song that started it all... and the killer hook holds up after all these years.

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RIP Arthur Lee. You touched many people's lives with your music. You will be missed - but not forgotten. The music lives on in our hearts.

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How many of you out there had a favorite radio station you listened to as a kid? Remember how closely you identified with them? You probably also remember that the stations would release record albums in the local market as give-aways or promotional items. Well, a new site has hit the web that promises to be THE center of gravity for gathering together all of those album covers - from all across

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Strap on your seatbelts, and get ready for some pretty sensational dancing to the sounds of that fantastic lounge band, Iron Butterfly, as they entertain the guests at Hugh's house one late evening with a few, snazzy tunes... Grab a pencil and paper to keep track of how many of the fashions you happen to spot that you have tucked away in your guilty pleasure closet. After all, somebody bought

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For all you Spinal Tap fanatics, enjoy this rare piece of footage before they went mainstream. Lives up to the video's name.

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You must check this out now! If you like Internet radio stations, I think you may want to replace all of those links with one to Pandora. This "stream of consciousness" programming concept is as if you had a psychic friend that magically picked out tracks they knew you loved ( or that you would love if you had ever heard them before ) and deliver them to you in a slick, simple interface. The

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Comfort Stand Recordings is/was/still is a community-driven label where all releases are free with artwork and liner notes. We are not genre-specific and feature a wide range of material, from well-known performers to those loud unknown kids down your block. You can listen, copy and create CDs with the music on this website as long as it is for your personal and private purpose.Stick it to the

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Is it big hair bands you love?If it's those heavy metal screaming glam vocals, the long-haired guitar players with whammy bars, that glamorous 80s rock that you desire... you've come to the right place!"

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Pack a lunch for your journey down the stawberry-brick road for this chronology of great progressive rock albums and artists... make sure to bring your little dog Toto, too.

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"The Repository is a wonderful 'Collection of Collections', a continuing and combined effort of broadcasters and listeners who remember Top 40 Radio."

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Let me guess. You realize that there are drummers in most bands, but you pretty much take them for granted. Right? There are probably a few exceptions (i.e. Neil Peart of Rush) but for the most part, they are the sweaty guys in the background providing the heartbeat of the music. You're thinking "hell, anyone can play drums." Wrong. Dead wrong.I dare you to explore Drummerword. If you are like

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Rate Your Music is an online community of people who love music. Sign Up to catalog your music collection, rate and review music, receive recommendations, create and share lists, and meet people with the same taste in music as you. A great way to browse album covers and rekindle memories.

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Action: Take the time to open doors you never knew existed. Explore the site and I know you will uncover some beautiful tunes by a member of the Record Collector's Guild. For me, his latest song "Rise 2005" evokes memories of many classic rock artists and influences - with a fresh sound.

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One MP3 a day... for one year. Archived bi-weekly. Produced in 2003. Credits at bottom.

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First Time Visitors: Welcome to StonerRock.com! If you're disgusted with the pathetic state of popular music, you've come to the right place.. You are on the verge of salvation! Click here to enter StonerRock.com now!

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This is a site dedicated to the older genre of hard rock music. Borne out of the 70's and 80's primarily, GLORY-DAZE looks back at those artists and acts who were sailing across the airwaves during the golden age of FM Radio. Not to be outdone, many current day artists continue to keep the flame alive.

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Broadcasting from Tokyo, Japan - Serving you the Best Classic Rock 24 hours a day! Scroll down the page, and they even do requests. ANY classic rock station that includes more than Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes is #1 in my book. Give it a try - see if their playlists includes you favorite artists.

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The ACID ARCHIVES OF UNDERGROUND SOUNDS is a guide to unknown, obscure and hard-to-find LPs from the USA & Canada 1965-1982. Our mission is to provide basic data and capsule reviews to assist the rare music explorer in his quest. This website represents a merger of two projects that began in the mid-1990s. After a 2-year transition period, the complete Archives went live in April 2005. Updates

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I only "discovered" Sarah Kernochan this afternoon when I spotted two of her early 70's record albums at the local Salvation Army. The album covers were interesting, the titles were rather intriguing (i.e. Beat Around the Bush, House of Pain), and she looked attractive. Always interested in expanding my musical horizons, I forked over my $2. I didn't find anything listed in the record guides, but

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KCRW's programming reflects the diversity of the community it serves. National Public Radio's Southern California flagship station, KCRW airs more news programming from National Public Radio than any station in the Southland. KCRW also produces award-winning literary and drama programs within its studios. Named 'Best Bit of Everything' radio station by Details magazine, KCRW's innovative and

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'What was the song used in that television commercial?' - Now you can find the answer at Adtunes.com - the weblog of information on music from TV ads, film trailers, and more. You know the music in that new commercial for Target was haunting you. Now you know where you can find the answers to these and many other obscure pieces of musical knowledge...

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What is Garage Rock? - Garage Rock is a type of rock music created in the 1960s often by young musicians playing guitars, organs and drums. These bands generally started playing in a member's garage. Many groups recorded just one or two records. They were often locally well known, either winning 'Battles of the Bands' or playing at local nightclubs. Their records often did well in their home or

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"Although the albums presented here may not be high on everyone's list of 'Classics', we here at the Tralfaz Archives Music Department felt that they should be recognized for their music, artwork, photography or possibly because of their own inherent strangeness." Kindred spirits! Returning the favor of them adding Epiclectic's Vintage Vinyl to their links page.

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If you haven't tried this before, you might give it a shot next time you feel in the mood to entertain yourself for a few hours... "I've done this experiment quite a few times, and I'll have to admit that there are a lot of coincidental events and themes. Although Pink Floyd has never admitted to doing such a thing (except Roger, who stays quiet when asked), there are just a few points that

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Compromise. For most people, when you get married, you are required to compromise on things such as furniture arrangement, decor, and such. Typically, "the guy" brings with him a collection of audio visual equipment, complete with racks, shelves, cables, speakers and peripherals. "The gal", for the most part, is unwilling to compromise and most times ends up displacing the equipment to a small

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I loved Sparks, and most people have probably never heard of them. You might enjoy this cleverly designed (albeit initially annoying) site. If I recall, my buddy Mark had mentioned they were from So Cal - probably verifiable on the site, if I take the time to explore it all.

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Welcome to the Time Machine . . .Most families own a box or a scrapbook full of tokens and mementoes of their lives. Every object unlocks an attic in the mind, a storehouse of reminiscence. Nostalgia Central is a scrapbook providing a trip from the Swinging Sixties, via the Mirror-balled Seventies, to the Day-Glo Eighties.

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Reviews, ratings and reader polls of Psychedelic Rock, Folk and Krautrock albums past and present.

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'Robert W. Morgan was to Los Angeles radio what Johnny Carson was to national TV. It would be hard to imagine morning drive in Los Angeles without Robert W. Morgan.' Robert W. Morgan entertained the Los Angeles radio audience for over three decades. His unique sense of timing, wit and charm earned him a place of honor in the entertainment industry. He won almost every major award the industry

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Radio Rumpus Room. If a musical mixmaster of Surf, Hot Rod, '60s Garage, Hillbilly, Rockabilly, Psychedelia, Back-To-The-Roots Country, Primal Pop and Primitive Rock'n'Roll sounds good to you, you're home. Every Friday night for nearly 11 years we have unleashed this unholy smorgasbord of sounds on a loyal listenership. Stop by each week and participate in 'The Greatest Spectacle in Radio!

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In April 2002, following a two year absence, Counting Out Time was revived due to popular demand. Every so often a special album will be reviewed by a DPRP (Dutch Progressive Rock Page) Team Member, and by doing so we are counting out time... to illustrate the strength and diversity within prog rock. The albums featured will either be milestones in the history of progressive rock, other

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Buy music CDs, used cds and vinyl records from thousands of online record stores at MusicStack. Find used music, Cheap CDs, Out-Of-Print Albums, Rare CD Singles and Hard To Find LPs from record shops.

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From the About page... "Get Hip records was founded in 1985 by Gregg Kostelich, Michael Kastelic, and Bill von Hagen, then three of the four members of the Cynics. Our original intent was two-fold: to provide a way to release Cynics material and guarantee some promotion, and to start a more accessible label that could sponsor and release material by some of the truly cool bands we knew about.

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Don't rely on your failing memory to bring back the Doctor Demento show. Now you can listen to them online! Nifty...

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While playing a music trivia game on the Record Collectors Guild Forum, the name of a song I remember from the early 80's came to mind - "It's Not A Rumor" by an L.A. Group named The Nu Kats. I had first heard the song on a collection of LA bands entitled "Yes Nukes", and subsequently bought the group's EP "Plastic Facts". Well, I found a website that pays tribute to this long forgotten - at

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If you have any desire to photograph wild vinyl collectors gathering together and participating in a feeding frenzy, you will find a listing here of meeting spots of the wandering bands of nomads. I, myself, have yet to witness one of these events in person, but may decide to visit one or two of the local ones - proudly wearing my "epiclectic vinyl" t-shirt and see if it has any impact on visits

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The Freak Emporium was started in 1991 as an insert inside the cult UK fanzine Freakbeat - a magazine dedicated to garage rock and psychedelia. Since those simple photocopied catalogues The Freak Emporium has grown into a huge and sophisticated specialist music collector's website with over 20,000 products.

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Enjoy browsing El Rato's cover art gallery... great minds run in the same channels.

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CALGARY (mytelus.com) - Skid row alcoholics are heating LP records so they can drink the alcohol that blushes on to the surface, said a volunteer working with homeless alcoholics and an AADAC nurse. According to the two independent sources, who asked for anonymity, only a couple of tablespoons of the effluent are required to make the hardened alcoholics drunk. But the young addicts can often

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A guilty pleasure that I just discovered. Caught the Ben Stiller movie "Flirting With Disaster" for the first time on cable the other night, and really liked the soundtrack. The last song playing over the credits had a nice twangy, garage-quasi surf guitar and something about a camel in the lyrics. Reminded me a lot of Webb Wilder. [You do know who Webb Wilder is, don't you?] Anyway, low and

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Take a step outside the everyday and pedestrian world you live in and explore the bizarro side of your personality. You will never know what really hits your button unless you try changing channels every once and a while. Here's a way to explore from the comfort of your keyboard.

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THE METAL OBSERVER - Review - PRETTY MAIDS - Future World: "OK, let's talk about classics here. There are a number of bands that are known for one album, yes one song even. Of course that does not mean that the rest of the releases was not good as well, but there is that one very special track. One of those bands that attained almost legendary status hails from Denmark and bears a rather

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Dana's Downloadable Album of the Month

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"When British rocker Ian Hunter wrote and recorded 'Cleveland Rocks' with guitarist Mick Ronson and members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, our city finally had an anthem. Since Cleveland International Records released it in 1979, it has been used a the theme song for The Drew Carey Show and covered by the likes of The Presidents of the United States of America. With Mott The Hoople, Hunter

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A few minutes ago, I discovered this really nifty resource as I was Googling the late 60's rock group Ultimate Spinach. (You remember them, don't you?) This three-dimensional family tree groups musicians and groups together based on affinities with others. In some cases, the relationship is based on their names (i.e. Mott The Hoople linked with Tony Mottola); in others, individual artists are

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"LOGO doesn't toe a company line, we don't provide a platform for bands based on how much revenue we can generate from them, and we're honest. On this site and in the pages of LOGO magazine you will find unbiased opinion based entirely on the quality of a performance, be it live or in a studio. If we like a record, we'll tell you. If we don't like it we'll tell you why. If we think a band is

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This compilation album features 22 amazing and timeless songs by artists such as 10cc, David Essex, Pilot and Alessi. There is no need to feel guilty. Confess and you will be redeemed! Take a minute and contribute your favorite guilty pleasures for a possible future compilation.

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I worked in the garage most of last Saturday, and had the wife's radio on. It was tuned to the local "oldies" station - K-RTH 101. As a rule, I don't listen to FM radio, opting to either my computer's MusicMatch generate a random playlist from my personal CD collection, or listening to other people's playlists on Mercora. What struck me, as I listened to the 40 song, 2 hour long rotation on

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While the music from our past is indelibly etched into our souls, you also have to give credit to the people - the disk jockeys - that played a significant part in introducing them to each of us. For me, the personalities of Ace Young, Paraquat Kelly, Sam Riddle and Jim Ladd created the aura that put a frame of reference to the music. I think you might find this website a great help in bringing

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The cover story in the September issue of Uncut (see my references below on how excellent this music magazine really is) targets The Kinks. What I was pleased to learn is that their hit You Really Got Me was released 40 years ago this month! Damn. I was a mere lad of 12 when I first heard the tune - clay waiting to be molded and it is now obvious that what is now being referred to as the first in

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"Mott The Hoople Live [30th Anniversary Edition] 2004 Columbia UK To quote Ben Edmonds' CREEM review of Mott's Hoople LP 30 years ago, MTH was 'a band that could probably please me just by farting with the slightest degree of sincerity.' And while the thought (and smell) of a gassy Overend Watts may not reek of rock 'n' roll as much as Mr. Edmonds may have thought in 1974, the fact remains that

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Well, it could have been worse had the young "whipper-snapper" decided to experiment with 8mm gay porn reels in his youth. Get a copy of the rock-n-roll album presidential candidate John Kerry recorded in 1961 with six of his schoolmates at St. Paul School in New Hampshire. Destined to be forgettable. ACTION: John Kerry and The Electras

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Discovered this nifty little site that is a great integration of chat forums, artist profiles and links to Amazon and other providers. I like the way that context-sensitive links are on the artist page. For example, if I'm looking at the Bloodrock 2 page, they have a link for "find your classmates from 1971". Adding to my dropping crumbs list, too. ACTION: One Hit Wonder Central

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I was reading a thread in the Record Collector's Guild forum the other day, and an image flashed in my head of a unique record accessory I had when I was 4 or 5 years old. In brief, you put the record on the turntable, then stick this multi-faceted mirror box on the record and then watch an animated cartoon character perform some antics. That's all the detail I could recall. So I posted a

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While listening to a recent garage sale find, I read the notes on the back of the Mystic Moods Orchestra's Love Token album. Get a load of this:"The gift of life is but a LOVE TOKEN; and, I am a witness to the birth of LOVE TOKEN. The operation is complete, and the delivery is an overwhelming success. The implements required, were innumerable years of experienced talent, and a complement of

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Note that I do NOT condone this destruction of property. It makes it near impossible to play your records, but an interesting way to give new life to your mutilated disks. Actually, I tried this earlier today before having explored the internet, and its amazingly easy to do. I'm trying to think of something other than "a bowl" and will let you now what i come up with. ACTION: Three Ways to

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Everyone on the planet is familiar with the now infamous record album cover featuring a beautiful woman sitting in a pile of whipped cream. BUT, if you, for some reason, have never ventured into a thrift store and browsed the bins of old LPs, I can guarantee that if you get in your car RIGHT NOW and drive to the nearest Salvation Army, Goodwill or garage sale, you WILL spot a copy of this album.

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I came across this nice compilation of record resources in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas. Figured that some day, I might want to pack a lunch, and set out to visit many of these shops to see what they have to offer. May get some ideas, too. Thanks to Andy, who developed this list as a hobby, and is having difficulties with "free webhosting services". The downside of getting to popular,

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Rock-and-Roll (räk'n roll') n. first so used (1951) by Alan Freed, Cleveland disc jockey, taken from the song "My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll". The use of rock, roll, rock and roll, etc., with reference to sexual intercourse, is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues, characterized by the use of electric guitars, a strong rhythm with an

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Popsike.com provides auction results of rare vinyl records, specializing in Pop, Rock, Beat and Psych from the 60's and 70's. To check it out, I searched on one of my old Seeds albums, Future, and found a like copy/condition recently sold for $54 US! Seems like the values I've been logging into my collection database may be undervaluing these puppies. Good to know if it ever comes time to

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Because sometimes you want to sing along, and you don't want to sound like an idiot if people start listening to what you are saying. Mott the Hoople Jerkin' Crocus lyrics: (Ian Hunter) Old man Tyler had a crash in his car down on the fortune highway Doctor said it was his cruel sick heart didn't go to church on Sunday Oh your pace is going to knock you dead Out of the race you got time to

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RecordStoreReview.com features record store listings and reviews from around the world including the US, Canada, England, Japan and more. We're building the guide together with a community of collectors (like you) who share reviews of stores they've visited. We hope the directory leads you to those elusive records and CDs missing from your collection. [ more ]

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