Double dose of Roy Buchanan while ashing up a Shark from DED:

May 6, 1978 - My Father's Place, Roslynn, NY
March 8, 1985 - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL

Added bonus: neighbors to the left and right cutting their lawns

79F / 68% RH / 10 mph - wet earlier, mostly overcast now

Smooth Soul - How Sweet It Is

A little more on the sappier side but a few gems every now and then.

75F / 61% RH / 16 mph - brrrrrr, hadda put on my “smoking” jacket and long socks

Been relaxing to some old country while I burn down a couple of Rocky Patel's and sipping some wild turkey.

very true.
I don't listen enough to the masters of this genre

The KInks - Schoolboys in Disgrace

I'm in Disgrace

https://youtu.be/_8SbZOmbZVk

The Kinks and Moby Grape! Two blasts from the past.

Yeah, I was sorting through some boxes that have been sealed up for years...

Don't Worry About Me ~Marty Bobbins

Made me remember my youth growing up in Phoenix. From a simpler time. He had some pipes.

I prefer the sound

Boz Scaggs - My Time: A Boz Scaggs Anthology (1969-1997)

Always preferred Boz’ earlier stuff until “Slow Dancer”.

74F / 78% RH / 8 mph - nice day, washed my car and was almost gonna wax it but then remembered there was a football game to watch...shoulda waxed my car

Many years ago when I worked in the music business, there was a 2-ish years period when I was taking home 40-50 albums a week. All the new releases so gave away the stuff I wasn’t into (...e.g., disco, MOR, sappy pop, etc...). Boxes of records filled my bedroom. My WAG is that my collection was around 3K to 4K.

A few years later when I worked for Sony and we introduced CD players, I transitioned as much of my vinyl to compact disc but keep a bunch of albums that either weren’t available on CD or had great artwork that didn’t look so good shrunken down.

As much as I love the warmth of analog, the pops and clicks always drove me crazy.

Lou Reed-Sweet Jane............From Rock 'n Roll Animal, my favoritist version


https://youtu.be/7FdWPeHFAMk

Brownsville Station - Yeah

Opened for Aerosmith in 77 or 78. Was pleased to find they were more than just Smokin in the Boys' Room....in fact, they were better than Aerosmith ...that Draw the Line tour....they were closing in on the bottom...fast. Tyler was so fd up he could barely sing

Saw Styx around same time -- think they were touring Pieces of Eight...was a good show. Glad I didn't wait any longer. Grand Illusion was the last album that I liked. I still really enjoy the earlier stuff...Crystal Ball and Equinox both have stood the test of time, IMO...

been trying to remember who opened for Styx....I'm thinking it was either Starz or maybe Golden Earring

Country Comfort - We Are The Children

Hawaiian Local Contemporary album from 1974. Their mellow, sometimes jazzy sound made them as popular as Cecilio & Kapono and Kalapana but drugs (...what else?...) would do them in.

72F / 82% RH / 0 mph - nice but cool day

Dad went to high school with Pankow the trombone player. Family legend is Dad was asked to drum for a new group which eventually became Chicago Transit Authority, later Chicago. Grandma didn't want him wasting his time so didn't give him the message until 30yrs later.

Cool story. Pankow's name isn't well known, but he was vital....huge talent

+1

While many wouldn’t know who James Pankow, Walter Parazaider, or Lee Loughnane are, they certainly know their sound.

Same for Stephen Kupka, Mic Gillette, Emilio Castillo or Lenny Pickett of Tower of Power fame.

Liked Thriller but just a little too polished, like they'd lost some of the soul. Of course could just be I was heavy into the first couple albums at an age when I was pulling my musical head out of my azz. You always remember your first loves

George Winston - Winter Into Spring

Been awhile since I listened to some New Age solo piano music.

Humble Pie- Smokin'

Thirty Days in the Hole

https://youtu.be/MO0l36nEvCc

Spotify - Radiohead

A couple of compilation a cappella discs while smoking this Leon Jimenes Churchill Deluxe from Jespear

The Blenders - quartet based out of Minneapolis, been a fan of theirs since the early 2000s
The Nylons - read a review in “Digital Audio” magazine in 1986, sought out and got “One Size Fits All” and “Seamless”, at the time, Japan-only CDs

72F / 81% RH / 13 mph - a bit of rain but nothing like yesterday’s downpour in town

Going heavier today gents. System of a Down - 1st album.

Drowns out the voices in my head

Saw Jimi’s last US performance here in Hawaii on August 1, 1970. It was billed as the “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell. I still have the handbill for the show.