Missed The Who in ‘67 when they opened for Herman’s Herman’s. An odd pairing fo’ sure. They didn’t come back till 2004.

Saw LZ during their 1970 tour to promote Led Zeppelin III. Jimmy Page was like a stick. It looked like he was gonna fall down because his Les Paul outweighed him.

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

Kane Brown - Kane Brown

Saw him on some morning show last week and my initial thought was, “Oh, another rapper....”. Boy, was I wrong!

Although I’m not a big Country fan, I like this guy.

73F / 84% RH / calm

Saw that too....bit disorienting....but in the end it was country and fairly or not, I was pretty dismissive

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

One of my earliest serious headphone album discoveries....good turntable, quality amp and a pair of Koss that weighed about 5 pounds.....made hair stand up on my neck...every single time.....saw them a few times - every show opened with that harmonica opening School....still knee-buckling, even recorded. For me it ranked up there with show openers like Ride the Tiger and Thunderstruck

That's the way Palama. Deny! Deny! Deny!

Inspired by Dave’s Curtis Mayfield post:

The Impressions - Complete A & B Sides 1961-1968

72F / 82% RH / 21 mph - absolutely beautiful till about 2-2:30, then the clouds started rolling in, bringing the rain 🌧

And on a psychedelic note The Stones - Her Satanic Majesty's Request

I won't provide a weather update. Just plain depressing

And now some dire straits....

Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow

I think I've bought 4 versions of this album. The original vinyl release, Quadrophonic vinyl (...even though I didn't have a Quad set up...), initial CD and then the remastered version.

71F / 76% RH / 22 mph - cloudy, windy morning, off and on rain in the afternoon and evening

Jefferson Starship - Dragon Fly -


Was looking up something about Dragon Fly and came upon an even more interesting Dragonfly....never heard it before...similar era and sounds like San Francisco...and while there's no Grace Slick, the psychedelic guitars are pretty awesome in their own right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd-Yh_1-B4s

Wire. Pink Flag

Santana - In Search of Mona Lisa

Three song EP with edit versions on two of them.

71F / 96% RH / 17 mph - rainy afternoon and evening

UFO Phenomenon.

19 year old Michael Shenker One bad a$$ guitarist

The Five Heartbeats (Original Movie Soundtrack)

Used to listen to this when I went back to work part-time In 1992 at the record store I left 10 years earlier.

72F 77% RH / 10 mph - weird, mostly wet day (with flash flood warnings at one point) but there was about an hours worth of blue skies...and then more rain ☔️

Gabby Pahinui - Rabbit Island Music Festival

“Pops” was THE best slack key AND Hawaiian steel guitar player EVER.

73F / 70% RH / 13 mph - mostly overcast but dry day, short downpour during dinner

Allman Brothers - Sept. 19, 1971 - S.U.N.Y. (State University of New York at Stonybrook), Stonybrook, NY

Frankie Tripod mighta been at this show...but he can't remember fo' sure (...youthful activities and all...)

72F / 81% RH / 13 mph - cool and wet day

Hope, at some point in your youthful hazy life, you had a chance to see the Allmans with Duane. The only time I got to see them was on their "Brothers and Sisters" tour but Duane and Berry were long gone.

Lucky dog!

I agree!!!

Hall & Oates - Whole Oats

Sorely underrated debut album.

72F / 81% RH / calm - really nice day, early evening showers

Tash Sultana

Always loved the slow build of Gallows Pole on LZ III.

And in other volume news, rockin to a young John Osbourne with Black Sabbath Vol 4

Letting Pandora do the work this morning...it is doing a pretty good job; Van Morrison Station

Hall and Oats is a bit of a guilty pleasure. I have denigrated in public while enjoying in private. The pop-ish simplicity seemed quite evident, but there's quality in the compositions that I overlooked years ago with my nose in the air.

The Cars - self-titled first album

I remember when I first heard this album in ‘76. Was working at Records Hawaii and Pat, the other clerk that day, put it on. We had just gotten a bunch of demos the day before so was trying to listen to the new stuff. Within a minute of “Good Times Roll”, I had a feeling we were gonna like these new guys. Everyone else at the store liked it and it quickly became a staff favorite so it was probably played a couple times a day. In the first few months after it’s release, we sold a bunch of copies to customers that were shopping when it was on. As much as we liked them, we had no idea that they’d turn into such a big time group.

65F / 55% RH / 14 mph - I know this would be considered “warm” in most parts of the Mainland but it’s flockin’ FREEZING to us Hawaii folks...sweatshirt, jacket and long socks out in the garage!

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

One of my favorite groups from the 80s. Really enjoyed the newer sound of this album.

64F / 77% RH / 14 mph - cold, overcast, sometimes rainy weather the whole day