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Madison, MS easy rider
I was only 9 or 10 but the memory of my first viewing of Easy Rider will be a treasured one. The freshness of 6-9 and the range defines the tie-die years for...
Read Memory Jacksonville, FL Ducks Deluxe last gig
Ducks DeluxeLive at the 100 ClubIf you are one of those people who still appreciate rock ‘n' roll as sleazy, loud, drunken orgies of music, then you'd...
Read Concert Review Jacksonville, FL Green Beard
Two midwest yokels stumble through London in search of obscure music. They stumble upon a quaint little shop and venture in. Here they find a most unique...
Read Memory Buffalo, NY Slowly I Turned
On November 15, 1975 Bob Dylan brought the Rolling Thunder Review to the Niagara Falls Convention Center. I have been able to locate this resource, which...
Read Memory Australia My first 45 rpm single
This single was the start of my music-buying days. I got this one for about $0.75. I thought this was the absolutely best music and I guess it was at the...
Read Memory New York, NY Down Thunder Road
From Day 1, the connection with his audience…his fans… was immediate. Bruce was always just one of us, the only real difference being he wrote and sang...
Read Memory Santa's Village Happy Birthday Sis!
Hey Sister...I know today is your birthday and you're way the heck over in Instanbul. I'm not sure how well all those candles will fit on top of a Turkish...
Read Memory Bellingham, WA and then the Thunderbird swooped...
I don't know why my parents didn't care. It was smack in the middle of the Seventies and everyone was high. This made it somehow permissible to go to a...
Read Memory Wesley Chapel, FL Crazy album cover
I heard the song, "Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac (before Buckingham/Nicks). Ran out to buy the album, loved the artwork on the cover until I relized...
Read Memory United Kingdom A Top 100 Tape Session
I don't know for sure what year it was, but I have to put somethign in :-) It was sometime in the 70's and it was a holiday, Easter I think, rather than...
Read Memory Denmark The knife and the organ
I was at a concert with Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the big sports arena in Gothenburg. I come from Denmark, but my cousin lived i Gothgenburg and had...
Read Memory San Francisco, CA First Album Ever
Olivia Newton-John is my favorite singer ever. In fact, she doesn't even compare to the other favorites in my repertoire; she's on a pedestal by herself. Her...
Read Memory Sauquoit, NY stoned on the weekends
The first time I heard the Strawbs was when I came home one weekend back in 1975 after going out and smoking pot with my friends.I turned on the TV and there...
Read Memory Seattle, WA Back in the day...
This was back before he made Time Magazines cover and was a incredible act to catch I saw him in the late 70's a couple times there and it was fuckin great!
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Simple Southern Fried Chicken
You got to give it to foreigners who bond with good music that is played throughout the day, intertwined with the traditional music of their culture and...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Oh no not railroad tracks !
It was official, by fall of 1975 I would be starting the school year with a mouthful of braces because too many teeth caused irregular growth and severe...
Read Memory Hudson, WI Young Fun
The saying is true "You don't know what you've got til it's gone". I look back on my childhood and realize I took for granted many things.When I...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Sick Easter
One of my Easter rituals as a child was for my parents to bring a metallic food tray covered in an old tea towel to me, first thing on Easter Sunday...
Read Memory Hayward, CA Reincarnatio n
I never gave much thought to reincarnation. It was more an abstract idea and something other people talked about. It didn't seem real to me. Then one day in...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Three swimming memories
There are three stand-out memories concerning swimming that sometimes come to mind when hearing this tune. The first, comes from my days in elementary...
Read Memory Sugar Land, TX My First Amercian Pop Song
I think I was about 5 or 6 then.... and I just loved this song although I did not understand a word of English. I remember I would run around the house...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Christmas food
It is not very easy to pick a year for this particular memory - as the memory itself and first hearing the song happened at different times, and I am not...
Read Memory Unknown Tinkling the Ivories
Robin was my hairdresser and a friend. A talented friend who could play the piano but could not read a note. His party piece was always Where Did You Get...
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