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This thing is off the charts now, priecewise. Any alternatives?

Think so, yeah...same session. Put it there if it's an alternate.

Problem fixed if they also reissue the Richard Davis album, correct?

Boys don't need man caves, they're happy with treehouses and such

Everybody loves the Rahsaan parts...but that was on the OG LP!!!!! It was my favorite parts too, and still is!

Did Superman ever take Krypto into the Fortress Of solitude? Because I'm thinking that a man who needs so much solitude that he ain't got room for his dog is either a fucked up individual or else he needs a better dog. And Krypto was a good dog!

Mine too, at least as far as "pre-electric" records go. Funny, the contemporaneous reviews I've been able to find were...."mixed". It seems that "The Barbara Song" really...bothered people. Too slow or something. I love it, it's like virtuosos cough-syprup slo-mo big hairy spider music. And Wayne's gorgeous/genius "anti-solo" solo...predictive, imo.

But before that, MASSIVE Secret Service fail: JFK, Born To Die.

Maybe not immediately, but this works.

Somewhere, I hope, I still have a copy of the "Top 40" sheet (literally, a piece of legal size paper) that was on the record racks at the local pharmacy, the same one with all the pulp magazines, and the only place in town that sold "real" and "current" records. The Top 40 was not out of Billboard or anything, it was from the rack jobber itself, somewhere on Industrial in Dallas...I would love to know what kind of a deal the drug store had with this crew - and if the same people handled the records as handled the magazines. In retrospect, it all seems kinda connected (no pun intended?). I mean, you could buy "records" all over town, but only this place had current stock of hit (or hit-like) records, current shit, LPs and 45s. Same with all the pulp magazines. But I don't reall them having comic books! For those, you went to the newsstand, iirc. I could be wrong, though. Like I said, by then, I was out of that thing, the comic books (or as some called them "funny books"!!!!). Wal-Mart fucked all this shit up, Wal-Mart and better, wider, faster highways. Why shop in Gladewater when you could go to Longview?!?!?!?!?! And Longview didn't even get a mall until the late 1970s! I fully appreciate the more efficient delivery systems of goods we have now, but...I also appreciate what was lost by being able to shop "in town", the human interaction of things from outside your town being in your town, and the way that worked...small towns still gonna small town, but the options were right in your face then, you didn't have to like them, but you did have to look at them. Hi Gladewater, I'm Faye!

Good comp, excellent variety, and I learned about a few people as well. Everything I want out of a BFT, for sure. Gonna pick up that McPherson as well. Excellent first offering, please don't be a stranger on these things.

Randy must be a Canadian Mountie or something, he always gets his track! Nicely played on all counts, inclusion and sleuthing alike. Glad to see (and hear) all of it.

Living in East Texas...when we went to "the city" it was either Shreveport or Dallas, and in the days before Interstate, those were not casual jaunts! Even after Interstate, well, Shreveport actually was a jaunt, about 75 minutes. Dallas, less so, two hours, (usually) more or (occasionally) less. These kids today who only know Interstates... Shreveport was actually a city, albeit a "small" one) when we lived there, 1962-65. It's really sad to see how it's deteriorated and fallen apart. There probably was Marvel in Shreveport, but I was not tuned into it. Barber shops again. And after that, we lived in Liberty (now part of the Houston MonsterMegaplex, but then, a separate town with lots of land in between....65-66, probably was Marvel there, but again, barber shops, they liked them some Superman, especially in the Beatles/Vietnam era, AMERICAN!!!!! East Texas before 1962, no Marvel. After we got back in 1967, probably so, but by then...Beatles/Hendrix/etc...comics were gone from my life by then, even in the barbershops. I would look at sport or Field & Stream or Sports Afield, I liked fishing. The barber shops themselves, it took a bit longer to get rid of.... You know, I was talking to somebody the other day about the "great" period of Hit Parader magazine, the late 60s, and in Gladewater, we had both a news stand and a drug store that carried a whole bunch of stuff that just sat there and got shuffled around every moth. I mean, you could buy Billboard in Gladewater, at the newsstand. and Hit Parader at the drug store. I think there was some kind of mob deal or something for magazine rack jobbers, because those places were always full, and the newsstand carried "adult" magazines and the drug store carried ALL the pulp "detective" and "men's" stuff like Argosy & True and less noble endeavors...used to be able to "sneak a peek" at those see some almost breast, nervous as hell that somebody would catch me LOL. Knowing now what I know about rack jobbing and road reps...one wonder just what kinds of deals were being made to get all this stuff out there that nobody was buying.

JR Monterose was always good to check out.

Not on my bedroom wall it wasn't. In a world bereft of colors and textures (unless you went out into the woods, but that was not in my room), it was easy to look at that and see a different perceptual sensibility than the one I was otherwise being presented with (and presumably, being indoctrinated into). Yeah, I would indeed think that there was indeed a "regional difference" between Philadelphia and the East Texas nexus of Gladewater/WhiteOak/Longview...even Shreveport(which to it's credit was a real city at the time. A "regional difference" indeed!

Damn. Best wishes for John Handy. Hope he's getting some loving care.

The barber shops I went to on Saturday mornings didn't have Marvel. They had DC (mostly centered around Superman & Co.), Archie (before there was "Mary Ann or Ginger?", there was "Betty or Veronica?") and Sgt, Rock. Now, when you went into the drug/grocery store (and the grocery store was NOT a supermarket) to buy baseball cards and comic books, good lord, they had all kinds of stuff, those horrible Harvey comics, but also a Dell title or two that could be good for a ride, there were even some kind of romance-y type stuff for girls, although I never saw a girl reading the,. Or anybody else for that matter. But there they were anyway. Marvel really didn't have a lot of market penetration in this world, although, yeah, Spider Man and Fantastic Four, yeah. But they were kind of "upstarts" and I don't recall seeing them in the barber shop. I know what was in the barber shop - the Look magazine that had the Beatles thing. I asked my barber if I could tear the pictures out to take home and he told me to go ahead, to get those communist Beatles out of his shop. Remember this?

If you limit it to BlueNote, that's one thing. Add in Prestige, that's another. But add in jazzrecordmusic of all over the place (including Pacific Jazz of the time!) and oh my, there you go. Like Chickenman, IT'S EVERYWHERE, IT'S EVERYWHERE.

I don't mind reading other people's impressions. That's kinda why we come to this place, at least somewhat. I also don't mind reading what all happened in places where I was not there. I can't tell you what a difference that made to me growing up where I did, knowing what all was going on in places far removed (geographically, culturally, and philosophically). I'm certainly more than capable of making up my own mind now, but if not for writers and their outputs, I'm not sure I would now know too much of anything about what it is to have an opinion about. So in that regard, they did their job, and for that, I am grateful. Now, these kids today...I don't know what they're saying half the time.

Spotify is radio. CDs are the records for the record player. Both have their delightful places, but they are different modalities.

There was more than that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite That was the upside about having a dad who had a crew cut and insisted that I have a burr cut - a trip to the barber shop every other Saturday ang long wait times. Superman /Superman-related comic books out the ass, and fresh supplies too.

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