Kevin Bresnahan

I used to hear stuff like that Gideon tune above all the time in Newbury Comics and it never did anything for me. I do like some heavy metal stuff, even stuff with "scream-singing" but I hate those guttural screams like I hear here. They sound like someone in pain.

God, I really hate those metal bands with the lead that sounds like he's having problems in the bathroom. Constipation metal - that's it.

Man, we're getting old, aren't we? I can't believe that Jim is already 61.

I drive an hour each way since I moved to the beach so I got Sirius/XM. I switch between 70's on 7, 80's on 8, Classic Rewind, Classic Vinyl, Deep Tracks, Real Jazz & Comedy Central Radio. Sometimes if the mood strikes, I may put on The Coffeehouse. At home, I sometimes use their app and play The Bridge and Yacht Rock Radio, especially in the summer on the back deck. Lately, I've installed their app on my Roku box and I'm using that for Christmas music when the mood strikes. Since I'm driving 60+ miles each way, I bought a plug-in Prius (called a Prius Prime). I'm getting almost 65 mpg with it.

That font - and the monochrome - almost looks like a Mosaic.

Wow, I didn't know they had any digital recordings from the 60's.

Ahhh... Merci. I forgot about that.

When I click that link, I get £57.89, which is $74.75 before shipping. I am not seeing $69 shipped to a US address.

I came so close to buying one of these...

Matthew, you have quite the cellar! Lucky man.

When I saw Reeds & Deeds, I thought it would be Eric Alexander & Grant Stewart's band: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3340436-Reeds-And-Deeds

Damn, these Steeplechase CDs are expensive. At a time when CD sales are tanking and most issues are ~$10, these are clocking in at $20. Makes me wonder how long they'll be around with that price point. Even Mosaic Records, at the top of the CD price range only charges $17 per disc. Having said that, I'm thinking hard about the new Cuber & Smulyan CDs.

That corporate flow is right but when Rykodisc was sold, something happened to their catalog. For instance, both David Bowie & Frank Zappa got their masters back. Maybe Carter's estate got his back too. We'd probably have to find someone on the inside to find out.

2015 Bucella Cabernet Sauvignon. It was excellent.

David Murray did quite a few recordings for India Navigation that are now out of print... if they've ever even been in print on CD? Actually, Chico Freeman did quite a few for India Navigation as well. That's one I would be interested in.

Only two labels - Black Saint & Gramavision. I don't even know who owns Gramavision these days. They were part of the Rykodisc labels and many of their recordings reverted back to the artists after they folded. I also don't think that a John Carter 5 CD box set of his Roots & Folklore series would sell well. Most fans of this music will have the 5 original CDs already. I suppose if they offered them on vinyl, they might pull in some owners of the CDs to drop the money for an LP set. But if they simply reissue those 5 CDs, I don't see a lot of us buying it.

Nope. Not in my neck of the woods. There were no hip hop stations back then. Not a one. And yes, I used to spin the dial quite often back then. In the late 70's/early 80's it was mostly Top 40, Oldies and AOR. You still had talk radio. Sports radio. Public radio was mainly big band and classical. Not even many country stations like there are today. Oh, and there was always a few classical stations up & down the dial. But hip hop? Nope. And again, after Run D.M.C., I listened to some of it. I may even have bought Run D.M.C.'s "Raising Hell", but I was not a fan of most of it. Having said all this, I still do love Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" but like Run D.M.C.'s "Walk This Way", this (and the follow up, "Funky Cold Medina") got a lot of radio play on rock stations because it sampled rock tunes.

Floyd... I remember when they toured for "The Wall" and they only played two US cities - Uniondale, NY & LA. I had a HS classmate who had an extra ticket to see them in New York and my mother wouldn't let me go. I still regret that. Yeah, I didn't know too many people who were into punk. In fact, it wasn't until I got to UMass circa 1983 that I met someone who was really into it so I started getting a taste. Joe was big into the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys. I just thought it was weird. About the only band he was into that stuck with me was The Clash. I see his FB pictures and see he's come a long way from the leather jacket & chaps, studded dog collar and facial piercings.

How the heck would I have "noticed" Run D.M.C. back then? Me & my friends, yes, mostly white friends, were big into rock. There was plenty of it around and we were into all of it. I was one of the few that branched out into other genres, mainly classical, but even I never went for hip hop because I didn't like it. I still don't. Also, I don't know where you grew up, but if me or any other of my white friends showed up at a venue where Run D.M.C. was playing back in 1983, we would not have been welcome and most likely would've been beat up. My "white experience" would've been, "That was stupid", as I lay in a hospital bed.

That cuts both ways here. Run D.M.C. was breaking out Rock Rap but none of the rock fans would have known much about it if it wasn't for this crossover hit. I didn't pay much attention to Run D.M.C. until after this came out. This one song pushed "Raising Hell" into a mega-smash and cemented Run D.M.C. as the leading rap group at the time. As stated in Wikipedia, "The success of "Raising Hell" is often credited with kick-starting hip hop's golden age, when rap music's visibility, variety, and commercial viability exploded onto the national stage and became a global phenomenon. Their success paved the way for acts like LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys."

Yeah, I hear Ben in there too. Minus the Fwuffff fwufff stuff. But I do hear the LTD style along the way too. He bites off the notes like Dexter whereas Big Ben kinda slurs everything together. Really not liking that organ though. Roller rink music. I feel like I'm at a Boston Celtics game in the old Boston Garden circa 1983.

Jim - as I said - I really don't know what you're after here. Looking at blue with red eyes... um... again... no idea what you want me to say to this. I do think that nitpicking on my generalizing that "everyone" was into Aerosmith in the 70's and then have you go off to generalize that overindulgent behavior, sex, drugs & rock & roll equates to a loss of critical thinking and impulse control is pretty hypocritical. If it makes you happy, I'll grant you that everyone wasn't into Aerosmith in the 70's.

Overindulgent behavior, sex, drugs & rock and roll does not somehow magically result in a loss of critical thinking and impulse control. Several of us here are proof that there are alternative outcomes. FWIW, I don't know what you're after here anyway. You seem to looking for an argument but I don't know why. Arguing over Aerosmith's popularity or my definition of everyone seems weird. "Fandango" came out in 1975. I had a copy. Several of my friends had copies. I wouldn't use the term huge, but they were far bigger than a cult band up our way. We had a lot of AOR (Album Oriented Rock) stations in my neck of the woods so most of the people I hung out with were into a lot music that wouldn't make it on a Top 40 station. Maybe that had something to do with my view of the rock world?

Well, his kids have all gone Hollywood, so maybe he's settling into a new role as a patron of the arts.