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Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's Music (2021)


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24 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

These got a fair bit of publicity around the late 70's in the UK. Bought their first album and then didn't hear much about them since then.

 

 

 

Yeah, they were a hard southern rock band and went the way of most southern rock bands.  Southern rock was great while it lasted.  Good tune, though.

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2 hours ago, bobandyson said:

Alexis had a one hour show on Radio 1 on Sundays after the top 20 singles chart. He'd play blues, rock, soul, country etc, and I'd listen with pen and paper ready to jot down the song titles and artists. Then later hunt down the albums the tracks were from in second hand record shops. 

Here's one from the 'Shades' album that I had to buy new because it was a new release.

 

 

 

Nice story relating the excitement of a music enthusiast getting turned on to great music, bobandyson.  I can empathise.

I had been into collecting music since the 60's, obviously all on vinyl, but so much of the older stuff was out of print and couldn't be found any longer.  Along came the new media type, CDs, and all of a sudden they were reissuing all of the out of print music onto this new format.  Not only that but they started releasing previously unreleased material as well, via bonus tracks or even complete standalones.  Fleetwood Mac live at the Boston Tea Party being a case in point.

I would go into record stores in the 90's and drool over all of the music that was again available.  But my first source was music clubs like BMG and Columbia.  You sign up under an obligation to buy X amount of premium priced CDs over a year.  But they ran special offers of $0.99~+ CDs throughout the year.  The deal was to buy one regular selection and then take as many specials as you wanted.  So I would only buy regular selections during these special offers in order to dilute the high premium price to the point that it was well under what I could buy it for at a record shop.  My other strategy was free CDs by joining others.

1,500 CDs later and now we're into file sharing and YouTube.  The availability of personally collectable music now is unlimited.

 

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