The Kinks — Kinks
I’ve been a fan of The Kinks since college. Of course, their songs were in the backdrop all through my youth, just like any of the other British invasion groups. In fact, more than...
Category: ’60s
Albert King – Live Wire / Blues Power
You won’t get rich selling blues records, sadly, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to prevail on Forever Changes to have another blues day at his currently monthly popup store, but I...
Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Legendary Typewriter Tape
Can you even imagine what San Francisco was like as a creative environment in the early ’60s? The Beat Generation leading into the hippies and the Summer of Love? The kind of environment where...
Jefferson Airplane — Woodstock (Sunday August 17, 1969)
At the same sale where I bought my seminal Jefferson Airplane records, I got a copy of “Woodstock Two,” which included two tracks by Jefferson Airplane, “Saturday Afternoon / Won’t You Try” and “Eskimo...
Jefferson Airplane – Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Yes, I have an inordinate love of the Jefferson Airplane, and yes, I’m going to buy up pretty much everything new that gets released by this iconic band. When my friend Shawn’s Forever Changes...
Jefferson Airplane — The Worst of Jefferson Airplane
This one, too, came from that epic, life-changing garage sale that summer of 1979, after my freshman year. My first summer living away from my hometown; in fact, I would never go back home...
Jefferson Airplane — Bless Its Pointed Little Head
There’s such a locational component of the memories that are important to us. For me and my fellow vinyl geeks, it isn’t just the records, it’s the places we bought them. I remember where...
Jefferson Airplane — Volunteers
This is, to me, the top studio album by Jefferson Airplane. After I play “Bless Its Pointed Little Head,” this one is always next. From 1969, it was recorded before Woodstock and released after...
Jefferson Airplane — Crown of Creation
I have had my copy of Crown of Creation forever. (“Forever” for my records generally means I bought it in 1979 or 1980.) I’m sure I got it on the heels of “Worst Of”...
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