Ramblings about My Records
This was the album that was my introduction to The Firesign Theatre. On the emphatic recommendation of my friend Dan, who somehow knew about things other high schoolers did not (perhaps because of a...
This was the third album from the Firesign Theatre, released in 1970, and it was probably the fourth of their records that I bought. I remember buying it when I was already at Syracuse...
Oh, man. Is there music that just makes you feel young again? I don’t mean that reminds you of when you were young . . . that’s an almost endless list that doesn’t seem...
Admittedly, it’s a little weird to be covering a 12” single before I’ve gotten to a band’s album, but in this case, this single by Fingerprintz was released about nine months before their first...
Wow. Wow. Wow wow wow. I wrote just a little bit about Fanny back in August (F has been a bit of a slog, eh?). I was not one of those people who knew...
As I said last time, this is a new acquisition, and my love of Fanny is nearly as new, but man do I love this band. For this 1973 release, their fourth and last...
I bought this record, Fanny’s third album (1972) at the exact moment I bought their first, so my thoughts are pretty much the same. Their sound is definitely a little more developed since their...
As big a fan of Fanny as I am, I think that, like a lot of bands of that time, their records don’t fully capture the energy of their live performances. Luckily, there’s a...
I’d love to say that I was one of those people who remembered Fanny from their heyday and had kept their albums all these years, and always wondered why they hadn’t made it bigger....
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