Ramblings about My Records
What to do when you’ve put out an absolutely groundbreaking record? Five months later, put out another. If you’re Funkadelic. No kidding – Funkadelic was released February 1970, and “Free Your Mind” was released...
I’m right here admitting that for many years, my record collection was unfunky. Funkless. Free of the funk. An old Ohio Players record and George Clinton’s “R&B Skeletons in the Closet,” and neither one...
When I bought this album in 1981, the only thing I knew about The Bobby Fuller Four was the same thing anyone knew about them: They were the ones who made a hit of...
If you know anything about The Fugs at all, it’s probable that you know them for one of the greatest anti-war “protests” ever — the time they were part of an effort to levitate...
You don’t know ’60s protest music if you don’t know The Fugs. This album was originally released in 1965 as “The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction.”...
This was an odd decision made at a house concert, where the host had brought in not only a an artist to play but a few small vendors, all of whom are friends or...
I believe this is a first: a record that I owned as a teenager, subsequently got rid of – most likely out of embarrassment –– and have now procured again, a mere 42 years or...
This was one of those records that my roommate Danny brought back from a summer in Boston, a summer where he was suddenly exposed to a raft of cool music that we would never...
Oh boy. This one is going to be more about one song (yes, that song) than it is about the album. And it’s going to be perhaps the earliest story from my life that...
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