Adventures in collecting and album backstories.
Heavy Is, As Heavy Does Coming in at number three on the episode list is also the number three album from the greatest heavy metal band of all time, all time, all time. Invented heavy metal they did, and as such, went on to define the genre for generations of musicians and music lovers. That being said, let’s take a big bite out of – Considered to be one of my favorite albums of all time, “Master Of Reality” completely…
It’s No Rock-N-Roll Show It was 1963, the city of Boston, Massachusetts and someone was creeping around in the middle of the night raping and murdering women. It would take fifty years before a DNA match could conclusively prove that Albert DeSalvo, a former military police sergeant from Chelsea, Massachusetts was indeed the Boston Strangler. Six years later in 1969, at Olympic Sound Studios in London, England – a song is born. “Did you hear about the midnight rambler Well,…
Rock Hard, Bleed Hard I remember when I first applied for a job at the Hard Rock Casino Biloxi, I was in pretty dire straits because it was 2007 and it was Biloxi. So, living in hurricane Katrina ground zero zone – 2 years after the fact, was not much better as far as finding work was concerned. Hard Rock was literally just about to open their doors for business when the little misses slammed into the Gulf Coast back…
The Vinyl Experience Back in the olden days, before the advent of insta-tunes, preparing for the activity of vinyl worship was a complex ceremonial process. It usually began with fingers diligently sliding across the spines of album jackets searching – seeking out the perfect vibration between man, woman (or zombie) and vinyl. Of course, it could of just been static electricity created by your socks sliding on shag carpet. But I digress, the keeper of the vinyl would then relentlessly…