Old Enough to Forget

"What have we here to hear?" I thought to myself as I rummaged through the dollar section on a quiet day. I had decided it was an ABBA day - you know, "Take a Chance on Me" - wait, don't stop reading yet, I'll get to the point. The album looked to be in fair shape, but was missing the insert and the jacket itself was pretty decent. The back photo featured seven guys who seemed to be pretty good friends as they were all mushed together to fit in the frame. Moustaches outnumbered beards, but back in 1977 that was pretty much expected if you wanted to be in a band and taken seriously. The only credits on the back related to the production team of Bruce Botnick and Terry Powell, names that seemed familiar but I couldn't place them at the time. I wasn't sure what to expect from the band, considering the sheer size of it, I figured they would be somewhere in between Lighthouse and Three Dog Night. As the adage goes, you can't judge a book ...

Eddie Money always seemed like a guy who was just on the cusp of being a really big deal. He'd get close but he never really quite made it to the front of the line. His debut album was released in December of 1977 but the album gained traction well into 1978 with songs like "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise" which were arguably two of his biggest songs. I found this one in a bargain bin that warned me the album was sold "as is"and buyer beware. The vinyl looked fine to me ... and there were a couple of copies. I asked if I could swap covers as one of them had Eddie sporting a wonderful ball point pen moustache and the cover I ended up with had an old CFUN radio station sticker on it. I was fine with that, as CFUN had a lot of nostalgia associated with it - there was a time the two stations worth listening to in the early 70s were CKLG and CFUN and you could bounce between them on your radio and find something worth listening to. Oddly...