Old Enough to Forget

The Automatix Night Rider. The kids got this for me (along with a box full of other treasures) because: A. It looked cool B. It was sealed C. I wanted it All good reasons. I recently succumbed to peer pressure and subscribed to a streaming service. Yeah, I know. It's an adjustment, especially for me as I'm a tactile Luddite, and although I digitized my CD library a while back (just under a terabyte, and took a while, and I do find I have to re-rip the occasional album, but it's rare), I still have a wall of shame in the basement, coupled with my regenerating album collection - it's sort of a space problem. One my wife reminds me constantly has limitations ... the box is this big, and only this big. Well there's still room. Although I have had to curb my visits to the store as I found over the last year in particular my funnel was getting to be ridiculously big, and I want to be able to really listen to the stuff I buy. A lesson I never learned in the '80s throug...

I only bought this because of the cover. Thinking this would be so horrid I'd have to replace my needle and bleach my ears after playing this I eagerly paid my dollar, and gave it a good cleaning. The first thing to note is that despite a cover Yosh and Stan Schmenge would drool over, this was played straight, and reminds me of my treasured Jim Gregrash records (if you know, you know). I can imagine The Mom and Dads killing it at a barn dance. Make no mistake, this was dance music, just not the dance music of my generation. This is fun, old timey Christmas music, and frankly considering three of the members were born before 1920, and the youngest born in the early 1930s - they were older than most artists who were starting their careers. They'd only released their debut in 1970 a couple of years earlier. Late bloomers I suppose. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect when I started looking up the band, but I wasn't expecting to see a bunch of gold and platinum CRIA certi...