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Streetheart - Meanwhile Back in Paris

1978 was probably one of the more formative years for me musically. At the time I didn't really think much about it, but looking back on it, holy cow and boy howdy it was a banner year. It was the year "Baker Street" made the saxophone sexy, and the guitar solo in that song still makes me smile. It was also the year my cousin introduced me to Ted Nugent though his incendiary Double Live Gonzo , and Prism's sophomore album See Forever Eyes . The number of bands I waited patiently to hear songs from on the radio or at a friends was just mind boggling. I started making a list of the bands and songs that I could hardly wait to hear, but it got to be so long that it just looked silly listing a page of bands. It's a great list. I didn't have much in the way of vinyl, so it was up to friends and spotty AM radio to play my favourite songs. One of the coolest songs from my youth was a song called "Action" and it wasn't by The Sweet (although that is an aw...