Old Enough to Forget

Eight miles high and still going. If I had a Byrds album this is where I'd have put it. Mainly so I could shit on that song and its horrid 12-string guitar work that everyone else thinks is spectacular. It's the same sound my kids made when they'd get their hand stuck under the strings when they'd mess around in my music room. Anyway, before I drift too far off point. This month is mostly familiar names this time around. Funny, I was pulling stuff from the to-be-filed pile and although bands like The Edgar Winter Group and Wishbone Ash were relatively new experiences for me, it was fun to revisit the Paul Janz album and finally get a chance to go through the final and much-maligned J. Geils release. Then, of course, there's SAGA - man, I love SAGA. Five For Fighting No. 8 The Edgar Winter Group - Shock Treatment (1974) Wishbone Ash - Locked In (1976) Paul Janz - High Strung (1985) The J. Geils Band - You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd (198...

Whoever owned this before me wrote "Bumpers" in black felt pen on the front of the album, on the back cover, and on both sides of the record itself. So yeah, it was a pain in the ass trying to figure out how to remove most of the ink. I was pretty proud of myself, in that I was able to make it hardly visible on the front and back of the jacket. I had a defaced Wishbone Ash album, I applied my newfound knowledge and proceeded to nearly ruin the cover. Anyway, I dropped the dollar because I wanted to get "Cruel to Be Kind," a song I knew from back in the day, and if there was more than one good song it was all bonus. After all, it's not like I had a lot of his stuff. Although I was super close to picking up Rockpile's Seconds of Pleasure when it came out. My only other point of reference was Party of One back in 1990 because I really liked "All Men Are Liars," which still cracks me up, and that's the truth. Oddly enough, the guys he'd later...

Well, for a dollar I'm not going to get too bent out of shape over some idiot with the initials "BB" who thought adorning the album with their initials was a good idea. I thought since I'd managed to get an entire name printed in block letters off a Nick Lowe record, I'd have no problem with two little initials. There's the rub... as you can see, I managed to fade it a little, but I quickly realized I was also rubbing off the album art too. So I stopped rubbing before I wouldn't be able to see. Enough of that, as much fun as it is to write out thinly veiled juvenile masturbation jokes, I think I'm edging close to losing it, so I'll stop. Okay, now I'll stop. Sorry. But they started it. Do they have mulligans in blog writing? Or am I supposed to do the honourable thing and delete stuff? Let's just start again, but as a compromise I'm leaving the other stuff as a reminder to myself to show what happens when I write without really thinking...