A Trip Thru Your Grooves

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 19 Barring anything I may receive as Christmas gifts and the purchase of Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys I am waiting on, here is the updated list. Ahhh... records. I just love everything about them. My new favorite downtime thing to do is to go to Acme Records in Bayview, WI, grab an LP, put it on a turntable and listen through a pair of real headphones. The link to Acme Records is in the left margin. Let's meet sometime and shop together! Oh, and before I get started, I am taking donations. This gadget-ma-thing here will be at the top of every blog. Donation Toward Purchases Used Album $5.00 USD New Album $10.00 USD Collectable $20.00 USD These are the albums that I have picked up or have been donated to me since I started this. I'll do an update every month. Incidentally, today is the 13th anniversary of the night my house burned down and I lost all my music.  Sad night. Not just for me, but for music. A lot of w...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 18 Release Date:  19-February-1974 Genre:  Jam Bands/Rock/Folk Rock Producer: Stephen Barncard, Betty Cantor, David Hassinger, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Matthews Label: Warner Bros. Time:  44m 53s Review Date:  16-December-2018 Format: LP Side One The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) Truckin' Sugar Magnolia St. Stephen Uncle John's Band Side Two Casey Jones Mexicali Blues Turn on Your Love Light One More Saturday Night Friend of the Devil Review:  The Grateful Dead left Warner Bros. to start their own label with their own production and publishing arm after fulfilling their contract upon the release of Wake of the Flood . Warner Bros. wasn't very happy with that decision and decided that they would capitalize on the band's back catalog by releasing a compilation of songs with no input from the band. As if to say "thanks for nothing," they sanctioned an artist to design the cover using none...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 17 Release Date:  22-October-1969 Genre:  Blues/Hard Rock/AOR/Heavy Metal Producer: Jimmy Page Label: Atlantic Time:  41m 38s Review Date:  16-December-2018 Format: LP Side One Whole Lotta Love What Is and What Should Never Be The Lemon Song Thank You Side Two Heartbreaker Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) Ramble On Moby Dick Bring it on Home Review:  This is one of the first albums I ordered with the first of many subscriptions I had with the Columbia House Record Club. The deal was you'd get 11 albums for a penny - plus shipping which was about $3.99 at the time - and then you'd have to buy 9 albums at their regular club prices, anywhere from $5.99 to $15.99 each. Of course most people never honored the commitment, and since this was in the days before electronic databases, some just kept resubscribing under fake names. Not me, of course, though my memories from 1980 aren't as clear as the...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 16 Release Date:  08-February-1977 Genre:  Punk/Hardcore Producer: Andy Johns/ Tom Verlaine Label: Elektra Time:  45m 54s Review Date:  15-December-2018 Format: LP Side One See No Evil Venus Friction Marquee Moon Side Two Elevation Guiding Light Prove It Torn Curtain Review:  The title track to this magnificent album by Television clocks in at 9m 58s, and when it's over, I guarantee you will wish it was longer. That's all that really needs to be said about this LP, but there's so much more. Since the album's original release, Marquee Moon has been cited by rock critics as one of the greatest records of the American punk rock movement, with Mark Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly calling it the masterpiece of the 1970s New York punk rock scene. Truer words were never written. If I had to choose one album as ground zero of what is now termed indie rock, this would be it. When it was released, it w...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 15 Release Date: 25-October-1975 Genre:  Rock/AOR Producer: Glyn Johns Label: Polydor/MCA Time:  37m 19s Review Date:  06-December-2018 Format: LP Side One Slip Kid However Much I Booze Squeeze Box Dreaming from the Waist Imagine a Man Side Two Success Story They Are All in Love Blue, Red and Grey How Many Friends In a Hand or a Face Review:  When I went on my first date with Sue - we went to go see Heart at the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee - our conversation on the way to concert centered on music. We talked about the first album each of us ever owned. Mine was Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, a gift to myself with my eighth grade graduation money. Hers was The Who by Numbers by The Who, given to her by her parents on her tenth birthday. Naturally I assumed her favorite song was Squeeze Box , which, in retrospect, was me assuming that she knew nothing about music. It's a decent enough song, though not...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 14 Release Date: 28-April-1969 Genre:  Rock/Pop/Psychedelic Producer: Chip Douglas Label: Colgems Time:  33m 00s Review Date:  02-December-2018 Format: LP Side One Salesman She Hangs Out The Door Into Summer Love is Only Sleeping Cuddly Toy Words Side Two Hard to Believe What Am I Doin' Hangin' 'Round? Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky / Pleasant Valley Sunday Daily Nightly Don't Call on Me Star Collector Review:  When I was growing up, The Monkees was my favorite TV show. I watched the syndicated Saturday morning reruns, foregoing the basic Hanna-Barbera and Sid and Marty Croft fare that most of my friends watched. In truth, my love affair with music began with The Monkees , even though I was disappointed to hear that through most of the two seasons and 58 episodes the band didn't play their own instruments. Oh, I did love their house, and I'd kill to live there right now. Tell...

A Trip Thru Your Grooves - Episode 13 Release Date: 28-April-1969 Genre:  Rock/Jazz-Rock/Progressive Producer: James William Guercio Label: Columbia/CBS Time:  1h 17m 43s Review Date:  01-December-2018 Format: LP Side One Introduction Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Beginnings Side Two Questions 67 and 68 Listen Poem 58 Side Three Free Form Guitar South California Purples I'm a Man Side Four Prologue, August 29, 1968 Someday (August 29, 1968) Liberation Review:  There was nothing in rock and roll like Chicago before this album was released. If you are not familiar with Chicago, and you are at least familiar with the movie Mr. Holland's Opus , think of Chicago as Mr. Holland's John F. Kennedy High School Band in late 1960's Portland, but with Jimi Hendrix on guitar and Michael Shrieve of Santana on drums and percussion. So when the band kicks off this double album with the song Introduction , that's a pretty a...