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Amazing LP! I can't believe I hadn't listened to this end-to-end in years. My original copy is minty. Best $3.69 I ever invested. I see it all now: "Records ARE your best entertainment value."
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From the era of stackable double lps (made for record changers)...This album brings back fond memories for me.
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Was my favorite, but Quadrophenia is on the list. I used to buy my albums at TSS stores on long Island
Quadrophenia was one of the albums that got me through college. It is my favorite Who album. I think I will give it a spin this weekend!
Dave
Quadrophenia got me through college as well. I was too poor to buy the album when it came out, but I used to play it on my college radio show. I borrowed it and taped it on my reel to reel. A few years later I lucked into a new British import of it. I listened to all four sides of it last week when trying out a new cart on my new VPI Prime turntable. That is what I really love about vinyl. I've been listening to this album for 40 years, and with every equipment upgrade, I'm still eeking out sounds I never heard before.
Laugh and say I'm green? I've seen things you've never seen!
Yep. After all these years it still works for me too. I was too busy this weekend but it is time to give it a play soon.
Dave
I was 16, Pete was 32...Quadrophenia will be in my coffin when I die..
Korvette's also sold the Shaefer Concert tickets for Wollman Skating rink in Central Park at the beginning of the summer. I'd spend every penny I had to get the summer's tickets at 75cents and $1.50 respectively. If you got there early and waited, you could be in the first few rows..which I was often.
Final remembrance, they sold Stereo Review and in the most ironic audio conversation of my life, I asked a guy buying a copy if he understood how to read the specs (I was a newbie and didn't). He told be you "just read the review and after enough of them you figure out what the specs mean" in relative terms i guess...Julian Hirsch..RIP even if slightly misguided and often unfairly malaigned, you helped me enter this realm...
The Classic Records 200gm reissue is unbelievable. "Love Rein O'er Me" from that pressing is a near religious listening experience. Up there with my favorite Who releases.
Nt
I went to see the WHO play Quadrophenia live at MSG in the mid 90s. The entire audience sang the entire concert, without prompting. It was the only concert that I've ever witnessed that much audience participation.
Quadrophenia has long been a favorite. Just listen to Keith Moons' drumming if you need convincing. Just amazing...
Still spinnin'...
;^)
Seriously, his work is just nuts. On "The Real Me", his playing is subtle, dynamic, nimble and bombastic, sometimes all at the same time.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
nt
The whole problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
I'm about 2/3rd's of the way through Pete Townsend's biography. An interesting read and he remembers plenty of detail. It blows me away how a life that would have killed me or drove me nuts, seems to be par for the course to him.
I've read Richard's and Tyler's bio's also. I have a friend who recommends Clapton's. All I can say is as much as I've admired all of their work over the decades, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted to be any of them (but for a day!) ;-)
See ya. Dave
He addresses the child porn accusation late in the book. I'm not sure I buy into his explanation.
See ya. Dave
Reading about Jim Morrison's life cured me of wanting to be a rock star! I still love the music though.
Dave
I just finished "Searching For The Sound" - Phil Lesh's autobiography. He lead an amazing life in rock-n'-roll and seems to have survived it all quite well! I'd say he's, by nature, a very calm centered person- a great student of music who put music above everything else it would seem.
It really is an under-appreciated work, imo. Still have my original copy but no receipt. :)
This register tape fell out of my Who album just now. Records are your best entertainment value, 40+ years on.
Still have my minty copies of "Quadrophenia" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," but The Sons of Champlin was carried off by a band of drug-crazed hippies during the early 70's, I can't quite remember...
Korvettes! I lived just down the street from one of their locations in north Philadelphia until we moved in 1971 and have many fond memories of going there as a young child. It was worth any ten of the soulless big box stores that have come on the scene since then.
What a great place to buy LPs! New releases were often discounted. Obtained many of my LPs there, usually on pay days.
Still spinnin'...
;^)
was an acronym for "Eight Jewish Korean Vets"- there's a totally useless, little-know fact of the sort I'm famous for but that, with the internet, I'm no longer needed.
So says wikipedia, anyway.
..."Two Guys from Harrison" and originally from New Jersey.
Later Gator,
Dave
I worked there summers while is was in college. I won't tell you what we called them either.
Still spinnin'...
;^)
Having been raised in a neighborhood with many Jewish friends and neighbors you would have thought I'd have known that.
Thanks!
Still spinnin'...
;^)
No receipt, but I recall buying Quadrophenia on the day of release at Cutlers in New Haven and being blown away listening to it twice in a row in my freshman dorm. Just a few years earlier I was purchasing LPs at the Kresge's chain, most memorably Abbey Road on the day of release. A few years before that I was buying toys at Kresge's.
Alice Cooper - Generation Landslide Lyrics
There wasn't a way, down on earth here to cool 'em
'Cos they look just like humans, at Kresge's and Woolworths
But decadent brains were at work to destroy
Brats in batallions were ruling the street scene and
Generation landslide, close the gap between 'em
Still spinnin'...
;^)
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