Viva Los Angeles (I) This is one of those cool random compilations that I picked up when I was in my “I’m going to collect everything that Savage Republic is on” phase (which, by the way, is probably a lost cause, so I don’t recommend trying it…. It would be like me trying to collect [...]
John Bender—Pop Surgery Well, judging by the number of downloads of the first John Bender album that I posted, I figured I would go ahead and post the other LP that I have. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything else by him… but if someone else does, please pass it on. I’d be more than happy [...]
Mark Lane—Who’s Really Listening? Among the mass of records in my grandfather’s music library, there was a record by Mark Lane with a relatively local address (I was in Santa Barbara, the record label was in Ventura—just a half hour away). I thought I would check it out and see what it was all about, [...]
Sealed in latex for your protection. This post represents the first installment of old out-of-print vinyl-to-mp3 downloads being put online. I figured that I would start with John Bender, because back when I had my list of mp3s online, he was one of the most requested artist. And who blames people for asking! The records [...]
The Grumpy Writer’s Grumps Other things worth reading
Viva Los Angeles (II)
Viva Los Angeles (II) I was able to take advantage of some quiet time in the office and upload all of Viva Los Angeles (II) a couple of days ago. So, instead of uploading half now and half later, here’s the entire compilation. An unexplained feature of this particular compilation is some text in the [...]