Not Even a Mouse...

 

Yeah. Christmas eve and shit.

I worked Thanksgiving, so I have tonight off.

Lucky me.

It just means I'll wake up in the morning and there won't be anything open.

Blue Things (1966)

So a number of years back I sold off a bunch of Lps at a weekend flea market thing set up in the back parking lot of Grumpy's Bar and Grill when one still existed on Washington ave. It was great fun. I split a table with a good friend who had lots of stock left over from his defunct record store which missed the resurgence in vinyl by just a few years.

I chose things I knew were worth a bit of scratch but didn't have any particular attachment to having a physical dust collector for or which was big enough a thing that there were always reissues of reissues to be had and if someone wanted to blow a few hundred bucks on a copy I've had forever and bought for twenty bucks, I'd be Ok with that.

So I sold off a bunch of things. But not everything. The boxes with those records kind of sat in my closet untouched for a few years. Then we moved and I've been going back through them to see what's left and if I still want to keep it.

This is one of those records.

The Blue Things eponymous Lp from 1966. A really nice stereo copy that I think I picked up for like ten bucks in the latter half of the 80s. Pretty prime Folk Rock of the period which I really didn't bond with back in the day. But there were a few tracks I liked enough that I kept it around.

So I pulled it out of the box for reconsideration and digitized it and it's reclaimed a place in the regular collection once again and order is restored to the universe once more.

There's still quite a few in there too. Who knows what will come up next time I delve...

Last post of this batch

I've been working on posts all fucking day.

I lost count. It's over a dozen anyway

I've been trying hard to finish up this batch of stuff so I can start digitizing new stuff because I kind of would rather be listening to music than typing about it.
But one drives the other and at this pace I'm rapidly closing in on a point where I'm queuing up posts a full year in advance of when they will appear.
That's kind of scary and daunting.

Here's the Gizmos

Never Mind the Sex Pistols (1978)

It's the Gizmos 2.0. from Bloomington, IN.
The Dale Lawrence version.
This is the revamped incarnation's first record on Gulcher.
I like it.

That is all.

Get Smart Live (1984)

From Lawrence, Kansas.

(You can check Kansas off your fifty states scorecard now)

This is Get Smart! live at CBGB's.

Doo dah Doo dah Day.