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    The Legends In Concert - Skydome, Toronto 1989-09-07

    My wife and I went to see The Steve Miller Band at The Pavilion, Tallahassee on July 20th 2016. This is one group that can replicate their records onstage. I like that the Minimoog parts of "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Jet Airliner" were programmed into a sampling keyboard, and played back with the...
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    Rod Stewart (Official Thread)

    On a reissue of the "Tonight's The Night" single and some Greatest Hits albums, the sweet nothings whispered in French by Britt Ekland were removed by Warner Bros. following the couple's bitter breakup and her lawsuit against Rod. I don't have any greatest hits LPs to know for sure, but I have a...
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    Post your latest CD/DVD/Vinyl/Cassette purchases here!

    I bought a copy of The Monkees' "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd." Super Deluxe Edition within hours of it being released. It was my 67th birthday present, a day late.
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    What Are You Listening to Now? Pics/Videos

    My favorite song by Roxy Music: Mother Of Pearl, 1973, "Stranded" LP
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    Hello From England

    Seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th, 1964 made me aware, as a child, that something else was going on in the world that I had to know about. So I was there when classic rock began, though there is so much of it I still haven't learned about yet. Music is the most...
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    Musician & record collector in Florida

    I must have been aware early on that you could buy a record. So I started to buy records I heard on the radio, that I liked. The first one was "Walk Right In" by The Rooftop Singers. And I kept on doing it, particularly after 1970 when I changed the station off the MOR format my parents listened...
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    Leon Russell - Carney

    I bought the single of "Tight Rope" when it was new, and on the B-side was "This Masquerade," later covered to great success by George Benson. There's also a cover by The Carpenters.
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    What Are You Listening to Now? Pics/Videos

    Earth, Wind & Fire - After The Love Has Gone I've spent about half an hour learning to play the bass along with the record.
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    What Are You Listening to Now? Pics/Videos

    Leigh Ashford was a Toronto band in the early '70s that had one radio hit, and later became the group Moxy. Their radio hit was "Dickens." The CD of their first album manages to include the edited promo version of the song. But if you want to hear the whole thing, you have to buy the 45. This is...
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    The Turtles are way more interesting than I'd anticipated.

    What a coincidence, I am reading Howard Kaylan's book "Shell Shocked." It tells The Turtles' story, but overall it pales in comparison to his quest to take as many drugs as possible. Still, it's entertaining. I have some of their LPs and 45s, but I have the whole catalogue in mono and stereo on...
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    Name a song that reminds you of high school?

    A graph of my record collection would trail up from the '40s to have a huge bump for the years I went to high school, and then taper off. But I remember my school library getting "Yes - Fragile". They had a listening station in the library with headphones, where we heard it. Some guy, obviously...
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    When's The last Time You Heard This???

    Actually, I listened to it yesterday. With the B-side instrumental (never issued on CD) edited to the A-side comedy routine.
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    The most amazing song you have ever heard!

    "Come Together" by The Beatles was the first amazing song I knew. It made me want to become a professional musician. Since then, I've heard way too many amazing songs, but that one was my first. It was like the bottom of the world dropped out.
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    'Little Girls' in lyrics and sometimes in a creepy way

    Regarding "You're Sixteen," Ringo was covering an oldie by Johnny Burnette from 1960. Four years previous, my mother got married at 17. Not because I was on the way, either. People just did those kinds of things then and thought nothing of it. It's only in recent times that people are going...
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    Favorite song from Neil Young's "Harvest" besides two hits?

    I am so fond of "Words (Between The Lines Of Age)" that I especially love the 16:00 of them rehearsing it (same day) on "Journey From The Past."
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