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    What's the last gig that you went to?

    Dennis De Young, Feb 20, 2020. No one famous comes here anymore. That means I've seen Styx without Dennis, Dennis without Styx, and (Larry) Gowan before he joined Styx, in Toronto.
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    Favorite Beatle?

    Paul. Something about him and his music fascinates me no end. And he knows we collectors are out here, who would buy his colored vinyl and 12" singles, and get the CD singles with the non-LP tracks, and the radio edit-only promo CDs, the Japan issue of "Flowers In The Dirt" with a second CD of...
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    The Guess Who (Official Thread)

    The Guess Who were always one of my favorite bands. Now I own all their records and CDs from when they were kids, and The Deverons (Burton's first recording group). My favorite period is when they discovered their new sound ("Share The Land"), had a field day with it ("So Long Bannatyne"), got...
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    Best Documentary?

    Jeff Lynne - Live From Bungalow Palace (filmed at his home) Becoming Led Zeppelin The Wrecking Crew (the group on many of '60s and '70s records) Muscle Shoals (about The Swampers, the other group who did the same)
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    Frank Zappa (Official Thread)

    "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" was my ticket in. "Tinseltown Rebellion" made me want to acquire the rest of Frank's overture. Now I have 205 Frank Zappa albums. Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion
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    Will you be buying the new Beatles Anthology?

    Yes, I will. I pre-ordered it last week.
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    The song stuck in your head thread!

    The Kinks - Berkeley Mews (originally a non-LP track, B-side of "Lola" in Commonwealth countries)
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    The Legends In Concert - Skydome, Toronto 1989-09-07

    The first oldies show at the Skydome a week after it opened (now called the Rogers Centre) was "Legends In Concert." It featured Bo Diddley, Ronnie Hawkins, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Chubby Checker, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry. There's a review of it on Tumblr, by...
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    How did you find CRF?

    I'll be 67 in a couple of weeks. I have mostly shellac 78s and vinyl 45s from the '50s, not too many albums. I restore records in my spare time - taking off every extraneous click, pop and thump, lessening the surface noise. You'd be surprised at how much fidelity is on a near-mint 78 played...
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    How did you find CRF?

    I have at least two hundred from then, and I can't imagine how many CD box sets and compilations I have of '50s artists. Just oodles of them!
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    Favorite 80's guitarist?

    I know nobody's posted in this thread since my hair was brown, but it was a whole thread about favorite guitarists from the '80s and no one has listed Adrian Belew from King Crimson. So I will!
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    Honeymoon Suite (Official Thread)

    I was working in Top 40 radio, not in an AOR format, in Canada, where the government stipulated that there must be 30% Canadian content per hour. The group didn't seem to have bothered the charts again. Sorry, I haven't heard the song above, and I've never seen MTV.
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    The BEATLES (Official Thread)

    New member here. I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan on Feb 9, 1964, and they set me on the course of my life. "Come Together" made me want to become a professional musician, to see if I could ever capture that sound. I never did, but I learned a lot of other great sounds in the meantime. I have...
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    Honeymoon Suite (Official Thread)

    I bought the singles of "New Girl Now," and "Burning In Love" when they were new. The band was from near where I grew up, but by then, I was working a long way from home in radio, so I never got to see them. Those two were the only songs by them I remember playing. I didn't know they had as many...
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    Your favorite songs from 1984?

    I played these records on the radio in Canada in 1984. I like hit songs that got on the radio. On the other hand, while I like the King Crimson album "Three Of A Perfect Pair" from that year, "Sleepless" didn't make it on the air, nor did David Gilmour's "About Face." "All Lovers Are Deranged"...
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    Classic MTV - Who still has their old VHS tapes?

    I grew up in Canada, and I've got hours and hours and hours of stuff I recorded from MuchMusic. Just hundreds of individual videos, interviews, music specials and concerts. I wish someone could see it before I die, but I have no experience preparing to post on the web video for which I don't own...
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    Musician & record collector in Florida

    I sold them to a man who rebuilt gramophones, because I didn't have one of those.
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    Musician & record collector in Florida

    Howdy! I'm retired from 50 years working in radio, and having played music for money from 1972-1998. I don't want to tell you how many records and CDs I've collected, it's embarrassing. Low five figures. I thought I could find people here who are interested in old music, even real old music. I...
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    How did you find CRF?

    I was looking for a place where people discussed music from the '50s through the '80s. This one seems to have fit the bill!
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    Best Forgotten Bands of the 70's.

    I'm a 67-year-old Canadian. I see some Canadian artists here, some of whom I see being discovered by and reacted to by young people on YouTube every day. I can think of records by Canadian artists who must be remembered only by people who listened to the radio then - their records didn't hit...
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