1975 LP that has been both reissued (with different atwork/tracks) and counterfeited. Victor Peraino was the American keyboard player for Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come, a band often overlooked in the pantheon of…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Red O
Two celebrity chefs in two nights!? You’d think I was some kind of high roller. This, of course, is not the case. I’m just as poor and poverty-stricken today as I was…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Jar
I have a long list of restaurants in Los Angeles that I need to try. Actually it’s a Google Document that expands by several rows each week. And the rate at which…
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Rapoon – The Fires Of The Borderlands
A customer sold pretty much the entire Rapoon discography to the store the other day. To say I was geeked would be an understatement. I’d discovered Robin Storey (co-founder of Zoviet France,…
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We Are Not The People We See In Movies
Yesterday’s Guardian post about a dude who tried to retrace the steps of Aron Ralston (you probably know him as Heath Ledger James Franco in 127 Hours) and wound up with a…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 229
It would have been nice (considering the seriousness with which I took this morning’s half-marathon) if I had the opportunity to run 13.1 miles on good rest. Alas, this was not the…
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White Noise – An Electric Storm
1969 stereo UK LP with textured pink labels with white “i” logo. Per Wikipedia, White Noise is an experimental electronic music band formed in London, England in 1968 by American-born David Vorhaus,…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 228
Things I learned this weekend: Apparently it’s grounds for an ass-kicking when you’re black-out drunk at a bar and you tell a girl her boyfriend is “limp dicked” and ask her if…
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Cosmic Travellers – Live At The Spring Crater
Initially released in 1972 on Volcano (Vulcan) and limited to 1000 copies with a poster insert. According to Patrick at the Acid Archives, Liveā¦ is “Top-level guitar blowout in the form of…
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Five Things I’ll Never Understand
An enlightened man, a man who is sensitized to the value and charm of humankind, he might not be so quick to complain about how everything sucks all the time. But I…