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My thanks to an ITFC Muso on 22:52 - Jul 17 by You_Bloo_Right
1967. What a time to be alive ..
I was alive for most of it, don't remember much though.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Looking out at the Highland landscape on a coach journey to Inverness today I was thinking about classic albums and I recalled when Virgin was just a chaotic record shop, hundreds of bins in an upstairs room on Oxford Street (only made the trip up from Ipswich once, bought 'Yeti' by Amon DĂșĂșl II), thinking on I remembered that they had a recommended must have album list on their mail order advert. Alongside Sergeant Peppers, Dylan's 'Blond on Blonde', The Who's 'Tommy' and so on was 'Forever Changes' by Love (opens with 'Alone Again Or' - the disappointing news is that the recording largely featured only Albert Lee from the band, most of the instrumentation was by The Wrecking Crew.) Later adverts, quite rightly included 'Beggar's Banquet' by the Stones and, have a listen to this for intriguing zeitgeist, 'Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus' by Spirit: