Category: Record reviews
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Let’s look for the purple banana
In Seattle in the early ’80s there was a fannish group that lived together in a house called Star Base. It was part of an informal chain of Star Bases around the country, from the first generation of Star Trek fans. They had a charter and I think they were…
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Vacation, all I ever wanted/Vacation, time to eat five meals a day
Special D and I have just returned from a week on the East Coast, visiting our families and old friends from Portland and Seattle. This is a review blog, meaning I have a duty to review the 17 people we corraled in eight action-packed days. But this is a music…
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Turn off your mind, relax and read this blog
Loyal Reader Laurel recently celebrated a birthday. Though she appears to be a mere sprig of her girl, she is old enough to have seen The Beatles 17 times in her native LA. She also carried on a brief but intense postal correspondence with a prominent member of the late…
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And there ain’t nothin’ I can do about it
The Best of Diana Ross & The Supremes: The Millennium Collection Diana Ross & The Supremes 1999 Special D and I were talking about all-female tribute bands – Hell’s Belles, Iron Maidens, Zepparella, Judith Priest, PRISS – when she asked, “Why are there no all-male tribute bands?” Leave it to…
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