I stayed up late last night like an idiot so obviously I did not get up early for a walk. Cooper was not complaining...lazy boy! I'm sucking up the life giving properties of Coffee trying to get my blood flowing and the A side of this gets the blood flowing. This appears to be their only release out of Georgia...they are listed as The Entertainers (27) on discogs...you would think the band could have thought of something a little more original
Found this one in one of my boxes this weekend. I think Night Time was the A side but of course I liked the b side. I continue to test out my receiver during the day and it's working a bit better but I still may go shopping at my friend's home to pick up a spare considering I do think this one is going out. I was listening to a couple lp's from a group called Birdsongs of the Mesozoic and thought about recording some but ultimately decided I didn't want to alienate anyone as it is definately not the standard fare for this blog..lol
Wednesday Album spotlight. I went to Tuscan in the early 1990's..I was considering graduate school and toured the University of Arizona. I think in reality I just wanted a vacation and I never really considered moving to Tuscan. I went in the summer and I remember it was really hot and such a dry heat. I remember driving around and seeing dirt painted green for a "lawn" appearance. I think the highlight of the trip was going to Toxic Shock Records. I remember hitting this thrift store and found a different promo copy of this that also had a press kit. But years ago I sold it when my wife was sick, out of work and we needed money. A few years ago I managed to find another copy (unfortunately without the press kit) and snagged it quickly. A lot of great bands came from Arizona and I previously have posted some Giant Sand.
I am glad I recorded a bunch this weekend as my Sony receiver is giving me fits and I think it has a short. It keeps switching from phono to video. I tried a trick that Jesse suggested and it is still doing it but not as much. I plan on going to a friend's this weekend to do some shopping in his shed as he has shelves of electronics.
I have written a few times about when I attended Colorado State University in Ft. Collins in the late 1980's I would visit the Finest Records, a fantastic local record store that is sadly no longer with us. They always had promo 45s and used imports for $1...I remember they had stacks of this one. I purchased the first one pictured at the time and wish I would have bought all of them...buy hey, I was a broke college student that spent food money on records. Last year I picked up the 2nd one cheap but didn't realize until I was posting this that it was a different label pressing. I picked up the orange vinyl copy years ago by mistake. The story on that one is I was at Schoolkids Records in Raleigh and they had a used Supersuckers Sub Pop 45 for a buck. Of course I picked it up. When I got home not only was the Supersuckers 45 in the sleeve but this orange vinyl copy of this U2 45 was in the sleeve as well....BONUS! I can just imagine how much it would have been had it had it's proper sleeve. I am not a U2 historian by any means but I seem to remember when I bought the first U2 lp I was disappointed in the mix of Out of Control..it seemed so sterile and like the band was uninterested...I always thought this 45 had so much passion and excitement...I probably need to listen to the album again
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Cooper and I went for our first walk in weeks as I am finally feeling better. I now sit with some coffee and prepare my mind for work today and I am thankful that it was a quiet weekend. The quiet weekend allowed me to be a recording fool yesterday...had piles of 45s everywhere....I should be good to go for awhile.
This was a mailorder arrival in the last month. Had to dig for a company sleeve. I struggled yesterday with finding company sleeves and I need to get back to organizing them a bit. I found these little plastic storage tubs at Walmart that are the perfect size...oh my, my OCD is showing this morning...lol
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Yesterday was a good day to upload songs to the circuit box. I had set aside some things to clean and play and today's was one of them. This is not in the prettiest of conditions nor does it sound super clean. I have been trying to find the words to describe this 45 this morning and I am fumbling those words. So simply, rejoice in the coming day..if this 45 does not help you embrace this day and celebrate life I don't know what will
