Where else would I be? (Apart from walking through that piece of scenery in the previous post.*)
There's a million things to which you just would not get around in the normal course of events.
One of them is reading pieces of paper found inside the sleeve of an LP record purchased on December 12, 1972 (correct: I used to write in very small script the date of every record I purchased, inside the sleeve in order not to mark the artwork).
One of these pieces of paper was an advertising flyer from Festival Records. Here's some of the text:
Festival Records proudly presents this comprehensive catalogue of over 700 top selling albums from world renowned artists. These include the greatest overseas and Australian talent such as, Joe Cocker, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Wendy Saddington, Blackfeather, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77, Bee Gees, Freda Payne, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Chain, Sandy Scott, Dionne Warwick, Ronnie Burns, Waldo De Los Rios, The Ventures, Reg Lindsay, Carpenters, Francoise Hardy, Billy Vaughn, Don McLean, Johnny Cash, Barry Crocker, Ferrante & Teicher, Slim Whitman, Johnny Rivers, Free, and Jamie Redfern plus top-selling original cast and soundtrack albums ....
THe juxtaposition of some of these names is amusing. (Although Barry Crocker did have a minor hit with Robin Luke's Susie Darlin', a very good version assisted by a John Farrar production with swirling post-psychedelic echo and distortion.)
I also found my original copy of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Quadraphonic pressing.
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*The location is a small wilderness immediately south of the Western Ring Road at Glenroy, halfway between the Moonee Ponds and Merri Creeks. THe occasional bicycle traverses it and the distant hum of traffic on the Ring Road is the only reminder that you are in a large city.
There's a million things to which you just would not get around in the normal course of events.
One of them is reading pieces of paper found inside the sleeve of an LP record purchased on December 12, 1972 (correct: I used to write in very small script the date of every record I purchased, inside the sleeve in order not to mark the artwork).
One of these pieces of paper was an advertising flyer from Festival Records. Here's some of the text:
Festival Records proudly presents this comprehensive catalogue of over 700 top selling albums from world renowned artists. These include the greatest overseas and Australian talent such as, Joe Cocker, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Wendy Saddington, Blackfeather, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77, Bee Gees, Freda Payne, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Chain, Sandy Scott, Dionne Warwick, Ronnie Burns, Waldo De Los Rios, The Ventures, Reg Lindsay, Carpenters, Francoise Hardy, Billy Vaughn, Don McLean, Johnny Cash, Barry Crocker, Ferrante & Teicher, Slim Whitman, Johnny Rivers, Free, and Jamie Redfern plus top-selling original cast and soundtrack albums ....
THe juxtaposition of some of these names is amusing. (Although Barry Crocker did have a minor hit with Robin Luke's Susie Darlin', a very good version assisted by a John Farrar production with swirling post-psychedelic echo and distortion.)
I also found my original copy of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Quadraphonic pressing.
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*The location is a small wilderness immediately south of the Western Ring Road at Glenroy, halfway between the Moonee Ponds and Merri Creeks. THe occasional bicycle traverses it and the distant hum of traffic on the Ring Road is the only reminder that you are in a large city.
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