Why is this page here? Good question! Call it the old “About” page if you will. If your into music and reminiscing about it, keep reading.
Music has always been a lifelong passion of mine. Over the years I have so many memories attached to so many songs, albums, album art, lyrics, riffs, etc.
My parents always had a great love of music, so I was always surrounded by a wide range of music from gospel, country/western, big band, jazz, blues to rock n’ roll. Growing up in the 70s and 80s also led me to discover my own likes and dislikes, but I’ve never had a problem picking up a Boston Pops, Madonna and Metallica CD on the same visit to the local Tower Records or Zia Records, which always led to a good conversation with the clerk behind the counter.
It is amazing how just choosing a piece of music to listen too can change or alter my mood, if only for a short period of time, but enough to get me to work in a better mood or home from work and feeling better about a stressful day. It can bring about a wonderful memory from my childhood, through early school years, college and into adulthood (gasp!). And then there is always the road-trip mix with which come the memories of Elvis blaring out of our various family cars’ stereo systems as we headed down I-5 on one of our many road trips to see friends and family.
Recently I started on a journey to begin collecting and listening to vinyl again. I’m not someone who insists that vinyl sounds better than digital, though I agree it just sounds different, so to each their own on that endless debate. There is just something special for those of us that did grow up with vinyl on the living room Hi-Fi, or the 45 in our bedrooms, listening to that song or band you know your mom would likely hate and too loudly at that. Those great memories of that song with that skip or scratch in a track that just became part of the listening experience. In short, sometimes perfection is simply overrated.
While I think we are slowly losing a lot of the artistry and talent involved in the entire package of creating an album of music in the “singles download” era, the digital era has brought one great thing to me and that is the ability to carry your entire music collection with you, wherever you are. Being able to listen to something that maybe you haven’t listened to in a long time and have it all at the press of a button on your smartphone has helped me re-discover some of my music that I just hadn’t listened to in a long time.
So over time, this site will tell the story of my memories and good music that are attached to the sights and sounds of reading the liner notes, sliding the sleeve out of the album jacket and the sound of the needle hitting a piece of vinyl for the first time, all over again.