The post below on Joe South is my first one on this site, My Vinyl Countdown, since July 25, 2020. Wanna know where I’ve been? I’ll tell you where I’ve been: through the nine circles of hell and back. That’s where.
Lewy body dementia put on a show in my head for months with invisible “people,” intense psychological battles, and ever changing perceptions of reality: inanimate objects coming to life, conversations through telepathy, and fears/paranoia that I was being followed by cameras. I felt like I was in another universe, and maybe I was.
But I weathered it, often through ingenuity I didn’t even know I had. It was kind of like an R-rated version of Little Pilgrim’s Progress or the Land of Oz where Dorothy had the answer of how to escape all the time.
Of course, along with me figuring out this new world system, I must give the miracle of modern medicine some credit.
Stay tuned I’ll give you more detailed information about my journey from diagnosis to now, as the meds and I re-crank my battery. I am by no means ‘cured’ of this degenerative brain disease. But I’ve certainly latched on to a more logical reality.
So, I understand I have some records to review. I promised 678 and I will deliver; I need to do some accounting or counting. Though I have expanded my collection quite a bit — I’m sticking to my 678 originals (with a few exceptions. I’ve done about 430.
NP: Sky Pilot by Eric Burdon and the Animals. Gosh, this best-of Burdon and the Animals album is a surprise psychedelic rock-out. But this album I will not review as I bought it last week at Renaissance Records. I do have a couple of War records though, of which Burdon was a co-founder.
Glad you’re back!