Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUM: Terrapin Station (1977) MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$$ Those who saw my Allman Brothers post know I’m less than a Grateful Dead fan. I used to live in Marin County where the band members lived, but it was years after Garcia had died. Jerry could play guitar, but I never felt, I mean felt, their music. …
jMVC Rating: Fender 4.0/$$; Feliciano 4.0/$$ ALBUMS: Feliciano! (1968); Freddy Fender, The Story of an Overnight Sensation (1978) No, I didn’t put these two together because they both speak Spanish. Jose Feliciano is from Puerto Rico. Fender is a Texan of Mexican heritage. I’m looking to double up on occasion and these guys happened to …
The other day I wrote about how the intersection of violence and journalism is not new. I wrote the AL.com post not as a request for some pat-on-the- back or attaboy because our profession faces danger at times. As one of the commenters on my column wrote, we knew we what we were signing up …
I read the news today, oh boy Who is dead. Who is not. They train for this. Active shooter drill. Lock the doors. The door locks from the outside only. Put a door stop in it. The door swings out. The shooter is coming. The shooter is active. Right up the hall. Silent prayer. Silenter …
https://myvinylcountdown.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2713&action=edit ALBUMS: Deep Purple ‘Stormbringer’ (1974); Detective, ‘Detective’ (1977); John Denver’s; Poems Prayers and Promises (1971). MVC Rating: Stormbringer, 3.5/$$$; Detective 3.5/$$; Denver 3.5/$$ ADDITIONAL ADDS (SEE NOTE BELOW) Deep Purple Made in Japan Live:45/$$$$; Machine Head 4.5/$$$$; Who do we think we are — 3.5/$$$ I more or less have been untethered from the …
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I’ve always thought of music lovers as thoughtful. I’m not saying I’m a deep thinker, but I have thought about thinking. As I start this blog post I’m thinking about writing about thought. Stream of consciousness, I think. Aretha Franklin soulfully finger-wagged at her man: You better think (think) Think about what you’re trying to …
ALBUMS: The Brains (1980), Electronic Eden (1981) MVC Rating: 4.0/$$$; EE: 3.5/$$$ Sometimes there’s a musical memory that is stronger than other memories. It starts in your mind but begins infusing the limbic system. It’s a mind out of body memory. It was a night in Atlanta about 1980, could have been ’81. I was …