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I have all of the Synergy albums! That was the gateway to Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Kraan, Gong, and even Yellow Magic Orchestra. And yet, I still consider myself a power pop guy. Go figure. :giggle:
Cool I can't find them though it was a while ago .
I found some one offers Newage wise like Colin Chin and poo I can't remember the others name guy from Texas . Lol I can see his face but not the name weird .
But Michel Sterns , Steve Roach , Kitaro the list goes on .lol
There's some great new music out there but I hate when they change it's classification . It's Newage just leave it that way . Lol
 

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Transistor radios as a kid and car radios (AM). My brother (7 years older, we shared a room until my sister got married when i was 11) was into surf music and more rock oriented stuff later. I was a Motown kid. Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops and also enjoyed the surf music. My first movie I got to go to with friends by myself was Hard Day's Night with the Beatles. That changed things. Then as I got older and into my teens I went towards folkish pop music. When I was 17 I got a job working in a record store. That was fun. Carole King, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Van Morrison, etc., etc.

Growing up in the LA area does anyone remember Wallich's Music City? Where they had little glass listening booths and you could take 45's in there and play them on a turntable before you bought them? They had stores in Hollywood, West Covina, Lakewood, Canoga Park, Costa Mesa, Torrance, and Hawthorne from 1940–1978 and was one of the first to display cellophane sealed albums in racks. Wallichs stayed open until 2 am. You could buy sheet music there as well!! I used to go to the Topanga Canyon Blvd. store at the Topanga Plaza (first mall I remember at all) in Canoga Park as we then lived in Woodland Hills. I was a Valley Boy. SFV (San Fernando Valley). At 13 we moved to Thousand Oaks. They didn't even really have a mall there yet. It was in Ventura County.
 

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Dick Biondi. He billed himself as "the world's ugliest D.J".
I remember this about Dick Biondi; “You know, if the girls skirts get any shorter, they'll have two more cheeks to powder and another place to shave.” The station cut to commercial and Biondi never came back on.

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I remember this about Dick Biondi; “You know, if the girls skirts get any shorter, they'll have two more cheeks to powder and another place to shave.” The station cut to commercial and Biondi never came back on.

Ralph
Thought it was a "Knock Knock" joke that got him fired.
 

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You may both be correct re: the reason(s) for Dick Biondi's termination.

The "usual source" says that he claimed to have been fired 23 times. :)
 

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After I watched High Fidelity I really wanted to chuck my career and go do that. She Who Must Be Obeyed would not have been amused.

As a college student, I got paid (not much) to listen to music at work, look through albums, etc. When I got home I didn't mind doing my homework! And the store was the "social center" of the mall for the younger people who worked there - that was an added bonus!

One of my favorite memories was getting a visit from Security to tell us to turn down the first Van Halen album! Blasting the whole mall!

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Tradition in our family was that when you turned 12 years old, you got a transistor radio. Back then, they used to identify how many transistors the radio had, I think mine was a "12 transistor radio." This was 1966. Wow, what music I was exposed to - Beatles, Dylan, Stones, Animals, Motown, Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs, Simon & Garfunkel, The Association, hundreds of others including all those wonderful one-hit-wonders including this one from Question Mark and the Mysterians:


And this one from Strawberry Alarm Clock. Cannot tell you how many times these blared from my AM transistor radio, in mono of course.

 

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I really liked Carly’s voice...

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Growing up in the LA area does anyone remember Wallich's Music City? Where they had little glass listening booths and you could take 45's in there and play them on a turntable before you bought them? They had stores in Hollywood, West Covina, Lakewood, Canoga Park, Costa Mesa, Torrance, and Hawthorne from 1940–1978 and was one of the first to display cellophane sealed albums in racks. Wallichs stayed open until 2 am.
Yes indeed! I used to go to the Hollywood store in the mid to late ‘60s. It was a fun stimulus overload, and those private listening booths were so cool. Music City was the only place I knew of where you could preview a record & find a winner without any guesswork!
 

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Seems like a few of you guys from MA also were into the awesome original music scene here in the 70’s and 80’s. Born in ‘58. I was weaned on the Beatles, started doing coffee house stuff (Neil, Cat, JT, Dead,,,) in the 70’s, but didn’t hit the clubs until punk / new wave.

Got to play some iconic long gone places like The Rat, Channel, Underground,,, WBCN, Charles,,, what an amazing time it was just for original music. I actually do two Neighborhoods (local punk band) songs on acoustic in honor of those times.
 
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I grew up in Miami, FL (b. 1955). The popular AM radio station in the 60's was WQAM with the disc jockey Rick Shaw. Back then, they mostly played Top 40 and "bubblegum pop" music. But it was also my introduction to the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds, Dave Clark Five, Jefferson Airplane and many others. Whenever the Surfaris "Wipeout" would play we would try to mimic the beat of the drums with our hands on a book or tabletop. I never quite got it right. I clearly remember when my older sister got a transistor radio. We could listen to the music that we wanted to, whereas in the car my parents had control of the radio.

By the late 60's, my older brother had a stereo in his room and we started listening to albums more than the radio. So my tastes were heavily influenced by his record collection. I remember albums by Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield, Paul Butterfield, Love, Quicksilver and Spirit. In the 70's, I began my own record collection... many of which I still have in a crate in the back room.

One thing that I remember is that buying an album was expensive back then. In my late teens and early twenties money was tight. So you really had to consider an album purchase as an investment! When someone would buy an new record we, too, would gather around the Hi-Fi for a first listening. As someone learning to play guitar in the late 60's and early 70's there were no YouTube videos. We would have to figure out new songs by listening to the records. If the lyrics weren't printed on the album cover or inner sleeve, I would sit in front of the turntable and write the songs out longhand on a legal pad... periodically picking the needle up and moving it back to replay a section. Same with trying to figure out chord changes!

Some singer/songwriters and bands had songbooks published, but they were as expensive as buying an album. Often, I would go into a music store and thumb thru a songbook, find a song I wanted to learn and memorize the chords. Then go out to the car and write the chords down on my legal pad. For a complicated chord progression, it would sometimes take several trips into the music store. I remember learning Phil Ochs' "There But For Fortune" and the Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band" this way. Also, several James Taylor songs.
 

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This is an "I came, I conquered, I left" performance. Nice dress too! ;)



-Dave-


I always wondered about the opening of that video that pans over to Art Garfunkel and George Harrison talking quietly together (and Art agreeing with whatever George is saying). The video is from a TV show on ABC from Central Park on 8/19/71. It was part of the Shaefer Music Festival. On 12/20/71 was the Concert For Bangla Desh in New York. One wonders if it's just a coincidence. Or was George trying to get him (and maybe Simon) to play at the Bangla Desh show? We'll never know...

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Seems like a few of you guys from MA also were into the awesome original music scene here in the 70’s and 80’s. Born in ‘58. I was weaned on the Beatles, started doing coffee house stuff (Neil, Cat, JT, Dead,,,) in the 70’s, but didn’t hit the clubs until punk / new wave.

Got to play some iconic long gone places like The Rat, Channel, Underground,,, WBCN, Charles,,, what an amazing time it was just for original music. I actually do two Neighborhoods (local punk band) songs on acoustic in honor of those times.

I saw The Neighborhoods - great band! What was that song that was a minor local hit? Thought they might break out with it, but they really didn't.

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I saw The Neighborhoods - great band! What was that song that was a minor local hit? Thought they might break out with it, but they really didn't.

walrus

This is the one. Most of their other stuff was not as pop. Much darker and very punk. They toured as backup for a few big bands (Bowie?) and David Minnehan filled in as Aerosmith‘s guitarist when Joe P was in rehab. Otherwise they never did have any other big breakout hits. Just local heroes.

 
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