By Cthulhu’s slimy tentacles! Can Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” really be 50 years old today?
This was one of the albums I used to drive my parents insane, along with Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” and Led Zeppelin’s and Steppenwolf’s respective self-titled debuts. I’m surprised the family Telefunken stereo hi-fi console survived the prolonged and vicious beating I gave it.
Later, of course, I mellowed into the quiet flower child you’ve all come to know and love.
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Oh yeah. That familiar command, “TURN THAT GODDAMN THING DOWN”
I’m astounded I have any hearing left atall atall. Maybe that daily soaking of the eardrums at swim practice helped. Or the “medication.”
Indeed. My mom had been a professional singer to augment her small income as a legal secretary back when I was a tyke. She never considered that the stuff I listened to was actually music.Of course it was her kid brother, Joseph “Mouse” Bonati who actually went on to make a name for himself. That’s the Mouse on sax.
My folks were all about the Big Band music. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and like that there. They were good dancers, too. I was too spastic and could only dance like a stoner with a bad case of pants rabbits.
Sounds familiar. I am from a very musical family. On my mom’s side everyone was multilingual on various instruments. My stepdad taught himself guitar. I, on the other hand, can barely play the stereo.
How times change. Now you’ll hear Zeppelin on the Muzak at Target.
Also 50 years ago … James Marshall Hendrix touched the sky.
Oh, yeah. Jimi was another keeper. “Electric Ladyland” may have been my first Hendrix album. Still got it, too, I think. “Crosstown Traffic” was my fave on that one. I’d forgotten that Dave Mason contributed backup singing.
Jeez, kiss, Siri.
Beau of the Fifth Column strikes again. And I had not even heard yet about Orange Hitler’s Latest Great Idea of “patriotic education”
I started following Beau after Pat O’Brien posted something of his here.
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The original story.
We’re f@#ked
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87?ft=nprml&f=1001