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Two well-known album covers; one a photo, one a drawing/collage.Who took the photo, who did the drawing/collage?Whose finger was on the shutter release?Who wielded the pencil and the gluepot?
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T. Rex
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Ghost of Christmas Past
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Album:T-Rex Live
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My Mom was a pretty cool cat. She knew the music was important to me. In early December of 1972, I was browsing the vinyl at the Ayrway shopping center in Richmond, Indiana. I was drooling over this high-priced ($12.99 as I remember) import compilation of T. Rex's earliest electric recordings. I wanted it bad, but maybe someday-someway I'd have it: but for now, my three bucks wasn't gonna cut...
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The amazing coincidental happenings of the Itunes shuffle mode
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Just sitting here listening to some music, minding my own business, when yet again the shuffle mode 'accidentally' played a two song set that was beyond coincidental. I have something like 20,000 songs on my Itunes, and these two came up side by side? Consider my mind blown( I know, it doesn't take much, but still.) I guess I had never really noticed how similar these two songs were before, lyr...
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Still Sunday
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Album:Bolan's Boogie
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So how's about my own red-button test. Here's Mr. Bolan applying his newly honed electric side to the Eddie Cochran classic (or, was Eddie the first??...hhmmm...)
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Album Cover Trivia Time
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Two well-known album covers; one a photo, one a drawing/collage.Who took the photo, who did the drawing/collage?Whose finger was on the shutter release?Who wielded the pencil and the gluepot?
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T-Rex is what every live performer should be
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I've had T-Rex on the brain recently after repeated watchings of Hot Fuzz (in my mind the best comedy movie in at least 10 years), which prominently features a Fratellis cover of Solid Gold Easy Action. Then I learn that Marc Bolan had the role they gave to Jim Croce when they Americanized Life on Mars ("watch out for Minis.") Nothing, however, quite compares to the insane awesomeness of this c...
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