Friends, I wonder if you even remember me after a year off from The People's Republic of MOG. To say I have been trapped under something heavy is the greatest understatement. But, today, as deadlines have been met, as I come out from under grieving the loss of an old friend, as spring ekes towards summer, and as I begin the process of moving to a much better house with a garden, I find comfort ...
I hadn't listened to this for nigh on 20 years, until last week when I converted the old vinyl to CD. This is incredible - Scottish psychedelic hippie folk music incorporating bells and bazoukis, mandolins and harps and chants and Bahamian spirituals and Sikh hymns and lots more....This is the Incredible String Band - A Very Cellular Song
- DELOREANThough they didn't go over too well with the mudslingers at Woodstock, The Incredible String Band were some of the biggest thrill-seekers in late-1960s psychedelic folk. Judging from the group photo on the cover of their third album, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter , their lives were just as full of fairy-tale images as their music. In 1968, when The Beatles donned white kaftans...
Ah, Allentown. The place where I attended college. Billy Joel once wrote a horrible song about it. There's a wonderful record store there, called Double Decker. The most beautifully built Wegmans supermarket is there, too. Some say Allentown is a dump. To those people, I say, "Well, duh." Even that doesn't stop me from returning. Why? Because I still have a friend or two there, the folks who op...