Imagine, if you will … writing not one, not two … but literally dozens of top ten hits, for groups as diverse as The Beatles, Solomon Burke, Edwin Starr, the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and Barbara Lewis. Yeah, that’s lightning, baby …
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Frank Gutch Jr: The Millennial Kickstart!!!, Life In Proctorville— We The People’s Wayne Proctor Talks Sixties Music Scene in Florida, Plus Notes and Vids!!!!!
Posted in Opinion with tags Bongo Boy Records, David Deacon, DBAWIS, dirtmusic, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Florida, Frank Gutch Jr., Hugo Race, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jana Peri, jud norman, Kickstarter, Music Millennium, music videos, No Small Children, Portland, Records, Research Turtles, Terry Currier, The Coachmen, The Drifters, The Nation Rocking Shadows, The Trademarks, Wayne Proctor, We the People on March 5, 2014 by segarini
Welcome to the new Millennium, ladies and gentlemen, and in this case, the new Music Millennium. I don’t have to go into details to explain the situation with record stores these days (okay— “music” stores, but they will always remain record stores to me). They are struggling, even the biggest of them. Even the best of them. Even Portland, Oregon’s legendary Music Millennium. Sure, they’re hanging on and doing better since the recent vinyl revival, but hanging on is not what owner Terry Currier wants. Hanging on is the least that he wants. And he has never been one to pocket money, either. Most of what Terry has made over the past 45 years he has put either back into his store or used toward something to strengthen the music community. And not just that of Portland. He has stepped beyond that city more than once, mainly in a capacity to organize indie record stores.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 