I am a vinyl addict. The gateway drug was radio. When it was riding the crest of the wave before TV came along and kicked it to the curb that wasn’t there. Before TV which a lot of people thought would be the death of radio, a format already writhing in pain. You could only get so big and radio was gargantuan— a seething mass of gelatinous goo— an 800 pound gorilla. By the time I came along, everyone had a radio.
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Frank Gutch Jr: Life at 45 RPM… My Life as a Vinyl Addict; Plus Copious Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Alistair Hulett, bill jackson, Blue Sky Boys, Crash Vegas, cream, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Earthquake, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Javier Escovedo, Jethro Tull, Jim Basnight, Kate Burke, Melissa Payne, mick abrahams, Moon Dial, music, Music Radio, music videos, Norrish Reaction, Paul Hood, Paul Revere & The Raiders, radio, Ransom & The Subset, Records, Ruth Hazleton, segarini, Seventh Fire Records, Spirit, Susannah Espie, The Meyce, The Moberlys, The OF, The Zeros, Tom Griswold on July 14, 2015 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: My Journey As Brought To You By…..
Posted in Opinion with tags Ben Daniel, Bill Follett, Chris & Gileah, Chrystalship, Dan McLain, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Erin & the Wildfire, Frank Gutch Jr., gary heffern, Heartsfield, House of Records, Indie Artists, Indie Music, James Call, KGB Chicken, licorice pizza, Mike Marino, music, Music Millennium, Peaches, Penetrators, Phil Keaggy, Pure Prairie League, Ramones, Records, Roadhead Chronicles, Ron Prindle, Shook Twins, Tom Griswold, Wilfrid Sheed on July 22, 2014 by segariniThe Corona School of Writing, Weinhard’s Private Reserve, record labels (major and independent) and just about everyone I have ever really known. So I sit here quaffing the ice cold Weinhard, waiting for that writing buzz and wondering where I will go with this because I have no real idea where I am going, only where I have been. I have been lucky, lucky like I cannot believe, but not lucky of my own making. I have been surrounded by good people— no, people more than good— and it is time I pay tribute to those and those things which have made me who I am.