Merry Christmas to Pete and all of my SoT friends! My day 25 favorite album story is listening to the San Jose Doobie Brothers - Rocking Down the Highway back in 1972 on our home stereo and their other hit songs constantly playing on my father’s car stereo. Went to the local Tower Records store in 1978 and bought the Minute by Minute record. Bought various Doobie Brothers CDs in the 80s and listened to them till today. My first encounter with the band was at our local McDonalds where I saw the band eating Big Macs, etc. in 1971. Back in the 70s the band practiced down our Hedding Street.
Led Zeppelin's fourth. Older co-worker invited me an my friend to his house. Pool table in garage. He dogged us for not knowing band all that well. After this day interest level shot through the roof into stratosphere.
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!🎄🎅 Early 2017 Jethro Tull - Aqualung (CD) My uncle told me about Jethro Tull same time was listening to Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. ‘Locomotive Breath’ was first Tull song I heard when my stepdad used to pick me up from school in junior year in 2013. He would play music on his Pandora on the ride home. Then I delved deep into Jethro Tull when I was getting into Prog. I went to B&N a n Tysons Corner mall in McLean, VA sometime in early 2017. I ended up buying the 2011 Remaster on CD. I remember first listening to the album it was kind of goofy to me. Then Locomotive Breath came on and I was jamming to that song. Overtime, I started buying their other albums I think Thick as a Brick was my second album I purchased. Thick as a Brick has become my favorite Tull album since then.
Merry Christmas Kamran! I got the Aqualung album the same year when it came out, as well as Thick As A Brick the following year (Aqualung was my day 5 pick). But it's quite interesting, that you found to Tull so many years later.
Day 25 Happy Holidays and safe travels everyone. Merry Christmas Pete and your family. This album used to belong to my mother. She gave it to me years ago. It is still in wonderful condition and so isn’t the sleeve, record,and cover considering the number of times it was played since she bought it back in the early 60s. The name of this album is THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING by Bing Crosby. The album was released sometime in 1958 or 1960. Im not sure which one she bought since it doesn’t say anything about what year on the cover, sleeve, or record. I have all of her Christmas albums since I lost her back in 2018. I also have White Christmas by Bing Crosby. I like this album better. My favorite songs on this album are “Christmas is a Coming”, “The Christmas Song”, and “Is Christmas only a Tree”.
Wow, Mel -- terrific album and story! Bing had one of the smoothest, silkiest voices I'd ever heard. That's cool the sleeve is still in great shape, sounds like your Mom took care of her records. "Christmas Is A-Coming" is a catchy tune, always one of my favorites as well.
@ thanks Gadget. I’m surprised that you know that song. Most of mine are in excellent condition. You should read some of my stories. I talk about the covers sleeves and records.
Good morning, Melanie -- we want to wish you a Merry Christmas! I'm pulling double-duty here at work, should hopefully be home by noon. I hope your day is magnificent. Do you have snow in your area? Snow is forecast for the next six days here.
Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas from my family to yours. I can only think of one slightly interesting story for this month's topic, so here it goes: My school friend Tommy and I shared the same b'day (he was a year older than me...at last count he still is) so his very cool Dad and his equally cool Cousin Harry took us to see JETHRO TULL with CURVED AIR opening at the Performing Arts Center in April, 1971. Someway/somehow CA's fantastic debut LP "Air Conditioning" was in my house on 8 track (never sure who brought it home), so I was thrilled that they played the entire album onstage -- the lovely Sonja in her short, lacy, white, low cut mini skirt, tanned bare feet and long, silky brown hair...oh yeah, she's a great singer too. Tull dressed like down-on-their-luck pirates, opening with Nothing Is Easy then storming through the relatively unknown (at the time) Cross Eyed Mary, Wind Up, My God, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and a few tracks from "Benefit." I'll always remember walking home from school after a particularly difficult, cold, rainy day and finding "Aqualung" propped up on my dresser. Hey Mom, I know you can hear me -- thanks again.
Hi Gadget. Happy Holidays and safe travels. Let Kevin know also and his family. Interesting story Gadget. I’ve been missing you this month. Are you going to be on in January. We’ll be doing 50 year old albums
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Mel -- I've missed you too. I just got off work about an hour ago. Kylie said she's going to text you this evening. Kevin is scheduled for his surgery January 12. It's supposed to snow here everyday until next Tuesday...yikes! Kelly and I are planning to go horseback riding tomorrow before the snow REALLY hits. I think I can join in next month, I have a lot of 1975's, a great year for albums.
Pete. Happy. / HEALTHY to you and PARDO family. Pete, your dead on , I own this Steve Miller album from 7️⃣7️⃣and haven’t played in a gazillion years. I’m gonna slap it on right now with my cheap record player my kids & Marie got me for my 6️⃣0️⃣ th. Thanks for your time Pete 👍💯
you hear it you're going to want to play it more often 😊 I still do quite often to Great album same with fly like an eagle they go together back-to-back
Day #25! Reflecting back on albums that I got on or around Christmas through the years, a big one that always takes me right back to Xmas '76 is "Wings Over America" - that triple live LP by Paul McCartney & company. Even now, everytime I hear tracks from it, I'm transported right back to my small town in British Columbia and drives along its snowy mountain roads to the local ski hill. On those 6 sides of vinyl was a veritable cornucopia of musical delights...Pauls' hightlights from Band On The Run, Venus & Mars, Speed of Sound, etc and several of his Beatles classics. And the big poster of shots of Paul and the band performing, was displayed prominently on my bedroom wall. Today among all the Xmas songs & carols, I'll also be spinning "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) for a little time travel trip back home to Xmas 1976. Merry Christmas to all here on SoT!!
Merry Christmas Pete! My Christmas story goes way back and my Christmas gift was Electric Ladyland-The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I already had their Smash Hits, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love albums and couldn't wait to hear the 2 record set. It didn't disappoint especially Side 4 with Still Raining Still Dreaming, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower(I was already familiar with it from Smash Hits)& my new favorite song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience Voodoo Child(Slight Return). There is so much variety on this album that it doesn't get old which is true of all Jimi Hendrix albums. For years I listened to Crosstown Traffic but didn't hear how heavy it was until I heard it without the kazoo. Now I hardly hear the kazoo.
Happy Christmas day, everyone! On my personal music journey, I arrive now at the time of July/August 1976 (doesn’t really fit seasonally, I know, but it is what it is). At this point in time, I got the album from GENESIS, “A Trick Of The Tail”. Franz, my friend from the bank, borrowed the album to me. Up from the first listen, I knew this was a great one. The opening songs “Dance On A Volcano”, “Entangled” and “Squonk” blew my mind. And after that, every track following, was also still worth listening and had its moments. “Ripples” on side 2 is my personal favourite track. For sure, this is one of the few albums I still can hear from start to finish. What a great album… and the beautiful artwork on it deserves an extra mention for sure. Of course, I knew about the history of Genesis with Peter Gabriel as the lead vocalist , as they had been featured on music journals much at the time before. I also knew their single hit “I Know What I Like”, which has been at a quite low position on the UK Top 30 at an earlier time, and it had not really impressed me. Later on, Peter Gabriel had left the band, and drummer Phil Collins took over on the vocals. He did a quite good job on it (though I always loved him more on his drumming). The other guys also were great on their instruments. Tony Banks on keyboards, Steve Hackett on guitars and Mike Rutherford on bass and additional guitars never had been just Peter’s or Phil’s backing band. Everyone of them has been great as a musician, and also great on writing. I would continue exploring Genesis’ music in the following year with the also great successor “Wind And Wuthering” and the awesome “Seconds Out” live album as well. Later on, I got all the Gabriel fronted albums, which I really love, too. After Zep, Purple, Tull, Floyd, Heep, Yes, Supertramp and Queen, Genesis became my 9th favourite Top 10 band of all time (in no particular order, but I can say that the 1971-77 line-up is high on the top of my list, personally). - Around that time of July 25, 1976, I had finished my last 4 week shift of the time as trainee at the bank, with holidays up to mid September to follow for my final school year, which would be pure school time. I had enjoyed my time a lot at the bank and with the guys and women there (though I had got no payments), and due to this reason I talked to the director, telling him that I would like to do additional work in August on free will, but then on payment conditions. He reacted positively on that idea, given the fact that some of his clerks were missing at the time of August, as they went on summer holidays. And he also knew that I had gained some experience in the meantime to do a good job. So, I worked for them on this arrangement for the full month of August for 4 DM an hour (it wasn’t really much at the time, but in the end I got more than 500 DM, a lot for me at the time). I still was able to enjoy some beautiful summer holiday weeks until mid of September that year, before moving on to my last year at the economy school. From the money I earned, I was able to get some more beautiful albums which I wanted, some of them to follow soon on my list. I did revisit the people at the bank from time to time later, as the building only had been 4 kms away. My friend Franz left soon after that time to work at the bank led by his father, and sadly I have never met him anymore. Like myself, they all are on retirement now. Sometimes I still see the bank director at restaurants or cafés or at shopping, and we have some nice chats. He’s at his early 80s now, but still at good health. My school time albums discoveries, In chronogical order: day 01: 07/1971 (fav) Led Zeppelin IV, (first) Led Zeppelin III day 02: 08/1971 (fav) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water day 03: 09/1971 (fav) Atomic Rooster, In Hearing Of day 04: 09/1971 (fav) Deep Purple In Rock, (first) Deep Purple, Fireball day 05: 11/1971 (fav) Jethro Tull, Aqualung day 06: 11/1971 (fav) Black Sabbath s/t, (first) Master Of Reality day 07: 12/1971 Jesus Christ Superstar day 08: 01/1972 (fav) Grand Funk, Phoenix, (first) Grand Funk, E Pluribus Funk day 09: 03/1972 The Doors, L.A.Woman day 10: 04/1972 Neil Young, Harvest day 11: 06/1972 (fav) Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, (first) Pink Floyd, Meddle day 12: 07/1972 (first/fav) Uriah Heep, Demons And Wizards ("Magician's Birthday" coming very close) day 13: 07/1972 (first) Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus (fav, maybe) Trilogy day 14: 09/1972 (first) Alice Cooper, School's Out (fav) Alice Cooper, Killer day 15: 10/1972 (first) Moody Blues, A Question Of Balance (fav) Days Of Future Passed day 16: 02/1973 (first) Cat Stevens, Catch Bull At Four (fav) Cat Stevens, Foreigner (because of the suite) day 17: 03/1973 (first/fav) Yes, Close To The Edge day 18: 07/1973 (first/fav) Ekseption 5 day 19: 10/1973 (first/fav) Stevie Wonder, Innervisions day 20: 11/1973 (first/fav) The Who, Quadrophenia day 21: 12/1973 (first/fav) Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road day 22: 07/1975 (first/fav) Supertramp, Crime Of The Century (close: Breakfast In America) day 23: 02/1976 (first/fav) Queen, A Night At The Opera day 24: 04/1976 (first) 10cc, The Original Soundtrack + How Dare You day 25: 07/1976 (first) Genesis, A Trick Of The Tail, (fav) Selling England By The Pound
It was 1963 and I woke up really, really early Christmas morning and began to open my presents which had been put at the bottom of my bed in a pillow case. I only managed to open one present because my mom rushed in and told me it was only 1.30am and I was not to touch any more presents until at least 7am. The one present I had opened was With The Beatles. My first ever LP. Still got it, still love it.
Day25-UFO-Strangers in the Night. Circa 1986,I’m in college and a classmate of mine says to me,”Have you ever heard of UFO.” I told him “No,who’s that.” He said “A killer band with guitarist Michael Schenker.” I only know him from his solo band. I owned The Michael Schenker Group and Assault Attack. He let me listen to the live album Strangers in the Night. I was floored by the sound of the album,all the grooves and riffs in Schenker’s guitar. One of the best live performances I ever heard. I was late to the party on UFO, but I’m glad I discovered them. I own all of the Schenker albums from UFO,and still listen to them on occasion. Michael Schenker is one of my favorite guitarists. Merry Christmas Pete and everyone.
Morning/Afternoon/Evening everybody. No story today, just a message. A very Merry Christmas to Pete and family, and to everyone who contributes to SoT's various threads. Also, to anyone who takes the time to read my posts and/or to reply to them, however often, thanks for all the appreciation and camaraderie this year. Cheers!
Pick #25A: Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Yet another story where I binge listened to basically every album in the band's respective discography while I was living in Richmond, and while all 7 Iron Maiden albums in the 80s are undeniable, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son really stood out the most to me since to me it was basically their prog album in a way, and I usually go back and forth between Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son being Iron Maiden's best. However, I did mention in my last pick I was going to cheat today and have an additional pick for Christmas so: #25B: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Nonagon Infinity. It was when Covid was basically was at its peak and like a lot of people I tried to go to music to try helping my mental health, and while I had a pretty negative viewpoint on a lot of music from the 2010s at the time and had fairly negative opinions on that decade for a handful of reasons, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard was the band that made me warm up to that time period a lot more and to this day, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Ghost, Wolf Alice and a handful of other bands have become some of my favorite recent bands. Nonagon Infinity just blew my mind with the way the album is a never ending loop while also containing some of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's greatest songs. I would say for newcomers of the band, Nonagon Infinity, Infest the Rats Nest, PetroDragonic Apocalypse, I'm In Your Mind Fuzz or any of the five 2017 albums are a pretty safe starting point. #1: The Who's Tommy (1969) #2: RX Bandits' ...And the Battle Begun (2006) #3: Metallica's ...And Justice For All (1988) #4: Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979) #5: Daft Punk's Alive 2007 #6: Yes's Close to the Edge (1972) #7: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) #8: Arcade Fire's Funeral (2004) #9: Silverchair's Diorama (2002) #10: Green Day's American Idiot (2004) #11: The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004) #12: Death's Symbolic (1995) #13: Radiohead's Kid A (2000) #14: Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns (2010) #15: Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001) #16: Tool's Lateralus (2001) #17: Opeth's Blackwater Park (2001) #18: Rush's Grace Under Pressure (1984) #19: Rainbow's Rising (1976) #20: Black Sabbath's Mob Rules (1981) #21: Kansas's Leftoverture (1976) #22: Pearl Jam's Ten (1991) #23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (1997) #24: Talking Heads' Remain In Light (1980) #25A: Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988) #25B: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Book of Dreams by the Steve Miller Band is a great album and i used to have it at one time on album as well as cassette tape and I felt the same about the album as you did Merry Christmas and Thanks Pete.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
I heard the hits Black Water. Long Train Running. China Grove and Listen To The Music on radio pretty often back in the 70s. But i never owned a Doobie Bros. Album. I finally picked up their origional Best Of lp which was released in 1976 on Warner Bros. Records. I picked up the Best Of first because i was more familiar with the hits not so much the deep cuts. Besides the songs i mentioned above the other ones i like are Rockin Down The Hwy. Jesus Is Just Alright With Me. And the two best Michael McDonald songs It Keeps You Running and Takin It To The Streets. I eventually bought all their albums up to Minute By Minute. Still a big fan of theirs. Merry Christmas Everybody.
Merry christmas Dennis. Although I don't have a Doobie Bros album, I love some of their songs. I think I'll buy their greatest hits album in the near future. It will be a good start. Great story.
Merry Christmas! DS, that is quite a number of hits. I know them all but you don't register that they had that many. It's amazing how popular they were in the '70s
Merry Christmas! 25. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Back in 2000, while still getting into prog rock, I went into this album completely blind. I’d heard the name countless times, but don’t remember ever hearing any songs before June of 2000. I bought the CD when I worked at The Wall after being intrigued by the cover for the longest time. My jaw dropped once 21st Century Schizoid Man really kicked in. I Talk To The Wind is a beautiful piece of music as well as Epitaph. It’s been a huge topic of discussion with where progressive rock music began. I would say it was slightly earlier than this, but this influenced so many other classic prog bands, so it can’t be discounted.
Merry Xmas SOTers! I have a modern day special memory. Craft beer partner mentioned Houses of the Holy vinyl gift request to everyone at the drunken end of the Washington Football Team nail biter on the 15th. Somehow I made a mental note, and proceeded to order. I got home. I found it for 18 bucks! Next morning checking the order, it was a CD!! Canceled, got the vinyl order in. It arrived prior to this past Friday's excursions in his Zen room. To my ears this is the most excellent produced sounding record . Yes he loves me, always plays Montrose as soon as I get to his house! Rock is Life!!
Hey Ziggy -- terrific to see you again! Montrose is definitely a MUST PLAY when guests arrive at the door! Houses Of the Holy came out when I was 13, by the time I got to the music store, there was only one left -- but that small paper banner across the cover had slipped all the way down, revealing the "nether-regions" of the young-uns in full, living color! I was too embarrassed to buy it so my groovy Dad drove me across town to buy a PROPER one. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your loved ones Ziggy!
When I went to see my grandmother in Madrid during the holidays, I always took the opportunity to buy a lot of vinyl. There was everything there, from huge stores to small shops, where you could find real bargains. My favorite was called Discoplay, which disappeared many years ago. I could spend hours searching through the countless bargain bins there were, searching for some gem. I also used to buy some new Spanish releases that I could hardly find where I lived in Switzerland. In those early 80s, Heavy Metal was huge and bands like Baron Rojo, Obus, Banzai and Angeles del Infierno were in full swing. But the album I bought there that marked me the most was by a band that I didn't know at the time, it had a striking cover (later I found out it was by Derek Riggs), with a sticker on it with the words Heavy Metal. This is Budgie's Nightflight. I still remember the first time I put the needle on it and "I turned to stone" played... Since then I have been acquiring most of their albums. I know it's quite a contrarian choice, but Nightflight is still by far my favorite. Merry Christmas to everybody!
Great story ramon i had all the Budgie lps up till Impeccable. I didnt get your favorite. But ive been slowly replacing my lps with cds. So i get around to getting the rest.
Day 25. Fats Domino - Christmas Is a Special Day No real story here in that I found this gem in a clearance bin at a Media Play many years ago. I got it because it is traditional Christmas songs given the Fats Domino treatment. Merry blessed Christmas everyone. 1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 3. Steppenwolf - S/T 4. Mason Proffit - Wanted 5. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson 6. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head 7. The Doors - S/T 8. Bride - Scarecrow Messiah 9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments 10. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - On Tour 11. Tower of Power - East Bay Grease 12. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West 13. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills 14. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers 15. John Michael Talbot - The Lord's Supper 16. X - Lost Angeles 17. Govt. Mule - Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends 18. Elvin Bishop - Rock My Soul 19. Iron City Houserockers - Have a Good Time.... But Get Out Alive! 20. The Choir - Circle Slide 21. MC5 - Heavy Lifting 22. Skillet - Ardent Worship 23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation 24. Television - Marquee Moon 25. Fats Domino - Christmas Is a Special Day
Merry Christmas everyone! My story goes back to late 1992. I was a sophomore in college and I was in art class. While me and the other students were working on a project the professor put on a cassette tape. I had never heard the music before, but I really liked what I heard. I asked the professor what he played and he told me it was Skylarking from XTC. He let me borrow it when I asked him, and I became a fan ever since. I bought the most current album at the time (Nonsuch) and the back catalog shortly thereafter.
Merry Christmas, everyone. My Ray 25 pick is Awake Skillet’s eighth studio album, their long-awaited sequel to their 2006 smash hit “Comatose,” finally hits the stores on Aug 25. L My Way,” “Safe With You,” “More Faithful,” and “Will You Be There.”) My first impression is that this is a “Comatose: Part II” project more than it is an innovation or development in Skillet’s sound. (Panheads will surely recall the stylistic changes that have typically marked each of their studio albums.) Much of “Awake” will remind the listener of a song or two from the previous “Collide” or “Comatose” projects. That said, the album is a bit “softer” than either of the last two projects, with nearly half the album consisting of power ballads or other non-hard-rock options. “Awake” features strong, introspective lyrics and well-developed music, reflecting a band that isn’t new either to rock music or to the ups and downs of their spiritual journey. After having listened through the album a few times, I’ve gained an increasing appreciation for the album as a whole; a couple of the songs that didn’t initially “pop” have really started to grow on me. Add that to the songs that did have that “wow” factor, and this is a really good. My brother was the one which got me to love this band and he would have the room I'm in now and we hang out and listen to this album and play call of duty until 4 am. This was when I was about 13. Charts edit Year Chart Peak position 2009 US Billboard 200[28] 2 US Alternative Albums[29] 1 US Rock Albums[30] 2 US Christian Albums[31] 1 2010 Japanese Albums[32] 68 2011 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[33][34] 9 Year-end album charts edit Chart (2009) Position US Billboard 200[35][36] 156 US Rock Albums[37][38] 37 US Alternative Albums[39] 27 US Christian Albums[40][41] 8 Chart (2010) Position US Billboard 200[42][43] 74 US Rock Albums[44][45] 14 US Alternative Albums[46] 9 US Billboard Christian Albums[47][48] 2 Chart (2011) Position US Billboard 200[49][50] 121 US Rock Albums[51][52] 16 US Alternative Albums[53] 15 US Billboard Christian Albums[54][55] 4 Chart (2012) Position US Rock Albums[56] 58 US Alternative Albums[57] 39 US Billboard Christian Albums[58] 16 Decade-end charts edit Chart (2010s) Position US Christian Albums (Billboard)[59] 2 Certifications edit Region Certification Certified units/sales Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[70] Gold 10,000‡ New Zealand (RMNZ)[71] Gold 7,500‡ United States (RIAA)[72] 2× Platinum 2,000,000‡
First off all I wish everyone here a merry christmas. I've been away for a while, lack of time due to work. Early seventies we had these family gatherings on sunday afternoons at my uncle's house, my father youngest brother. My uncle prepared for us children the most delicious pancakes. But what I remembered the most was that he always played the same record, namely 'Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits. Back then it sounded like old crap to my childlike ears. I was more into the music that was in the hitparade at the time: 'The Rubettes' 'Sweet' 'Suzy Quatro' 'Rod Steward' 'Alice Cooper' to name a few. Later in life, already an adult, I came across that record on a yard sale, cheaply priced. I bought it, went home, played it and fell in love with it. Not only because of the beautiful memories it evoked, but also because of Frankie Laine's warm voice and great songs. Songs like 'the Moonlight Gambler' 'Jezebel' 'High Noon' 'I Believe' and 'Rose, Rose I Love You' bring back memories of a seemingly vanished world that is somehow still present in me. I believe that the past still exist.
Christmas Eve 1970s.....I had a Saturday job at Fine Fare (no discounts) and we finished early for Xmas. Took my wages and bought a copy of Foxtrot. Great present to my teenage self.
Merry Christmas, Pete, and to all the SoT crew and their loved ones as well! Thanks for all the shared enjoyment of music over the past year. Looking forward to much more to come in 2025.
Krokus ... One Vice At A Time Merry Christmas, everybody! In the suburb where I graduated from high school, there have been a number of independent record stores over the years right up to today. This is because Lakewood, Ohio is an urban area built largely at the turn of the 20th century before today's car culture. So, it is a walkable area with all your necessities within a short distance. This means there is a bunch of cheap storefronts packed on two major through fare streets, with many apartments, duplexes, and modest single family homes packed in a small area. It is an ideal inexpensive place for a first home for young people who just left their parents' home. When I first moved there, Melody Lane was the oldest independent record store in Lakewood. It was founded as a family business by a man old enough to be our father, who started it to primarily sell pop records of the fifties/early sixties. He also owned a second store in Downtown Cleveland for the students at Cleveland State University. He would hire younger clerks to connect with the young customers of the early eighties. He did not discount the prices of new releases much at all, unlike the emerging niche independent record stores that had begun to open around him by this time. He did not deal in used records, unlike his emerging competitors. He attempted a separate nearby used store for a short time, I may retell that story soon. What budget records he did have was remainder and promotional records he kept in the bins at the front of the store. The main record I cherish that I bought there is a promo copy of Krokus' One Vice At A Time that I bought blind. Forget those pop/hard rock records you remember from Krokus at the height of the hair/glam metal days. This is their classic sleaze rock album played in the key of AC/DC. Much of their live set comes from this record, especially the set closer Long Stick Goes Boom. It was out of print in America for a long time, but Rock Candy records has done a fine 21st century reissue of it. Melody Lane closed in the late eighties/early nineties. The storefront stayed empty for a time. A regional used record chain, The Record Exchange, opened there in the nineties and is thriving to this day. I am a weekly customer to that Record Exchange store. They have the old Melody Lane electric sign that was overhead on the former awning/canopy of the building on their ceiling. Yes, sometimes I regale the managers of that store who basically was born when their current store was first opened with a tale of the prior record store, Melody Lane. I can't help myself, I'm old and always loved history.
@ziggyzagzi8017 Thank you. I enjoy telling the stories to the kids at that store. I remember the aggressive apathy our generation had for rockabilly and big band that was released before we were born. Our classic rock is now that ancient music before they were born for this generation. I just enjoy the old man role representing a decadent past.
Merry Christmas, Pete and family. I love the reminiscing of this music. I remember hearing Steve Miller on the radio in the 70's and loving it all, then.
i love hearing about Pete's parents from his childhood. Good for them for getting you that great record, they probably loved hearing it around the house too.
I played this album a lot when I was a kid and I never played it again until two years ago. I’ve played it many times in the last two years with winter time sacrifice the stake you can’t go wrong.
My Christmas album was Electric Lady Land in 1968. I knew it had been released and asked for it for Christmas. My mom needed to ask my older sister to help her find it. When I opened the present, all I wanted to do was listen to it. I finally did later that day, but I was interrupted a couple of times. I had the first album, so I knew how good Hendrix was. I had heard the second album, but I didn't like it as much as the first. This album had some really great music. I just knew this was going to be my favorite Hendrix album.
Merry Christmas to you all. Today I go with an album that I loved a lot and still do - Pink Floyd's The Wall (and yet, it is not my favorite, nor 2nd or even 3rd by them). I already knew the album as in Yugoslavia it was released in 1980 only - and alas I do not know the month. A friend of a friend got a copy from UK I guess so we listened to it a lot and played with plastic piece stating the name of the band and album that you could thanks to marvel of physics put on a door and it would stand on its own. So I was out in a city and saw it in a first store, Unima/Sarajka. I took no chances to look for it in Jugoton store, a label that released it, as I did not want it to be sold in minutes and then to wait for repress. So bought it immediately. There are two price stickers, one crossed out and one not - 1207.51 crossed out and 1228.15 that seems to be correct. However, both now are confusing to me as inflation was huge in mid 80's and not in 1980, as an album I wrote about yesterday was only 89.50 dinars. I simply cannot make any sense of those stickers. Surely, another brick in the wall in various parts were everpresent back then, I loved Comfortable numb, Goodbuy Blue Sky, Hey You but basically went for the entire album every time and not single songs. And helicopter sound and crashing the wall required volume to be up to 11.
Merry Christmas Zlatan! Interesting story, I also got The Wall when it came out, and it is not in my Top 3 Pink Floyd albums either, but I played it a lot back then, mostly LP #1. Comfortably Numb always sounded better when Gilmour played it live.
🎅🏻🤶🏻🎁🎄 Merry Christmas all SOT family Fantastic album still Pete Kiss double Platinum My second kiss Christmas album I received I received the kiss alive 2 1 year that was my first one And for good grades I remember getting kiss alive when I was about 8 But Christmas time 1979 Totally unexpected to me Folks knew I was into Kiss and I loved them. I do not know about current releases at the time I was too young But I remember opening up one present here was this shiny almost Chrome looking double album. What's the big bright blood embossed letters. Great stuff. I was like looking add all the different songs there was a lot I remember from the live album but these were studio versions Now of course we all know there's a video out there which is really awesome how different is double Platinum from the original? And yes some were remixed a little different it was proven. Which I really enjoyed that video when I was really surprised myself I always knew as I got older something didn't sound right or different but this was 1978/ 79. I didn't know they were doing stuff like that back then. But I definitely were the hell out of that thing it was scratched up by the mid-80s that played but it had clicks pops everything you can name Of course nowadays I have it on CD and I'm glad too. And I still like to pull it out and listen to it.
Great Kev!! Those years were exciting at Christmas for me with the expectations of albums! And the different versions of songs made our ears bend a bit. That was a really cool looking album and I have it on CD now.
My Christmas story is a little similar. There was a 1st release by this artist that sounded so much different than anything I had heard in awhile. I wanted to get it when it was on sale at Boscov's,but waited, lo and behold there it was all wrapped waiting for me to open it. My 1983 was completed when I put the CD in the player. The album was "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.
The only album I ever remember getting for Xmas was the Xanadu soundtrack, lol. Believe me, I had the want lists! Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia (1996) In the early days of Internet forums, members of Tortoise were interviewed about their influences. They gave a fascinating mix of names, from German kosmsische bands to Jamaican dub artists like King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry to Tito Puente and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, a current Brazilian band that sounded right up my alley. I know it was hard to find, and I ended up having to special order it at Reckless and it took over a month to arrive. With the anticipation, hearing something that hard to come by was all the more exciting, and the music was just as exotic and experimental and fun as I'd hoped.
Not a beloved album...just a Christmas memory 1984 - My 1st CD Player (2nd Gen Sony, thank you mom & dad) & my brother gave me my 1st-ever cd, GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD ST. My brother knew I liked McCartney & assumed this eas something I didn't own. I had the CD Player's volume knob on about "1". Slowly panned up to hear, IIRC, McCartney's bass. My lasting impression? The audio was so clear & pristine. Wow!
Fire Of Unknown Origin- BOC 1982 Day after Xmas and I I look forward to using my Xmas money to head to Disc O Mat to buy albums. This was one of the albums I bought in that stack. A few of the others I bought were Reactor by Neil Young and Worlds Apart by Saga. Was always a must do after Xmas for years.
Merry Christmas! I remember many years ago receiving The Yes Album on 8-track for Christmas and listening to it all day. I don't know if I had ever heard music this joyful yet rocking.
As its Christmas my pick is Maestoso Wholly Wolstenholme. I got this album for xmas in 1980. It was sadly only really the one album Wholly did after leaving BJH. It just reminds me of that particular time, simple as that.
DAY 25- MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER- CHRISTMAS Live (1997) Well since it for no 25 it is that day. Whatever had planned before scrapped and going with Mannheim Steamroller. And one of their many other Xmas lps and other music non holiday I had happened to run across this at some point at record store during some time after 2010 sometime or whenever cause I would hear and see along where I would hear and see online or on radio if in rotation for Christmas music. And do have some few Christmas music other things as well by artists and so thought to make this worthy of that putting it on around Xmas and on Xmas that it got some plays and with all the titles you can see the songs of what they are like and with the musicians with horns and drums and guitars and singing and violins and keyboards and such believe how good it is, So sorry to delay challenging and health wise trying to stay afloat. Not much family anymore. But I be sure to see what your all up to when I get the chances to and hope for the best with all of you during the holiday season. Take care love hugs and prayers, Enjoy the season as best you can. Here's the tracks 1. "Angels We Have Heard on High" 403 2. "Chip's Intro" 203 3. "Christmas Lullaby" 410 4. "Pat-a-Pan" 509 5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 309 6. "Los Peces en el Rio" 352 7. "Joy to the World" 346 8. "Gagliarda" 317 9. "In Dulci Jubilo" 258 10. "Wassail, Wassail" 235 11. "Carol of the Birds" 212 12. "I Saw Three Ships" 133 13. "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (Traditional)" 155 14. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Rock Version)" 429 15. "Stille Nacht" 526 16. "Going to Another Place" 316 Total length: 5353 Personnel Chip Davis: Drums, Recorders, Percussion, Toys Almeda Berkey: Harpsichord, Keyboards Jackson Berkey: Piano, Harpsichord, Keyboards Ron Cooley: Guitar, Fretted Instruments Robert Jenkins: Oboe Janet Wesley Kelly: Harp Roxanne Layton: Recorders, Percussion Laurence Lowe: French Horn Chuck Penington: Conductor Arnie Roth: Concertmaster, Violin Violins: Christopher Hake, Karen Martin, Keith Plenert, Kimberly Salistean, Arnold Schatz, Scott Shoemaker Violas: Judy Divis, Sarah Richardson Cellos: Gregory Clinton, Holly Stout Trumpet: Eric Hansen, George Vosburgh ============== Steve Miller nice choice Pete. Love that album. Good story. TC and every one else do the same. 🎶🎶❤🤗🙏☮ - 👼🌲🎄🎋🦌🐪🐫✡🔯⭐✴🎅☮
Merry Christmas to the SOT community. Deep Purple = ! and Rising force. Christmas gifts and really fun my son wrapped OK Computer and put his name on it. Simpsons fans may get the reference. Too funny . Take care all.
Merry Christmas to Pete and all of my SoT friends!
My day 25 favorite album story is listening to the San Jose Doobie Brothers - Rocking Down the Highway back in 1972 on our home stereo and their other hit songs constantly playing on my father’s car stereo. Went to the local Tower Records store in 1978 and bought the Minute by Minute record. Bought various Doobie Brothers CDs in the 80s and listened to them till today. My first encounter with the band was at our local McDonalds where I saw the band eating Big Macs, etc. in 1971. Back in the 70s the band practiced down our Hedding Street.
@@sdrandazzo merry Christmas Sal. Interesting story
@@melaniethurber5117 Merry Christmas!
@@sdrandazzo thanks Sal. My power has come back on.
Led Zeppelin's fourth. Older co-worker invited me an my friend to his house. Pool table in garage. He dogged us for not knowing band all that well. After this day interest level shot through the roof into stratosphere.
Great story and album ykm
Merry Christmas to everybody from Brazil and God bless you all !
Merry Christmas and Feliz Natal meu amigo!!!
Merry Christmas
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!🎄🎅
Early 2017
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (CD)
My uncle told me about Jethro Tull same time was listening to Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. ‘Locomotive Breath’ was first Tull song I heard when my stepdad used to pick me up from school in junior year in 2013. He would play music on his Pandora on the ride home. Then I delved deep into Jethro Tull when I was getting into Prog. I went to B&N a n Tysons Corner mall in McLean, VA sometime in early 2017. I ended up buying the 2011 Remaster on CD. I remember first listening to the album it was kind of goofy to me. Then Locomotive Breath came on and I was jamming to that song. Overtime, I started buying their other albums I think Thick as a Brick was my second album I purchased. Thick as a Brick has become my favorite Tull album since then.
@@kamranmalik8546 Merry Christmas Kamran. Interesting story
Merry Christmas in NOVA!
Merry Christmas Kamran! I got the Aqualung album the same year when it came out, as well as Thick As A Brick the following year (Aqualung was my day 5 pick). But it's quite interesting, that you found to Tull so many years later.
Day 25
Happy Holidays and safe travels everyone. Merry Christmas Pete and your family.
This album used to belong to my mother. She gave it to me years ago. It is still in wonderful condition and so isn’t the sleeve, record,and cover considering the number of times it was played since she bought it back in the early 60s. The name of this album is THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING by Bing Crosby. The album was released sometime in 1958 or 1960. Im not sure which one she bought since it doesn’t say anything about what year on the cover, sleeve, or record. I have all of her Christmas albums since I lost her back in 2018. I also have White Christmas by Bing Crosby. I like this album better. My favorite songs on this album are “Christmas is a Coming”, “The Christmas Song”, and “Is Christmas only a Tree”.
Wow, Mel -- terrific album and story! Bing had one of the smoothest, silkiest voices I'd ever heard. That's cool the sleeve is still in great shape, sounds like your Mom took care of her records. "Christmas Is A-Coming" is a catchy tune, always one of my favorites as well.
@ thanks Gadget. I’m surprised that you know that song. Most of mine are in excellent condition. You should read some of my stories. I talk about the covers sleeves and records.
Good morning, Melanie -- we want to wish you a Merry Christmas! I'm pulling double-duty here at work, should hopefully be home by noon. I hope your day is magnificent. Do you have snow in your area? Snow is forecast for the next six days here.
@ good morning Kylie. We have a little snow. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas
Great holiday pick melanie. You cant go a Christmas season without hearing songs by the Bing.
My pick is The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers first heard this in 1982 and i was hooked!
Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas from my family to yours.
I can only think of one slightly interesting story for this month's topic, so here it goes: My school friend Tommy and I shared the same b'day (he was a year older than me...at last count he still is) so his very cool Dad and his equally cool Cousin Harry took us to see JETHRO TULL with CURVED AIR opening at the Performing Arts Center in April, 1971. Someway/somehow CA's fantastic debut LP "Air Conditioning" was in my house on 8 track (never sure who brought it home), so I was thrilled that they played the entire album onstage -- the lovely Sonja in her short, lacy, white, low cut mini skirt, tanned bare feet and long, silky brown hair...oh yeah, she's a great singer too. Tull dressed like down-on-their-luck pirates, opening with Nothing Is Easy then storming through the relatively unknown (at the time) Cross Eyed Mary, Wind Up, My God, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath and a few tracks from "Benefit." I'll always remember walking home from school after a particularly difficult, cold, rainy day and finding "Aqualung" propped up on my dresser. Hey Mom, I know you can hear me -- thanks again.
Hi Gadget. Happy Holidays and safe travels. Let Kevin know also and his family. Interesting story Gadget. I’ve been missing you this month. Are you going to be on in January. We’ll be doing 50 year old albums
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Mel -- I've missed you too. I just got off work about an hour ago. Kylie said she's going to text you this evening. Kevin is scheduled for his surgery January 12. It's supposed to snow here everyday until next Tuesday...yikes! Kelly and I are planning to go horseback riding tomorrow before the snow REALLY hits. I think I can join in next month, I have a lot of 1975's, a great year for albums.
@ that will be awesome to see you. I would love to hear from Kylie. Wish Kevin the best of luck for me please.
Great story gadgett that must have been great to see Tull at that stage in their career.
Merry Christmas Gadget. I envy you for seeing those two great bands in their prime, especially the lovely Sonja. Love your story.
Pete. Happy. / HEALTHY to you and PARDO family. Pete, your dead on , I own this Steve Miller album from 7️⃣7️⃣and haven’t played in a gazillion years. I’m gonna slap it on right now with my cheap record player my kids & Marie got me for my 6️⃣0️⃣ th. Thanks for your time Pete 👍💯
you hear it you're going to want to play it more often
😊
I still do quite often to Great album same with fly like an eagle they go together back-to-back
Kev. Agreed. Enjoy day. Happy. HEALTHY 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 hi Gary. Merry Christmas to you and your family
Merry xmas from Germany ❤
@@slobodanudarac5 Merry Christmas from the USA
Day #25! Reflecting back on albums that I got on or around Christmas through the years, a big one that always takes me right back to Xmas '76 is "Wings Over America" - that triple live LP by Paul McCartney & company. Even now, everytime I hear tracks from it, I'm transported right back to my small town in British Columbia and drives along its snowy mountain roads to the local ski hill. On those 6 sides of vinyl was a veritable cornucopia of musical delights...Pauls' hightlights from Band On The Run, Venus & Mars, Speed of Sound, etc and several of his Beatles classics. And the big poster of shots of Paul and the band performing, was displayed prominently on my bedroom wall. Today among all the Xmas songs & carols, I'll also be spinning "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) for a little time travel trip back home to Xmas 1976. Merry Christmas to all here on SoT!!
@@garyh.238 hi Garyh. Excellent story. Merry Christmas and safe travels to you and your family.
@@melaniethurber5117 Merry Christmas Melanie! 🎅
@ thank you Garyh
@@garyh.238 Merry Christmas Gary - Wings for me too today (well - turkeys have two...) Hava a good one!
@@iainhead9898 Hey Iain Gobble! Gobble! 🦃 Enjoy! Had our Xmas bird last night! Tonight we're going Mexican!
Merry Christmas Pete! My Christmas story goes way back and my Christmas gift was Electric Ladyland-The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I already had their Smash Hits, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love albums and couldn't wait to hear the 2 record set. It didn't disappoint especially Side 4 with Still Raining Still Dreaming, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower(I was already familiar with it from Smash Hits)& my new favorite song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience Voodoo Child(Slight Return). There is so much variety on this album that it doesn't get old which is true of all Jimi Hendrix albums. For years I listened to Crosstown Traffic but didn't hear how heavy it was until I heard it without the kazoo. Now I hardly hear the kazoo.
Happy Christmas day, everyone!
On my personal music journey, I arrive now at the time of July/August 1976 (doesn’t really fit seasonally, I know, but it is what it is). At this point in time, I got the album from
GENESIS, “A Trick Of The Tail”.
Franz, my friend from the bank, borrowed the album to me. Up from the first listen, I knew this was a great one. The opening songs “Dance On A Volcano”, “Entangled” and “Squonk” blew my mind. And after that, every track following, was also still worth listening and had its moments. “Ripples” on side 2 is my personal favourite track. For sure, this is one of the few albums I still can hear from start to finish. What a great album… and the beautiful artwork on it deserves an extra mention for sure.
Of course, I knew about the history of Genesis with Peter Gabriel as the lead vocalist , as they had been featured on music journals much at the time before. I also knew their single hit “I Know What I Like”, which has been at a quite low position on the UK Top 30 at an earlier time, and it had not really impressed me. Later on, Peter Gabriel had left the band, and drummer Phil Collins took over on the vocals. He did a quite good job on it (though I always loved him more on his drumming). The other guys also were great on their instruments. Tony Banks on keyboards, Steve Hackett on guitars and Mike Rutherford on bass and additional guitars never had been just Peter’s or Phil’s backing band. Everyone of them has been great as a musician, and also great on writing.
I would continue exploring Genesis’ music in the following year with the also great successor “Wind And Wuthering” and the awesome “Seconds Out” live album as well. Later on, I got all the Gabriel fronted albums, which I really love, too.
After Zep, Purple, Tull, Floyd, Heep, Yes, Supertramp and Queen, Genesis became my 9th favourite Top 10 band of all time (in no particular order, but I can say that the 1971-77 line-up is high on the top of my list, personally). -
Around that time of July 25, 1976, I had finished my last 4 week shift of the time as trainee at the bank, with holidays up to mid September to follow for my final school year, which would be pure school time. I had enjoyed my time a lot at the bank and with the guys and women there (though I had got no payments), and due to this reason I talked to the director, telling him that I would like to do additional work in August on free will, but then on payment conditions. He reacted positively on that idea, given the fact that some of his clerks were missing at the time of August, as they went on summer holidays. And he also knew that I had gained some experience in the meantime to do a good job. So, I worked for them on this arrangement for the full month of August for 4 DM an hour (it wasn’t really much at the time, but in the end I got more than 500 DM, a lot for me at the time). I still was able to enjoy some beautiful summer holiday weeks until mid of September that year, before moving on to my last year at the economy school. From the money I earned, I was able to get some more beautiful albums which I wanted, some of them to follow soon on my list.
I did revisit the people at the bank from time to time later, as the building only had been 4 kms away. My friend Franz left soon after that time to work at the bank led by his father, and sadly I have never met him anymore. Like myself, they all are on retirement now. Sometimes I still see the bank director at restaurants or cafés or at shopping, and we have some nice chats. He’s at his early 80s now, but still at good health.
My school time albums discoveries, In chronogical order:
day 01: 07/1971 (fav) Led Zeppelin IV, (first) Led Zeppelin III
day 02: 08/1971 (fav) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
day 03: 09/1971 (fav) Atomic Rooster, In Hearing Of
day 04: 09/1971 (fav) Deep Purple In Rock, (first) Deep Purple, Fireball
day 05: 11/1971 (fav) Jethro Tull, Aqualung
day 06: 11/1971 (fav) Black Sabbath s/t, (first) Master Of Reality
day 07: 12/1971 Jesus Christ Superstar
day 08: 01/1972 (fav) Grand Funk, Phoenix, (first) Grand Funk, E Pluribus Funk
day 09: 03/1972 The Doors, L.A.Woman
day 10: 04/1972 Neil Young, Harvest
day 11: 06/1972 (fav) Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, (first) Pink Floyd, Meddle
day 12: 07/1972 (first/fav) Uriah Heep, Demons And Wizards ("Magician's Birthday" coming very close)
day 13: 07/1972 (first) Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus (fav, maybe) Trilogy
day 14: 09/1972 (first) Alice Cooper, School's Out (fav) Alice Cooper, Killer
day 15: 10/1972 (first) Moody Blues, A Question Of Balance (fav) Days Of Future Passed
day 16: 02/1973 (first) Cat Stevens, Catch Bull At Four (fav) Cat Stevens, Foreigner (because of the suite)
day 17: 03/1973 (first/fav) Yes, Close To The Edge
day 18: 07/1973 (first/fav) Ekseption 5
day 19: 10/1973 (first/fav) Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
day 20: 11/1973 (first/fav) The Who, Quadrophenia
day 21: 12/1973 (first/fav) Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
day 22: 07/1975 (first/fav) Supertramp, Crime Of The Century (close: Breakfast In America)
day 23: 02/1976 (first/fav) Queen, A Night At The Opera
day 24: 04/1976 (first) 10cc, The Original Soundtrack + How Dare You
day 25: 07/1976 (first) Genesis, A Trick Of The Tail, (fav) Selling England By The Pound
@@FrankLang-i3n Merry Christmas FrankLang. Awesome story
Happy Christmas Day! Frank!! Genesis with Hackett was great. Very cool that you still see the old Boss
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you very much, Mel! Have nice Christmas days too.
Great story and album, Frank
@ you’re welcome FrankLang
It was 1963 and I woke up really, really early Christmas morning and began to open my presents which had been put at the bottom of my bed in a pillow case. I only managed to open one present because my mom rushed in and told me it was only 1.30am and I was not to touch any more presents until at least 7am. The one present I had opened was With The Beatles. My first ever LP. Still got it, still love it.
Christmas 1963...I was 6 months old! Sorry, had to do it.
@@johnshaner747 Don't worry. At my age now I will have forgotten about it minutes after I read it.
Day25-UFO-Strangers in the Night. Circa 1986,I’m in college and a classmate of mine says to me,”Have you ever heard of UFO.” I told him “No,who’s that.” He said “A killer band with guitarist Michael Schenker.” I only know him from his solo band. I owned The Michael Schenker Group and Assault Attack. He let me listen to the live album Strangers in the Night. I was floored by the sound of the album,all the grooves and riffs in Schenker’s guitar. One of the best live performances I ever heard. I was late to the party on UFO, but I’m glad I discovered them. I own all of the Schenker albums from UFO,and still listen to them on occasion. Michael Schenker is one of my favorite guitarists. Merry Christmas Pete and everyone.
Same here with Schenker , UFO Never quite made it in the '70s
Merry Christmas to Pete and family, all the SoT family, and Merry Christmas to all us viewers. 🎄 🎁 🎅
@@scottwalker5275 Merry Christmas Scott
Morning/Afternoon/Evening everybody. No story today, just a message.
A very Merry Christmas to Pete and family, and to everyone who contributes to SoT's various threads. Also, to anyone who takes the time to read my posts and/or to reply to them, however often, thanks for all the appreciation and camaraderie this year. Cheers!
Top of the morning to you Sir Iain! Merry X to you and yours! I quite enjoy our transatlantic diatribes, and your excellent variety of musicians.
@@iainhead9898 hi Iain. Merry Christmas and safe travels to you and your family
@@ziggyzagzi8017 And Seasons Greetings returned, m'Lord Z, and I look forward to continuing those mutual musings in the Year ahead...
Merry Xmas Iain! 🌲🎅
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie. Hope you have a wonderful Xmas too.
Pick #25A: Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Yet another story where I binge listened to basically every album in the band's respective discography while I was living in Richmond, and while all 7 Iron Maiden albums in the 80s are undeniable, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son really stood out the most to me since to me it was basically their prog album in a way, and I usually go back and forth between Powerslave and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son being Iron Maiden's best. However, I did mention in my last pick I was going to cheat today and have an additional pick for Christmas so:
#25B: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Nonagon Infinity. It was when Covid was basically was at its peak and like a lot of people I tried to go to music to try helping my mental health, and while I had a pretty negative viewpoint on a lot of music from the 2010s at the time and had fairly negative opinions on that decade for a handful of reasons, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard was the band that made me warm up to that time period a lot more and to this day, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Ghost, Wolf Alice and a handful of other bands have become some of my favorite recent bands. Nonagon Infinity just blew my mind with the way the album is a never ending loop while also containing some of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's greatest songs. I would say for newcomers of the band, Nonagon Infinity, Infest the Rats Nest, PetroDragonic Apocalypse, I'm In Your Mind Fuzz or any of the five 2017 albums are a pretty safe starting point.
#1: The Who's Tommy (1969)
#2: RX Bandits' ...And the Battle Begun (2006)
#3: Metallica's ...And Justice For All (1988)
#4: Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979)
#5: Daft Punk's Alive 2007
#6: Yes's Close to the Edge (1972)
#7: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
#8: Arcade Fire's Funeral (2004)
#9: Silverchair's Diorama (2002)
#10: Green Day's American Idiot (2004)
#11: The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004)
#12: Death's Symbolic (1995)
#13: Radiohead's Kid A (2000)
#14: Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns (2010)
#15: Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001)
#16: Tool's Lateralus (2001)
#17: Opeth's Blackwater Park (2001)
#18: Rush's Grace Under Pressure (1984)
#19: Rainbow's Rising (1976)
#20: Black Sabbath's Mob Rules (1981)
#21: Kansas's Leftoverture (1976)
#22: Pearl Jam's Ten (1991)
#23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
#24: Talking Heads' Remain In Light (1980)
#25A: Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
#25B: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Merry Xmas Hair. My comment went wrong. Place . Agreeing with your covid times, Music therapy!
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Merry XMas, Ziggy!
Book of Dreams by the Steve Miller Band is a great album and i used to have it
at one time on album as well as cassette tape and I felt the same about the
album as you did Merry Christmas and Thanks Pete.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
I heard the hits Black Water. Long Train Running. China Grove and Listen To The Music on radio pretty often back in the 70s. But i never owned a Doobie Bros. Album. I finally picked up their origional Best Of lp which was released in 1976 on Warner Bros. Records. I picked up the Best Of first because i was more familiar with the hits not so much the deep cuts. Besides the songs i mentioned above the other ones i like are Rockin Down The Hwy. Jesus Is Just Alright With Me. And the two best Michael McDonald songs It Keeps You Running and Takin It To The Streets. I eventually bought all their albums up to Minute By Minute. Still a big fan of theirs. Merry Christmas Everybody.
@@dennisstratton6508 Merry Christmas Dennis. Interesting story
Thank you melanie Merry Christmas melanie.
@ you’re welcome Dennis
Merry christmas Dennis. Although I don't have a Doobie Bros album, I love some of their songs. I think I'll buy their greatest hits album in the near future. It will be a good start. Great story.
Merry Christmas! DS, that is quite a number of hits. I know them all but you don't register that they had that many. It's amazing how popular they were in the '70s
Pete at 12 years old I was so excited to receive my own radio yeah for Christmas
0:31 pick #25
Merry Christmas SoT family!
Merry Christmas!
25. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Back in 2000, while still getting into prog rock, I went into this album completely blind. I’d heard the name countless times, but don’t remember ever hearing any songs before June of 2000. I bought the CD when I worked at The Wall after being intrigued by the cover for the longest time. My jaw dropped once 21st Century Schizoid Man really kicked in. I Talk To The Wind is a beautiful piece of music as well as Epitaph. It’s been a huge topic of discussion with where progressive rock music began. I would say it was slightly earlier than this, but this influenced so many other classic prog bands, so it can’t be discounted.
Merry Xmas SOTers!
I have a modern day special memory.
Craft beer partner mentioned Houses of the Holy vinyl gift request to everyone at the drunken end of the Washington Football Team nail biter on the 15th. Somehow I made a mental note, and proceeded to order. I got home. I found it for 18 bucks! Next morning checking the order, it was a CD!! Canceled, got the vinyl order in. It arrived prior to this past Friday's excursions in his Zen room. To my ears this is the most excellent produced sounding record . Yes he loves me, always plays Montrose as soon as I get to his house! Rock is Life!!
@@ziggyzagzi8017 hi Ziggy Merry Christmas
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Hi Ziggy. Fun story and i love House Of The Holy. Enjoy the holidays.
Hey Ziggy -- terrific to see you again! Montrose is definitely a MUST PLAY when guests arrive at the door! Houses Of the Holy came out when I was 13, by the time I got to the music store, there was only one left -- but that small paper banner across the cover had slipped all the way down, revealing the "nether-regions" of the young-uns in full, living color! I was too embarrassed to buy it so my groovy Dad drove me across town to buy a PROPER one. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your loved ones Ziggy!
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie use twos
@@dannyhoeykens Right 0 Danny
When I went to see my grandmother in Madrid during the holidays, I always took the opportunity to buy a lot of vinyl. There was everything there, from huge stores to small shops, where you could find real bargains. My favorite was called Discoplay, which disappeared many years ago. I could spend hours searching through the countless bargain bins there were, searching for some gem. I also used to buy some new Spanish releases that I could hardly find where I lived in Switzerland. In those early 80s, Heavy Metal was huge and bands like Baron Rojo, Obus, Banzai and Angeles del Infierno were in full swing. But the album I bought there that marked me the most was by a band that I didn't know at the time, it had a striking cover (later I found out it was by Derek Riggs), with a sticker on it with the words Heavy Metal. This is Budgie's Nightflight. I still remember the first time I put the needle on it and "I turned to stone" played... Since then I have been acquiring most of their albums. I know it's quite a contrarian choice, but Nightflight is still by far my favorite.
Merry Christmas to everybody!
Great story ramon i had all the Budgie lps up till Impeccable. I didnt get your favorite. But ive been slowly replacing my lps with cds. So i get around to getting the rest.
Sounds like a lot on fun searching for music. Ramon. Merry Xmas
@ziggyzagzi8017 Merry Christmas Ziggy!
@@dennisstratton6508 Thank you Dennis!
@@ramonace4770 your welcome ramon
Holiday shout out to the SOT community!! Let's keep rockin' let's keep getting under the hood and discussin' and let's stay safe my good people!!
@@danielsolano602 Happy Holidays and safe travels
Day 25. Fats Domino - Christmas Is a Special Day No real story here in that I found this gem in a clearance bin at a Media Play many years ago. I got it because it is traditional Christmas songs given the Fats Domino treatment. Merry blessed Christmas everyone.
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
3. Steppenwolf - S/T
4. Mason Proffit - Wanted
5. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
6. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
7. The Doors - S/T
8. Bride - Scarecrow Messiah
9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments
10. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - On Tour
11. Tower of Power - East Bay Grease
12. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West
13. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
14. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
15. John Michael Talbot - The Lord's Supper
16. X - Lost Angeles
17. Govt. Mule - Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
18. Elvin Bishop - Rock My Soul
19. Iron City Houserockers - Have a Good Time.... But Get Out Alive!
20. The Choir - Circle Slide
21. MC5 - Heavy Lifting
22. Skillet - Ardent Worship
23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
24. Television - Marquee Moon
25. Fats Domino - Christmas Is a Special Day
@@Brother_MarkG Merry Christmas Mark
Great story mark. Fats was one of the greats at the beginning of Rock n Roll.
Thanks Pete for soldiering on and bringing us a new vid while you are suffering from the flu...get well soon and happy Christmas to all!
@@concatinate Happy Holidays and safe travels
Merry Christmas everyone!
My story goes back to late 1992. I was a sophomore in college and I was in art class. While me and the other students were working on a project the professor put on a cassette tape. I had never heard the music before, but I really liked what I heard. I asked the professor what he played and he told me it was Skylarking from XTC. He let me borrow it when I asked him, and I became a fan ever since. I bought the most current album at the time (Nonsuch) and the back catalog shortly thereafter.
@@jpaleologos1 Merry Christmas and safe travels. Interesting story
Merry Christmas, Pete and all at SoT. Go put that album on :)
@@TractorCountdown Merry Christmas and safe travels
Happy/. HEALTHY to the entire SOT close knit community and especially the entire PARDO family!!! 👍💯
Happy Holidays and safe travels. To you and your family Gary.
Thank you. Mel 👍💯
@ you’re welcome Gary
You and your family too. GJ!
🤠🎅🏻🤶🏻🎁🎄Merry Xmas
Merry Christmas, everyone.
My Ray 25 pick is Awake Skillet’s eighth studio album, their long-awaited sequel to their 2006 smash hit “Comatose,” finally hits the stores on Aug 25. L My Way,” “Safe With You,” “More Faithful,” and “Will You Be There.”)
My first impression is that this is a “Comatose: Part II” project more than it is an innovation or development in Skillet’s sound. (Panheads will surely recall the stylistic changes that have typically marked each of their studio albums.) Much of “Awake” will remind the listener of a song or two from the previous “Collide” or “Comatose” projects. That said, the album is a bit “softer” than either of the last two projects, with nearly half the album consisting of power ballads or other non-hard-rock options. “Awake” features strong, introspective lyrics and well-developed music, reflecting a band that isn’t new either to rock music or to the ups and downs of their spiritual journey. After having listened through the album a few times, I’ve gained an increasing appreciation for the album as a whole; a couple of the songs that didn’t initially “pop” have really started to grow on me. Add that to the songs that did have that “wow” factor, and this is a really good. My brother was the one which got me to love this band and he would have the room I'm in now and we hang out and listen to this album and play call of duty until 4 am. This was when I was about 13.
Charts
edit
Year Chart Peak
position
2009 US Billboard 200[28] 2
US Alternative Albums[29] 1
US Rock Albums[30] 2
US Christian Albums[31] 1
2010 Japanese Albums[32] 68
2011 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[33][34] 9
Year-end album charts
edit
Chart (2009) Position
US Billboard 200[35][36] 156
US Rock Albums[37][38] 37
US Alternative Albums[39] 27
US Christian Albums[40][41] 8
Chart (2010) Position
US Billboard 200[42][43] 74
US Rock Albums[44][45] 14
US Alternative Albums[46] 9
US Billboard Christian Albums[47][48] 2
Chart (2011) Position
US Billboard 200[49][50] 121
US Rock Albums[51][52] 16
US Alternative Albums[53] 15
US Billboard Christian Albums[54][55] 4
Chart (2012) Position
US Rock Albums[56] 58
US Alternative Albums[57] 39
US Billboard Christian Albums[58] 16
Decade-end charts
edit
Chart (2010s) Position
US Christian Albums (Billboard)[59] 2
Certifications
edit
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[70] Gold 10,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[71] Gold 7,500‡
United States (RIAA)[72] 2× Platinum 2,000,000‡
Zappy Xmas vibe
@ziggyzagzi8017 ty
First off all I wish everyone here a merry christmas. I've been away for a while, lack of time due to work. Early seventies we had these family gatherings on sunday afternoons at my uncle's house, my father youngest brother. My uncle prepared for us children the most delicious pancakes. But what I remembered the most was that he always played the same record, namely 'Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits. Back then it sounded like old crap to my childlike ears. I was more into the music that was in the hitparade at the time: 'The Rubettes' 'Sweet' 'Suzy Quatro' 'Rod Steward' 'Alice Cooper' to name a few. Later in life, already an adult, I came across that record on a yard sale, cheaply priced. I bought it, went home, played it and fell in love with it. Not only because of the beautiful memories it evoked, but also because of Frankie Laine's warm voice and great songs. Songs like 'the Moonlight Gambler' 'Jezebel' 'High Noon' 'I Believe' and 'Rose, Rose I Love You' bring back memories of a seemingly vanished world that is somehow still present in me. I believe that the past still exist.
Great story Danny did your record have the theme for Rawhide on it.
@@dennisstratton6508 Hi Dennis, thanks. No not on that record, but I have it on another one of his called'Hell Bent For Leather'. Love that song.
@@dannyhoeykens your welcome danny. Rawhide and Jezebel were the two i remembered most from my childhood by him
Great regenerating the generations Danny
Thanks Ziggy.. That´s very well defined.
Christmas Eve 1970s.....I had a Saturday job at Fine Fare (no discounts) and we finished early for Xmas. Took my wages and bought a copy of Foxtrot. Great present to my teenage self.
Merry Christmas, Pete, and to all the SoT crew and their loved ones as well! Thanks for all the shared enjoyment of music over the past year. Looking forward to much more to come in 2025.
Krokus ... One Vice At A Time
Merry Christmas, everybody!
In the suburb where I graduated from high school, there have been a number of independent record stores over the years right up to today.
This is because Lakewood, Ohio is an urban area built largely at the turn of the 20th century before today's car culture. So, it is a walkable area with all your necessities within a short distance. This means there is a bunch of cheap storefronts packed on two major through fare streets, with many apartments, duplexes, and modest single family homes packed in a small area. It is an ideal inexpensive place for a first home for young people who just left their parents' home.
When I first moved there, Melody Lane was the oldest independent record store in Lakewood. It was founded as a family business by a man old enough to be our father, who started it to primarily sell pop records of the fifties/early sixties.
He also owned a second store in Downtown Cleveland for the students at Cleveland State University. He would hire younger clerks to connect with the young customers of the early eighties.
He did not discount the prices of new releases much at all, unlike the emerging niche independent record stores that had begun to open around him by this time.
He did not deal in used records, unlike his emerging competitors. He attempted a separate nearby used store for a short time, I may retell that story soon.
What budget records he did have was remainder and promotional records he kept in the bins at the front of the store.
The main record I cherish that I bought there is a promo copy of Krokus' One Vice At A Time that I bought blind.
Forget those pop/hard rock records you remember from Krokus at the height of the hair/glam metal days. This is their classic sleaze rock album played in the key of AC/DC. Much of their live set comes from this record, especially the set closer Long Stick Goes Boom. It was out of print in America for a long time, but Rock Candy records has done a fine 21st century reissue of it.
Melody Lane closed in the late eighties/early nineties. The storefront stayed empty for a time. A regional used record chain, The Record Exchange, opened there in the nineties and is thriving to this day.
I am a weekly customer to that Record Exchange store. They have the old Melody Lane electric sign that was overhead on the former awning/canopy of the building on their ceiling.
Yes, sometimes I regale the managers of that store who basically was born when their current store was first opened with a tale of the prior record store, Melody Lane. I can't help myself, I'm old and always loved history.
Sweet Christmas story about your first Steve Miller album, Pete. I remember having that one on 8-track back in the day.
@@richardmay8153 hi Richard. Merry Christmas and safe travels. Interesting story
Love the history lessons. Richard. The funny when the younger generation learns about our generation.
@melaniethurber5117 Thank you. Merry Christmas!!
@ziggyzagzi8017 Thank you. I enjoy telling the stories to the kids at that store. I remember the aggressive apathy our generation had for rockabilly and big band that was released before we were born. Our classic rock is now that ancient music before they were born for this generation. I just enjoy the old man role representing a decadent past.
No story today, but here's a toast to everyone, hoping their day will be bright and filled with joy. Merry Christmas!
@@peterm.fitzpatrick7735 hi Peter. Merry Christmas and safe travels
Merry Christmas, Pete and family. I love the reminiscing of this music. I remember hearing Steve Miller on the radio in the 70's and loving it all, then.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
@@utvf68 Merry Christmas and safe travels
@@utvf68 Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas to you and the family, Pete - Love my “Sea of Tranquility” community….Cant wait for the next SOT festival :)
i love hearing about Pete's parents from his childhood.
Good for them for getting you that great record, they probably loved hearing it around the house too.
Merry Christmas Pete get well soon
Merry Christmas Pete to you and your family 🎉
Merry Christmas Pete!!! Hope you are feeling better.
Merry Christmas
@@kennbrown4638 hi Kenn. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Pete! Love me some Steve Miller Band. Cheers from Canada!
Merry Christmas Pete.
Great selection Pete. Classic album for sure. Luckily I got to see Steve Miller at Saratoga on the Abracadabra tour. Great show too.
Merry Music Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas Pete!! Get Well soon!
I played this album a lot when I was a kid and I never played it again until two years ago. I’ve played it many times in the last two years with winter time sacrifice the stake you can’t go wrong.
The great Byron Allred was the keyboard/synthesizer wizard in the Steve Miller Band. We sadly lost him in October 2021, aged 71.
My Christmas album was Electric Lady Land in 1968. I knew it had been released and asked for it for Christmas. My mom needed to ask my older sister to help her find it. When I opened the present, all I wanted to do was listen to it. I finally did later that day, but I was interrupted a couple of times. I had the first album, so I knew how good Hendrix was. I had heard the second album, but I didn't like it as much as the first. This album had some really great music. I just knew this was going to be my favorite Hendrix album.
🌠🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF MY ROCK FAMILY...
@@gregoryg3256 hi Gregory. Merry Christmas and safe travels
Merry Christmas to you all. Today I go with an album that I loved a lot and still do - Pink Floyd's The Wall (and yet, it is not my favorite, nor 2nd or even 3rd by them). I already knew the album as in Yugoslavia it was released in 1980 only - and alas I do not know the month. A friend of a friend got a copy from UK I guess so we listened to it a lot and played with plastic piece stating the name of the band and album that you could thanks to marvel of physics put on a door and it would stand on its own. So I was out in a city and saw it in a first store, Unima/Sarajka. I took no chances to look for it in Jugoton store, a label that released it, as I did not want it to be sold in minutes and then to wait for repress. So bought it immediately. There are two price stickers, one crossed out and one not - 1207.51 crossed out and 1228.15 that seems to be correct. However, both now are confusing to me as inflation was huge in mid 80's and not in 1980, as an album I wrote about yesterday was only 89.50 dinars. I simply cannot make any sense of those stickers. Surely, another brick in the wall in various parts were everpresent back then, I loved Comfortable numb, Goodbuy Blue Sky, Hey You but basically went for the entire album every time and not single songs. And helicopter sound and crashing the wall required volume to be up to 11.
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 hi Zlatan. Merry Christmas and safe travels to you and your family. Excellent story
@@melaniethurber5117Thank you Melanie, all the best for Christmas to you too
Great story ZL!
@ziggyzagzi8017 Thank you!
Merry Christmas Zlatan! Interesting story, I also got The Wall when it came out, and it is not in my Top 3 Pink Floyd albums either, but I played it a lot back then, mostly LP #1. Comfortably Numb always sounded better when Gilmour played it live.
🎅🏻🤶🏻🎁🎄 Merry Christmas all SOT family
Fantastic album still Pete
Kiss double Platinum
My second kiss Christmas album I received
I received the kiss alive 2 1 year that was my first one
And for good grades I remember getting kiss alive when I was about 8
But Christmas time 1979
Totally unexpected to me
Folks knew I was into Kiss and I loved them.
I do not know about current releases at the time I was too young
But I remember opening up one present here was this shiny almost Chrome looking double album. What's the big bright blood embossed letters.
Great stuff. I was like looking add all the different songs there was a lot I remember from the live album but these were studio versions
Now of course we all know there's a video out there which is really awesome how different is double Platinum from the original?
And yes some were remixed a little different it was proven. Which I really enjoyed that video when I was really surprised myself I always knew as I got older something didn't sound right or different but this was 1978/ 79.
I didn't know they were doing stuff like that back then.
But I definitely were the hell out of that thing it was scratched up by the mid-80s that played but it had clicks pops everything you can name
Of course nowadays I have it on CD and I'm glad too.
And I still like to pull it out and listen to it.
Great Kev!! Those years were exciting at Christmas for me with the expectations of albums! And the different versions of songs made our ears bend a bit. That was a really cool looking album and I have it on CD now.
@@ziggyzagzi8017Merry Christmas Ziggy.
Yeah it was wild when I watched that one video from about a year ago it was like man look at the differences
@truckerkevthepaidtourist I'm going to try to find that
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist hi Kev. Merry Christmas and safe travels to you and your family. Interesting article
@melaniethurber5117 Merry Christmas Melanie thank you
My Christmas story is a little similar. There was a 1st release by this artist that sounded so much different than anything I had heard in awhile. I wanted to get it when it was on sale at Boscov's,but waited, lo and behold there it was all wrapped waiting for me to open it. My 1983 was completed when I put the CD in the player. The album was "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.
The only album I ever remember getting for Xmas was the Xanadu soundtrack, lol. Believe me, I had the want lists!
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia (1996)
In the early days of Internet forums, members of Tortoise were interviewed about their influences. They gave a fascinating mix of names, from German kosmsische bands to Jamaican dub artists like King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry to Tito Puente and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, a current Brazilian band that sounded right up my alley. I know it was hard to find, and I ended up having to special order it at Reckless and it took over a month to arrive. With the anticipation, hearing something that hard to come by was all the more exciting, and the music was just as exotic and experimental and fun as I'd hoped.
Not a beloved album...just a Christmas memory 1984 - My 1st CD Player (2nd Gen Sony, thank you mom & dad) & my brother gave me my 1st-ever cd, GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD ST.
My brother knew I liked McCartney & assumed this eas something I didn't own.
I had the CD Player's volume knob on about "1". Slowly panned up to hear, IIRC, McCartney's bass. My lasting impression? The audio was so clear & pristine. Wow!
Take care of yourself Pete.
Really good album.
🌠THE STAKE ..LOVE THAT ONE ..MY FRIEND STEVE DOES HOUSE WORK 4 STEVE M ..THEY'RE FRIENDS...GREAT MILLER MUSIC......
Fire Of Unknown Origin- BOC
1982 Day after Xmas and I I look forward to using my Xmas money to head to Disc O Mat to buy albums. This was one of the albums I bought in that stack. A few of the others I bought were Reactor by Neil Young and Worlds Apart by Saga. Was always a must do after Xmas for years.
Merry Christmas! I remember many years ago receiving The Yes Album on 8-track for Christmas and listening to it all day. I don't know if I had ever heard music this joyful yet rocking.
As its Christmas my pick is Maestoso Wholly Wolstenholme. I got this album for xmas in 1980. It was sadly only really the one album Wholly did after leaving BJH. It just reminds me of that particular time, simple as that.
Merry chirstmas everyone
DAY 25- MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER- CHRISTMAS Live (1997) Well since it for no 25 it is that day. Whatever had planned before scrapped and going with Mannheim Steamroller. And one of their many other Xmas lps and other music non holiday I had happened to run across this at some point at record store during some time after 2010 sometime or whenever cause I would hear and see along where I would hear and see online or on radio if in rotation for Christmas music. And do have some few Christmas music other things as well by artists and so thought to make this worthy of that putting it on around Xmas and on Xmas that it got some plays and with all the titles you can see the songs of what they are like and with the musicians with horns and drums and guitars and singing and violins and keyboards and such believe how good it is, So sorry to delay challenging and health wise trying to stay afloat. Not much family anymore. But I be sure to see what your all up to when I get the chances to and hope for the best with all of you during the holiday season. Take care love hugs and prayers, Enjoy the season as best you can.
Here's the tracks
1. "Angels We Have Heard on High" 403
2. "Chip's Intro" 203
3. "Christmas Lullaby" 410
4. "Pat-a-Pan" 509
5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 309
6. "Los Peces en el Rio" 352
7. "Joy to the World" 346
8. "Gagliarda" 317
9. "In Dulci Jubilo" 258
10. "Wassail, Wassail" 235
11. "Carol of the Birds" 212
12. "I Saw Three Ships" 133
13. "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (Traditional)" 155
14. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Rock Version)" 429
15. "Stille Nacht" 526
16. "Going to Another Place" 316
Total length: 5353
Personnel
Chip Davis: Drums, Recorders, Percussion, Toys
Almeda Berkey: Harpsichord, Keyboards
Jackson Berkey: Piano, Harpsichord, Keyboards
Ron Cooley: Guitar, Fretted Instruments
Robert Jenkins: Oboe
Janet Wesley Kelly: Harp
Roxanne Layton: Recorders, Percussion
Laurence Lowe: French Horn
Chuck Penington: Conductor
Arnie Roth: Concertmaster, Violin
Violins: Christopher Hake, Karen Martin, Keith Plenert, Kimberly Salistean, Arnold Schatz, Scott Shoemaker
Violas: Judy Divis, Sarah Richardson
Cellos: Gregory Clinton, Holly Stout
Trumpet: Eric Hansen, George Vosburgh
==============
Steve Miller nice choice Pete. Love that album. Good story. TC and every one else do the same. 🎶🎶❤🤗🙏☮ - 👼🌲🎄🎋🦌🐪🐫✡🔯⭐✴🎅☮
Merry Christmas to the SOT community. Deep Purple = ! and Rising force. Christmas gifts and really fun my son wrapped OK Computer and put his name on it. Simpsons fans may get the reference. Too funny . Take care all.
My first Miller album was The Joker? Then bought 8 tracks by Miller.
I wonder if Pete rushed out to get fly like an eagle right after
Since you like S.M.B. , do you like Boz Scaggs? S.M.B. is good, though.
What happened to your long hair?