This weekend was gorgeous here, and I'm sick. Flu I guess, oh well.
Once when I was 14 and visiting relatives in Detroit I talked my Uncle (2nd cousin actually, but I just call him uncle) into taking me to a few record stores in Ann Arbor. -He was a professor at the University there & also was doing a weekly do-wop & soul radio program, so he knew the stores. Living in Garrettsville, Ohio there wasn't a whole lot of access to punk rock & I had just begun my after school dishwashing career and needed to buy something besides pot for once. I bought some black flag, cramps and that awesome first Suicidal Tendencies record which was pretty new at the time. I think my uncle had figured I'd be buying Motley Crue or something, and while I'm sure he didn't know much about what I was buying he knew enough to do me a gigantic favor- he bought me the first stooges and the first MC5 record. - He had grown up in the area and saw them each play a few times I guess. Anyhow, I liked both of the records. Not an enourmous amount, but at least as much as the other "hippie stuff" I was alright with like early Stones, Creedence and Neil Young and whatnot. Fast forward ten years and for a while I think I listened to nothing but the Stooges and the 5.
This is on the Stooges 1969 record that he bought me and may very well be my all-time favorite song. If not, it's right up there:
Once when I was 14 and visiting relatives in Detroit I talked my Uncle (2nd cousin actually, but I just call him uncle) into taking me to a few record stores in Ann Arbor. -He was a professor at the University there & also was doing a weekly do-wop & soul radio program, so he knew the stores. Living in Garrettsville, Ohio there wasn't a whole lot of access to punk rock & I had just begun my after school dishwashing career and needed to buy something besides pot for once. I bought some black flag, cramps and that awesome first Suicidal Tendencies record which was pretty new at the time. I think my uncle had figured I'd be buying Motley Crue or something, and while I'm sure he didn't know much about what I was buying he knew enough to do me a gigantic favor- he bought me the first stooges and the first MC5 record. - He had grown up in the area and saw them each play a few times I guess. Anyhow, I liked both of the records. Not an enourmous amount, but at least as much as the other "hippie stuff" I was alright with like early Stones, Creedence and Neil Young and whatnot. Fast forward ten years and for a while I think I listened to nothing but the Stooges and the 5.
This is on the Stooges 1969 record that he bought me and may very well be my all-time favorite song. If not, it's right up there:
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those two records are drilling back to the source
awesome, yay for those thoughtful enough to give you something so influential