I thought
I had all of his music, long buried among those vinyl time capsules
still crammed into Orange crates I so lovingly brushed with three
layers of shellac a lifetime ago. Certainly I played the “Together”
album at least 1,000 times... just flat wore it out. Many nights
were spent blowing harp to his music, a small wooden tray with shake
and Mr ZigZag sitting nearby. But this album slipped by me somehow,
so now is the first time I've even seen it. Of course we couldn't
Google everything back then, so if it wasn't in my local head
shop/record store, The Penguin Feather, it didn't exist for me. These
days I can order it from Amazon with just a click or two of the
mouse. Those guys are nice enough to keep my credit card on file so
getting it from them couldn't be easier. In fact, it's too damn easy,
too clean and precise. I miss the hours spent pouring over the record
bins, talking about the new offerings with fellow travelers in the
old Victorian house that was the Penguin Feather. Just opening the
front door, its arthritic hinges squealing their objections at being
forced to move, multiple layers of paint flaking off the frame like
colorful potato chips, I would inhale deeply from a blast of scented air, heavy with incense, and salivate like a Pavlovian dog.
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