Blast from the Past
Category: Music...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 01:42 PM [GMT-6]

We're 60 days from closing on the new house (theoretically) and so we're doing some packing, starting in the closets and cabinets that contain items that don't get a lot of use. We're making some interesting discoveries. To wit...

8 track tape - Black Sabbath
8 track tape - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

And, yes, we are taking them with us, along with another dozen or so.

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Wow...those are 8 traks, right? Either that or games for your Atari. I coudln't tell from the titles ;)

Posted by: beth at January 5, 2008 02:21 PM

Dangit. Beth beats me in the pithy comment wars. Again.

Posted by: Jim at January 5, 2008 02:59 PM

I don't think I would have ever have picked you as a black Sabbath fan LOL.

Posted by: Rach at January 5, 2008 03:20 PM

Never cared for Black Sabbath, but listened to ELP's Tarkus a lot. Cool relics... but no Ark of the Covenant?

Posted by: Kelly at January 5, 2008 04:24 PM

Jim, nobody beats Beth when it comes to pith. She's got the fastest RSS reader in the west. Or east. Or wherever.

Rachel, I wasn't really a Sabbath fan, but you know how teenagers can be.

but listened to ELP's Tarkus a lot.

I also packed up "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Brain Salad Surgery" (on vinyl). Some of ELP's stuff was ponderously pretentious, but enough of it rocked to make it worthwhile.

but no Ark of the Covenant?

Well, like I said, we're only cleaning out the stuff we don't use regularly. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 5, 2008 04:47 PM

Ooooo, Tarkus. Which reminds me that I need to head to Half Price Books to see if I can replace my water-damaged vinyl copy of Brain Salad Surgery with a used CD.

Posted by: Foo at January 5, 2008 08:14 PM

We don't miss a lot of things about living in the Metroplex, but Half Price Books is one of the things we do miss.

I can't help wondering how water damages vinyl, though. Unless it was boiling, in which case I'd really like to hear the story. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 5, 2008 10:56 PM

I saw these earlier and were laughing, laughing. . .

Posted by: TG at January 5, 2008 11:27 PM

Eric, for someone who wasn't "really a Sabbath fan," you did pick one of their best albums, though.

Posted by: Jeff at January 6, 2008 07:38 AM

What? No ABBA? Gwynne will be upset.

Posted by: Janie at January 6, 2008 09:28 PM

I'd be surprised if Gwynne didn't have a little Sabbath in her past, too. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 6, 2008 09:33 PM

Awwww, I bet she does...who doesn't?

Posted by: Janie at January 6, 2008 10:51 PM

...but did you find a player and a match-book?

Posted by: lyle at January 7, 2008 02:13 PM

I do still have a player. But you lost me on the matchbook reference.

Posted by: Eric at January 7, 2008 03:30 PM

Sabbath & ELP in 8.... Awesome dude!!!!

Posted by: shannon at January 8, 2008 04:39 PM

You think that's cool; I didn't even mention Hendrix, and Cream, and... um... well... Streisand.

What can I say? I had a girlfriend. (Ended up marrying her, too. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 8, 2008 04:43 PM
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