From: Edmund Vitale <eavitale@gmail.com>
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 2:22:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] "time to play 'B' sides.'"
And God! There were lots of worsts ... "The Birdman of Alkatrash" - flip side to "Incense & Peppermint" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock
I was listening to Blue Oyster Cult's 'Burning for You' and that line- which is the title of this message - made me think. For those of us who grew up in the hey day of classic rock, sixties and seventies, there was a musical pleasure that has gone the way of the record player, into obscurity and treasured only by insane devotees of such musical arcana. (And yes I count myself as one such.) Those were the days when you went into the record shop and brought the latest single by Mott or Free or Roxy, whoever you were into. And there was an unknown pleasure that awaited you in the form of the 'b' side. Sometimes it was an album track that you already knew, somtimes it was naff and you never listened to it again, but sometimes you discovered an unknown treasure by your favourite band and the 'B; side got as much play as the 'A'.
Anybody got any favourite ;'B' sides? Any memories of the awful ones? Did you anticipate them from the moment you got that 45 in your hot little hands or just ignore them?
My fave 'b' - where do you all come from? B of Mott's all the way from Memphis. Worst, Don't blame me, b of Slade's Merry xmas everybody.
Lulu
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Edmund A. Vitale
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