Category: Retroglitteratiness

  • semitough

    Inside the Recording Studio

    So much for live blogging the vinyl => mp3 recording process. Halfway through the first album the PC locks up an I lose 20 minutes of recording and 15 minutes worth of writing. Oh well. The recording is going well. This could take awhile. Got through six albums yesterday. Six down, several hundred to go. Started out with Aerosmith’s “Rocks”,…

  • semitough

    Back In The Saddle

    Some of you might have noticed that I’ve been on a bit of a blogger’s holiday for the last few weeks. The reasons are manifold. Been busy. Been uninspired. Been conflicted on where I want to go with this whole blog thing. I’m all over the map when it comes to posts. Everything from family stuff to politics to sports.…

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    Remembering Dallas When It Was Dallas

    All right. So I opened up a can of worms when I posted about Dallas radio back in the day. Seems friend Scot Duke and I may have habited some of the same haunts. My radio story plus last Friday’s Stevie Ray Vaughn funkishness post prompted this outstanding story from Scot in reply: Since we are stirring memories of Dallas…

  • semitough

    Friday Funkishness

    Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood Duke got me to thinking about Dallas when it was Dallas this week and this video brings back some memories of a different Dallas. It was the mid-80’s – Dallas had shed the image of being the City That Killed JFK ™ and was on it’s way to becoming a world class city. Some…