Raw Power Writings

To those of you out there reading, I have long been a bit music obsessed. I spent most of my formative years hanging out in record stores. I found myself drawn to the artwork on the covers and the contents of first the square cartridges and then different sizes of round discs enclosed in shiny cellophane on neatly organized shelves. I could stand there for literally hours gazing at images of artists who looked like they had just crawled out of the sewers, at psychedelic cartoons that put you in awe of their weirdness, or occasionally, at the live album cover with a picture of the band playing their instruments with the intensity of warriors slaying beasts. As soon as I got my drivers license I was going to concerts about as often as I could to finally bear witness to the performances (the spectacles) that some records could only begin to capture. Over the years I have probably attended in the high hundreds of shows and seen thousands of bands. I have always enjoyed sharing artists, albums, let's just say music in general with people I meet and I hope that via this blog I may be able to turn more folks on to endless amounts of awesome tunes there are to be heard in this world of ours. Consider this, as Lester Bangs once put it, "A Reasonable Guide To Horrible Noise." Anyways, I hope you enjoy what you read and hear. - Simon -

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