Bill, I wonder what would happen if you started the whole piece with
"Who and Hendrix rode the transition
from black to blazing red Polydor..."
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Take your music groove-inscribed
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> for a multi-sensual all round experience.
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> Hear the opening Claptonic bars of White Room,
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> picture that black Polydor label spinning.
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> Know Who and Hendrix rode the transition
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> from black to blazing red Polydor.
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> Kinks get you going partly because you see
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> the brash bright yellow and black Astor label,
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> also home to fire-lighting Jim’s Doors
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> and Matchstick Status Quo men.
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> Billy Thorpe‘s Aztecs, most people know,
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> went crazy on orange Havoc records
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> and Sabbath sucked you into their Paranoid
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> maelstrom on black and white Vertigo Swirl.
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> The Bobster and Simon and Garfunkel,
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> The Man in Cash and Carlos Santana
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> all shared the apricot glow of dignified CBS.
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> Stones Blue Decca’d before Sticky Fingering.
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> Beatles grey/black Parlophoned almost
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> matching their suits before Appling up.
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> Shocking Blue Venused on Penny Farthing
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> Tamla Motowns all glowed deep black.
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> Select from Spotify, tunes descend
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> from the ether with no such associations.
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> Select The Selecter on 2 Tone Records
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> with the ska trilby and zoot suit image.
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> Grab hold of record covers. Sniff.
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> The years of spin still available.
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> bw
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