Yes indeed. Over the decades, there have been a significant number of album projects that, due to one thing or another, got lost in the sauce and were never released by their respective record labels. Some projects, such as…
Dec 13 2019
Something Cool To Read This Weekend!
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Jimi Hendrix & Joe Pesci Once Played In The Same Band Summoning The Ghosts Of Record Row The Most Wildly Inaccurate …
Dec 9 2019
Johnny Pierre's Holiday Mailbag
Season's Greetings from Mind Smoke Records! With the onslaught of Holiday Cheer, I thought for this week's blog post, I'd respond to some of the mail we've been getting from all of the Mind Smoke Records fans out there!
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Dec 6 2019
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Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: The Final Grand Hoorah! How Rockpile Tried To Change Rock & Roll Miles Davis: A Concerto …
Dec 3 2019
Rock & Roll Geography: My Father's Place (Roslyn, NY)
Several years ago, as part of an ongoing series of blog posts that were part of my Rock Geography series, I did a post on My Father's Place, one of Long Island’s most legendary live venues. At that time, My…
Dec 2 2019
Christmas Cards: It's almost that time of the year!
Next Monday... December 9th...is National Christmas Card Day!
From Smithsonian magazine, A History of Christmas Cards:
" A prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Cole, travelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian…
Nov 30 2019
Long Island Sounds December 2019
Celebrating the diversity of
the Local Music Scene!
DECEMBER 2019 JOIN THE LI SOUNDS MAILING LIST Frank Winesap of Ballyhoo, NY (located somewhere near the Big Duck) says: "Shazam! Ever since …
Nov 26 2019
My 2019 Thanksgiving Playlist
HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEK
From all of us here @
MIND SMOKE RECORDS!
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls…
Nov 22 2019
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A New Recording Rewrites The Break Up Of The Beatles Robert Freeman - The Forgotten Photographer Of The 60's The Untold …
Nov 20 2019
Out of Order: the new Freelance Vandals album
Freelance Vandals lineup 1981
Left to right: "Diamond" Ray Finch, Jack Finch, Chuck Ciany
Billy "the Mountain" Cairns, Mike Adams & Johnny Pierre
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been curating…
Nov 12 2019
Hot Platters: The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968, Reprise Records)
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Reprise Records, 1968
Track List
- The Village Green Preservation Society
- Do You Remember Walter?
- Picture Book
- Johnny Thunder
- Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
- Big Sky
- Sitting by the…
Nov 8 2019
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The Strange 1972 TV Appearance Of Buddy Rich True Stories About Andy Warhol's Life In The Underground Art World The Long …