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Week 18: GALAXIE 500 (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

4 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

They weren't a particularly well-known nor long-lived band, but their music is quite timeless in spite of this. A breed of alternative rock known as "shoegaze", Galaxie 500 takes that sound of the late 80s and early 90s and makes it decidedly dreamie...

Week 17: GÁBOR SZABÓ (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

3 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

While I would consider myself a fan of international music, as an English speaker I must admit a bias for English and American artists. Not only is it the music I am surrounded with, but it's the music with lyrics I can understand! Primarily an instr...

Week 16: GNARLS BARKLEY (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

1 Jul 2021 8 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards

Sadly only together for two albums, CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse shone brightly while it lasted and during my final high school years and first years in college, these guys were absolute tops for me. One of the best modern takes on soul music I know,...

Week 15: THE ROLLING STONES (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

30 Jun 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

Together now for almost 55 years, releasing 25 studio albums in that timeframe, touring all the while, and in possession of one of the most "I wish I had thought of that one first" names for a rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones are the behemoths...

Replacing a clutch and gearbox on a 1995 Nissan Almera N15

29 Jun 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower

The gearbox on my 1995 N15 Almera of many miles has been on its way out for some while. At the last MOT it flew through with but 2 advisories for negligible issues however the gearbox was rated officially 'b0rked' and not long for this world. Rather...

Week 14: THE DOORS (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

29 Jun 2021 5 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

Morrison's poetry and Manzarek's use of the keyboard as bass gave The Doors a distinct sound among the many emergent rock talents in the 60s. Decades later, my teenage self would discover the six albums made by this group in Jim Morrison's lifetime a...

Week 13: NIRVANA (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

28 Jun 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

One of the most visible and talked about bands of my youngest years in the early 90s was definitely Nirvana. My parents had their cassettes and t-shirts and even as a little kid I knew it was atypical for a naked baby to be on the front of one of tho...

Week 12: THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

22 Jun 2021 7 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards

One of history's greatest pioneers and players of the guitar, Jimi Hendrix died too young! He went largely unnoticed in the United States until hopping over to the UK and forming "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, bec...

Week 11: DR. BUZZARD'S ORIGINAL SAVANNAH BAND (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

20 Jun 2021 4 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards

Many today perhaps do not remember (or have ever even heard of) Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, but I am happy to remind (or introduce) them. A blend of disco and big band/swing, the group was formed by two half-brothers (the group's songwriter...

Week 10: ELVIS PRESLEY (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

17 Jun 2021 8 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

He was the king of rock and roll, but the king had no clothes when it came to actual songwriting or guitar-playing. Nonetheless, his voice and good looks were unmatched and he was the biggest thing there ever was for awhile. His body of work stands t...