The Prince Of F*****G Darkness : RIP Ozzy

Imagine being 6 or 7 years old. Still quite impressionable and easily rattled by the creepy, eerie, and otherwise “dark” side of existence. Your older brother, 12 or 13, throws a record on mom and dad’s turntable and says “Listen to this.” The needle drops and from out of those Pioneer tower speakers comes 100 […]

Friday’s Haul

Greetings. Just a quick one to share yesterday’s vinyl haul from my friends at Karma Records of Warsaw. I was able to snag three out of the five records John at Karma had waiting for me. And when I mentioned what I was picking up I forgot one, Black Sabbath’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! Black Sabbath […]

Paul Gilbert : The Dio Album

Paul Gilbert is an 80s guitar vituoso survivor. He was one of THE 80s guitar shredders, coming out of the Guitar Institute of Technology in the mid-80s in Los Angeles and formed the speed metal band Racer X, recording on Mike Varney’s Shrapnel Records. But his biggest gig was the pop metal band Mr. Big, […]

Black Sabbath : Sabotage(2021 Remaster)

My first big dive into the world of Black Sabbath was when I was 13. For Christmas my parents bought me my first major stereo system, an all-in-one Soundesign stereo with turntable, AM/FM receiver, dual cassette deck and 10-band graphic equalizer. It was all encased in a faux wood cabinet(on wheels no less) with two […]