Rockin' Blues

Thursday, August 30, 2007

My Vinyl Treasure. Vol.1.

One of the things i did when in Greece
this summer was to record some of my old vinyl.
A collection of 2.000 records was almost destroyed when
in my absence the room i had them packed was flooded.

I was unlucky to loose all of the graphic work,all the vintage
beautiful covers but the vinyl was not damaged.

My sister who lives outsideChania
in the island of Crete has them now at her house
together with all of my high end stereo equipment
and she now enjoys them tremendously.

When i went to visit her i spent almost four full days
laying at her sofa listening and recording the ones
i had missed the most.

Early Fleetwood Mac like an amazing double
album titled "English Rose" that was a great influence on me
growing up listening to the genious of Mr.
Peter Green`s guitar playing,
John Mayall`s second Bluesbreakers album
titled "A Hard Road" featuring an even younger than the previous mentioned Peter Green,
who had just replaced Eric Clapton,
after Eric left the Bluesbreakers to form Cream,
"Laurel Canyon" featuring a young Mick Taylor
who replaced Peter Green after the later formed
his own Fleetwood Mac, and "U.S.A. Union",the second album
John Mayall released without drums, after the ingenious
"Turning Point", featuring Mr.Harvey Mandel
on electric guitar and the album i consider one of
Mayall`s finest, as a concept, beautiful lyrics and brilliant playing.