Now that I’ve done the heavy lifting informing you about the important news of the day (see post below) I think I’ll squeeze in a quick vanity post.

What album (on vinyl) that I once owned would I like to own again, you ask? Why, that would be Fever and Smoke by The Three Suns. I have no clue what happened to my copy. It actually wasn’t mine. It arrived in my childhood home back in the 1970s when my father bought an old–though still working at the time–stereo cabinet, a massive thing about seven feet long and three feet high that still sits in my parents’ living room today. The person that sold the thing to my father threw in a big pile of long playing records to go with it, many of them in “Living Stereo” (I love that phrase Living Stereo–it sounds so… organic).

Attracted by the woman on the cover (yow-CH!), as kids we started playing the Fever and Smoke ablum for kicks and sort of got hooked on it, especially that freaky version of the “Colonel Bogey March” on side two. Then years later I, somewhat embarrassed, played the record for a few friends. Turned out they loved it. And many years after that, one of them asked me, “Whatever happened to that Fever and Smoke ablum? Do you still have it?” No I don’t. Gave it away? Broke it? Can’t remember. I can however with great clarity still hear in my head the five drumbeats in the opening track. According to another page on this Three Suns site, that album is one of the essentials for fans.