Thursday, June 25, 2020

[Ed.]'s Treehouse Of Blessed Forgetfulness© Dept.

Thousands of Foamislanders© - that's Roscoe and Hortense Thousands of Pigwhistle IN - have written in to enquire about our Editor-In-Chief [Ed.]! Seems you've missed his updates from The Treehouse Of Blessed Forgetfulness© and want him to touch base!

Turns out he's doing just swell! "This surely is an improvemink on th' old Dumpster Of Despair™ Farq useta make me live in! Why, I gots everthing a guy could want!"

So what's spinning on th' Treehouse Victrola these days? The new Dylan? The old Neil? Turns out it's a swell pair of discs you'll be proud to add to your collection of the arcane, the obscure, the little-known [we get it already  - Ed.]. First up is the only album by Jericho - probably not the band you're thinking of, but this one, on Bearsville, from '71. "It's a swell collection of the kind of rock you just don't hear any more - not heavy, but hard - a little like early ZZ Top. But not much. It's propulsive, man!"

The other waxing [Ed.]'s listening to these days is a private press - NO! WAIT! COME BACK! - from '73, These Trails, by, er - These Trails. "Today, the young people would call this Wyrd Folk, but back then it was just a record. And a mighty fine one, too! Especially if you're baked outta your head, like what these guys was!"


10 comments:

  1. Aaargh, again I forget how this sentence began!
    I'm like a needle stuck in a groove!

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    1. Just very occasionally, you find something of luminous beauty in the fetid swamp of blog comments. Something unexpected - of such diamond-hard brilliance that tears burst from your eyes. In wonder. In gratitude. A few words that seem to convey, in their perfect simplicity, an eternal truth. Such is not the case here.

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  2. Rudy Francisco and These Trails really compliment each other.....

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    1. Overheard in the powder room just minutes ago!

      Rudy Francisco: My! I simply adore that frock on you! Is it new?
      These Trails: This old thing? *simper* But that purse complements your eyes perfectly! You accessorize with such panache!
      Rudy Francisco: You think so? Too kind! Have you lost weight, might I be so bold as to enquire?

      (etc.)

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    2. I think it's fair to say that Mr. Elder is schmaltzy, no?

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    3. With fairness in mind, then - "that Mr. Elder is schmaltzy, no?"

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  3. "These sure are some dandy words you got here Farq!" No wonder they can't give these things away ... if only he had listened to my advice!

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  4. "I reckon I might would better get out to the record store one
    of these days."

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  5. "Huh. I did not know those are places where you stick homogenized salami"

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  6. Some swell suggestions here, but the Mystery Word can now be revealed!

    [See art above - Ed.]

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