23Jan 2013 by R&O No Comments

Sugar Man Found

Music, People
Way back in 1970, before MTV and iTunes, Sixto Rodriguez recorded Cold Fact. It was a cool, trippy, hipster kind of folk-rock album with promises of a new and refreshing pop artist. But it was summarily ignored. He recorded his second studio album, Coming From Reality, in 1971 and his record company (A&M) waited in anticipation. Still no one bought his music. So he gave up. Rodriguez abandoned his recording aspirations shortly after and returned to his previous job of home renovation and labouring in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. But it didn't end there. Legend has it that a young American woman brought Cold Fact to her South African boyfriend who in turn shared the new discovery with his friends via cassette tapes. And from there it went viral.…
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17Oct 2012 by R&O No Comments
Horrifying Gnesa

Horrifying Gnesa

Music, People
NYC songstress Gnesa is using the Internet to make us sick. Sick of extremely talentless bimbos shaking their floppy boobs, stopping short of revealing a nasty gunt while screeching and squawking over revolting techno background music. Gnesa (really?...Gnesa?!?) has pushed the limits of human endurance with the horrifying pieces of aural excrement she calls music. Click the play button if you dare and prepare to shit out your own internal organs as your body does everything it can to stop the noise. Gnesa provides us with a logical reason for suicide. And murder.
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17Sep 2012 by R&O 1 Comment
CKLG Top 30 Lists Circa 1973

CKLG Top 30 Lists Circa 1973

Music
Remember 1973? If you're in your late forties or fifties and lived on the west coast, you probably listened to CKLG 73 AM Radio. It was the top purveyor of pop music in Vancouver, Victoria and anywhere else its signal would reach, pumping all the schmaltzy hits of the day into our homes, cars and transistor radios. I was an avid listener to CKLG in the early 70's and collected their top 30 lists in Victoria, distributed through F.W. Woolworth Co Limited at 1200 Douglas Street or Kelly Deyong Sound Corp. Ltd at 646 Yates Street. Both businesses are long gone but those brightly coloured little top 30 lists have been socked away in a box since I was a kid. I have a total of 25 lists and scanned…
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11Feb 2012 by R&O 2 Comments
More Rock Shots from Doug

More Rock Shots from Doug

Entertainment, Music
Fellow employee and 70's rock fan Doug Bower supplied me with a few more original concert photos, joining his previous Queen photos and bootlegs. Remember the 70's? Those were the days when it was perfectly legal to bring your camera to a concert and take photos of your heroes at work. It was all very civilized back then. Photos include Meatloaf, Ellen Foley (original Meatloaf backup singer and performer on 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light'), Billy Joel, Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Alice Cooper and Ric Ocasek (The Cars). They're not the most attractive group of people (other than Ms. Foley of course) but they were great performers and songwriters, significantly more than the idiots that top the charts in this century. Christ, I miss those days. Click the photos to view…
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