1024. beginning to see the light

The Velvet Underground deliver some straight up rock and roll circa 1969, of which there never seemed to be enough in a world full of too much everything, particularly the kind that might  have seen some hope at the end of that long dark tunnel. Or was it a train coming the other way?  Or maybe it was like that dream Lou Reed had where he met himself coming the other way … and everything was alright.

VU-1969

1107. this is tao

As the album cover put it, “Never retract, never retreat, get the thing done and let them howl.” Such is Tao. As for Sons of Freedom, we’re still waiting for their proper reckoning as one of the great ROCK bands of the 1980s, particularly on that first album.

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