This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the first time I purchased a record album with my own money. I'm not going to flash my "cool badge" at you and claim the first album I ever bought was from the Rolling Stones or the Clash or Van Halen. I had no older brothers or sisters to inform me what was "cool" and, besides, it was the '70s. We didn't label things like we do now. Yup, the first album I ever bought was from Australian easy-rock group, the Little River Band. It was the band's best selling album in the U.S., "First Under the Wire". I liked the first hit song off that album, "Lonesome Loser" (it somehow spoke to me at the time), and I still remember the summer day, visiting my grandmother in Buffalo, asking to go to the department store and then buying the album while my grandma asked all kinds of questions about what kind of music it was. Even then, explaining modern music to your grandma wasn't an easy task....
Up all hours talking baseball, cardboard & collecting