Night Owl Cards

  I've gone on way too much on my love for music acts on cards. It's safe to say that if cards of rock musicians were as prevalent as baseball cards were when I was a kid, I'd know as much about baseball as my daughter does -- probably less. There aren't that many music card sets out there and I've completed the big one from '91 MusiCards. There are the Warner Brothers promo cards from the '70s that I love, but they're not easy to find and not affordable either. So that's basically all I know that's left. Sure, I could collect the Yo, MTV Raps set, but rappers aren't my thing. That leaves me to taking whatever custom cards I can find. Fortunately we have some great custom-card makers among us bloggers and I have fine -- actually fantastic -- customs of Joan Jett, Garbage's Shirley Manson, Run DMC and a couple of others. But maybe the highlight showed up in my mailbox the other day. These customs struck at the heart of my budding radio ap...

This isn't the first time that Chris from The Collector has coerced me into writing a music-themed post. Actually, I don't need any coercing. All it takes is music and an idea that appeals to me and then I'm all set to bore my readers!   Chris devoted a post to a rather simple topic: list your all-time favorite musical artist for each letter of the alphabet.   It was interesting to see who he chose. Being of a certain age, his choices were mostly from the '90s and turn-of-the-century. A couple of guys older than me included their choices in the comments and most of those were from the '60s or early '70s.   I'm going to be dead center in the middle.   As I've mentioned before , we form our musical tastes around the teenage years/early 20s and barely stray from it for the rest of our lives. I'm no different. I found a similarly-dated baseball card to go with each musical group I chose and the vast majority of those cards are from the '70s and ...