Staff Profiles

sonofabelch

Staff Writer / Reviewer

Throughout my adult life, and I guess as early as my teens, I've done my best to show people just how wrong they were when it came to their musical choices. It doesn't matter who it is, or why they think they like a certain band, I've been there to show them why they were wrong and why they should see things my way. Surprisingly, I've actually met a certain degree of resistance along the way but that's ok. In the end, I sleep well knowing I did what I could to educate the masses.

My mission now is simple: Expose people to as much of what they were missing as possible, and to bring back the idea of why they should have paid attention when they had a chance. Here inside this Jukeboxx, we will revisit the albums that were either ignored when they were first released, were discarded long ago, or were there just beneath the surface waiting for exposure that only came in limited amounts. In short, we will look at the albums you either forgot were cool, or skipped past you in the hustle of life. We will also take a look at some of the newer stuff out there, as well, so don't blink.

Case in point- about the time Kiss became not cool with the release of Dynasty, you went out with your friends and broke all your Kiss albums and had a party, probably out in the woods of the town park. Now, how many of you will admit that you went back some years later and bought them all up again, cursing yourself for not having the original copies and the cool things that came with them like the Love Gun cutout from the album? How about that cool Grand Funk: E. Pluribus Funk coin-shaped album, anyone still have that laying around? Maybe you still wish you had that Motorhead: White Vinyl Fever record on the shelf where it should be but your wife sold it at a yard sale some 15 years ago? If so, you know where I'm coming from and where we will be going in the Jukeboxx.

Sit back, relax, and relive what made you cool in the first place. Yes, the wife will be bitchin', the kids will be shaking their heads, and the neighbors will be calling the cops on you when you turn it up, but hey, at least you are cool again.

Welcome back.