This guy just doesn't stop...

Stepping into the confession booth......

So, I saw these guys in 75.Went to Licorice Pizza(guys in SoCal know this one) and bought their first 3 albums  and learned every guitar lick with my fake Les Paul in my bedroom. I thought they were the Apex of R&R,Jimmy Page and Pete Townsend had NOTHING on Ace Frehley.

Thank goodness, cars and girls grabbed my attention in high school.

One of ways to make foolish pay. It's not important to have music, more important to have fans and fans are ones who pay to those who can barely play.

I admire Simmons.  A genuine entrepeneur succeeding in the U.S. (mostly) free market economy.

Licorice Pizza! Tablejockey, I shopped at the one on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Canoga Park when I lived there in '78-'82. LP was a small record store chain in SoCal, of which there were a few. Another was Moby Disc (good name!), in whose Sherman Oaks store on Ventura Boulevard Lucinda Williams could be found standing behind the cash register at in 1987, staring off into space (perhaps writing some lyrics in her head) when not ringing up customer’s purchases. She was playing around L.A. with a small band in little dives---I saw her in a pizza parlor, singing to a crowd of a half dozen. At that time she was recording what I still consider her best album---the s/t one on Rough Trade (1988), a great, great album.

bondmanp- Indeed, the band itself is a marketing machine. Can't fault them for that.

bdp24-I remember Moby Disc, but never shopped there. Are you still living in SoCal, or did you get out of this madness?