Anybody know where to score a copy of the 2016 Eli and the thirteenth Confession SACD?

emarei -- I was in...or just out of...high school.  I'd previously enjoyed Wedding Bell Blues, which was a modest hit on L.A. AM radio.  I went to a party.  Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was on the record player.  I absolutely had to have it but none of my go-to record stores had a copy.  I finally found one at a hipster record store in West Hollywood, ironically just a few doors down from the Troubadour.  I kept my eyes peeled for any mention of the woman.  Was it the L.A. Times or the L.A. Free Press that mentioned her upcoming Troubadour appearance? Who knows?

Oh wow, you're almost in the same situation that I'm in when I found out about her as well. How much did a record cost back then? Also I did read that at the time she was more popular on the radio in the West Coast than the East. I cannot imagine music on the AM Radio as nowadays I only hear morning programs and talk shows on it. Funny and pretty fortunate how you heard about her just right before her performance there. I could only imagine.

There were at least three rock-and-roll AM stations in Los Angeles in the late 1960's.  There were no FM rock-and-roll stations at all.  FM stations still mostly broadcast in mono, and the few stations that did broadcast in stereo mostly featured M.O.R. -- movie themes, percussion spectaculars & the like.  Stereo quality was pretty problematic, too.  One channel almost always had much lower quality.  It was distorted and ugly.  The one or two stations that could broadcast quality sound in both channels could be counted on the fingers of one hand.  College radio? Public radio?  Huh?  Wha?  There was, though, an excellent jazz station, KNOB ("the jazz knob").  Still better, the AM classical station KFAC had an FM simulcast.  Lemme tell ya'.  I listened to those stations a lot!  Excuse my ramblings.

Nah it's okay, I am fascinated by the time period and the development that has followed. Like I cannot imagine having to buy a record and not having much options for portable music except a portable radio. Having to listen to music only on Mono is also something that I could only imagine or say being limited to watch the shows on tv or movie theaters, no on demand streaming. But some say that mono has this warmth and that Vinyl has this quality, but I have yet to experience it.

emarei -- I agree.  Mono doesn't do it for me. I lived through several years of the pre-stereo era.  I was gobsmacked the day my dad brought home a stereo to replace his mono rig.  Was it 1958? 1960?  A whole new, wonderful world.  I have no shortage of pre-stereo monophonic LPs on my record shelf, either.  Some were dad & mom's.  Some were scored by me and my older sister.  True, there are exceptions, such as several 1950's Sinatra discs (and we mustn't forget the Herman's Hermits LP!), but in the main I just don't listen to 'em.  Call me a tasteless pseudophile.