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Reminds me of a favorite scene from Diner: “The whole left side of the menu.”

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Ha! What a great film - I need to give it another watch soon.

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Sep 22, 2023Liked by Dan Epstein

I prefer to play LPs front to back, as I'm a freak who logs every album listen. However, Da Capo is a Side 1 and done record. Lately I've been obsessed with Four Sail. What a record. Love rocks! Great reading this this morning.

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Some days, Four Sail is my favorite Love LP!

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I didn’t know you had a Providence period! I’m guessing you worked at Tortilla Flats and the record shop was either Tom’s Tracks or In Your Ear.

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Yeah, a really brief one — I haven't been back since that summer, though I'd kind of like to check it out again. And I think it was In Your Ear... but the place I worked was called Montana (or, as everybody but the owner called it, Montana's) — because when you think of Tex-Mex cuisine, you of course think of Montana!

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Oh wow I thought Montana(‘s) was long closed by then. Shows what memory does to time, and vice versa.

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Speaking of Providence — did Store 24 ever expand their hours? It used to greatly amuse/annoy me that a convenience store with that name would actually close before I got off the late shift...

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I don’t think so; it’s long gone now. I remember that process too: Learning why it was called Store 24 and then learning that this one ... wasn’t.

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Hahaha — I was like, "Do they mean 24 hours a weekend?"

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Ok. I just listened to four minutes and three seconds of “Revelation” and got bored so I put on “Up in her Room” by The Seeds, because that, for me, accomplished what Love set out to do.

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And they did it earlier as well as better, at least in terms of releasing it on vinyl!

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Enjoyed reading this, especially as I wrote about 'Da Capo' a few months ago myself, which included a pretty robust defense of 'Revelation,' mostly in relation to how it exemplified one side of the experimentation of the time (long-form performances influenced by jazz and Hindustandi music) while the first side exemplified the other (the greater in songwriting and production).

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I can dig the defense of Revelation from a theoretical or pop cultural standpoint. I just wish actually listening to it was anywhere near as interesting as the arguments in its defense!

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It pales in comparison to the Butterfield Blues Band's 'East-West' or the Doors' 'The End,' that's for sure.

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Yeah, East-West – now THERE’S a jam!

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Sep 22, 2023Liked by Dan Epstein

Thanks for the tip regarding the problem with the Da Capo reissue, as I was considering grabbing it. I’ll just keep enjoying my stereo copy.

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Geez what an image. 😳Who knew they were cakes? And I thought “Da Capo” was a Scorsese film. But that sensitive lyric was surely worth memorializing. That’s my boy!😅👍IE

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Some cakes come without frosting 🤷🏻

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I throughly enjoyed this because I am an old fart. Therefore, I and many of my comrades just had to hear Seven and Seven Is every day. The album nah. My husband and I still listen to it every so often, but Little Black Book ( was that the title?) really holds up so well. It was like a standard then and still is now. But you’re all correct about Butterfield and East West. And then there’s the Electric Flag with that truly excellent version of Killin’ Floor.

And what happens when you get to be an old fart is you sit down in your living room and play as many versions of Killin’ Floor as you can in the same evening. And then you go back to the Electric Flag.

Thank you for loving the music you do and writing about it so well, so accurately and so lovingly. Takes me back to a different time and place.

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Right on, Amy! Old farts definitely welcome in these parts!

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Oranges Skies, carnivals and cotton candy and you!

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The unhinged quality of Arthur’s voice in Revelation always takes me by surprise. He’s emoting something entirely different from the clichéd lyrics.

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