KATRINA AND THE WAVES 
The other album cover that I more or less cleaned up for framing was practically the first record that I picked up out of my front yard from the debris from Hurricane Katrina: The artist for this one was Katrina and the Waves (I kid you not); it was the cover from a 12” single, not for their big hit “Walking on Sunshine” but for the follow-up “Do You Want Crying” – and yes, there was quite a bit. (May 2010) * * *  One night, I selected two of the albums and took them to the hotel room to see what I could do with them. One was practically the very first album that I picked up in the yard – a 12” single by Katrina and the Waves called “Do You Want Crying” (I never get tired of telling that story either). I washed the mud off the disks, and they didn’t look too bad; but the album covers were a lost cause: Even the handful that could potentially be cleaned up would no longer be usable for storing the albums in after they dried. (August 2015) * * * Since I am down to a quarterly schedule rather than a monthly schedule, my annual list is a lot shorter, so I will try listing all of the people that I have discussed in some depth rather than just the Under Appreciated Rock Band and the Story of the Month. They are all punk rock bands of one kind or another this year (2015-2016), and the most recent post includes my overview of the early rap/hip hop scene that an old friend, George Konstantinow challenged me to write – probably so long ago that he might have forgotten. March 2016 – 1980’s-2000’s punk/funk band THE LOVEMASTERS; Story of the Month on Pat Boone; also, Twisted Sister, the B-52’s, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, ZZ Top, Deee-Lite, Katrina and the Waves, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, the Ramrods, Robert Mulrooney, Bootsey X, Bobby Beyond, One String Sam, the Credibility Gap, Dark Carnival, Nathaniel Mayer. (Year 7 Review) |