Confessions of a Fanboy

Tomorrow is payday and I have already planned on how I’d like to spend half of my allowance- just like Keith Richards. No, I don’t mean I snorted my dad. He’s still alive, and besides… NO! I’m referring to the line from “Happy:”

Well I never kept a dollar past sunset
Always burned a hole in my pants

The Fanboy “Save The Music” campaign is designed to help find a good home for homeless CDs. To that end, I am spying the following:

• The Byrds - 5th Dimension: This is the only album of the so-called classic lineup that I don’t have. It just… slipped through the cracks and a number of these songs are on the There is a Season box. Still, as the recent Let’s Talk About My iPod installments would suggest, I have been listening to the actual albums a lot. I need this one and not just to “complete the set.”
• Tuatara - The Loading Program: I actually ordered this once before. It was on backorder. Never did get it. I’m going to try again. You will all hear about Barrett Martin on these pages, and you will all thank me because of it. Tuatara is one of his projects (along with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, etc.). I think I found it somewhere, in stock and at a good price.
• Tuatara - Trading With the Enemy: This one is out of print, but I think I’ve found a way to lay hands on it at a nice discount. This will complete the Tuatara discography… until the new disc comes out later this year.

It’s going to take a big bite out of my allowance, but it will be worth it. Look for a follow-up at the next Mail Call!

Filed under: Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, The Byrds