What is Pick Your Poison?
....in 1974 i bought my first Beatles record Magical Mystery tour. The next thing I knew I bought Frampton Comes Alive, Band on the Run, and got in trouble in 1979 with the purchase of Pink Floyd's The Wall. I come from a family with a very deep passion for music. Even if we didn't share a love for the same music... That first copy of the Wall was destroyed and disposed of by my dad.... we listened constantly to jazz, classical, blues, and (clandestinely) pop. From those early days I became a collector and officianado. In time, I also became a DJ on WKNH and an audiophile... toss in music snob ie picture Rob from the book and movie High Fidelity. The collecting has never stopped. By the time I graduated from college I had nearly 500 records and several hundred CDs. Sadly, all but 50 or so records were destroyed in a basement flood. The CD collection grew and grew and grew reaching a couple thousand plus.
Technology has now reached a point where I felt a great desire to share the wealth of my passion with my friends and others. I see almost no point in sharing my easily obtainable legitimate music but my library of rare recordings is something others should enjoy. And that is what Pick Your Poison is about. It is a place to come to read about music topics outside of the mainstream and fuel that passion by downloading tracks or whole albums of music you might never have a chance to get ahold of such as the entire Beatles Apple rooftop concert from 1970, Led Zeppelin's final show from Berlin, The Clash's 17 show residency at the Bond's International Casino, Live AID, etc etc etc.
I am blessed by a host of friends Georg Carlson, John Loranger, Dave Brigham, and others who have kindly volunteered to post to this blog. In the beginning, this will be a simple blog where these persons post and it will look pretty simple. The next phase, I will launch a full scale website where their content will be seperated by links. And very soon, I will be providing reviews and links to music you have never heard by artists you love.
Welcome to Pick your Poison.
Eric Weinraub
Technology has now reached a point where I felt a great desire to share the wealth of my passion with my friends and others. I see almost no point in sharing my easily obtainable legitimate music but my library of rare recordings is something others should enjoy. And that is what Pick Your Poison is about. It is a place to come to read about music topics outside of the mainstream and fuel that passion by downloading tracks or whole albums of music you might never have a chance to get ahold of such as the entire Beatles Apple rooftop concert from 1970, Led Zeppelin's final show from Berlin, The Clash's 17 show residency at the Bond's International Casino, Live AID, etc etc etc.
I am blessed by a host of friends Georg Carlson, John Loranger, Dave Brigham, and others who have kindly volunteered to post to this blog. In the beginning, this will be a simple blog where these persons post and it will look pretty simple. The next phase, I will launch a full scale website where their content will be seperated by links. And very soon, I will be providing reviews and links to music you have never heard by artists you love.
Welcome to Pick your Poison.
Eric Weinraub
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