0010 - 50 Foot Wave

Around 8 or 9 years ago, I worked as a freelance IT guy.  I'm not sure I was particularly well cut out for the life of a freelancer - I didn't put enough time into finding new work, so while I was happy with having lots of time to do "my own thing", I also never really had quite enough money to be comfortable.

Part of my problem was one specific website: epitonic.com.  It looked a bit different back then - a lot less web 2.0 (god, how I hate that term) than it does today.  On days when I wasn't working, and a lot of days when I ought to have been, I'd go to Epitonic, pick a band I liked and then just spend the day clicking on links they suggested to similar bands and downloading whatever mp3s were offered for free, to burn them to CD and listen to them at my leisure.  It was a great way to find new music and all legal and above board, which was nice.

0007 - 3D Picnic

3D Picnic (also known as 3-D Picnic and Three D. Picnic) aren't the first band I've written about that I didn't know anything about beforehand, but they are the first about whom there seems to be very little information readily available.  What I believe I know is this:

They were active in LA in the late 80s and early 90s and released 3 albums, Dirt, Sunshine & Cockroaches and covers collection New Wave Party;

They were fronted by Dallas Don Burnet, who at some point was also a member of the rather better known (albeit still obscure) Thelonius Monster.

Aerosmith

Despite being, on this very blog, largely glowing in my praise of AC/DC's Bon Scott fronted albums, and also at heart, very much a rock music fan, I have to admit to disliking, hating even, 70s rock.  Partly this is, I'm sure (and as I noted in the comments of my post on 5000 Volts), because I don't really know a lot of 70s music, certainly when compared to my knowledge of early 80s music, so there's little to challenge my view of the genre as being tedious, bland, self-indulgent dullardry.

Which brings me to Aerosmith.

Bryan Adams

Good old Bryan Adams - everything he does, he does it for you and you and you and you...

I'm a bit surprised, given my substantial collection of compilation albums, that I have only one Bryan Adams song.  More surprising is that it's not Everything I Do, or Run To You - it's not even Summer Of 69.  It's a song I'd completely forgotten existed, but that lives on unremembered, track 6 of Now That's What I Call Music! volume 6: It's Only Love.

AC/DC: The Bon Scott Years

I have a strange kind of love for AC/DC.  I've never been fanatical about them, but I've liked their music ever since my older brother bought a copy of their live album If You Want Blood, You've Got It in the early 80s.  I've always, though, been more of a fan of the band, rather than their music.  I mean, I'd have no trouble reeling off a top-10 of great AC/DC tracks, but even though I have eleven albums by them (and the '74 Jailbreak EP), aside from Highway To Hell and Back In Black, I haven't listened to any of them all the way through since some time in the 80s.  Some of them I've never listened to before now.