Takes me back

Every so often you hear some music and it takes you right back to a time many years ago; some of that music you still love, some of it is just too awful to imagine you ever might have liked it, let alone bought a copy of!

When I went to Manchester Polytechnic, I had a Dansette record player with a red cover and we bought albums and played records:

I don’t know how I heard about Jefferson Aiplane because it wouldn’t have been played much if at all except maybe on John Peel’s show, which, actually, I didn’t listen to. So maybe I saw the LP in a music shop, or maybe a friend had a copy I heard… that particular part of my memory is lost. Maybe i thought the picture of Grace Slick on the front looked a little like my best friend, Frankie Partridge.

The inside bore a picture which revolted and fascinated me… I liked peanut butter, I had American penfriends but no-one had ever mentioned this:

I often play the CD now, I still have the record, but I slip the CD into the computer while I’m working and sing along to Grace, good old Grace, amazing Grace!

Side One

1. We can be together
2. Good shepherd
3. The farm
4. Hey Frederick

Side Two

1. Turn my life down
2. Wooden ships
3. Eskimo Blue day
4. A song for all seasons
5. Meadowlands
6. Volunteers