Though I recall very distinctly being blown away by The Wreck when it hit the airwaves in '75, the first album I actually owned myself I guess was Sit Down Young Stranger (before they retitled it).. it was 1978 and I was on the U.S.S. White Plains in the middle of the Indian Ocean in the middle of the night. Somehow I had gotten hold of a cassette tape and I listened to If You Could Read My Mind (the song).. and it struck me like a thunderbolt. I was laying in my rack in the dark and all my mates were fast asleep. The ship quietly rocked along with the waves at sea. I rewound the tape and listened to IYCRMM again, and again, and again, and again.. for about an hour I think.. Eventually (I'm 18 years old) I became absolutely stunned that someone could write something with such a depth of feeling and meaning about something.. I remember thinking, "this is completely perfect!"..
Nice memory..
[ June 06, 2007, 15:42: Message edited by: RJ ]
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