My Favorite Fuzzy Guitar Songs (Part One)

This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs with fuzzy guitars. See if you agree with any of these!

“Incense and Peppermints,” recorded by the Los Angeles psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and released in May 1967, was written by Tim Gilbert and John S. Carter, though lead guitarist Ed King and keyboardist Mark Weitz created the original instrumental track; the lyrics were contributed later, with 16-year-old Greg Munford

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2025 – A Look at 100 Years Ago

What happened in 1925?

Another year has passed. Every year I look back to see what was happening 100 years ago. On January 3, 1925 – Benito Mussolini made a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.

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What’s a Vogue Picture Record?

In 1946 the picture disc reemerged, when Tom Saffady’s Sav-Way Industries began issuing Vogue Records

Melody Hill was the Circle Sky Records official magazine while we were open between 2002 and 2010. This cover is our second issue (the color version). Donnie had some small versions of the Partridge Family Bus, Monkeemobile, Yellow Submarine, The Monkees, and a garage. We set it all up, right there in the store on a piece of cardboard with a backdrop. I took many photographs and then we photoshopped in the foreground and background images, the “Circle Sky” name, and the album covers in the windows and along the top-front of the building.

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