Best year for albums? - Bilge

T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Fri, Jul 1, 2005 11:19 AM Nice story donhonyc. I had a similar favorite store in San Diego (actually in El Cajon, a suburb of SD) called Blue Meanie. I'm sure shipwreckjoey remembers it. They stocked everything new and old, including tons of imported picture sleeve 45s, numerous bootleg LPs, loads of badges, and all the magazines that were around then like Bomp, Trouser Press, Creem, Crawdaddy, Bam Balam, Zigzag, New York Rocker, Slash, etc. They always had a TV on showing clips from old TV music shows, or music movies like the TAMI show, and even British TV music shows like Top of the Pops. I used to hang out there for hours watching clips of bands like the Jam. This was 3 years before MTV so most music videos were not available (once in a while you could catch good ones on Night Flight - a late night TV show). The staff was real cool. And often someone you knew or some local musician would stop in. Later I used to shop a lot at Off The Record as well but Blue Meanie was the first store of it's kind that I knew about. Does any San Diegan remember Encore Records on El Cajon Blvd. near Hoover High School? They had thousands of 45s, all for 35c each.

Nice story donhonyc.

I had a similar favorite store in San Diego (actually in El Cajon, a suburb of SD) called Blue Meanie. I'm sure shipwreckjoey remembers it. They stocked everything new and old, including tons of imported picture sleeve 45s, numerous bootleg LPs, loads of badges, and all the magazines that were around then like Bomp, Trouser Press, Creem, Crawdaddy, Bam Balam, Zigzag, New York Rocker, Slash, etc. They always had a TV on showing clips from old TV music shows, or music movies like the TAMI show, and even British TV music shows like Top of the Pops. I used to hang out there for hours watching clips of bands like the Jam. This was 3 years before MTV so most music videos were not available (once in a while you could catch good ones on Night Flight - a late night TV show). The staff was real cool. And often someone you knew or some local musician would stop in.

Later I used to shop a lot at Off The Record as well but Blue Meanie was the first store of it's kind that I knew about.

Does any San Diegan remember Encore Records on El Cajon Blvd. near Hoover High School? They had thousands of 45s, all for 35c each.

Post #169181 by thejab on Fri, Jul 1, 2005 11:19 AM