#rapidroythatstockcarboy

[charliehopper]

ALBUMS I HAVE BECAUSE OF DAVID HATFIELD #1. Over on the West side of Indy where David and I met and started a high school rock band, today was 500 Race Day. So “Rapid Roy That Stock Car Boy” isn’t exactly perfect for the occasion, but it’s so fun, why not. That is a fun song. David and his brothers had eclectic tastes like a lot of seventies album listeners, and for this post I could have gone with anything from Chicago to Zappa to Paul Simon to Led Zep. We Topher Graces and Ashton Kutchers listened to a melting pot of albums (David and I were pretty young, younger than the guys on That 70s Show, as we hung out listening to his and his brothers’ albums; but it was legit 70s contemporaneous listening). Today with the whole seventies vibe making a huge comeback I’m sometimes amused like when at work a guy was playing 70s songs on a playlist and that was cool but it went from Fleetwood Mac to Velvet Underground at one point, which wouldn’t have happened, at least on the west side of Indy. It’s similar to how my son was listening to a playlist the other day and I heard him jamming to “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels)” off this album and it was just so, I don’t know—Croce never shied away from sentiment to the point where a lot of his songs were dripping with sentimentally square mainstream maudlin-ness and probably not what a high school dude would have been blasting back in the day. Who knows, of course, but it would have just been on the radio all the time, everywhere, so... I guess I’m losing my point. My point is that the 70s stuff is all re-contextualized now. ‘That’s not the way it feels,’ as the song says. In other news, check the initial caps on Time and Eternity in the typed-out lyrics to “Time In a Bottle.” Heavy stuff, dude. Deep. #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylalbum #jimcroce #jimcrocesongs #youdontmessaroundwithjim #timeinabottle #operatorthatsnotthewayitfeels #rapidroythatstockcarboy #vinylcommunity #hoppervinyl #ellipticalsoundtrack #treadmillsoundtrack #nowspinning #nowspinningonvinyl (at Noblesville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx9E0XpA58J/?igshid=k5remjyzrzsl