Okay so I recently went to a vinyl record store in LA called Record Surplus which is on Santa Monica Blvd. It had a pretty nice selection of old vinyl albums, and you could listen to them over headphones on three or four conveniently placed record players. I got a kick out of using their record players because I used to have a 70's era Marantz receiver just like the ones they have for your use there. I browsed for about an hour and felt at home in there. A year earlier I had gone to San Francisco and wound up doing the same thing by checking out the Groove Merchant Record store and the Amoeba Music store on Haight Street. And the year before that I was in the Record Mart store in Chicago where I found a treasured album called Powerhouse by the Jazz Crusaders (see earlier post "Jazz Record Found").
Who knows when I may find that other jazz album I've been searching for called; "Feelin's From Within" by Joe Thomas. There's a cut named Coco (click on it) from that album which is the last missing piece from my California road trip playlist. (See my earlier post "Vantastic Voyage.") Although I've looked for it in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and even on Amazon it still eludes me. Yet, I'm not concerned. I've got a feelin within that I'm getting closer.
