Forgotten Classic Rock and Cheap Wine
The next day, still dazed from the experience, I marched into my local record store, bought the album and then spent countless hours in my room listening to it on the little portable record player I had won in a sewing contest. (Anyone who knows me is now howling with laughter asking, Myra, YOU won a sewing contest???)
Now for the benefit of the young’uns among us, the album’s full name was The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It featured several Bowie hits like Moonage Daydream, Starman, Ziggy Stardust, and Suffragette City but to my impressionable ears every song on this album was a heavenly inspired cosmic composition because my brain was still orbiting Mars after that life-altering concert.
David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust has largely been forgotten in the age of Lady Gaga except by those corporate music chieftains at EMI/Virgin who, in June of this year, released a re-mastered “40 Anniversary Edition” in an attempt to squeeze new revenue out of old gold.
OMG, has it really been 40 years since I saw that concert? Am I that old? Now I am really depressed and in need of some “cheap wine” to help me contemplate the fact that my life is more than half over.
A glass of Prosecco to the rescue!
This light, crisp, white Italian bubbly is the perfect prescription for my “Ziggy turns 40” induced middle-age crisis. If you have never heard of Prosecco, let me be the first to introduce you to my latest obsession.
As a lover of both classic rock and cheap red wine, this feature is a win-win.
There’s a lot of music in the 60s, 70s, and 80s archives that hasn’t lost its freshness or savor. Concerning cheap wine, I trust that some coverage will go to the products of Bully Hill and Boone’s Farm…?
Obviously you missed the first installment of this series. Here it is.
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/08/11/forgotten-classic-rock-and-cheap-wine/
You forgot Kijafa.
How wonderful! An apolitical lifestyle dialog!!
However, I’m too old to appreciate this new blogging series–my musical tastes stopped evolving with the 50s. I’m an American Songbook devotee.
But as to wine, even Prosecco is not cheap enough for me! I drink Inglenook–I credit reaching 92 dementia-free to (1) playing bridge (2)going without shoes most of the time (massages those 100,000 nerve endings in the soles of your feet) and 3) having a martini or few glasses of wine every evening.
I could not afford #3 without going cheap-o, so best NOT to develop a sophisticated palate.