Tag Archives: Blood Sweat & Tears

Grotesqueries at Random, Vol. 72: Dead Boys/Cold Blood

Today is Halloween…A day maligned by some conspiratorial types as a vestigial remnant of humanity’s Satan-worshiping pre-Christian past at worst, or a superstitious backslide into paganism at best. That is if it’s not just another excuse for people to be afraid of every damn thing including terrorism, sexual predators, kidnappers, vandals, people putting foreign […]

Records at Random Vol. 58 - Santana III

I’m almost positive that I purchased the self-titled 1971 LP commonly referred to as III (to distinguish it from their self-titled debut) from San Francisco-based Latin-Rock stalwarts Santana by accident. The way I remember it, I saw the name and title-free cover — with its transparent spaceman grabbing at quasars while a Pegasus-riding barbarian […]