Steve, cool to hang out and shop the Drop. Thanks, Chris

St John Green makes another showing.

I recently discovered your channel and am just starting to get into this type of music. I’ve never heard of most of these bands and checked them out as I watched your video. And wow I am now a fan of all of them! That Pallbearer song you mentioned is awesome!

Sure do love the cover art work on those records.

Stoked all you guys got to go to Rockstore. Great pickups man. Awesome that the St John Green was still in the bins.

Zonkman !!!!!!!! Very cool you met up with everyone!!! Nice pick ups. I would of loved to gone. cheers !!!

Dude, that Metallica-ized Zonkman sign is awesome! Maybe better than any of the records you found. 😂 Glad you scored that St. John Green. I remember those Ritchie videos… classic. Good seeing you, bud. Hopefully we’ll get up one more time before the end of the year. Cheers ✌🏻

I need a cover for my OG St John Green. If you don’t want the cover send it my way lol. I had mine before Richie! Cool cover on Fraction

PS - that Metallica-inspired sign is AWESOME

Namaste Zonkman - I’m going to use that crate/mind trick to psych out my competition at the next local drop in my area. Full credit to you sir! Zonkman 2024! 🇺🇸☮️

Zonkman! Here I was thinking that Noble Records was in SC this whole time. I should have known better by seeing some of the other meet-up's. You guys down in NC and SC are legendary. Way to go on the St.JG and the beautiful Fraction album and packaging. Well done all around Steve. Did you guys get any power outages around your way from the storm? Hope everything is slowly or quickly getting better down there~ Rob/Boston

So awesome that you got St. John Green. Great label on that record. I'd like to get that one - I remember when Vinyl Richie showed it for five videos in a row. lol The Zonkman ornament from your colleague at work is too cool. I'm not familiar with Mothership but I'm definitely going to stream some. Sounds like you got all the records you wanted most and had some fun bar-b-que fellowship with all the VC people afterwards! (Too bad Dave wasn't feeling well...) Thanks for showing the records Zonkman!

Hey Steve. Glad you had a great day with the VC meetup. Chance has really made a big impression on the VC landscape. That custom swag your buddy made for you is very nice 👍. That's a thoughtful gift. I've been thinking plenty about all you VC people on NC because of the Helene damage. I feel terrible about the plight of the people in Asheville and surrounding areas. Glad you're good 👍

Metal Theologian turned me on to your channel, and I'm glad he did! You are definitely putting out some positive and groovy vibes. I'm just getting back into records after about 30 or 35 years and having a blast discovering old music new to me. Great beard, man!👌🤘

Great to see ya dude. Very cool laser cut thingie. St.John Green, heck yeah. Great pick ups.🍻

Hey Steve. Great video. Man, I wish I lived close to Noble Records! Great Mothership albums, and sweet snag on the St. John Green! Nothing like a good enabler 😂

Awesome hang and I think you made out better putting the Boxset back getting what you go! Some sweet stuff! I didn’t notice you got that killer psych record and that it was sealed!! Very cool! Also your buddy Rob coming in way clutch with the Zonkman cutout!!

thats a cool logo for ya, "Zonkman" similar to the metallica logo!

Great video!!!

Music was changing, in 1967, from the poppy Brill Building slick production of Top 40 hits, to a San Francisco-influenced California sound. Surf had been big 1963, through '65, but Brian Wilson took the genre to its ultimate expression in 1966, with Pet Sounds, his magnum opus. "Music", the cumulative enterprise that is Popular Music at any given time, was morphing from Beatlemania, to a harder brand of rock 'n' roll that would be called Rock. That genre would morph into Heavy Metal Artists began taking themselves seriously, crafting their albums around themes and connected songs. Neil Diamond started out making good singles, not too challenging, but great rhythm and production, and catchy lyrics, then took himself too seriously. Still, it was always fun playing Solitary Man. The Doors were in their prime, in 1967, the first album great, but the second, Strange Days, a giant leap forward. It was a crackerjack year! The Beatles could do nothing wrong, in 1967. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane led off a powerhouse year that ended with the double-A-sided single, Hello, Goodbye b/w I Am the Walrus. Pete Townshend and the Who stepped up their game, releasing The Who Sell Out, one of the band's best outings, and still one of my favorite LPs from the 'Sixties. Along with A Quick One While He's Away, it was a precursor to the grandiosity of Tommy and Quadrophenia. In short, 1967 was a very good year, the first of many to come. There were a lot of good records. Vanilla Fudge changed the landscape with their psychedelic version of the Supremes' smash, You Keep Me Hanging On. Sadly, the rest of the album was not as engaging. The band would follow up with another pop-retake, The Beat Goes On, but again, the album did not live up to the single, a fatal flaw, in those days. The Electric Prunes LP was interesting, but not gripping, and the band suffered from terminally bad management. Their manager sent out another band, to promote the album, and had them record a follow-up disc. The same thing would happen to Fleetwood Mac, a few years later, following the sudden departure of key member, and incomparable guitarist, Peter Green, with a better outcome. Strawberry Alarm Clock boasted the under-utilized Ed King, who would go on to help create Lynyrd Skynyrd's sound, but the album still sounds Pop-py, more Top 40 than psychedelic, and far from the gritty Southern Rock of Skynyrd. Between the Buttons, though, is a true classic. If you're listening to the UK version, that is, minus the add-on of the Let's Spend the Night Together/Ruby Tuesday single. Eric Burdon deserved a better fate than he got, but Winds of Change was a big part of why he didn't. A lackluster LP, buried beneath his ego, it charted a new course for the Animals: straight to the cut-out bin! Aretha's break-out 1967 LP, with R-E-S-P-E-C-T, was a tad tepid. Lady Soul, released 10 months later, featured Eric Clapton, Joe South, and Bobby Womack to better results. You missed the best album of the year, possibly even the decade, the last album from the original line-up of Love, Forever Changes. It's still on my Hot 200 great albums list, after 56 years, and thousands of plays. Like the other records on my list, it opens up to repeated listenings. Popular Music exploded in 1967, in ways not seen since the late 18th and early 19th Century, when the "great composers" were busily inventing the artform. Best of 1967 01 F O R E V E R C H A N G E S Love 02 S U R R E A L I S T I C P I L L O W Jefferson Airplane 03 S T R A N G E D A Y S the Doors 04 A R E Y O U E X P E R I E N C E D ? Jimi Hendrix Experience 05 A G A I N Buffalo Springfield 06 J O H N W E S L E Y H A R D I N G Bob Dylan 07 A X I S : B O L D A S L O V E Jimi Hendrix Experience 08 S G T P E P P E R ' S L O N E L Y H E A R T S C L U B B A N D the Beatles 09 S O M E T H I N G E L S E the Kinks 10 T H E W H O S E L L O U T the Who 11 M A G I C A L M Y S T E R Y T O U R the Beatles 12 B E T W E E N T H E B U T T O N S the Rolling Stones 13 T H E D O O R S ( I ) the Doors 14 M O B Y G R A P E ( I ) Moby Grape 15 D I S R A E L I G E A R S Cream 16 D A Y S O F F U T U R E P A S S E D the Moody Blues 17 A F T E R B A T H I N G A T B A X T E R ' S Jefferson Airplane 18 Y O U N G E R T H A N Y E S T E R D A Y the Byrds 19 P I P E R A T T H E G A T E S O F D A W N Pink Floyd 20 T H E R E A R E B U T F O U R S M A L L F A C E S the Small Faces 21 G R O O V I N ' the Young Rascals 22 I N E V E R L O V E D A M A N T H E W A Y I L O V E Y O U Aretha Franklin 23 E L E C T R I C M U S I C F O R T H E M I N D A N D B O D Y Country Joe & the Fish 24 T H E B E E G E E S F I R S T the Bee Gees 25 E A S T E R E V E R Y W H E R E 13th Floor Elevators

Great tour love your mr. Roboto first time seeing your channel and subscribed 😀🐸

I have a reissue of 'Grape Jam'. RIP Jerry Miller. That Earth record has a stunning sleeve. Good luck in the contest!

Short 'n sweet! Cool, entry.

Thanks for the shoutout Zonkman and nice to meet you, my first time here and I get a shoutout, It's so cool being in the vc. Turkey gravy color that's a new one for me😀

Hey Zonkman - Really fine picks that I have never heard, though I know the first. I keep meaning to investigate King Buffalo, since you mention them frequently!

Good picks.

Just entered Zonk

Nice entry Zonk

Hey Steve 👋. You can toot King Buffalo's 🥳 horn anytime you want 😅. I don't have any yet but I'll look for your favorite. Very cool entry for JT. I've got Craig subbed up and working on his thread. Namaste. Greg

No way ! I'm so pleased that you're doing this, and buffalo is... Food ! 🦬 Haha Grape Jam works, and Bees making honey is one of my favorite foods ! That verse on the back of "Earth" is like Samson & Delilah.. the old folk / blues tune that The Dead liked to do often live. We just got back from the Rib Cook-Off. OK.. I'm gonna listen to King Buffalo here in a bit ! I dig Stoner Rock, big time ! Alright, Steve.. You are entered into the drawing with 3 prizes, on Sept. 29th Sunday Thanks so much, Man ! ✌

Turkey gravy vinyl. I could take a big old bite out of the wax!

Hey, I have the Fixx! (but non of the others). Interesting stuff 🙂

Hey Zonkman, some great finds there. Good to see Pigs x7, Witchfinder General and the new Pearl Jam. Enjoy the new music.

The video with your grandson was GREAT! The regular crap is great too😉. Grape Jam is fantastic. Now I have to pull Undead today and play it. "all Stoner all day every day"👍🚬🍻

Alright, you popped up and I decided to sit, chill & listen. Enjoyed, good albums there man 🎶✌🏼

Agreed, your grandson did really well with you, hopefully you will bring him back to help out ! When Peter Green jumped in to E.C's spot.. Eric came back from Greece to reclaim his throne with JM ! I do like the next album with Mick Taylor. Nebula is awesome ! I thought I was the only one to show Nebula, cool that you did ! I sent Aaron Alomare a VCLT of a Nebula LP 2 yrs. back. I got into them around the same time as Fu Manchu back in 2002 or so..

Some cool records there Zonkman. Golden Earring and April Wine are highlights for me. Surprised Aaron was getting rid of those, anyway enjoy the new music.

That is some big Promo stamp on the Mayall record! Pop Goes the 60s just did a Moby Grape video.

Hi Steve, I'm a big fan of the electric blues, and no one did it better than John Mayall, so it was a real bummer to hear that he passed. I love the albums he did with Clapton and Peter Green, A Hard Road is awesome. It's almost like Mayall was the starting point for what came a couple of years later with Fleetwood Mac and Cream, he even recommended Mick Taylor to the Stones. He's definitely going to be missed. Nice pickups! Keep Cool, Zonkman!

Lots of great albums! I love Nebula, great band! Awesome album cover for that Green Leaf! King of Beers!

Your singing is beautiful!

Zonk… looks like you had a nice time with Eric. I miss his videos. Loved all the music you showed. I need to get some John Mayall. I don’t know why i haven’t. Enjoyed the video.

Longtime Alvin Lee fan too. You never disappoint Zonkman. Excellent additions to your collection. Some great bluesy stuff in there. RIP to one of the blues greats John Mayall. Always good to see you~ Rob/Boston

Hey Zonkman! Cool to hear about the meetup with Eric. RIP John Mayall. There’s a new shop that opened up a few months back just north of Atlanta. Full of that Stoner/Doom stuff that’s right up your alley. See you on GMRN. Have a good weekend.

So cool that you and Dave got to go and visit Eric and do some record shopping. Wow - what a cool gift (tie-dye shirt) from Eric! And then you got to meet up with Art! Fantastic! I'm one of those people who can't stay up for GMRN. lol Rock on Zonkman!

What’s up Duuude !!! Cool video man Respect ✊🏽

Thank you very much for the shoutout 😊 A Hard Road with Peter Green is such a gem. So great!! RIP John.

Eighteen wheelers shreddin’ tires episode!

Some cool records you picked Zonkman. Good to see Huey Lewis, great album that one.

Your real wood record racks are awesome, and I like the tower stereo set-up as well ! I do love my Cd's like you, and I have them backed up on my Windows 10 and external hard drives.. Cool !