tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391900640831782659.post6397757557116668094..comments2023-04-08T02:31:09.707-07:00Comments on Music Life: Tower RecordsRon Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07085455226260859567noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391900640831782659.post-74570668880676716582010-06-18T07:22:27.043-07:002010-06-18T07:22:27.043-07:00I've only shopped at the Tower in Atlanta and ...I've only shopped at the Tower in Atlanta and Washington D.C. As always, it was a major, major experience to be in a store that had so much of what I badly wanted. And as I aged, that was an experience that got more and more rare as the music I loved became less and less fashionable. Not so at Tower! My last visit to a Tower, in late 2006 in Washington D.C. was as impressive as always. I was there for a seminar (Edward Tuffte!) but made the time to pop off for a visit to Tower. <br /><br />Even in their death throes, the store was packed with delights I was frantic to get. As usual, it was a case of adhering to my slim budget that provided the most challenge to me; certainly not in finding music to buy. The staff there especially won my heart with their tasteful displays of what I considered to be very major post-punk albums. It was the one time that I saw The Associates held up as a beacon publicly. The fact that it was what I consider their best album (Fourth Drawer Down) was icing on the cake!<br /><br />The D.C. Tower was something I always took time to visit in my three visits to that city. It never let me down. I'll never forget the time in 2002 (with Charles Martin) as we visited Tower the day after spending literally hours in Yesterday & Today Records. At Y&T I was amazed to find the long-sought-after 3rd New Musik album, "Warp." The very next day at Tower I found the Japanese-only CD of same with a host of relevant bonus tracks!<br /><br /><b>Gobsmack!</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com