The Vinyl Countdown # 248
Peter Fonda, Peter Fonda (2018)
I have a very kind friend based in Australia who has hooked me up with some interesting vinyl from talented, if lesser known players. His philosophy is simple: connecting people with music, sharing his tastes, helping out his mates – his mates in bands and his mates that like music. He’s introduced me to great stuff – and with this album, by a band called Peter Fonda – nothing to do with the real Peter Fonda (recently departed of course, R.I.P.) he also got me one of the limited edition copies; the first 50 copies came with individual artworks on the record’s inner sleeve. A cool idea I reckon. I like this album too. Some great sounds here. Do check it out. Click on the bandcamp links. Get on board. The inner-sleeve artwork copies are now sold out I believe but you can still stream/buy from Bandcamp or buy one of the remaining 100 copies of this limited-print item. Read More
I had best intentions about reviewing this – I really like it – but time has gathered up around me and surged everything forward. 
I came back from 
I have bought this album at least twice – maybe this is even my third copy; I know the CD version was my introduction and I played it so much. I had a best of and then was hipped to the live album – some of its versions are better, there’s a momentum to them and the banter is superb. 
I bought a few 78s just to have – for the look and feel of them. I bought a gramophone a few years later, one of those replica-ones; it worked. Still works. I’ve just given it to my folks to store/display. I’ve run out of time and room for it I reckon. For now. But of course as soon as I give it away I find something in the collection I’ve never actually played – good old YouTube will save us though. So here’s 
Muzak, schmaltz, cornball, oddities, soft-jazz, safe orchestral pop, call it what you want – I want it. Especially on vinyl. And I’ll never turn down a good 10” (ooh, er) – nor will I turn down a bad 10” innuendo (in-your-end-o!). So this is the latest. And I know of 
How many 
How do you explain how great 
The whole family fell in love with 
When I worked in a video store – “video” very much too, DVDs were only just coming in then, we had about 10 on the new release shelf, how archaic – it was the late 1990s. And I set about like a kid in a candy-store watching up whatever I hadn’t yet seen. That mean nearly every concert video or doco, old stand-up comedy specials and a few auteur classics including the 70s and 80s work by 
The Vinyl Countdown is a document of every LP I listen to, brand new discoveries and old-old favourites; extremely pre-loved, previously abandoned or with the shrink-wrap having just been removed it’s all here at The Vinyl Countdown
I was thinking just the other day about how this is one of my favourite