Every so often, I have to step back and remember it ain't all about being the coolest music maven in Podlandia, with my cutting edges and love for the beat and obscure, the weird, and the especially really extra-painfully-loud. See, I get it that it ain't All About Me all the damn time!  Nothing is more important to me lately than "paying it forward", which is how I ended up on this podcasting thing to begin with. So with that in mind, today's thank-you-for-the-musical-guidance shout-out goes to my big brother Chuck, who could always be counted on to ask for a particularly tasty record or two for his birthday or for Christmas. He's the guy whose record collection turned me on to Clapton and Zeppelin and Alvin Lee and Jeff Beck and Deep Purple--not bad for a geeky suburban 12-year-old girl in the mid 1970s, as far as "musical taste" (though I managed to do worse later, and still do today, lol!). He's also the one who showed me the way to what remained of free-form FM, which begat my love for Dr Demento and cemented my love for Frank Zappa. Love you, bro, send requests to my text :-)

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Kevin Harlan/MNF; Led Zeppelin; Cream; Eric Clapton; Allman Brothers; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Rolling Stones; Beatles; Traffic; ZZ Top; James Gang; Pink Floyd; David Coverdale; Deep Purple