Today’s Cool Album of the Day is Captain Beyond, Sufficiently Breathless. I’m taking a slight step in a different direction today. Let me admit that I really only know pretty much one song on this album. But the title track was such a huge FM hit hear in Chicago in the early 70’s that it’s stillworth entry. Our group is far more than just Chicago at this point. So I’m curious if our out of town members also remember this song (album, band) from that era. The title track is the one that got all the play, “Sufficiently Breathless.” Captain Beyond, “Sufficiently Breathless” peak at #90 on the Billboard Top 100 Album chart. Personnel Lee Dorman – bass guitar Rhino...

Congratulations Genesis on today being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Your 1973 recording of Selling England by the Pound is Today’s Cool Album of the Day. Genesis is one of my favorite bands. Genesis IS my favorite live band. My seeing them at an “Invitation Only: Full Dress Rehearsal Show” for a hand full of people in 2007 will most likely never be topped as a music experience! ‘Selling England By The Pound was the penultimate album with Peter Gabriel as their costume wearing front man. He left the machinery two years later after recording and touring for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Selling contains two of my favorite pieces. “The Cinema Show” and...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day is the self titled ‘Journey’ debut, “Journey.” In 1975 this was my favorite band. This was one of the albums that I would taken to the moon or a desert island. For those of you that only know Journey from the CRAP that they put out beginning in 1977 or 1978, you might think I’m crazy. But no, this was 1975. Journey began in ‘73 or ’74. Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon had been, respectively, keyboard, lead singer and second guitarist in Santana. In fact, Schon was only 16 or17 years only when he joined Santana in 1971. Drums where handled by Aynsley Dunbar with Ross Valory on bass. Prairie Prince was shortly...