97/100

I used to be a huge Grandaddy fan. I still am, now that Jason Lytle's back solo-ing it up, but Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump was the soundtrack to my first few years in Los Angeles c/o Rob Mars who left LA years ago and has still, thankfully, stayed a close friend. He visits occasionally when he has a show in town (see above & below), but even when he doesn't, he's still here, in the ghosts that linger on the stoop of my old Genesee duplex next to the gas station.

"super power" by: Robert Mars

The first time I heard Grandaddy was with Rob, en route to Fingerprints in Long Beach. He'd take me record shopping often, pull discs like daisies from a field of plastic spines and pass them to me one by one until I tipped over.

"There," he'd say. "That's good for now."

I miss those days, the record store missions, Rob living down the street. I love today, of course, but shopping Itunes in sweatpants at 11:43pm on a Monday isn't the same as perusing the aisles of "USED" with dear friends. So here's to Rob and record stores, El Caminos in the west and getting nostalgic as I near the end of my track list.

Doo doo do-do-do-do... Doo doo do-do-do-do-do-doooooo, do do doooooo...

97. El Caminos in the West performed by: Jason Lytle via Grandaddy

GGC