bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Discovered" two authors yesterday that I'd never heard of. And, having done a little "research" probably will never read. No doubt my loss on both counts. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Roddis Franklin "Pete" Drake (October 8, 1932 – July 29, 1988) was record producer and pedal steel guitar player. Drake played on such hits as Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden", Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors"' Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay"' and Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man". 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sounded like the Atlanta organist was playing "Can't Hardly Wait" by the Replacements during a challenge. 010
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One of my favourite albums from the 1980s. HBD Yo Yo Ma. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A few days late, but I haven't seen much about this on blueski. bsky.app/profile/vanc... 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Entertainment! is the debut album by Gang of Four, released September 25, 1979. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Vol. 4 is the fourth studio album by Black Sabbath, released September 25, 1972. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All Shook Down is the seventh and final studio album by The Replacements, released September 25, 1990. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bryan Andrew MacLean (September 25, 1946 – December 25, 1998) was a singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with the influential rock band Love. His famous compositions for Love include "Alone Again Or," "Old Man," and "Orange Skies." 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My go to HM tune is Jason and the Scorchers' song from the 1983 Fervor EP. A better kick to it compared to Neil's. Back when cowpunk was a thing. 010
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), professionally known as Ray Charles, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and composer. (Ad from 1962.) 010
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Neal Smith (born September 23, 1947) is a musician, best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. (And a few reunion gigs.) 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hot Buttered Soul is the second studio album by Isaac Hayes. Released on September 23, 1969. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Myron Carlton "Tiny" Bradshaw (September 23, 1907 – November 26, 1958) was a bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer. His biggest hit was "Well Oh Well" in 1950, and the following year he recorded "The Train Kept A-Rollin'", a song pivotal to the development of rock and roll. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Vaughn Palmer's take on the Springsteen phenomenon from the November 7, 1975 Vancouver Sun. 010
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Heard that "September" song by EW&F three times today on CBC Radio. Sheesh! (Clipping from the November 26, 1979 Vancouver Sun. Future politics reporter Vaughn Palmer back when he cover pop music.) And then someone messaged it to me on Phasebook! Double sheesh! 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ron Cobb (September 21, 1937 – September 21, 2020) was an American-Australian cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director. He lived in Sydney, Australia. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Jesse Lee Shibley, known as Arkie Shibley (21 September 1914 – September 1975) was a country singer who recorded the original version of "Hot Rod Race" in 1950. (Clippings from 1952.) 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Fred Herzog (September 21, 1930 – September 9, 2019) devoted his artistic life to walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica, photographing street life with all its complexities. Also motorcycles. Pictures from Westwood and Abbotsford Airport. 021
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My radio came on at 10 a.m. following my night shift. Not the usual National Research Council "beginning of the long dash" but Michael Enright talking about something I realized I needed to see. I always joked that I would sleep through WWIII and find out we had lost. Not quite that, but close. 110
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026RIP: Edward Kargl (Ed) -- April 24, 1943 - August 27, 2026. DJ on CFUN, commentator for All-Star Wrestling, and was MC for the 2006 Induction Ceremony for the Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society. Also was vice-president for the Fraser River Port Authority. 001
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Apropos of nothing, the September 9, 1966 C-Fun Top 50 introduces the All-Canadian Top Ten which almost includes "Nothin'" by the Ugly Ducklings. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I remember coming back to the family car and finding an "Enchanted Forest" ad wired to our bumper. Roadside attractions from the era of cars with bumpers. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Bubble Puppy's A Gathering of Promises by Roger Corman. 120
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Musical Monday. Loretta Lynn marker in South Van, visited in 2022. A water break song: A Question of Temperature by The Balloon Farm (a New Jersey band). And, for Smokey Don, Any Way the Wind Blows by The Mothers of Invention. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I was in a bookstore waiting for the call to say the assessment for my records had been done. I didn't think to pee in that store but I thought, "I need to get rid of many books, not by any." 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019) was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Cordell Jackson (née Miller; July 15, 1923 – October 14, 2004) was an American guitarist thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label. 011
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Now I have Roxy Music's Do The Strand going through my head for some unknown reason. Plus many '60s songs Graham Gouldman wrote before 10c.c. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Red card or red nose, we need to get our best players on the pitch. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Like the use of vinyls to pluralise vinyl, weathers is going to wear on me. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026CBC radio broadcast from Richmond this morning. Mentioning horse racing at Brighouse (Minoru) and Lansdown. Ad from the Vancouver Sun, 1912 for some auto racing at the Minoru Mile. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Something that came up on phasebook memories today: I have head phones on while doing my "walks". This afternoon I was listening to the weekly CBC broadcast of "Hot Air", started 75 years ago by the late Bob Smith. Some clippings from 1950, 1957, 1969 and 1967 featuring Bob. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 19/05/20261978, from info online. And the memory of 1977 being the year of punky new wave NME cover stories. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026When we were a "fun city". Ad from the May 12, 1951 Vancouver Sun. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026August 22, 1975 ad from the Vancouver Sun for Seger playing at a local club. A couple days later Seger (as well as the Charlie Daniels Band) opening for Bachman Turner Overdrive at the Coliseum. (Is is too early to request a Seger Xmas song? "Sock it to Me Santa" from 1966.) 020
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026It's John Force's birthday, May the real Force be with you. (Quote from one of his post explosion/wreck interviews.) 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Parking has always been an issue in Vancouver. Len Norris editorial cartoon from the February 24, 1954 Vancouver Sun. 000
bpnickle.bsky.social @bpnickle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026On the bus, Davie Street, early '80s, a kid mentioned the Cure and I muttered "Boys Don't Cry". Wow, a "hip" bus driver, she said. I probably heard it on CBC's Neon Nights with JB Shayne. I wasn't hip, that's for certain. And I'm only two years older than Smith. HBD Iggy. 000
