Ecstatic Wax

A modest library of music-related topics, essays, humor, and interviews

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Wretched Records and Crappy Covers Redux: Wicker Up Front

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We may never know what begot the wicker chair trend of the 1970s, but it hardly matters. The fact of the matter is that these specimens of ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014

When My Burning Airlines Concert Preview Crashed and Burned

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I've been digging around in my archives lately in a futile attempt to locate a nice little write-up I did several months ago about th...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Marcy the Malevolent

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After this photo, Marcy's duet partner never wore another smile. On this album cover, Marcy's new partner failed to smile en...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Young Hungry Bastard

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Christian folk's Captain & Tennille take on the great orphan crisis of 1974. This 1974 album details one child’s harrowing and ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Free to Fly

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Put a Bird on It: Merv & Merla break wind. If Merv and Merla hadn't been so bent on festooning their album cover with cliché Chr...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Blinded by the Light

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Ronnie Milsap's unfortunate 1976 album, 20-20 Vision  One advantage of being a blind singer is never having to look this album cove...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Acid Casualty

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In conceiving this terrible LP in the early 1970s, well-meaning Christians had tried their darnedest to re-brand the initialism of LSD i...
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Joe Ehrbar
I've written lots of words (some of them good even) on the subject of music for more than a decade. Among the esteemed publications to feature my byline are The Spokesman-Review, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Matte, Backfire, Revolver and The Rocket--where I was Managing Editor and Editor from 1998-2000. I don't write as much or as often as I should, so don't come knocking for new content every day. But stop by periodically for some new, original writings and a whole host of mildewy works from my archives. Please note: This blog is kind of my digital playground, a place to test out ideas, explore random thoughts, or invent dumb, fictional (and sometimes funny) stories about real musicians or recordings. In other words, don't take what you read here too seriously.
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