Ah ha, you worked for these bandits too? They tried to get me to move to Logan, UT
and live in a motel room. I had to say no, and nearly got fired. In retaliation, I
stopped working. Just showed up. Not much point as they didn't have any money to
buy records. The famous dwindling bins... I enjoyed working in Berkeley on their
dime, met a sweet girl I dated for a few years and learned a lot about insanity.

RS

MogleyB@aol.com wrote:

> > Odyssey Records  In Las Vegas Nevada 
> >  Not To be confused with Music Odyssey This was a Santa Cruz No Cal
> > based chain
> >  It became one of the only 24 hr Record stores.  
> >
> >  I was there from it's inception  from 73 -78  brought in and placed the
> > first records in the wood shelves and played far too much Big Star, Todd
> > Raspberries and Sparks for the stores  jazzbo's management's tastes 
> >   We called our vacuum cleaner Chunga's Revenge.( See The Zappa Record
> > jacket for a visual)
> >  because every time anyone was finished vacuuming Chunga would fall over on
> > it's side and spill the entire contents back on the floor (Don't even ask why
> > we kept the vacuum cleaner) it was the 70's anything was possible.
> >   It was a great job
> >  we felt like we were the only radio station in town and would open up any
> > record that a customer wanted to hear before they bought it
> > Being it was a 24 hr store   located On Las Vegas Blvd. a few blocks North
> > of the Sahara Hotel
> >  you can only imagine some of the clientele that would frequent   the store
> > during the oddest hrs. of the early morning
> > My favorite encounter was with a beautiful women looking for Psychedelic
> > Flute music and claimed her name was Sandoz and that Eric Burden wrote a song
> > about her..(A Girl Called Sandoz.)
> > I have no doubt
> > Mb
> > Np ..:: KEANE ::.."
> >  http://www.keanemusic.com/

-- Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records
 www.CareerRecords.com

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