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  During long summer car rides as a kid, Gordon Lightfoot’s Magnum Opus If You Could Read My Mind would frequently play on the radio. Right from the opening verse; “If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell” I would find myself tapping my foot and singing along quietly in the backseat. The song had lyrics which interjected the listener into a story of fading love, which correlated to the disintegration of Gordon’s first marriage. As an eight-year-old, themes of divorce remained foreign. As a grown man, the song has since taken on heightened...

Between the age of six to eight, my older brother and I would stay up late during the summer and watch classic movies which would play every weekend on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Center). This was around the time I became obsessed with the idea of one day becoming a filmmaker. We’d watch films such as The Beguiled, starring Clint Eastwood, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause, Deliverance (which we shouldn’t have been watching at this age, fucked up movie), The Graduate and countless others.   At some point in late July, as the sweat poured within the boiling hot...

My father had a record collection located downstairs and what had to be one of the ugliest sound systems I have ever bore witness to. It looked like a jumbled mess of wires and metal boxes to my eight-year-old self. My mother hated his sound system, which was obscurely placed beside the laundry room.   “When are you going to throw that thing away?” my mother would ask.  “That thing is worth over six hundred dollars,” my father would insist. As an adult who has been involved with the sale of vinyl records for the past seven years, his ugly sound...

Although I have been involved with record dealing since 2016, when I steadily worked my way up to being in charge of the used record purchases and grading through Funky Moose Records, until I officially stepped away from FMR to focus exclusively on Mile High Vinyl, in late 2022, the most incredible of music and pop culture related gems seemed to only find their way into my hands after starting and centering my focus on my own business.   Though Mile High Vinyl only officially launched as a used online record and music store in late December of 2021, this blog will...

  Prologue:    When I was growing up, I came to personally enjoy the music of Buddy Holly for a period possibly of time more so than any other musician. His music supplied the same level of enjoyment I had received at six years old through ritualistic viewings of Alfred Hitchcock films, as well as his televised series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. The premature death of Buddy Holly came as a shock when my father told me about the plane crash which killed the famed musician, along with Richie Valens and “The Big Bopper”, when I was eight years old. At...