Pace on Earth

Touchdown

The other night I was driving in the Legacy with one of Will's mixed cd's playing. As a new song started I recognized the sample that it opened with. It was the theme from Taxi (which is actually called Angela(Theme from Taxi)). Then the beat kicked in a real nice chill hip hop song followed. How could it not be with a sample like that.
I knew this sample from a previous life. When I was in Victoria and spent a little time every week searching for old vinyl at the Value Village, Salvation Army or auctions I came across Bob James' Touchdown. I actually found it at a fire sale (literally) and didn't even look at the song list. I bought it purely because it of the album cover. I mean anything with a football on the front had to be good right? Oh, and also, it cost 25c. When I got it home and opened it up I checked the song list and the first one listed was the Angela so I threw it on Bucky's old turntable. It's such a nice song and the album continues on the same vibe. I listened to the album alot especially on Sundays; Kenny Goodland and I would sit around and see if we could hold on long enough for our chef roomate Pegger to "whip something up" for supper - he was a chef; whipping something up could (and did more than once) mean braised lambchops. Indeed, I have good memories of this album. That is why I went and looked for it on ebay, found it, and ordered it, to relive those Sundays. I'm hoping Normy reads this and knows what I mean when I tell him to "whip something up".
Oh, and thanks to the magic of YouTube here is the Taxi into:
I'm really looking forward to this album arriving...now it is a jazz album so I do fear that I may be entering a new phase in my life. If I start sipping brandy and walking around in a smoking jacket feel free to slap my upside the head. Or better yet, just throw Gooch's Suicidal Tendencies album on the record player.

Institutionalized!

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 12:03 a.m.