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The geezer rock station on Sirius has been playing the 33 most influential albums made on vinyl this weekend. I listened to some of it today, and actually got into hearing this music after all these many years. The top album is "Dark Side of the Moon", which I am ok with, but I have often thought that "Strawberry Fields" was the first departure from the white rock that preceeded it, and maybe the beginning of psychedelic music that pretty much defined the later sixties, when I was so impressionable. I was winter camping with my brothers Jim & Joe, and our essentially adopted brother Jim Angie. We were camped alongside the creek near the old cabin , which burned down before then, which you can see from the 400. The chimney still stands, and you can see it from the road shortly after the onramp at main st. Anyway, AM was the only radio, and there were great, booming stations that could be tuned in late at night from all over, Chicago, NYC (77, WABC), Detroit,Cleveland, and so on. Buffalo had WKBW, and the disc jockeys were big personalities: Dan Neaverth, Joey Reynolds, Russ Syracuse, Tommy Shannon. We listened to them on all kinds of radios, tubes, crystals and eventually, transistors. Radios became truly portable then, and we had one camping. We all hated Strawberry Fields, in fact were generally cool to most of Sgt. Pepper. We eventually came to love this music. I still do.