AC DC and the Lion Men of Mongo……
I listened to AC DC’s seminal Back in Black for the first time in years at a buddy’s house on Saturday night.
Most of the cool folks know that Joe’s more of a trip hop, funk, soul kind of a brother, but this is a classic. It was also the first album I ever bought, in 1981.
Hearing the bells at the beginning of Hells Bells brought back memories…. I had won fiscal recognition of my dangerous intellect and as a reward, my mother and father bought me a Cassette Player and two cassettes of my choosing……
One of these two cassettes was Back in Black. The other was the audiobook of Flash Gordon and the Lion Men of Mongo……..
Flash rescued Dale Arden in it. As usual.
Apart from the insight this gives you into the development of a child into an adolescent, it also says something about my taste. In music or science-fiction, it is faultless.