Trust me, it'll happen to you! Just wait till you start enjoying a good sit.

Ha! You probably kept it around so long because you'd have to saw it up to get it out of the house!

Hooray for Gen-Xers! My earliest Star Wars memory was Easter, 1977, at a great-aunt's house, with lots of family coming and going. I was 11. The TV in the living room was on as background noise, one of those 10-foot long wooden consoles with the built record player and stereo with brown cloth covered speakers at the…

I saw that coming, knew it was going to happen, but it was great.

This is a great writeup on Knopfler, love your description of the "all in a days work" ending of "Sultans". Not pretentious at all.

Yeah, the list has to start with Baby's On Fire. Actually, when I hear "guitar solo" I always go to a bunch of Fripp: Eno's "St Elmo's Fire" and Crimson's "The Night Watch" are probably my favorites. I could list Fripp solos all day, but others for me:

Eruption's a great call, but I might argue the historical impact of it outweighs the "melodic soaring" aspect. I always felt that VH programmed that album with "Running With the Devil" kicking it off because you hear that song and are lulled into thinking "oh, another pedestrian late 70's hard rock band"…which sets…

CPO Sharkey was too short-lived, it was a chance to see Rickles on a weekly basis. "I've got my eye on you, Skolnick!"

Chris Squire, Greg Lake, and now Wetton, within months of each other. If I was Geddy Lee, I'd be really careful for a while.

The first UK album is incredible. Wetton and Bruford agreed that each of them would bring in another musician; Bruford brought jazz fusionist Alan Holdsworth on guitar and Wetton brought former Roxy Music keyboardist Eddie Jobson. Wetton and Jobson wrote songs in a proto-Asia vein while Bruford/Holdsworth leaned…