The Oyster Months: The Michalek's Farm Library

It's an autumnal Friday night, early eighties ...

Turn right off 13, go past the camp on the left, and the farm will be just around the corner.  Chill the beer in the creek ... 

"Hang care!" exclaimed he. "This is a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where the sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant—let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance and rouse the night-owl with a catch! I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices—a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon."

Charles Ollier, from "The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington" 

Cue 'em up ...

UFO, Strangers in the Night (1979)

Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous (1978)

AC⚡DC, If You Want Blood You've Got It (1978)

Rush, All the World's a Stage (1976)

Rush, Exit ... Stage Left (1981)

Theodore Nugent, Double Live Gonzo! (1978)

Cheap Trick, At Budokan (1978)

Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same (1976)

Aerosmith, Live! Bootleg (1978)

Pat Travers, Live! Go for What You Know (1979)

The euphony transformed me and inundated my soul in a roguish countenance, the likes of which I had know well in younger days. Such impishness soon drove out the complaints of the day. 

Umberto Limongiello