This guy just doesn't stop...

@tablejockey---Oops, I just now finally saw your question from 12-15-17 to me! I’m up in Vancouver Washington now, just over the border from Portland Oregon. A couple drummers I knew in L.A. moved up here before me, one of whom---Jose Medeles of The Breeders---has opened a cool little drum shop, Revival Drums. There is a very active, healthy music scene here, and some good record shops. Music Millennium has a huge amount of floor space dedicated to LP’s. I’m liking it up here. Rather dark and wet, which is a pleasant change from the bright and hot SoCal!

Licorice Pizza! Tablejockey, I shopped at the one on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Canoga Park when I lived there in '78-'82. LP was a small record store chain in SoCal, of which there were a few. Another was Moby Disc (good name!), in whose Sherman Oaks store on Ventura Boulevard Lucinda Williams could be found standing behind the cash register at in 1987, staring off into space (perhaps writing some lyrics in her head) when not ringing up customer’s purchases. She was playing around L.A. with a small band in little dives---I saw her in a pizza parlor, singing to a crowd of a half dozen. At that time she was recording what I still consider her best album---the s/t one on Rough Trade (1988), a great, great album.