Shadow Puppet Storyteller

The First Time

Soundtrack of my Life

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album was the first vinyl I was given as a birthday gift. I was a pre-teen, and in the Seventies to be given this kind of something at age ten or eleven -- Wow! An ALBUM that was musically advanced, as opposed to a long-play Disney storybook with 33 1/3 rpm album included, the latest Shaun Cassidy single on a 45 rpm, or a collection of Sesame Street songs...because, "Don't you love Grover still?" or...well, now you have a little sister!

I give the credit to the dad of the family who gave it to me, as he was my dad's good friend. I deserved this introduction to modern rock, I had the mind for it...or maybe his wife (my mom's good friend) suggested it to him? The cover of the album itself wasn't lost on me. The outfits made me think of the Renaissance Fair, which I had already been to at that age. Intrigued by the double-meaninged humor of one of its residents, the Nut Man, in fact. So perhaps you can imagine that I did have the sensibilities for this album.


Fleetwood Mac (1977) "Don't Stop"