User:Shocking Blue
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I am a middle-aged male real estate appraiser named Martin Winfree and remain an avid rock music fan. My wiki-name is the Dutch band best known for the worldwide 1970 hit "Venus". My bichon frise is named after the leader of this band, Robby van Leeuwen. I am a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina (born at about the same time as rock and roll, on May 3, 1951) and have been living in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region (by way of Raleigh, NC, New York and San Francisco) since early 1998. I am thus a survivor of Hurricane Katrina that destroyed all of our belongings, including my 2,600-album record collection. (Most of the CD's were at the office and were unaffected by the storm, although the ones at home were scattered all over the yard as well). I gathered up what I could and am in the process of cleaning them up; if I can ever figure out how to do it right, that will be a future article. For now, I am playing them on one of those department store record players made by Crosley.
Other interests include vintage science fiction and horror movies, weird fiction (H. P. Lovecraft, et al), and science. I am a recent Catholic convert, via my beloved wife of just over 3 years.
My main interest in contributing to Wikipedia is to provide information on the more obscure bands and artists that populated my collection, as well as tidbits about music and my other interests that I have picked up over the years. I have already added a couple of dozen record labels to the "list of record labels", so I guess my work is cut out for me! Initial articles include The Head Shop, Milan (the Leather Boy), the Hawkwind album Roadhawks, and the history of bootleg recording.
