Anyone ever listen to this locally pressed LP?

No but when I was a kid i had a t shirt with that logo on it

I was 12 years old the time. The family had season passes, so we went at least three times a week! My cousin and I would end up running all over the place, and my parents would always end up at the German beer Hall to 1 AM

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you ever see the Sheiks play back then?

I saw tthe Cold and the Producers at the amphitheater at the Worlds Fair amongst a few others

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I'm not from NO and I saw few concerts when I was young (po folks)

I only went to the fair once and the only music I remember seeing is a black guy with a guitar in the "blues shack" playing to 3 people

It is absolutely dreadful. Oddly enough, I have 2 of them. I collect '84 World's Fair stuff and I'm going to frame them with a ticket one of these days. Needed 2 to display each side, since the other side has the Wonderwall and whatnot.

"Louisiana World Exposition, Louisiana Woooorld Exposition, Louisiana World Exposition..."

My other hobby is Lionel Trains--O Gauge. I recently got a 900 series working O-Gauge street car with the 84 Expo logos on it. They were done back in 1983, and the guy who had 500 of them made and warehouse for almost 30 years. Just pull them out recently and began selling them. Electric train depot in Pontchatoula is selling them--$250 apiece. They even come with all of the official licensing paperwork.

I will try to post a picture of it tomorrow. I actually ran it on my layout and it works just fine.

You should start a LA music thread. This board has needed one from the beginning. I've considered doing it myself but 1) I actually don't know all that much about it, and 2) I have enough threads on here already -- BION every few months or so some of them actually get replied to.

If there is enough interest maybe the board could support several threads: swamp pop, zydeco, Cajun, LA blues, etc...

My "train room"...







It is a work in progress...still have to do a lot of work on it...

Yeah, the LA music thread might catch...

I am now inspired to get some of the boxes of 45s from upstairs down...many of my dad's N.O. R&B 45s ended up here after Katrina. Some got wet, so we cleared a big space on the train layout and set up a temporary record cleaning station and cleaned thousands for a week straight. I had all the cleaning solutions on hand, so almost all were saved.

The only bad was that he had all of the original sleeves for the 45s in mint condition, and many of those were lost. I got a couple thousand new white sleeves for them and they are now all good to go.

They were in Metairie, so the records only got about an inch or so of water. Had they been in Lakeview, well that would be the end of them.

Michael O'Hara, the singer for the Sheiks, has recently been performing solo in NOLA singing the old Sheiks songs. When the Sheiks broke up Michael signed a contract with one of the major record labels in Los Angelas as a song writer and was nominated for a Grammy for writing one of Anita Baker's biggest hits. She would often give shout outs to Michael onstage and call him "the greatest songwriter in the world ." Later Michael quit the business and became a preacher in his hometown of St. Louis because he was burnt out on living the rock and roll lifestyle (too much sex and cocaine). He posts regularly on the Sheiks Facebook page and answers all of the fans questions. They also publish when and where his next solo shows will be if anyone is interested.

I have that 2nd print hanging in my house.