Richie's Reprisal
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Below you will find a list of some of my blog-posts. This section continues to take shape. So keep checking back.
An Original Artyfact from the First Psychedelic Era
THE E-TYPES: Put the Clock Back on the Wall by RICH ARITHMETIC Editor's Note: This is a somewhat updated version of a post that originally appeared in Darrell Draeger's 1980's Cassette Culture Blog. One of my favorite musical eras were the days of psychedelia. At its...
Out-Spectoring Spector
TIMES WHEN OTHER PRODUCERS OUT-SPECTORED PHIL SPECTOR'S PRODUCTION STYLE by RICH ARITHMETIC Ed. Note: This is a revised & updated version of an article that was written soon after Phil Spector's death and originally appeared in Dave Liljengren’s East Portland Blog...
It’s Not All About the Damn Frog
THREE DOG NIGHT by RICH ARITHMETIC Ed. Note: This lightly-edited post originally appeared on June 4, 2024, in the 1980's Cassette Culture Blog Yes, yes. I know. I know. You've heard the damn song a million times. "Jeremiah was a bullfrog." And you might be as sick of...
Jesus is Just All Right
UNJUSTLY OVERLOOKED GOD-ROCK OF THE EARLY SEVENTIES by RICH ARITHMETIC EDITOR'S NOTE: This lightly-edited post originally appeared in Dave Liljengren’s East Portland Blog in May 2024. Starting in the late Sixties and into the early Seventies, Jesus was all over the...
Mexican Radio
I DIAL IT IN FROM SOUTH OF THE BORDER by RICH ARITHMETIC Editor's Note: This lightly edited piece originally appeared in the 1980's Cassette Culture Blog on May 23, 2025. As a 9-year-old kid in the days before FM radio, I used to scroll the dial of my little...
The Alternative to ALTERNATIVE™
by RICH ARITHMETIC Editor's Note: This is a lightly edited version of a piece that originally appeared in the 1980's Cassette Culture Blog, September 24, 2026. You know, it's always struck me weird that when Grunge was so dominantly popular in the Nineties, it was...
The Forgotten Band of the British Invasion
The DAVE CLARK FIVE by RICH ARITHMETIC Editor's Note: This lightly edited piece originally appeared in the 1980's Cassette Culture Blog, June 25, 2026. Today I'm paying tribute to a band that tends to get overlooked when we remember the British Invasion of 1964 -- the...