Origin Stories
In the Basement Era all you needed was a steady hand, a screwdriver, some Scotch tape, and the nerve to believe that a cassette tape could be broken into...
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Joe Bonomo
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Joe Bonomo's most recent books are This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began and Conversations With Greil Marcus. He's the Music Columnist at The Normal School, appears online at No Such Thing As Was and @BonomoJoe, and
teaches at Northern Illinois University.
Albums of Our Lives: Sound of Genesis’ Journey to the Moon
The Space Age drifted all around me: Major Matt Mason toys in various heroic poses on the basement floor, plastic red-and-blue rockets ascending and landing, the interstellar playing out…