TLO time!

I love this time of year! The TLO Fan Fair was a huge success! It went so well that I'm already planning next years event as well as the Summer Festival.

I collected two more recordings and a great video from another hard core fan that found the TLO performance that most others had missed two years back...very happy with that rare gem. My collection is looking great, I will make a point to post some images sometime as well as some audio and video (when I figure that out) - I'm not great with the computer, but I'm getting better!

This time of year I listen to the TLO Christmas collections a lot...it is great to hear thier holiday favorites! I love their fourth Christmas album...I think I wore out my vinyl listening to it over and over again. A gift from my father - actually all my Christmas albums are, I can't help but remembering the years he missed the holidays with us because of his roaming with the band. I understand now, but then it was hard...my mother never forgave him for not being there, but really he had the honor of being with TLO and I have the stories and gift of the music that he gave me that is all that matters in the end.

Every year he tips me off to TLO's Holiday sneek show...I'll keep you posted!!!! Best show of the year, the costumes are always amazing and the stage is beyond mind-blowing!!! I live for word of it every year!!! Watch for posters too, they start showing up around this time of year.

Tis the season!

I've been busy with TLO happenings. I'll hosted the 14th annual TLO Holiday Fan Fair at the Lewiston Roller-dome this coming Saturday and Sunday. Always held the weekend before Christmas, all the true TLO fans are there with thier crafts, TLO wares and most important recordings of the live TLO shows.

Recording of The Loco Ono can be hard to come by and my personal passion. I have a library stocked with years of live shows by TLO. I do own their studio albums of course...but to see and hear them LIVE is where it is at. The show they put on is beyond amazing with dozens of people on stage, it is something to see. I have video, but with the pirotechnices, lights and projections it is hard to really make out what is happening through a camera's eye...but the sound is always true even on a cell phone recording. My collection spans from tapes to cds - all labeled with the date and location of the proformances Since TLO is so hard to come by to begin with a show recording is very rare...that is why I have my recorder with me at all times. Of course that is a basic TLO fan rule.

The TLO Holiday Fan Fair has been featured in the Portland Phoenix three years running. I'm sure the area's fans will be there again this year, it is always great and only $8 to get in. All the info as always is found as always in the Phenix, Androscoggin News, Portland News and with posters in the regular spots.