Every so often we take a look at an album that impacted the life of Tom O’Hanlan, the founder of BookerLAB. The scene: A record shop somewhere in Northern Virginia The time: 1974 The protagonist: Tom O’Hanlan This is how I would start the script for how I discovered one of the loudest and most […]
Category: Tom’s Turntable
Tom’s Turntable – Dark Side of the Moon
Every so often we take a look at an album that impacted the life of Tom O’Hanlan, the founder of BookerLAB. Thumping that sounds akin to a heartbeat. The ticks of a clock. Cash registers ringing up sales. Indistinct voices chattering away. Great albums should not start this way, but that is how Dark Side […]
Tom’s Turntable – Average White Band
Every so often we take a look at an album that impacted the life of Tom O’Hanlan, the founder of BookerLAB. When casual music fans think of Average White Band, their collective memories go to the group’s 1974 masterpiece single Pick Up the Pieces. It essentially is an instrumental, which in turns makes the casual […]
Tom’s Turntable – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Every so often we take a look at an album that impacted the life of Tom O’Hanlan, the founder of BookerLAB. There is a reason that this album often gets listed number one when it comes to ranking the greatest records of the rock-and-roll era. Not only are the songs amazingly listenable to, while being […]
Tom’s Turntable: The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band
Every so often we take a look at an album that impacted the life of Tom O’Hanlan, the founder of BookerLAB. The Allman Brothers Band was pretty much everywhere when I took a job as a DJ at a radio station near where I was going to school at Bridgewater College in 1973. The past […]
