I wish I had as accurate a memory as some of you! I REALLY started collecting records around 1989. I'd go on shopping binges at used vinyl stores and grab stuff that interested me either as something I was collecting or had heard about. Hearing The Velvet Underground for the first time was life-changing. So it's possible that I heard about Julian somewhere and had something of his earlier than my first real memory: purchasing AUTOGEDDON when it came out. I don't know why I did. Often back then (as now, actually) I'll hear about something and file it away in some mental list, only to eventually check it out years later. So that could have been the case with Julian. Or I may have read a review and thought it sounded right up my alley. Either way, that's the first one I remember and since then I've been on this ride, too. And it's been interesting and exciting for 15 years now...
Peace.
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