About Shaggy's Shakin' Shack


Purpose

Shaggy's Shakin' Shack is about rock & roll, blues, soul, funk, psych, prog, folk-rock, pop, '50s, '60s & '70s music. More specifically, it is about my record/cassette/CD collection. It is a large collection - over 400 records, cassettes and CDs. I've heard of larger collections with thousands of records, and I aspire to those heights... someday.

This is not a commercial homepage for the sale of records. I am not a vendor. I repeat - I am not a vendor. I only collect records. A couple of people have assumed I sell records, so I want to make it perfectly clear that I don't. I have, however, put up a page for people who want to sell or trade records and memorabilia, called Shaggy's Rock & Roll Trading Post. If you want to buy or sell items, post an ad there. It's free for non-commercial use. I now also allow announcements of upcoming events such as concerts, record fairs and the like to be advertised at the Trading Post.


Who is Shaggy?

Real name: Peter Haywood
E-mail: phaywood @ alphalink.com.au
Also known as: Wolvaen (see About Web of Darkness page)
Favorite animal: you have to ask? (Woof!)
Height: 197cm (about 6'6")
Weight: Unknown
Born: March 29 1968, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
Current address: 17 Yanigin drive, Glen Waverley, Vic., 3150, Australia
Favorite Record Stores
Hound Dog's Bop Shop
313 Victoria st., West Melbourne
Record Finder
16 Burwood hwy., Burwood
Au-gogo
349 Little Bourke st., Melbourne
Batman Records
2 locations: 243 Swanston st. & 303 Elizabeth st., Melbourne

The future of the Shack

I'll get some better graphics before too long. The pictures Shaggy's Shakin' Shack uses now were very quickly sketched with a paint program and a mouse! (Not exactly the easiest way to produce cool pics.) I'll do some better drawings/paintings on paper (all artistic like!) and have them scanned. That'll look much better! But until I can arrange that, I'll create some crazy pics with my new NotePal graphics tablet. They'll be up soon, so stay tuned.

Update: the NotePal hasn't really worked out. The problem is that it's just too small. I couldn't afford a larger one. The tiny drawing area of this thing makes it dificult to use, and it can't be mapped to a particular window without alot of fuss, so the effective drawing area is so small as to make it impractical. I did mannage to create one or two half reasonable pics with it, though.

I now have a scanner (2 of them, actually) so I can scan some pictures as soon as I do some. I've already started doing that. More will eventually follow.

I'll find some more places to link to in the "Links 'N' Stuff" section of the Shack. This will give users a chance to see some of the hottest of the cool rock & roll sites.

I'd like to include a section on the history of rock, a sort of "On This Day..." kind of thing. I'm not much of a trivia buff though, so I don't know how that would go. I'll have to buy a book on rock trivia, I think. I now have several books. You may notice a little more information than before creeping into the song reviews. I'll have to get more books, though, to become a real officinado of music trivia.


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