Posts tagged Janis Joplin
Vinyl (HBO): Meet The Ghosts

Vinyl is a television universe populated by musical ghosts.

Over the first four episodes I have pointed out nine "ghosts" who have appeared on the show to highlight or help demonstrate something about the characters on the show. 

But each of these "ghosts" also represented a real figure in music history so I am using this article to  bring some more attention to each of them.

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Vinyl (HBO) Episode Four: "Record Man's" Christmas Goulet

Okay folks, this was one of those "busy" episodes. The kind of episodes where writers realize that they are already at episode 4 and have yet to develop like 10 of the plot points that they have already introduced in the first three episodes.

This episode (called "The Racket") opens with not one but two ghosts, Otis Blackwell and Richie himself (My suggestion is that "The Racket" in the episode is the game Richie is running on himself).  

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