(Original) Mad Platter/Sounds Like R.I.P.
Last week, I was sad to see another independent record store bite the dust.
This time it was Sounds Like Music, which was located across from the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside. An institution in the city for nearly 20 years (initially under the name Mad Platter), the place was known for its fine assortment of U.K. imports, music t-shirts and more. Manager Don Watson always had the incense burning (when I first started going there, I actually thought employees were smoking something else in the back room).
I remember purchasing my first cassette of Rod Stewart’s “Camouflage” at the first location further up the street near the post office on Hole Ave. in 1984. Then there were plenty of memorable in-store appearances, notably MxPx in 1998.