Remnant

Ok, so I did some serious research on Moonblood (the orignal 1971 LP release). It can go for up to $3500. My copy, because it was opened and played is worth about $1500.

Does that blow your mind or what? Blows mine anyway. Emotionally I can't imagine ever being in a place where I could sell it, I would have to be pretty hard up financially to ever sell it. But it's kind of cool knowing I have it none the less. Kind of nice knowing my old friends from way back when made something that seems to have some kind of lasting value (or growing value or whatever).

Their band name Fraction, comes from the New Testament as in:

Romans 11
5   Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Fraction, remnant, same thing right? Well, Jim Beach thought so anyway. Fraction was Jim Beach's brainchild and baby. He wrote most of the songs and of course he was the vocalist on all the cuts.

Jim was Vic's best friend. Jim collected exotic automobiles. Jim almost killed Vic in one of those exotic automoblies once. He almost killed himself too. I can't remember which car it was that he trashed in the Santa Monica Mountains that day (the Porche maybe or the Vet or maybe the Shelby Stang). At any rate, he thrashed that car into the side of the mountain and then spent the next million years in the hospital himself recovering.

I met Jim at his parents home in July of 1969. He was way older than I was (by 6 years). I was 15, he was 21. I remember that meeting well, seeing his room (a little too pristine for a straight guy in my opinion). Jim and I never became friends. Even when Vic, he and I were business partners, I still never really got to truly know Jim well.