America was a blast, Skid Row, went down very well at all gigs, supporting:

[A] Jazz/ Soul/ Rock group Pollution for 3 nights at The Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Strip. Actually Pollution who had 2 great lead singers, Dobie Gray and Tata Vega, (as well as the legendary New Orleans pianist Ronnie Baron) supported Skid Row at the Whiskey.
Then it was off to San Francisco for 4 nights at the legendary Fillmore West.

At the time, I was living in Bournemouth and working contentedly as a bus driver, which left me plenty of free time to trawl the local junk shops at least two or three times a week. I could continue on the buses, while accumulating interesting old records and hopefully selling them at a profit via adverts in Record Mart and elsewhere.

NB: At this time, record collecting was in its infancy, especially collecting 7” records.

I commenced collecting records seriously soon after I moved to Bournemouth in May 1968.

There were more than a dozen junk shops in and round Bournemouth at that time, most of these dealt in ‘house-clearance stuff and this often included records. As a consequence most of these shops carried a small selection of secondhand records, mainly 45s, but also some 78s and a few LPs.

Used 7” records at that time tended to cost anything from one shilling(5p) to one shilling & sixpence (seven & a half pence).