Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

williamsburg academy has fight on LP.

aaaa so cool, i'll drift in tomorrow and pick one up. i've only looked around academy a couple of times and felt like i couldn't take it all in or decide what roland kirk to get.

i picked this up, it's terrific. the first side especially - kinda more other-worldly than a lot of blues comps, with beautiful guitar solo and slide playing and great solo delta stuff. sign of judgement's beautiful.

i don't know if this is true of other people, but i have a way of willing records to appear when i need them. it has happened over and over for years. stuff i would never see in a million years i would find right after thinking about how i needed them. that fotheringay thread made me sad cuz i gave up my nice copy years ago for some daft reason. (traded it? ebayed it? i can't remember.) anyway, i thought to myself, aw man, i need that album NOW. so, i went to the record store and there was a box of records on the floor and there just happened to be a perfectly perfect copy of the album in the box and it was the ONLY album i wanted in the box. the rest was poop. voila! i mean, it looks unplayed. american stock copy, but what the hell...and i hadn't been to the store in weeks.

got great jazz records too. so much fun playing them all week:

bud powell trio featuring max roach (roost) (just boggles my mind and i can't stop playing it.)

thelonious monk - monk's blues (columbia)

freddie hubbard - backlash (atlantic)

thelonious monk - monk's moods (prestige) (soooo amazing)

bud powell - jazz giant (50's verve reissue of an album originally on norgran. stii hard to find even in its verve incarnation)

lennie tristano - s/t (atlantic) (also way hard to find and just bonkers and friggin' great.)

donald byrd - free form (blue note) (love this record so much. so nice to have a good copy of it. made my month. "french spice" KILLS me. so goddamn beautiful.)

gerry mulligan quartet - s/t (world pacific) (amazing sound on this. and everyone sounds great. chet, chico, everyone.)

hot dance obscurities 1926-1930 (jazz studies)

who are some of the artists on that last one??

i need more bop in my life also.

I've been listening to neverending pre-war piano blues. Lots of stuff on the RST & Document labels--those lovable black & white blues reissues. We got maybe fifteen, different tites in of old stock. Arhoolie used to distribute a lot of these (which were usually european in origin--Austrian, German) and has stock on some titles. We also got a bunch of stuff on the Folklyric label, which I've been really into. Early Hawaiian, Irish-American, Ukrainian-American, Cajun, Texas-Mexican, etc. And Cliff Carlisle vol. 2 on Old-Timey! One of the best blue yodelers, and a much finger guitarist than Jimmie Rodgers. But the piano blues stuff is almost painful. Because it's all "pretty good" to "great" and there's so much of it, that by the end of the third side I've just had enough, and am not enjoying it as much anymore.

My head hurts.

"finger guitarist" should be "finger guitarist" fwiw. carlisle was often billed as "hawaiian" depending on where he was playing.

9 of the 15 items I ordered online aren't in stock. Forced Exposure, why must you break my heart?

People who are familiar with Forced Exposure, the records they didn't have in stock are all from 2007 or 2006 (there are pretty much just techno 12"s). Does this mean they're probably not going to get it in stock ever again? Does it make sense to start choosing out replacement items?

$1 finds:

shirley scott - hip soul
roland kirk w/jack mcduff - kirk's work
stanley turrentine - another story
jimmy smith - plays fats waller
jimmy smith - '75
betty carter - the modern sounds of betty carter
brenda lee - let me sing
microdisney - crooked mile
the brothers johnson - look out for number one
emitt rhodes - s/t
cat stevens - teaser and the firecat
canned heat - boogie with canned heat
creedence clearwater revival - cosmo's factory

last weekend (as best as i can remember):
thomas jefferson slave apartments (tjsa) - negative guestlist 7" (two copies for friends)
tjsa - punk rock secret 7"
tjsa/fat day - split 7"
sic alps/california lightening - four virgins split 7" (sic alps first vinyl appearance, might be worth dollaz?)
the yips - 1000% fox 7"
the screamin mee-mees - home movies 7" (great!)
knaughty knights - s/t 7"
the 3d's - hey seuss 7"
urban legends 7"
the dangerloves 7"
new finally punk 7"
a/v murder 7"
double dagger 7"
hank iv - 1st LP
hank iv - new LP on siltbreeze
sic alps - us ez
nerve city 7"
black uhuru - showcase (orig brit)
bohannon stop-go (orig!)
kraftwerk - ralf und florian (on vertigo)
buffalo springfield - s/t
the strokes - room on fire YES SO GOOD I DONT CARE
belle and sebastian - push barman...
michael nesmith - loose salute
howlin wolf - evil (nice copy)
tim buckley - starsailor (original in EX condition, with some damage to sleeve-top = $1)
dc snipers/tamp-offs split 7"
1910 fruitgum company - indian giver

i think i got like eleven more 7"s too, but i cant remember what they all are...

now wheres my new sub pop singles club 7"

Nice haul!

thanks dogg!

nice haul for both of you guys!
that's a lot of good shit for a dollar, "omar little." was this at a flea market, or were the conditions off or what?

p.s. boogie with canned heat = best canned heat record IMHO

oh btw my boss totally got cold feet about his rec collection :( maybe next time...

yo ian, the conditions are all a little bit "off" visually but mostly it's some minor popping and ambient crackling which i think is dirt-related. the kirk/mcduff one looked dire but i cleaned it off a little bit and it sounds pretty dope now. once i use the proper solution i assume these will sound even better. the worst one now might be the canned heat one has a weird barely audible high pitched whistling sound on the beginning of the first tracks on each side, which is strange, but otherwise it's not bad.

these were in the dollar bins at amoeba in hollywood, usually it's all streisand or at best some battered copies of stevie nicks records or something but someone had just put these out and they were right up front.

just made a back-alley internet jazz record deal!

> mal waldron quintet - hard talk [enja 2050] - $20 [looks to be original, and in pretty minty shape]
> lee morgan - the cooker [blue note - bst 81578] - $12
> art pepper quintet - smack up [fantasy - ojc-176] - $10
> dexter gordon - dexter calling [blue note - 84083] - $8

today i traded in some crap for some more crap:

v/a - round the heart of old galax vol. 2 (featuring The Ward Family)
v/a - round the heart of old galax vol. 3 (string bands from virginia)
texas-mexican border music: lydia mendoza & the mendoza family volume 2
texas mexican border music: v/a - the string bands
charlie mccoy & walter vincson 1928-1936) (featuring some dope blues mandolin, one of my favorite things ever!)

Just got these:
Babyhead comp. LP
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Karate Party "black helicopter"
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Babyhead is just sinking in after a couple of listens. Piranhas track destroys, I need to find more of this stuff. Guinea Worms stands out as well. I hadn't bought a comp.in years; its a nice sampler.

Karate Party is great, total blown-out distorted punk, it just has a special something that gets me excited,especially "ball game" and "pressure".
Going by the sleeve they are defunct. Too bad.

these too, 3 Canadians dollars each at a creepy flea market in Saskatoon:
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MORE trade-ins.

michael chapman - fully qualified survivor (jacket has some staining in the gateful, disc is EX+. orig UK of course)
bach/gould - the art of fugue
nnck - afticalypse
v/a - east coast blues 1926-1934 (yazoo, later pressing)
the balfa brothers - play traditional cajun music

oh, and i got a messiaen record too. i don't remember the title. but it's a cycle of pieces for two pianos.

the first michel chapman LP also came in. I need to get that one too, probably with the next batch of LPs I bring in. My goal is to sell as many LPs as it takes for everything to fit on my shelves. In a perfect world, that means I will sell something before I buy it. For now I'm just happy when I come home with fewer records than I bring to trade in.

texas mexican border music: v/a - the string bands

^^^^

i got a good score on my b-day. a friend of mine works for a record company and secured a bunch of vinyl reissues for me:

goodbye yellow brick road - elton john
gaucho - steely dan
alive - kiss
second helping - lynyrd skynyrd
music of my mind - stevie wonder
synchronicity - the police
the marshall mathers lp - eminem
burnin' - the wailers

not all of them are my thing, but they're pretty dope nonetheless so i'll listen to all of them.

texas-mexican border music: lydia mendoza & the mendoza family volume 2

aaa she's pretty good. have you got any atahualpa yupanqui stuff (personally or in the store) ian?

went to visit my wife's sis and husband in lawrence kansas...found a nice little shop called Keif's downtown...had a pretty nice vinyl selection, but YOWSA ebay has really killed the whole "finding totally underpriced records in a smaller city thing"...had some nice stuff but it was way more than i could get it for in Mpls...thankfully Kansas hasn't gotten the message that Dio is totally hip so Rainbow Rising was in the low priced section...

but they had some great new vinyl sale priced clearance stuff....got a 180g Get Back pressing of Eric Dolphy/Herbie Hancock at the Gaslight 1962...a 2LP reggae comp on Earmark called "Am I Black Enough For You" all old skool reggae greats, for only $15...and a Harlan T Bobo record on Goner new for only 4.99!

'life is a problem' comp
helium - 'no guitars' ep

Picked these up at a car show swap meet:

The Specials- s/t, More Specials, & In The Studio With Specials AKA
Gang of Four- Entertainment!, Another Day/Another Dollar, & Yellow
The English Beat- Special Beat Service & What Is...
Holly & The Italians- Holly Beth Vincent
Duran Duran- s/t & Rio
Peter Gabriel- II, III, & Security/IV
Amanda Lear- Sweet Revenge
XTC- Waxworks & Beeswax
Etta James- Back To The Fifties
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp- I Advance Masked
Bugs Henderson Group- Still Flyin'
The Golden Earrings- s/t
Halfnelson- s/t
Sparks- #1 Song In Heaven
The Residents- Third Reich 'n Roll

everybody's talking about the good old days, eeeeeverybody's talking about the good old days

picked up a couple 45s

Cause Co-Motion - Which Way Is Up?
Tyvek - Sidewalk / Future Junk
Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke and Sassafras / Lonely

i hope i get my turntable needle soon cause all my recent vinyl is sad and unplayed.

v/a - siya hamba! 1950s south african country and small town sounds (original music LP)
culture - two sevens clash

the culture record was priced at 4.99 AS IS, my buddy gave it to me for a buck, cause it was dirty. i cleaned it at home, and it sounds awesome. cross a $25 record off my perpetual ebay watchlist!

V/A - Die Neue Deutsche Welle is Da Da Da
Sortilege - Metamorphosis (cool instrumental called Night of Limbs)
Sound Barrier - Speed of Light ('Black' Metal)
Syar - Death Before Dishonour
Robert Hunter - Tiger Rose
TFU282 - Mother of All Saints
Gilberto Gil - Nightingale
Delta 5 - Anticipation / You
4000000 Telephones - French Girls

v/a - the jug bands (RF Records)
v/a - blue ladies vol. 1 1934-1937 (Document)

quincy jones - smackwater jack
johnny "guitar" watson - a real mother for ya
buffalo springfield - last time around
tom t. hall - places i've done time
'cat people' soundtrack

I scored an original Peter Grudzien "The Unicorn" LP. There's a small deformity on the edge but it does not extend into the grooves, and it plays great. Not cheap, but it's the best excuse I can think of to unload a bunch of rare, and rarely played, records.
I am a happy camper.

Nice one. I haven't bought anything in weeks and probably won't for awhile, either. :(

johnny "guitar" watson - a real mother for ya

are any of his lps good? i love things like that larry williams single he made, but everything else i've heard is just some insane bootsy-esque gold coloured insanity. they all have great titles too (see above).

yeah it's pretty nuts, there's a track on there called 'your love is my love' which sounds like some daft punk, funk, soul hybrid complete with vocoder.

if you like that sort of thing, it's good

I haven't bought anything in weeks and probably won't for awhile, either. :(

I'm in Peru and barring some unlikely flea market score I won´t be buying anything until late March. Still keeping up on this thread, partly because of masochism I think.

dude, i hope you brought a portable turntable. spend all your free time in flea markets and shit looking for peruvian surf singles!

i think the new astral weeks reissue is out, gotta go get that.

btw....this is a long shot, but does anyone on here have a copy of "Mush" by Leatherface they would be willing to part with, sale or trade?

complete list of stuff i traded for:

peter grudzien - the unicorn
dixon brothers volume II
claude casey - pine state honky tonk
the bailes brothers - early radio vol. II
v/a - blue ladies vol. 2 (1937-39)
skillet lickers - old time tunes vol. I
skillet lickers - old time fiddle tunes & songs volume 2
gene clark - white light (original)
big bill broonzy - do that guitar rag 1928-1935 (yazoo)
yo la tengo - president yo la tengo/new wave hot dogs
paris 1942 LP (mo tucker + rick & alan bishop)
dorothy carter - waillee waillee (private acid folk mind-melter. duclimer psych.)
michael chapman - rainmaker

traded a bunch of crap for:

Ornette Coleman/Pat Methany etc - Song X
Tom Tom Club
Squeeze - Singles
Herbie Mann - The Stone Flute
Charlie Parker - 2LP Fantasy Records comp

first time to the record store since my daughter was born 10 weeks ago. picked up:

the chills - brave words lp
the residents - duck stab / buster & glen lp
pebbles vol. 2

yesterday i got

jandek - twelfth apostle
v/a - juju roots (30s-50s african guitar music.)