― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Amongst a million other things.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Wine in the morning, breakfast at night (Bimble...), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Meanwhile, the Act 1/2 theater closed, and the other small theaters are increasingly showing mainstream fare and struggling nonetheless. The rock clubs are usually pretty sparsely attended. It's a rough time across the board.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
They did this in SF with all but the Rock section. I haven't decided if I like it or not actually. It's a bit more one stop, but it increases your flip time if you don't care about the new stuff (which often I don't.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
They moved; the rent on University is a killer, especially so close to campus.
Wait the Amoeba in Berkeley is having problems?
They're by far the least profitable of the three, and still have a lot of staff to feed. I wouldn't say that they're struggling, but traffic is down quite a bit.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Well that makes sense. It's got the least profitable location, the least space and the least parking. But that doesn't mean it is in a bad way does it?
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― from The ends of your fingers (prosper.strummer.), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm assuming so, but mostly based on the fact that the three times I've been there, I was the only customer for the entirety of my stay. That was never true for me on University.
I doubt the rent is 1/4th. El Cerrito Plaza has Albany-esque rents.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know for sure, but the rock section is the store's bread and butter, so the fact that they would cut it basically in half doesn't bode well, or at least signals that they're shifting even more toward DVD sales, which is not something I'm looking for in a record shop. Since all three are owned by the same people and the other two are so damned profitable, I doubt they'd ever sell the store, but I believe that particular store is going to grow increasingly irrelevant.... which sucks, because I hate going to that goddamned bowling alley in the haight.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Quoting their MySpace profile:TOWER RECORDS is a LEADING specialist in MUSIC, DVD, BOOKS and GAMES Retailer based in DUBLIN and is wholly IRISH owned by RECORDS and DISCS Ltd since JULY 2003
Folks you can go leave comments on the Tower Records MySpace Profile for your town! Inc Tower Records Dublin, Calafornia. Wish them all well seeking new jobs!
― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Is the version of Shine A Light on there better than the Albert Hall one?
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Rockaway was better when it occupied the entire building instead of the one-quarter or one-third that they have now. Rockaway is great because they are so completely myopic over '67-'71 era "Rolling Stone Magazine Rock" that they don't know/realize the other things that churn through the used bin.
That's how I got most of Flying Nun for a $1 each, etc.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Absolutely yes.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Second question: Is the FUI Medication better than the album version on Pure Phase?
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. However there are two even better versions... In order:
1. The live Glastonbury '93 one on the _Let It Flow_ CD EPs. Recorded when Darkside guitarist Kevin Cowen was in Spz. for a brief time, and it really shows.2. The studio one on the _Medication_ EP.3. _Fucked Up Inside_4. _Pure Phase_
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Elvis otm tho
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
(Or Amazon, or whatever.)
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Let It Flow and Medication are my favourite two songs on PP (These Blues arguably up there also), so their respective EPs are probably worthwhile purchases going by that...
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I do have to say, I met Russ Solomon, and he was quite creepy.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:51 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, after listening to enough of these episodes I'm content to have been a happy customer
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 05:25 (ten months ago) link