ILV clubhouse

yep. i'm gonna put it on now!
jerry garcia plays steel on a chunk of tunes.
bromberg is there, peter kaukonen guests on the first track which i had never noticed til just now..

Yep I need that record

it's good music!

The self titled Link Wray is damn near a perfect record, it's like what the Stones were trying to make with Exile on Main St.

^^so true

they are both great!

can't they both be great?

great shack-ness on one. great basement-ness on the other. shacks and basements have different vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUsw5z66Jk

ahhh my boys.

Fuck yeah got a trip to my favorite used record shop in the region lined up for tomorrow with my favorite couple!
We'll probably get some BBQ, too. Love Saturdays!

xxp skot yes yes, i <3 that link wrecord, but i also love exile 4evr

Beans and Fatback is maybe both basementness and shackness?

I love Exile too

I like the idea that the Stones were "trying to do" something on that record, and yet somehow they fell short of the mark! lol

I kind of think the stones did fall a little short though, after listening to other records with the same vibe.

you don't want to get stormy going. could get ugly...

Similar vibes, not same

i found a bunch of fairport & related records today at housing works thrift store..
sandy denny - northstar, grassmen, ravens
ian matthews - later that same year (they had valley hi too but it was too beat up to buy)
albion band 'lark rise to candleford' (martin carthy, shirley collins etc.)
richard & linda thompson 'pour down like silver'
historia de la musica rock fairport edition
fairport live 87...

and some local rural/folk/country/rock record 'bright morning star' which is not that good. but i like a record on the same label, the pat decou & tex lamountain record.

and i got a dr. john 'autobiography'

i cannot imagine finding records like that at a thrift store. in ny, too, right?

yeah, in brooklyn. kinda surprising! they also had richard thompson's 'amnesia' and some steeleye span records and stuff. they were $2-3 tho, not $1. but still!

the lady said they were putting more/better records out in a couple of weeks for their spring preview event or something. so i'm gonna go that evening and see if there are any more cool uk folk rock titles.

jeez! the thrift stores around here: trashed Montovanis for DAYS. and, maybe a 'Rock of the Westies' if you're lucky.

i think i still have a copy of the cool karen silkwood tribute 45 that pat & tex put out. love the cover. they live/play around here.

bright morning star is something you see around here all the time.

i mean.. it's all very hit or miss. housing works does manage somehow to have better records, on average, than the salvation army, which has better records than the goodwill etc. i think you just have to get lucky. wait for the day some old hipsters kids donate his jazz records cuz they don't know what to do with em

the salvation army store here sends most of the records they get to the distribution spot in springfield. they never even hit the shelves. which sucks. i still find good stuff occasionally.

where do they go from springfield? salvation armies are definitely hit or miss. there is one super close to my apt and go there all the time, but it's probably less than 5% of the time i find something 'good.' but sometimes i find stuff worth selling. rarely.

well, you know, i found these 45s in january at the salvation army. so, it happens here.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/01/45s-i-bought-at-thrift-store-this.html

from springfield they just go to a bunch of salvation army stores all over the place. who knows. the store here just gets too much stuff to handle. guy who works there at night says they get TONS of records that they send to springfield.

and i found a minty copy of this last year. never been played. still in the shrink. i was sikkkkkked.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20071101/220166871052.jpg

found a townes van zandt promo there too. but its usually slim pickings.

dealer i know works in the back of the big store near northampton! fox guarding the henhouse. i don't think HE even finds that much there. i'm sure he gets enough to keep him happy though.

you know, a part-time dealer. not a full-time shark. he's a nice enough guy.

ha.
i was just gonna say, i wonder what getting a gig at a salvation army warehouse or donation center would be like..

Tx goodwills can be great if you hit them on a regular basis, salvation armies not so much. My best goodwill find was this record, which I wanted since I heard on wfmu, but never thought I would find it. It's like my exotica/lounge holy grail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-papp7Vbo

i was really happy when someone brought this into the store the other day in a box of records. great copy too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow

Wow! That's another's one I keep in mind but never see. One day...

ian, funny that right after you posted that scruggs thing on youtube i pulled a copy of nashville's rock by earl scruggs out of a box in back. sounds cool. that's the record they were listening to in that youtube video. i'm guessing his boys played on it. produced by my fave bob johnston. speaking of West.

listening to in that OTHER youtube video. from that documentary.

saw Steve Reich last night. fantastic. he did a pre-concert talk first; turns out he's an extremely unpretentious affable guy, too. and 75 years old.

ps, thank you MIT, for bringing Terry Riley and Steve Reich to Cambridge in the last 6 mos.

Hey guys we're under a tornado watch here!

Had a good day at a small record fair in Norwich yesterday. Didn't sell too much but picked up a Mickey Newbury twofer & I Came to Hear the Music, Zen Arcade, upgraded my copy of Liege & Lief, found Compilation by The Clean for £4 and a crappy copy of NY's Freedom for £2.

I'd listened to the Groundhogs for the first time the night previous - mind blown. So i was on the lookout for Split. Couldnt see a copy for less than £20 so bought Hogwash for a fiver. I'm a cheapskate.

I never see Groundhogs records.

Split is an awesome record.. Managed to get that and "Thank Christ For The Bomb" in a trade a couple of months back after looking for them for ages..

ayo, just got 80 bucks for an empty cd case

nb: was signed by hunter s thompson

i have a signed thompson twins 12 inch. wonder what i could get for it?

Half-price on one that hasn't been scribbled on.