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Listening to Arian Sample again. It's all acoustic guitar downer folk songs with electric guitar accompaniment. Heavy on atmosphere, but you can tell it was made in a hurry. I compared it to Jandek, which does seem ridiculous in retrospect. It sounds a little bit like someone making something they maybe think sounds like Jandek. Oh a synth just entered the picture...

It's definitely a huge downer, tho.

I'd liked to hear this guy, I guess I'll try slsk , I can't bring myself to spend $100+ on it when I could get this
http://mobile.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/290463457175.jpg
or
http://www.goldminemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AO1.gif

Moving to Paris TX today for work and couldn't bring my record players, no records for awhile, but will be digging.

they'll sound even better when you finally get them home. maria and i drove across the country years ago and i bought tons of stuff and just looked at it in hotel rooms the whole trip. so nice when i finally got back home and could play it all.

if you were a carpenter, you could make this super cool desk
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdi46b6Szr1rtmp17o1_500.jpg

very nice

It should please almost anyone, that!

hi i robbed a guy...

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/music/rare-robert-johnson-record-turns-up-at-jerrys-records-662343/

"i will never bring my records to that guy, he's just gonna rip me off!" -every old person in pittsburgh

alternately,
"i knew that SOB underpaid me for my sinatra!"

ok YEAH darkness and grey days here in oakland + holiday-season-overwhelm = total insane-o in the brain-o. let's use this spot for being happy and excited about records!

this year, i joined the w@xidermy holiday swap, and i sent this stuff to my dude, who wanted new agey and ethno stuff:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Nomades-Du-Niger-Musique-Des-Touareg-Musique-Des-Bororo/release/2262424
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Arm%C3%A9nie-Musique-Instrumentale/release/2253699
http://www.discogs.com/Jordan-De-La-Sierra-Gymnosphere-Song-Of-The-Rose/release/2584750
http://www.discogs.com/Charles-Lloyd-Pathless-Path/release/628411

i hope i get cool stuff in return! i told the organizer i was looking for "Spiritual jazz LP's, avant garde (but not so much garage-psych) 60's-70's LP's, BLUE NOTE LP's, 2nd tier krautrock LP's, the artsy-fartsy end of loner/acoustic gtr nonsense, and MAYBE MAYBE 45's to help me start to learn basically anything about 45's (esp soulful funky soul-funk?), but only if swappers are overloaded on 45's to give."

in retrospect, im regretting mentioning 45's.

wow you sent 4 records?! i thought it was a one-for-one type of thing. good luck!

i took a pile of records and cds in to Weirdo and got such a good deal in trade. my plan is to slowly offload. give back to the people of Cambridge. i have too much.

i think it's flexible for # and format of gifts, but i aimed to stay in the $75-150 range, as that was described to me as the norm...

Happy Holidays ilv!

WELC)OME BACK JACOB! Happy baby's first christmas!

dudes, i'm listening to the best stuff. plus home alone stoned. tomorrow is the only day off i've had in december.

dinner in two hours, which will include meeting my older daughter's boyfriend, lead singer of a local metal band. fun times.

we got to kick it w my lil niece today for xmas morning and hanging this evening w annie's fam. so fun so far!

love you guys!

I've missed you guys, been too tired to open my laptop for weeks, work has been grueling. Been listening to a lot of music on my drive to and from work, George Jones and Lefty. Nick DeCaro's Italian Graffiti was a recent discovery, such a nice record. Hope you guys enjoyed your holidays.

slept in til noon,
opened gifts with helen (comics, alan lomax edited songbook [so i can learn to play old-time music on guitar], darth vader pajamas, vintage star wars drinking glasses, lord of the rings trivia game, some t-shirts)
went out to junior's (downtown brooklyn deli/cheesecake institution) for lunch
came home and relaxed, read a book and slept for half an hour.
chinatown veggie dim sum with a couple good friends.
2nd parat of the fanny and alexander long-form tv version

bourbon

kittens

feet up at annie's grandma's place after tight roast beef dinner w her uncles and aunts and cousins in pasadena. headin down towards temecula to see an oakland friend in her home town, then to palm springs for a couple nights, where ill be able to jam these records (and god please please please get a friend-of-friend discount so i can afford to buy records in january) at the LOL ace hotel.

all in all, including langer's pastrami and a chance to hang w the cutest lil kid of all, a pretty sick lil christmas.

silent night holy shit

oh ian btw -- we went to gimme gimme yesterday in LA and were chatting the guy there (not the guy i know, i guess it was the other/actual owner?), and dude puts on DRIFTIN WAY OF LIFE and annie and i cheered and stayed through ramblin scramblin. it was a kind of dark part of the long xmas shopping day yesterday, and JJW felt like divine intervention.

Laurie and I ate wild goose last night, so freaking good. we cooked two in red wine, our friends cooked the other two in white. Tons of good wine, side dishes, dessert. Happy holidays, y'all.

gimme gimme is a great place to score country rock records but sometimes his prices are wack. i like him a lot as a dude tho.
joe is moving out there next month.

i never noticed there was an open break on the charley d and milo record.

Last day at my gf's in Albuquerque and I really don't feel like going back home or to work. We spent Christmas eve in Santa Fe, went for a walk to find something to eat and it started snowing. It's been a lovely lovely week.

Funny Discogs dealers dissing each other in their listings..

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=2841306&ev=rb

love to see more of these if anyone's seen them...

haha that's pretty good.

omg thats so cute

tonight i played records in a bar for the first time in a few years.

got away with the following:
john hartford, john stewart, john fahey, hot tuna, norman blake, 15 minute farm band track, and PERHAPS most surprisingly, the neil young record w/ pearl jam.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!

lol I came here to post just that.
Happy birthday, dude. Hope you took the day off.

Howdy clubhouse! I have a question for you, two actually:

1) At some point I remember Scott mentioning some reissue label that is horrible and should never receive anyone's patronage. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or what it's called?

2) As I was idly searching yesterday, I saw that there is a reissue (ltd to 500, I think) of Affenstunde at my local store. It's $23.99. Is this too good to be true?

I called and had them put it on hold for me and I want it (real bad I want it) but I don't want to patronize this shitty label or be the kind of sucker who plunks down $23.99 for something shitty. I know you guys are probably gonna be like NO WAY because you think reissues are a waste of money but but but but

Should I buy it?

RADIOACTIVE/FALLOUT/PHOENIX

Thank you. So Klimt is ok?

Sorry for butting in! I WANT THIS REAL BAD.

pretty sure klimt pressings are bootlegs too. don't know anything about them really.

I'm not sure if Klimt records are boots or not. It wouldn't surprise me if they are. I think I am taking the day off, otherwise I could go to work and see if the packaging says anything along the lines of "Licensed from blah blah."

What should I look for? Asking these questions is so embarrassing!

just look to see if there's any small print on the back saying something like "Licensed from such and such corporation" or something. It won't necessarily be true, I guess, but I have no idea who owns the rights to the Popol Vuh catalog in France (where Klimt is from.)

Ok. Thank you! I will look for it. I appreciate the help. Spelling out the title over the phone so the person could look it up for me was about as much as I could handle. Most of the time I just want to browse, purchase, leave without having to ask any questions!

Thanks ILV clubhouse!

<3 took the day off yesterday and hit sacramento w mike mcg visiting from portland -- got some SICK records! ill post em as i listen to em

Update:
I looked for the licensing, didn't see anything, but was reassured by the clerk and bought it anyway. Listened to it immediately upon returning home, regret nothing.

At least I don't think I do? Listening to Affenstunde super loud on my record player while I got dinner together was extremely pleasant, and I wouldn't have had that experience otherwise. Now I can have it whenever I want...that's gotta be worth something even if the reissue label isn't totally legit? I'm not sure if it is or not, but I do appreciate your assistance, ILV.

i think almost everyone on this board has probably bought some 'grey area' reissue in their life at some point so don't sweat it, word?

i won this record in monthly 78 auction last night, along with a few others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xMJCc_iGek

klimt put out the henske/yester album just like radioactive did before them and i have a really hard time believing that a tiny no-name label in france with no website licensed that record from anyone. they put out lots of radioactive-y titles. josefus, moving sidewalks, demian. i could be wrong though. if i'm wrong someone right me. i have no idea who is behind the label.