Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

electric sound of jim noted on some other thread that he thinks cleaners make a BIG difference (he has one). and no, they don't seem to get cheaper than maybe 300.

-- sleeve, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i reiterate this. one of the best things i ever bought, worth every cent. it won't fix damage but it'll raise your record a grade or more if it's dirty or moldy

A friend gave me a couple Normal Blake LPs on Flying Fish.

jerry garcia - garcia (whoa so good)
OM - gebel barkal/"version" 7" (first new SP singles club)

and...

my new numark pt01 portable record player for my office. work gwan RULE

I got the OM 7" today, too. It's on tan colored vinyl. I think it's great. Somewhat of a new direction for them. Already on my 6th spin or something...

i thought they were stopping after haikus left, but i GUESS NOT

Nope, they announced Emil as the drummer about a month after Chris left.
Is yours tan colored as well?

yeah, sorta skin-ish

also today is the first full day of my in-office record player!

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whoa this is excellent.

big band rocking jazz concert from 1972 in "phase 4 stereo" no less.
fans of axelrod should definely track this down.
todays charity shop pickup for a wallet busting £1.50.
vinyl in relatively good condition, but track 1 side 2 wont play due to the minor warp making the needle bounce off.
if i place the record flat under a pile of vinyl for a fwe weeks will that level the warp out a little ?
i cant adjust the weight on the record deck arm as its semi-fixed, and the 3 positions I can use for the weight don't make any difference to the jump.
worst comes to the worst though, i tracking this down on cd.

The guy from County Records just e-mailed me back, and I'm gonna pick up a whole clutch of sealed old-timey reissues (string bands, fiddlers, mountain blues etc) for $10/per. So psyched.

CO-519 ECHOES OF OZARKS--Vol. 2
CO-520 " " Vol. 3
CO-511 MOUNTAIN BLUES
CO-541 EARLY NASHVILLE STRING BANDS--Vol. 1
CO-701 CLAWHAMMER BANJO
CO-729 THE LILLY BROTHERS
CO-739 STANLEY BROS. of VA. Volume 2

good lord, replacement Goldring needles start at $185. what have I gotten myself into with this turntable?

all the LPs I justed on 8/29 arrived today.
Early Nashville String Bands has a dish warp, but plays. A few of the others (Banjo, Echoes of Ozarks vol. 2) have small edge warps but play fine. Gettin old timey.

jethro tull heavy horses is rocking my vinyl world

this is the recent vinyl i've been listening to. posted this on listening thread, but what the hell:

little brother montgomery - crescent city blues (!!!!)

brothers & other mothers vol.2) (!!!! - brew moore, allen eager, bernie privin orchestra, phil urso, teddy reig all-stars. outstanding comp!)

solo flight - the genius of charlie christian (!!!!)

howard roberts quartet - h.r. is a dirty guitar player

nat king cole trio - great capitol masters (!!!!)

turiva alice coltrane/devadip carlos santana - illuminations

lionel hampton - sweatin' with hamp 1945-1950

elek bacsik - jazz guitarist

art ensemble of chicago - nice guys (!!!!)

willis jackson - west africa

hadley caliman - s/t

john coltrane quartet - ballads

john coltrane - impressions

marion brown - porto novo (!!!!)

nico - the marble index (!!!! - never heard this album till last week. can you believe it? found it cheap on vinyl.)

jazz experiments of charlie mingus

charlie parker - quartet quintet & septet (!!!!)

charles mingus - my favorite quintet

exciter - unveiling the wicked

venom - hell at hammersmith - alive in 85

utfo - doin' it!

charles mingus - jazz workshop

exciter - long live the loud (!!!!)

john coltrane - ascension (!!!!)

gene ammons & dexter gordon - the chase! (!!!!)

chris connor - he loves me, he loves me not

lee konitz - motion (!!!!)

fats navarro - boppin' a riff

al cohn - the progressive al cohn

maynard ferguson - m.f. horn

maynard ferguson - s/t

billy eckstine - the mgm years

perez prado/shorty rogers - voodoo suite

david murray octet - home (!!!!)

the sauter finegan orchestra - the sound of... (!!!!)

gene ammons - nothin' but soul

duke ellington - carnegie hall concerts december 1944

john klemmer - blowin' gold (2 album comp)

john handy III - jazz

gunter hampel big band - cavana

gunter hampel - flying carpet

roy eldridge - little jazz

gunter hampel & his galaxie dream band - vogelfrei (!!!!)

allen toussaint - life, love and faith (!!!!)

human arts ensemble - whisper of dharma

hot chocolate - man to man

transaxdrum vol.1 (!!!! - alex foster/john lewis duo)

john klemmer quartets - involvement

charlie mariano - mirror mirror mirror (!!!!)

exuma - reincarnation

chris connor - i miss you so

exuma - snake

paul jeffrey - family (!!!!)

meet the jazztet (!!!! - art farmer, benny golson, curtis fuller, mccoy tyner)

this is hampton hawes vol.2 - the trio (!!!!)

the new john handy quintet - new view!

roy eldridge - the early years (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

hampton hawes trio - here and now

black california vol.2 (!!!! - kenny clarke, helen humes, slim gaillard, wardell gray, wild bill moore, russell jacquet)

ruby braff - swinging with ruby braff

duke ellington - magenta haze

the bop masters (!!!!!!!!!!! - unissued/rare diz/bird/fats/etc. all live/radio recordings.)

Yesterday at a thrift store for 2 bucks a piece I found

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark "Crush"

2 XLC. Presents "Music From Belgium" which on the back cover says "This record will show you the roots of belgian electronic music, young musicians who don't want to ride on the new beat wave. They want to do 100% aggrepo for your body mechanic!"

Thrift stores are great places to record shop but of course some are better than others. This Last Chance I used to live nearby had a ridiculous amount of indie/hipster records pop up all the time for just a buck or two. I got "Another Green World" LP, "You Made Me Realise" 12", and the first Flaming lips album on purple vinyl there once all at the same time. The upsetting thing was that I was there pretty late in the day so I imagine I missed out on even more cool stuff...

My favorite vinyl scores are from Gwinnett county (i live in Georgia, southern US), where the thrift stores always have tons of 70s and 80s mexican pop music. I got these in January and they are some of my favorite album covers ever:

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The last one the girl and the text are both raised!

Fuck, how do you post pictures now?

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STATIONS OF THE CRASS
So much Eddie Lockjaw Davis w/ Shirley Scott.

hey ian I finally found a $5 copy of Singles Going Steady!

I am getting killed on eBay by the weak dollar, just got my ass kicked bidding on the 1st Annie Anxiety LP.

Scorces is nice.

i was shocked when i just won sun city girls "dante's disneyland" on ebay. i thought someone would beat me out on it.

why is ILM all fucked up looking?

it's called progress, and freedom ya goddamned commie bastard.

jus kiddin miss u boo, where u been?

cluster - sowiesoso 4 men w/beards reissue
black sabbath - mob rules
eric burdon declares "war"
little walter - boss blues harmonica
pixies - bossanova

sowiesoso is my fave cluster. so awezome.

MORE OLD TIME MUSIC:
Blue Sky Boys on County
Delmore Brothers: Brown's Ferry Blues 33-41
delmore brothers: sand mountain blues (later forties recordings)
border radio: Carter Family, Mainer's Mountaineers, Cowboy Slim Rinehart (1941 radio transcriptions)
v/a - around the heart of old galax vol's 1 & 2
v/a - a fiddler's convention in mountain city, tennesee (1924-1930 recordings)
the skillet lickers - old time tunes 27-31
skiller lickers volume 2
v/a - old time fiddle classics vol. 2
v/a - springtime in the mountains: classics of early bluegrass

prefab sprout - swoon
jim hall and ron carter - alone together
eric dolphy - outward bound
june carter cash - appallachian pride
jimmy driftwood - the wilderness road

-_-

last night i got:
the easter brothers LP on county
the mountain ramblers LP on county
rosalie sorrels - travelin lady LP

the county LPs are both late-sixties recordings of old men playing traditional music. they were cheap. the sorrels was the better of the two the shop had, so i felt like i ought to pick it up, even though i probably won't listen to it very often.

is anyone in Brooklyn going to the record fair in Greenpoint today? I'm debating it; rain and all.

i also got my sun city girls "Dante's Disneyland Infero" in the mail, and won an East Texas Serenaders LP on ebay.

picked up:

blank dogs - on two sides (yellow vinyl!!)

fred neil - s/t (nice reissue for only 11.99!)

duke ellington - the golden duke (2LP collection on prestige, half big band "hits" and half strippped down piano things that are really cool)

deerhunter - cryptograms + EP double lp thing (seems kinda cool so far)

so much awesome stuff in memphis
swamp dogg - rat on!
sweat band - s/t
otis redding 2LP comp
jay reatard 08 matador singles LP (special clear vinyl gonerfest edition)
first two butterglory 7"s
hank iv 7"
minutemen - double nickels on the dime
air miami - me me me 2x12", airplane rider 7" on blue vinyl, i hate milk 7"
unrest - 1993 tour split 7" w stereolab, 7" with naked dude on cover (i forget name)
28th day - s/t 12"
three sf seals 7"s (i know, i know. how much barbara manning do i need, right??)
gonerfest V comp
coachwhips - peanut butter and jelly... LP
grenadine - napolitos LP
crusaders of love 7"s

damn i forget what else but there was def more...

unrest - 1993 tour split 7" w stereolab, 7" with naked dude on cover (i forget name)
I think its John Holmes. Did you get that at Shangri-La?

Ray Charles - Genio del blues (a gift from a friend who went to Madrid for a holiday, really cool, raw recordings)
Willie Nelson - A Song For You (seems to just be a compilation, but its the first Nelson record I've heard and it's great, I'm on the lookout for more)

gots more jassssss rekkerds today cuz i am a tea hed:

eddie henderson - heritage (blue note)

codona - collin walcott/don cherry/nana vasconcelos (ecm)

idris muhammad - boogie to the top (kudu)

passport - iguacu (atco)

lalo schifrin - black widow (cti)

stanley cowell trio - illusion suite (ecm)

don cherry - hear & now (atlantic)

booker ervin - back from the gig (blue note - 2lp unreleased stuff)

sun ra - astro black (impulse)

sam rivers - involution (blue note - 2lp unreleased stuff)

ornette coleman - the great london concert (arista)

some highlights of things I bought off a long term friend tonight (haven't listened to any yet):

Sounds Of Insects on Folkways

Ramnad Krishnan: Vidwan 2LP on Nonesuch

Kalpana Improvisations also on Nonesuch

Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets on Polydor, much better copy than my old Island one.

crazy library record on "Selected Sound" by Gerhard Trede called "Electronic Fields", short tracks.

Kraftwerk - Ralf and Florian LP on Vertigo

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (ditto)

something on "Asch Recordings" called "Electronic Music: From Razor To Moog" by J.D. Robb. One piece is dated 1965.

UCLA Ethnomusicology Institute gamelan LP called "Music Of The Venerable Dark Cloud"

The Secret Music of China set of 78's on Columbia

unrest - 1993 tour split 7" w stereolab, 7" with naked dude on cover (i forget name)
I think its John Holmes. Did you get that at Shangri-La?

― Trip Maker, Monday, September 29, 2008 6:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah, my buddy and i totally raided the mid-90's 7"s. i got a few grifters 7"s, obv, but i think the early butterglory EP's are the things i was most psyched about there.

Awesome. That's the stuff I totally associate with Shangri-La.
I feel like one of my friends probably traded in that Stereolab/Unrest single. How was the rest of Gonerfest? Wish I could have gone. Jay Jay is playing in Columbia next saturday, at least.

oh my god the first track on that don cherry rekkerd i got is the fucking bomb! heavymetalfunkadeladoncherry!

or that i bought even!

gonerfest was really really awesome. jay canceled (i heard REATARD IN REAHAB rumors, but then dude showed up to the shows that night, making it more likely that he just wanted to give RED SNEAKERS (from japan) a chance to play), but there were SO MANY awesome performances. best was the box elders, for sure. everyone should get their 7"!

i've actually heard the box elders! i always feel so out of it when people talk about new stuff. my friend chris plays that stuff on his radio show here. it's how i keep in touch with the cool kids.

filled some holes in my classic rock stacks

byrds - ballad of easy rider
james gang - rides again
fleetwood mac - tusk

you should see em when you get a chance, scott. i loved the 7" already, but the live show really blew me away, even after a long weekend of pretty awesome shows.

btw i got an extra copy of the gonerfest edition of the jay reatard matador singles (sealed, clear THICK vinyl, ltd to 300) that i would totally trade for a copy of the sixth jay matador single (no time/you were sleeping)!

I didn't bother trying to get any of those singles, I knew a comp wasn't far behind.

Yeah, same. That and the fact he was charging £5 for them when he played here. Sod that for a 7". OK so I probably could have sold it on Ebay for more now or something but I can't be bothered with the hassle at the moment.

A friend of mine just sold the whole set on ebay for $250. jeepers.

Listening to new LPs by:
Way Of The Cross (psych/drone supergroup with Jan Anderzen, Kuupuu, Skaters, Dave Nuss, Uton etc.)
Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye (Ed Yazijian solo record channeling Angus Maclise-style percussion drone with stringed accompaniment.)

get me a banty, put him in my backdoor

gross

okay, picked up a couple more things:

coltrane live at birdland (nice mono copy)

letta mbulu - naturally

larry willis - inner crisis (love this! on groove merchant.)

gene ammons - the boss is back! (sounds so beautiful. late 60's prestige vinyl bows to no man!)

lightning hopkins - low down dirty blues

patrice rushen - before the dawn (awesome! super-thin prestige vinyl from 1975 ain't no joke either!)

jimmy mcgriff - i've got a woman

john lee hooker - if you miss 'im...i got 'im (i'm guessing the title refers to john's cousin earl. cuz he is featured on this album. and they are both on the cover.)

okay lesse what the new action is here.

last night i outbid ilx user "69" on a michael hurley LP.
i also won a charlie poole LP (vol. 1 on county) and a comp of "old-time mountain guitar."

in the real world, i have recently become intimate with:
bohannon - dance your ass off
arlo guthrie - amigos (surprisingly strong)
johnny dodds - spirit of new orleans 1926-27
popol vuh - aguirre OST
michael coleman - the legacy of... (irish fiddle in america, 1921-1936)
v/a hawaiian steel guitar classics vol. 2 1927-1934 (folklyric)
v/a st. lous blues 1926-1932: good time blues! (search: Jelly Roll Anderson's "Good Time Blues" and Cora Perkins "Today Blues.")
george coleman - bongo joe (amazing new reish on mississippi that i talked about on other threads.)
mayo thompson - corky's debt to his father

ian is the nosferatu soundtrack by popol vuh good? i almost bought that the other day...it was like $15 or $16, worth it?