Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

sometimes i think about selling some of my rare tape music/early electronic LPs on ebay and using the profits to buy a bunch of gear.

aw sweet there's a record fair nearby on sunday

let's hope they got a fix to my heavy hardrocking psychedelic needs

i need
Dust - Hard Attack
Stalker-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia
Pink Fairies - Neverneverland
KAK - KAK
Bubbly Puppy - A Gathering of Promises
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind

and more! i checked all these out tonight with a little help from my friend called soulseek

i'll probably end up with some worn out Banarama lp's and a Klaus Schulze lp i don't have yet though, at best

Kak is so good, but aren't originals prohibitively expensive these days? Bubble Puppy seem kinda marginal to me. BUT, that 2nd Dust record has really grown on me. Maybe I'll listen to it later tonight.

i have no idea. i'm afraid to search for them on ebay cos i'm totally broke and a sucker for any tag saying heavy psych

i love bubble puppy. i have a nice original copy of that. i've got the kak reissue that came out whenever. same time that they put out gandalf and head shop on vinyl. i love those kinds of reissues. sound great and they are cheap!

i still need a nice copy of the demian album but i'm cheap and don't want to spend a hundred bucks on ebay.

SCORPIO. I think we've had the "Yay Scorpio reissues!" conversation on about 10 different threads. They've been doing really nice reissues of the BYG Actuel LPs lately. And they did that first Fahey record on vinyl. I want them to repress the Gentle Soul reissue. Terry Melcher!

i'm cheap too, it pains me to more than twenty bucks for any lp. seriously

And god I love the Gandalf and Fallen Angels and Kak LPs.
Couldn't get into Mandrake Memorial or Head Shop though! Sorry Scott!

i got my bubble puppy and a ton of other stuff when i traded my perry leopold album to my friend dan. um, like a zillion years ago. but it's memorable to me. perry's album, to this day, being my best salvation army find. (i wasn't that big a fan of it, which is why i had no problem giving it up)

i LOVE that head shop album. and, yeah, mandrake memorial are one of my fave bands of all time, but i can dig it. some people can't get into that organ sound.

i have the gentle soul reissue. found it in boston for five bucks. if i ever have money again i gotta go back to cambridge. they had so much friggin' vinyl when i went there. cheap too! there are like a zillion record stores. and i never even made it to twisted village!

that one trip we took to boston i came home with a TON of great records. great psych records too. and they were just sitting there for 10 bucks or whatever. i couldn't believe it. what do people buy in boston?

bad hardcore.

i'm cutting & pasting this from noize listening thread in case anyone knows anything:

so in the new ugly things review of the trimble records they say that the CDs sound great but that the LPs "suffer from an inferior remix". is this true? cuz dude at the record store is holding both LPs for me (he bought them but didn't dig them for whatever reason so he was gonna sell me his) and i was gonna buy those. BUT i already bought maria the iron curtain cd, so i guess i could just get the other album on cd too if the sound is that much of an issue. i want the best-sounding thing, you know? but is it that noticeable, or is UT dude just being anal? probably nobody has heard both to compare.

I haven't heard both, but I think the LPs sound fine.
You get a download coupon with the LPs so you can always download what is (presumably) the CD mix?

and THANKS for the Frijid Pink tip, didn't know them. listening to some tracks up on their myspace. which album to get first then?

-- rizzx, Friday, February 22, 2008 4:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

first two are cool (s/t and defrosted). i've never actually heard the third album *earth omen*, but i'd love to find a copy. they put out an album in 1975 and i don't know anyone who's heard it. have no idea even what it sounds like. anyway, i can vouch for the first two.

-- scott seward, Friday, February 22, 2008 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah the first two albums rip. 'Earth Omen' is pretty good! But a different sound. I think they changed lead singers by that one, and maybe another member or two as well. But it's still pretty heavy ... organ-y. Has a bit of a Uriah Heep vibe actually! I've owned the fourth one ('All Pink Inside') for about ten years and MAYBE listened to it all the way through once. It's pretty bad, I think ... kind of a softer boogie band feel if i recall.

Scorpio repros i've picked up lately: Friendsound, Power of Zeus, Saint Steven, Mandrake Memorial s/t. Haven't heard the first two yet but the Saint Steven album really grew on me after a couple of plays.

Mandrake Memorial rule! That big long opening cut on 'Puzzle' where the organ swells up out of the murk is awesome ... top psych tune! Ian have you heard 'Puzzle'?

I have. Puzzle is better than the one that Scorpio reissued, but still didn't grab me too hard.

Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land.

Have you guys heard the Moondog "Snaketime" LP that Scorpio reissued?? That's a killer record.

that one trip we took to boston i came home with a TON of great records. great psych records too. and they were just sitting there for 10 bucks or whatever. i couldn't believe it. what do people buy in boston?

-- scott seward, Friday, February 22, 2008 5:25 PM

Yeah so true ... I had almost this EXACT same experience on my first two trips to Boston (1996 and 1998.) So much awesome stuff and so cheap. I remember some of the spoils ... second Bull Angus lp and the Tod Dockstader on Folkways for like 8 bucks apiece at Mystery Train ... the Stockhausen 'Hymnen' 2lp on DG for like 10 bucks at some random store i can't remember. hmm i'm blanking on some of the others, but they were awesome trips.

now playing: flatt & scruggs - nashville airplane (i love their dylan covers. it's as good as that awesome stonemans album i have where the stoneman family rips thru creedence covers. which i see you can get on cd now! http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=67386)

i need this:

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/f/l/flattandscruggs355322.jpg

"Scorpio repros i've picked up lately: Friendsound"

when i used to have a bookmark on my computer for paul revere & the raiders ebay listings - which was, like, 1999 or whatever - you used to be able to get originals for five bucks. i bought two of them! total cut-out bin record. nobody cared about it or had heard it. which is kinda weird cuz i think it's on that old nurse with wound list. anyway, definitely one of my fave psych records. and one of my fave krautrock records too! albeit one made in hollywood by west coast dudes.

"Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land."

hahaha, he's horrible.

i want every scorpio reissue that i don't have. is there anyplace on-line where you can get a good deal buying those? they don't sell them at my record store here. i should ask them to. they should sell shadoks CDs too. those aren't so crazy priced. and i need them to get rev-ola Cds too while i'm at it. i like to shop local.

Scorpio reissues are pretty cheap at Dusty Groove, IIRC. You could probably do a wholesale order if you want to buy enough stuff; I'm happy to send you their catalog spreadsheets and stuff. Webmail me your e-mail and I can fwd em on over.

for that matter, gimme your store's email address and i'll forward THEM the scorpio catalog. If they don't do Scorpio, does that mean they don't have the cheap Velvets reissues, or Fela reissues or anything like that? They have really nice selections in jazz & soul in addition to the rock and psych stuff.

This site seems to be almost exclusively scorpio stuff, and the prices are pretty good:

http://www.vinyl.com/

cool, thanks you guys.

these are my dudes. mike and chris. the ONLY source for vinyl that i have on this rock (besides the thrifts and the dump and yard/estate sales):

http://www.myspace.com/abovegroundrecs

i've helped them out a little. with their new metal section. going thru the boxes of vinyl and separating the good from bad. like a lot of stores, they have a really hard time in the winter. i do what i can to help via money!

you can tell what kind of stuff chris likes from the list of live shows they've had at the store:

IN-STORE PERFORMANCES WE'VE HOSTED: Alasdair Roberts, Keith Fullerton Whitman/Greg Davis/Bird Show, MV/EE & The Bummer Road, Samara Lubelski, Charlie Schmidt, Glenn Jones, P.G. Six, Death Vessel, Willy Mason, Kahoots, Mikey Gunn, Coyote, Sir Richard Bishop, The Robot Ate Me, Christina Carter + Gown, Backwards Sam Firk, Will Pfluger, Six Organs of Admittance, Hush Arbours, Micah Blue Smaldone, Ponies in the Surf, Milo Jones, Noah Maxner, Alec K. Redfearn, Paul Metzger, Harris Newman, Chris Brokaw, Diane Cluck, x.o.4, Shawn David McMillen, Max Ochs, Mike Kerr, Michael Hadyn, ANTi, Whalebone/The Trails, Jana Hunter, J Buster, Loira Burra, Jennifer O'Connor, Adam Howell, Anthony Esposito, Clint Michigan, Meg Baird (& Baird Sisters), Glorytellers, Drawing Guts, Little Claw, Pink Reason,

Micah Blue Smaldone,

^^ I REALLY liked his record on Tequila Sunrise. Kind of a Jansch/Bull hybrid.

Alec K. Redfearn,

^^ also awesome and unappreciated Providence, RI accordion genius.

chris brings michael hurley to the island just about every year too. in a bigger venue.

I tried talking to Hurley when he played here and I felt like I was bothering him, it was kind of a bummer. He played great though! He always does though, I guess.

in my experience he ain't really the talkative type

I heard a rumour that W@rn3R Br)th3ers lawyers nixed any reissue plans of the Raccoon label stuff, by the way.

ian I am also gonna send you my local dealers email for that Scorpio catalog/

all those people stay at ilxor beth parker's house when they come and play. or most of them anyway. the ones who spend the night. nikki sudden stayed at beth's house, like, two days before he died. you could still smell his special nikki smell in the house even after his death.

"Now playing: Gipp Forster - Walkin' Real In An Unreal Land."

hahaha, he's horrible.

horribly awesome, you mean. alright, he kind of sucks, but i like some of the tracks on that LP. bought it mostly because it was on ranwood, same label as the inner dialogue, and that cover is just awesome.

it's even under BOUGHT IT FOR THE COVER in some dude's rate your music list. and it is a great cover. and when i got a copy i was hoping it was worth a zillion dollars and would freak me out. it just kinda bummed me out. though i like the sound effects! xian rod mckuens are by definition freaky, but gipp was more sad than freak.

just got home .. stopped off at the rekkerd store on the way home.. man, the used new arrivals bin was SO depressing. There is just nothing anymore.

ended up picking up new copies of the 2lp reish of the Sonic Youth ep and OM's 'Conference of the Birds.'

when I got home the 31st of February album that i won on eBay was waiting. Nice! I think I'll put that on next. I hope it's good. pre-Allmans!

<I>bought it mostly because it was on ranwood, same label as the inner dialogue</I>

Yeah, same here. And it's cheap. In fact, I didn't even buy it yet, it's in my hold stack. Right now I am listeing to Tusk. Fucking Tusk, man.

Sleeve, I'm kind of surprised the Mississippi people even contacted the Raccoon folks at Warner, since most of what they do is totally unlicensed anyway! (Though I guess those 78s fall under public domain now, maybe? God knows. IANAL.)

There are definitely some sample-worthy bits on that Gipp LP too, man. I mean, like whatever that line is about "26 hours a day."

I tried talking to Hurley when he played here and I felt like I was bothering him, it was kind of a bummer.

Yeah, I did this too when I saw him five or six years ago. I wouldn't say it felt like I was *bothering* him, more like Sleeve said -- it was just kind of hard to engage him. I tried talking to him about Vermont cuz I love Vermont and was genuinely curious whether or not he and I had hung out in some of the same towns and his impression of his time there. but he just didn't have a lot to say.

do i need that malcom x/funky jazz/60's/radical/whatever/reissue record on mississippi? they have that at the record store.

just tell me no. i don't need any records right now.

i need to SELL some records. seriously. before i even think about buying more. i need to justify my habit somehow. i ain't got no money honey.

Scott ... yeah you need that Phil Cohran record. both of his records, in fact! I have two originals of the Malcolm X record... I missed putting one up on the bay before that reish came out. Oh well. it should still probably pull some decent scratch.

Yeah that Pjil Cohran rules, duder.

Want to trade me your dupe of the orig, Stormy? Doubt I have anything you need, but you never know.

My policy is to buy anything Mississippi puts out, ask questions later.

hmm .. I could consider a trade! though to be honest I've never really been a big trader. do you have the 1st Salvation lp on Probe ? or the Sonic Arts Union lp ??

I am bummed that I never picked up those Mississippi comps of the old 78 stuff. I never even saw 'em ANYWHERE! sheesh. they are gonna end up like those Group Doueh and Group Inerane lps and sell for like a hundred bucks, aren't they?