Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

everyone should chip in and get you a record de-warper for your next birthday.

doesn't academy east have one? i have one or two things i'd like to flatten but they're just minor lip warps that you can't really hear.

also got boscoe numero group reissue cuz i apparently can't pass up any numero vinyl when i see it. they have my number for sure.

-- scott seward, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:04 (Yesterday) Link

numero rules, not bragging here but i sold something to one of the founders who emailed me months later that it will be reissued. i'm sure along with securing permissions they got access to the masters if they exist, but who knows? will spill the beans if it ever happens.

picked up/listening to:

bruce haack - electric lucifer
iggy pop - tv eye 1977 live
esso steel band - bermuda gold
a grip of sealed early stones and grateful dead from the flea
i think i will keep anthem

i have one or two things i'd like to flatten but they're just minor lip warps that you can't really hear.
e-mail me.ty

Where'd you score the Haack? Repress? Want.
You should also keep Workingman's Dead, S/T & American Beauty, but that's just my opinion.

today i got 5 LPs on Argo of steam locomotive recordings.

are there any good techniques for DIY dewarping other than a hot pad, some flat metal plates, and a cinderblock? my copy of Curtis Live needs just a teeny bit of readjusting.

i just traded in a buncha dead vinyl. they sell lots of klassik rock to the kids who are getting into rekkerds for the first time, and i am happy to load them up with stuff. i can always find those records. i couldn't part with my pristine german press of who's next for some reason.

i can't beat sanskrit's numero deal, but that online label IS putting that laser pace album out cuzza me (as a download at least), so that's my good deed for the year. i tried to sell them on putting out bitter blood street theatre stuff. they deserve their day in court.

Where'd you score the Haack? Repress? Want.

i think it must be OG, unless the first pressing was private. columbia two eye grey label. $25 on eBay. but it was one of those weird junker dudes who must have been burned once on chargebacks and he didn't take paypal, which probably informed the final price. i haven't written a check and mailed a letter for a win in like five years.

You should also keep Workingman's Dead, S/T & American Beauty, but that's just my opinion.

yeah, i have these, and a bunch others up until the Disco Dead era. i will slit the Anthem and mint up as that is a favorite. it's funny how for years they used to be a four letter word and now all of a sudden all these indie rockers are professing their love for them.

blame marijuana.
those stones should fill yer paypa for a while...

how much are record de-warpers? how do they work?

i always want to get a record cleaner, one of those vacuum ones that looks like a really bulky turntable box thing. but they are hella expensive. my friend has one and swears it can make the worst vinyl playable again.

i went to a show last nite -- vampire hands -- a local band but anyway it was cool if you bought the vinyl (which had cool hand screenprinted art) you got not only the CD in the sleeve, but also the front card and the tray card, so all you have to do is get an old jewel case, and youve got the complete CD too, not bad for $12, good idea more band should do.

stud cole s/t (you all need this LP if you haven't heard it.

totally true, stuff is amazing and slept on.

blame marijuana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw

I think record de-warping machines are even more expensive than record vacuums. The "home remedy" for dewarping is usually a (very, very) low temp oven and some plates of glass, or some plates of glass and the sunshine. Never tried it myself.

Stud Cole, for anyone who might want more background, is some crazy rockabilly dude hiring a teenage garage band to back him up on his semi-psychotic songs of love, desire and Satan, and then overdubbing wailing fuzz(y) guitar and more crazy vocal tracks. Shit is epic. Cusp of the 70s, I think... wanna say 69, but not positive.

yesterday's haul... great stuff for CHEAP

the judy's - washarama lp (!!!)
brother j.t. - music for the other head lp (sealed on siltbreeze)
piano music of erik satie, vol. 1 lp (aldo ciccolini)
fats waller - ain't misbehavin lp
stereolab - iron man 7"
tullycraft - true blue 7"
red monkey - get uncivilised 7"
tsunami - 24 hour service 7"
the sugargliders 7" (on sarah records--sealed)

picked up on Saturday:

Neil Young - Zuma/On The Beach
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees

listened to:

Desmond Leslie - Music of the Future
The Tomorrow People
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

yesterday's haul... great stuff for CHEAP

the judy's - washarama lp (!!!)

I think the value on that one has dropped now that it & the rest of the band's catalogue is now on cd.

john jacob niles - american folk and gambling songs (Camden)
ornette coleman - town hall, '62
moby grape '69
gavin bryars - sinking of the titanic
stefan grossman - aunt molly's murray farm
lee perry - the quest
gary higgins - red hash

okay, revised list.
what i ended up taking home today:

john jacob niles - american folk and gambling songs (Camden)
moby grape '69
gavin bryars - sinking of the titanic
lee perry - the quest
gary higgins - red hash
bruce russell - 21st century prison songs & field hollers
hoyt axton - thunder n lightning
karen dalton - in your own time (orig nm-)
shirley collins - adieu old england

c. grisso, do you think? i had thought that that never really affected the price of OG vinyl that much, especially something small/private press like that, you know?

world's largest vinyl collection up for sale again on eBay, news at 11.

c. grisso, do you think? i had thought that that never really affected the price of OG vinyl that much, especially something small/private press like that, you know?

My bad, used wrong terminology. I should have said that more copies would probably be coming on the market now as people found out about the cds and sold their vinyl for big to little $$$. It'll always be collectable and worth something, but maybe not as sought after now that it isn't a vinyl exclusive anymore. I'm also totally jealous that scored a cheap copy ;-)

hey long time listener, first time caller

weird question. upthread i mentioned picking up a ou panis et cirecensis reissue. well, as luck usually has it, i just got a decent priced 1968 original. it's weird how it works like that, i've wanted a pharoah sanders - love in us all for a a couple years on and off. when i finally coughed up the cash for a great copy not a week later i find a VG- love in us all for like $2.

anyhow, this record looks real clean for a Brazilian pressing. except, when i play it i get this weird distortion in one channel. not like a scratching or anything, just a real off putting grating noise. i have a Brazilian samba record that does a similar thing but only in quiet parts.

the only similarity i can find is that they're both from Brazil, both 1968 or earlier, and both mono recordings. at first i thought maybe they were shellacked to look prettier, but that wouldn't explain why one channel sounds perfect. is it possible i need a better stylus or a record player with a mono setting? i have a cheap stanton 680 HP cart and i've been meaning to replace it or upgrade as it's seen 3-4 years of solid duty.

i don't know shit about audio stuff, are my records fucked up or is it my equipment?

distortion is only on these two records? sounds like a weird pressing plant issue to me.

but it also could be a mono thing... if you look around you can sometimes find cheap mixers with mono switches. I use mine to send a signal thru a speaker in the bathroom for bath time.

purchased today:

Herbie Hancock - Hear, O Israel (this is a beautiful record, glad it's getting the Trunk treatment soon.)
Bennie Maupin - Jewel in the Lotus
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1
Hair, The Original Japanese Cast Recording

phily show on saturday: http://www.yelp.com/events/philadelphia-philadelphia-record-fair

thee headcoats - beach bums must die
jay reatard - blood visions
jail weddings 7"

yeah i'll be at the philly show! hoping to do some good digging.

I'm still disappointed that the Spring Austin show isn't happening. Damn economy.

Playlist for our radio show.
All vinyl every tuesday.

Creepy John Thomas Bring Back The Love S/T RCA
Amor Fati American Girl Against Nature Flesh
The Passage Watching You Dance 45 Virgin
Steven Grandell I Am Human Animal Angst Straight Face
The Rebel American Beauty Tarkovski's "The Snacrifice" Emperor Jones
Brinsley Schwatrz One More Day Silver Pistol United Artists
Townes Van Zandt Waitin Around To Die 45 Poppy
Sharon Aron At At Israeli Songs Angel
Midnight Flyers When the darkness comes 3 out of 4 aint bad REV
Fallen Angels Something New You Can Hide In It's a Long Way Down Roulette
Flying Burrito Brothers Wild Horses Burrito Deluxe A&M
Marlin Green Forest Ranger Tiptoe Past The Dragon Elektra
John Hartford Big Blue Balloon 45 RCA
Gary Higgins Stable The Spuds Red Hash Drag City
Angels of Light Praise Your Name 45 Young God
John Jacob Niles Who Killed Cock Robin Sings Folk Songs Folkways
Tiny Tim & Eleanor Baruchan I Got You Babe You Are What You Eat OST Columbia
George Gerdes Son of Obituary Son of Obituary United Artists
Changes Fire of Life Fire of Life Hau uuh
Paul Giovanni Gently Johnny The Wickerman OST Simply Vinyl
Bob & Bob Across America Part 2 Across America MITB Records
Factums A.Y.R.T. The Sistrum 7" Sacred Bones
Dead Luke I Want You 45 Sacred Bones
Nice Face Thing In My Head 45 Sacred Bones
Cosmic Jokers Power Drive Gilles Zeitschiff Spalax
Jay Bolotin Jimmy's Got A Music Box s/t CUR
Sandy Bull Coming Together Demolition Derby Vanguard
Hawkwind The Watcher Doremi Fasol Latido United Artists
M.C. Osso Calico Cat Umbra Penumbra Axe
Nick Cave As I Sat Sadly By Your Side And No More Shall We Part Mute
Ruthann Friedman People Constant Companion Reprise
Marika Papagika Zmirneikos Balos I Don't Feel At Home Mississippi
Paddy Killoran Mulligar Races Back In Town Shanachie
Shirley Collins I Sing Of A Maiden That Is Makeless Adieu Old England Topic

some lunchtime 7" finds...

The Yamasukis - Yamasuki/AIEAOA (Dandelion) Odd Japanese psych funk with massed chorus
The Passions - I'm In Love With a German Film Star
Rhythm Methodists - Don't Rely On Me

Tina Harvey s/t (i like her voice, but i admit i mostly got this for the neil young cover.)
d. charles speer & the helix - after hours (scoffing at the myth of a sophomore slump.)
mary mcaslin - way out west
high rise - 2
tower recordings - galaxy's incredibly sensual transmissions
fahey - voice of the turtle

The Yamasukis - Yamasuki/AIEAOA (Dandelion) Odd Japanese psych funk with massed chorus

is that an original? I love this record, they're actually a French band pretending to be Japanese. Finders Keepers put out a comp. last year or so --

http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/lemondefabuleuxdesyamasuki.htm

Amor Fati American Girl Against Nature Flesh

didn't catch your whole show but this one was craaaazy dude

the revolutionary ensemble - manhattan cycles
jackie mittoo - macka fat

lcd soundsystem - yeah 12"
dungen - ta det lugnt
v/a - cold chilli' the juice crew story
8 bit operators - pocket calculator/the robots 12"
ocora - songs of the pearl divers
v/a - electronic music from the university of illinois
king tubby - rastafarian dub

is that an original? I love this record, they're actually a French band pretending to be Japanese. Finders Keepers put out a comp. last year or so --

Original, aye. Only 1.99 but it's high on crackle. No jumping or skipping though. And I now remember seeing that Finders Keepers reissue. Makes a lot of sense that they'd put this out... it's totally their thing!

And I picked up these at the bleakend...

Cadaver in Drag - Raw Child
Black Flag - The First Four Years
Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep 7"

picked up

Jack Bruce - At Hist Best (weird double LP comp, even though he only had 3 albums out when it was released, so you basically get all of songs for a tailor except for like two songs and most of the third one..sadly only one from what sounds like a sorta amazing free jazz record he did with john mclaughlin)

ruts DC - animal now (not as dubby as it's cracked up to be, but it's pretty nice...more new wave...actually reminds me of early 80s rush like signals or grace under pressure sometimes)

i might go pick up one of the burma reissues and red hash after work

listening to, before i go into work (on my day off, great.)

white noise - an electric storm
karen dalton - in your own time
bob & bob - across america

is white noise any good? i am doing a musique concrete/early electronic bulk buy and i think that might be in there somewhere.

it's very good!

it's awesome.

white noise is great. features delia derbyshire!

yeah i was just gonna say, even i, a non-vinyl thread contributor knows that album is great

I grabbed today:
1st patty waters LP
mississippi john hurt on yazoo
pharaoh monche - internal affairs
ornette coleman - the empty foxhole
africa sanza LP

lol hi linds.

yay pharohe monche that surprised me.

got signals, calls, and marches by mission of burma.

good holy hell these burma reissues are such nerd porn, beautful packaging, sound amazing, blah blah blah, but also you just paid 30 fucking bucks for essentially an EP...oh well. they are my favorite band so i was doomed.

they were out of versus, so I got Red hash by gary higgins instead...wow wow wow, what a weird magickal album.

pharaoh monche - internal affairs

that's way out of print right? godzilla sample beef over "simon says." or maybe they put out another version of the record without that song.