Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

i guess the used reissue was a nice one?

i was in boston and i got anthem of the sun by the grateful dead...

and...sacrifice by black widow...they are weirdos..like fancy pants prog proto metal but like SUPER satanic!

anyone know about them? i just bought it cuz it was fancy earmark 180g reissue and pretty cheap

the tape thing does suck but i still <3 amoeba sf.

mikebee to thread!

and yes the goblin was a taped up, used reissue with an 'ask clerk...' sticker as well

Yeah the reissue is nice. I mean, really it's a nice album to have anyway. And yes, I very much love Amoeba SF. Incidentally this was the first visit for me since they re-arranged the layout. LPs are by the registers now... seems that they've expanded them a bit because of this? I like the new location.
I also like the other stuff I got, including (I'm remembering things bit by bit) a nice Peter Baumann LP and another Klaus Schulze thing found in the psych/prog etc. section (which I'm a fan of).

Also, went to Berkeley Amoeba for the first time in quite awhile, where they've significantly reduced the new age section (sad face) and moved a bunch of stuff to a new "I-Rock" (International) section, that is small and kinda odd.

Record Store News.

x-post... so sneaky. I probably would have been fooled!

i might try to go to SF amoeba today between buying new shoes and hitting a KUSF meeting in my uphill climb to getting a radio show...

just picked up strange boys' lp 'and girls club', which is pretty dope black lips/dylan kinda shit.

re: amoeba's taping: they tape up new lps too! i don't really understand it. and you can't even just peel the tape off, with the way that it wraps around multiple times. i wonder how many rolls of that shit they go through.

should i go see this show on thursday? anything ring a bell?

Wet Hair (ex-raccoo-oo-oon)
Dead Luke (dark synth punk from wisconsin)
Caboladies (synth drone from kentucky)
Bunwinkies (northampton's own!)
Crystalline Roses (wmass / times past)

i like wet hair, and my friend put out some dead luke records. i'd go, sure.

LPs, Amoeba, Taping: I do remember being mildly annoyed by this when I went to Amoeba the one and only time I was in LA. Everything I bought was fine though, so it all ends up okay I guess. I can sort of understand it better w/r/t new LPs--they're assumed mint since they're new, and if they do end up being defective i don't think anyone's gonna give you a hard time about trying to return something. A lot of new reissues don't come shrinkwrapped, and so at our shop we put re-sealable plastic sleeves (japanese stylee with the flap) on them to discourage handling (though we'll generally say "go ahead" if you wanna listen to something.) The re-sealable sleeves also of course help prevent wear & tear from thousands of grubby record collector paws. Taping though, that's taking it too far imho. Just frustrating. And on new items it doesn't seem to make a lick of sense.

they should just shrinkwrap stuff. that way you can also seal old led zeppelin records and make big money!

Raccoo-oo-oon was really good when I saw them. The Wet Hair record "Dream" made me want to see them live.

(x-post)When I was a kid there was a place called Record Exchange that had an in-store shrinkwrapper AND a no return policy. After being burned a couple times by shiny, new-looking sleeves housing trashed records I never went back.

man, that's just lame.

oh man oh man oh man

yesterday I went to Amoeba and picked up the White Light reissue and an eight-dollar copy of Mingus Ah Um, and then just now I absolutely stole two auctions for Luomo's The Present Lover 3xlp and the Avalanches' record! shipping's going to suck bawlz since I have to have them mailed from England but w/e, that's two more grails taken care of.

i have that luomo album in my store, but nobody wants it. yet. maybe i should mark it down.

i did go to amoeba yesterday, and got john/yoko's LIFE WITH THE LIONS, which is wild!

also got a mahotella queens record from 86, which is good, but a little 80's-over-produced, which makes it sound like bright sun in my face at 5am a little. thats overstating; i still like it.

also the dude on the record w mahotella queens (mahlathini, i see) sounds str8 up like scatman john

Came across one of these:
http://follyfortoseewhat.blogspot.com/2008/11/it-is-revealed.html

Utlra-rare jam session from 69 with prince lasha, sonny simmons, don cherry, fred lyman, clifford jordan, bill wood, orville harrison, and charles moffett.

i dunno what to do; i want it, but $$$

oops not 69--63.

who e-mailed me about records? i didn't recognize the username. you can e-mail me directly:

skotrok

@

earthlink.net

ian, you would like this album:

http://www.dickfeller.com/images/wrote.jpg

i've got another dick feller record that is pretty sweet. "some days are diamonds." it's dedicated to theodore sturgeon!

yeah, on the back of this one he says that he's a big sci-fi freak. heinlein, sturgeon, bradbury, lieber.

killdozer named their band after a sturgeon story, didn't they? he is the muse to thousands.

ian, are you a rusty wier fan?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ig0OYC5ePtY/Sd7rXfcAdSI/AAAAAAAAAi0/q-QIuTsJo9Q/s320/WierFsmall.jpg

check him out NOW

http://www.rustywier.com/images/RustyWier01_19_2008.JPG

will keep my eyes peeeeeled.

one of those texas dudes who made a bunch of records in the 70's and then went back to texas.

hey Scott, that was me - re-emailing now.

i got these earlier in the week:

lonnie johnson - mr johnson's blues 1929-1932 (Mamlish)
Richard Abrams - Levels & Degrees of Light (nice clean copy.)
baden powell - lame de baden powell
jim mckillop (fiddle) & mary mulholland (piano) - the wind that shakes the barley: a selection of irish dance music in strict tempo (this kills.)

scott ... which Mickey Newbury albums are good again? local store has an Elektra w/ die-cut cover, like 6 bucks

anita o'day - the big band sessions (verve dbl LP from the early '60s)
bob james - BJ4
sandy bull - fantasias ($1!)

wendy's promotional 12" -- where's the beef
harbinger - second coming
meg baird/helena espvall/sharron krauss - leaves from off the tree

"where's the beef" is by the tenderloinz btw.

"scott ... which Mickey Newbury albums are good again? local store has an Elektra w/ die-cut cover, like 6 bucks"

you need the 60's records. harlequin melodies and looks like rain. basically, i would go for any of the 70's stuff if you see it for 6 and under in good shape. i haven't heard it all, but i wouldn't hesitate to buy any of them. pick up frisco mabel joy if you see it. that's his 70's americana concept album.

'nother songwriter i've been digging:

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/j/u/judstrunk427245.jpg

(i have an earlier one by him that's cool too. he had a hit in the 70's with "daisy a day".)

really digging claude king's 1970 album Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife. "Beertops And Teardrops" is my anthem of the week. i guess he's best known for "Wolverton Mountain". does a GREAT "House of the Rising Sun" on this album.

conway twitty and loretta lynn - louisiana woman mississippi man
poco - a good feelin' to know

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I just bought this at the record store this afternoon. Stoked.

this...
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i won two more delmore brothers LPs on ebay--part of the series on Old Homestead. I think it's radio broadcasts, but tbh I'm not sure. in any event i don't think there's much duplication with the LPs on county. also i got a really nice UK press of pharaoh sanders first album on ESP/Fontana. i lost the mountain bus LP though. any chicago hounds find it in a thrift store or dollar bin, buy for me! grateful dead-esque private psych on the Good label.

mountain bus one of those records that used to sell for a zillion dollars and now, you know, is more affordable. one of the benefits of ebay, really.

i just bought the first tempest album on ebay for $1.75. it used to go for a lot more. now apparently it is worth less than two dollars. it's a cool record too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wb-W4Lspg

picked up in the last week or two...

sinnamon - thanks to you 12" (awes!)
lime - babe we're gonna love tonight 12" (was going to buy this on discogs for 20 pounds, found it used at amoeba for $5!)
kebekelektrik - magic fly 12"
loverde - die hard lover/my world is empty (without you) 12" (production by patrick cowley on one track but it's nothing special)
mugwump - tellakian circles 12"
'the dance masters' dj sampler 12" with cherchez la femme and gq's "disco nights (rock freak)"
linkwood family, etc - firecracker ep 02
fist of facts ep on claremont 56
visage - s/t
grace jones - warm leatherette
dead can dance - s/t

how does that tempest compare to the second album, scott? first couple of songs on "living in fear" are pretty good, i lose interest after that.

in the mail recently:

The Hunches - Home Alone 5 lp
The Intelligence - Boys Annoy ep
Kurt Vile - Fall Demons 7"
Real Estate - Suburban Beverage 7"
Real Estate - Fake Blues 7"
Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave 7"
U.S. Girls - Me + Yoko 7"

psychgawsple: you should keep an eye peeled for Sinnamon's "He's Gonna Take You Home" for the epic dub on the flip (with lots of orgasmic femme coos) and "I Need You Now" (tho never for cheap, seeing as it's a classic proto-house track).

"how does that tempest compare to the second album, scott?"

i like the first album better. i like that mix of lunkheaded hard rock and prog/psych. i like the second album too though. it definitely has its moments. no holdsworth pyrotechnics though.

i should clarify: BOTH albums are pretty pricey if you are talking about U.K. copies. the one i bought is just a u.s. promo. probably most of the u.s. copies for sale are promos or sealed cut-outs. sold like five copies here.

New Blues Control LP is rocking my world at the moment.

just got the blues control too, and it ruuuuuules.

also got the oh sees sub pop singles club 7", and it is one of the best singles of the club. blues control still king so far with their christmas single!