"Bryter Layter" peeping out behind Carly, too. And I think that's her own album "La Question" to the right of the turntable.
― fetter, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
to the right of five leaves left:
https://i.discogs.com/QqjRbhHpMvropMvmnDlVpMw4rnX8dnJ9leeY_tbNSac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQxNTc2/MDYtMTM1NzIxNTMx/Ny0xNjE5LmpwZWc.jpeg
The fact that Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" is there shows that he wasn't as obscure as people seem to think he was.
wasn't there some kind of plan for a hardy/drake collaboration at one point? pretty sure i read about it somewhere!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 06:32 (one year ago) link
Yes, I think you're right.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
I remember an Ian MacDonald piece about Nick D where he questions the obscurity thing - when he was at univeosrity in the early 70s, everyone had the albums, he reckoned.
― fetter, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 07:34 (one year ago) link
Dolphin's Of Hollywood, circa 1948
https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/05fb2f8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103606_e1441670831d0144cd918d7eaa7c60d9_original.jpg
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:19 (eight months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fl5js4eRL._UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
https://scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/69e87dd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1109+0+46/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2F103605_5a7c53e60ad9be75fc07241f645ff3a5_original.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PWTBvePj3QI/maxresdefault.jpg
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:20 (eight months ago) link
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/74273036/photo/an-interior-view-of-people-shopping-at-producer-john-dolphins-dolphins-of-hollywood-record.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=RMQhDGRedNlHQPaYtauB4TMBS79gXjVuIRktRAdRdMs=
You were right, these photos are incredibly good. Just reading a bit about the history of the shop - it was open 24 hours?!?!
― emil.y, Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:33 (eight months ago) link
I missed that, the place must have been really hopping back in the day!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:34 (eight months ago) link
It was the toast of the coast!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:27 (eight months ago) link
It had a radio station in the store! I think i remember hearing about this in an episode on Andrew Hickey's podcast.
― enochroot, Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:53 (eight months ago) link
what a life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolphin_(music_producer)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:58 (eight months ago) link
with Billie Holiday
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG/800px-John_Dolphin_%26_Billie_Holiday_%28cropped%29.JPG
(he's also the guy standing right under the big portrait of him on the wall in the pic before the Billie one)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:59 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/a8faQPa_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium https://i.imgur.io/oPRodEs_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
Haha, same guy, right?
― pplains, Monday, 25 September 2023 00:50 (eight months ago) link
OMG, you’re right!
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Monday, 25 September 2023 01:50 (eight months ago) link
Now I need to watch Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home, in which he also placed the dad, to see if there’s a “disapproving stereo” scene…
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Monday, 25 September 2023 01:53 (eight months ago) link
The former location of an auto parts store near me is being dressed up for a production. Can we guess the year it is set?https://i.imgur.com/zmzdNin_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grandhttps://i.imgur.com/AVdARmU_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:47 (three months ago) link
late 1979
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:53 (three months ago) link
Is this anywhere near the filming sites for the alleged PTA Pynchon adaptation?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:10 (three months ago) link
Huh, I don't know...
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:16 (three months ago) link
(Looks like that book is set in 1984, tho?)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:20 (three months ago) link
Yeah, good point. Was just curious.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:20 (three months ago) link
I'm curious too!
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 18:21 (three months ago) link
Would a 1979 record store have massive poster/murals like that? I don't recall anything that big. Also, those choices are very received wisdom. Blues Brothers, Eagles, The Knack.
― bendy, Thursday, 15 February 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
Maybe this is remake of Record City!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z832IqZLXKs
a film that terrified a zoomer in my household more than Hereditary!
― bendy, Thursday, 15 February 2024 19:12 (three months ago) link
Vineland begins in 1984, but there are flashbacks galore - we're talking non-linear Pynchon time obv. So there could be scenes set in 1979, especially if this is a 'loose adaptation'.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 15 February 2024 19:14 (three months ago) link
xps That was my thought but the wikipedia page for Tower Records has a photo of their Sunset Strip location that looks just like this (though from a much later date).
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 15 February 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
Blurry pic from '78
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:10 (three months ago) link
Fake location def. has "cooler" murals (...not that I can identify most of the ones in that pic!)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:14 (three months ago) link
Nice pics here as well: http://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-legendary-past-and-celluloid-future.html?m=1
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:15 (three months ago) link
For all these shows and movies that recreate Tower Records, maybe it would have been easier for them to just keep some open! Surprised at how much I even miss having a chain like that around.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:18 (three months ago) link
Particularly now that the only national chain carrying a barely respectable amount of music is *Barnes & Noble*.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:26 (three months ago) link
That blog post has a better scan of that '78 pic. There's a roof display for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack! Admittedly, that yellow Firebird >>> the albums in the window (Rainbow: You Can't Kill Rock'n'Roll; two guitar guys are England Dan & John Ford Coley; not sure About the others...fuel nozzle might be Robin Trower?).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:34 (three months ago) link
Record City is on Prime rn, BTW.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:36 (three months ago) link
Yeah all those cars parked out front are f'in fire-emoji
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:38 (three months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2FlZTQ1NTktY2Y1NS00ZjVhLWE5ODEtZWE0ZTcyYmUyNDZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg
Still from the film FM (1978)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:02 (three months ago) link
nice!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:33 (three months ago) link
The album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:06 (three months ago) link
That's really cool, I didn't know that! Sorry if this is one of those common knowledge things I should have known, but I missed that era and the chains I grew up with were all in malls and had just carboard cut-out things.
I figured hand-painting would be way too labor intensive for anyone to do that! Was it a chain thing? Or did the labels source then?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:10 (three months ago) link
Someone on Pinterest has a post saying that the Peaches artwork was commissioned to a group from California. They also say, interestingly, that after six months of being displayed on the exterior of the building, the paintings would be displayed inside the store until they sold. That I did not remember.
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:15 (three months ago) link
Cool home movie footage from another point in '78. Starts @ 4:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNvv0KNTpk
LIVE GRAPE! SGT. PEPPER SOUNDTRACK!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:21 (three months ago) link
Inside the store in 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRnXhhRwtc
Interesting to see how many displays are simply records stacked up on their shopping boxes, warehouse-club style.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 February 2024 22:54 (three months ago) link
how it was supposed to be
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 February 2024 10:59 (three months ago) link
I keep seeing them referred to as "paintings", but I always just assumed they were large format vinyl printings or whatever mounted on plywood.― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkThe album cover repros that the Peaches chain used on their facades were hand painted, I'm almost certain.― Josefa, Thursday, February 15, 2024 5:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, February 15, 2024 4:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Josefa, Thursday, February 15, 2024 5:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The main character in Xanadu (1980) was an album cover reproduction painter. And that's fictional, of course, but it feels like a pretty '70s thing to do.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 February 2024 13:13 (three months ago) link
It's not quite the same but the coffee table book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip discusses the folks who painted those huge billboards and what went into that (though most people who designed and painted them were never credited).
― blatherskite, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:02 (three months ago) link
could there be a more stereotypically 80s job? I don't think so xp
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:14 (three months ago) link