Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

i got this the other day and it's cool if you like spider's brand of oldetyme blues/rock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270417306009&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&salenotsupported

aha yes I'm going to assume everything is a reissue from now on and look very very very closely at it.

i like the notes that come with the spider john album:

cost notes:

15 reels of tape: $120.00

mastering at sound 80: 120.00

1000 pressings in sleeves, delivered to Mpls. less than 600.00

1000 jackets from Chicago Album Specialties: 120.00

rubber stamps, revivifying liquids, curling vapours, high living, wear and tear, phone calls less than 150.00

total for 1000 copies in our house: $1110.00

We sell them for $2.00 wholesale to stores in bunches. We sell them for $2.50 to everybody else (everyone helps pay everyone's postage). If you would like to buy a stack and become a bigtime record distributor our address is:

the sunbeam reissue apparently includes a whole unissued album of stuff that was supposed to be their first album but wasn't for some reason.

Ah okay Scott, maybe that is this Blues thing that gets mentioned here:

Andy Clark and Mick Hutchinson recorded four semi-legendary LPs of drug/scatter/raga-blues between 1969 and 1971. The first album – Blues – wasn’t released until a long time after the band had split up. Its been described elsewhere as "...a great record of swinging, pumping blues that fits the pattern of early British blues rock, when bands like Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack or Groundhogs started to explore their own new sounds, leaving behind the limitations of the traditional blues form". There is some fine guitar work on this – as on all Clark Hutchinson albums – but the standout track for me has to be "The Summer Seems Longer". Nearly ten minutes long, this slow, reflective blues song looks back at a lost time and hints at the sad, troubled mood which dominated their last recording, Gestalt.

Oxfam 99p metal buffet:

Omen - The Curse
Celtic Forst - Into the Pandemonium (fucked)
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Savatage - Sirens
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
V/A - Metal Battle (Music For Nations, w. Raven, Anvil, Battle Axe, Mercyful Fate, Tank, Venom, Jaguar, Witch Fynde, Hellanbach, Satan, Santers)

Cletic Forst

Oh, and a Rock Goddess LP. Looks a bit like Girlschool. Haven't played it yet though. Waiting for my new needle.

I bought a used copy of Amon Duul II's "Yeti"...

i saw this in the racks also! the cover looked a little too pristine for it to not be a reissue- re-printed covers have a certain photocopied look to them sometimes and it kinda gives it away. i avoided buying a copy of goblin's phenomena ost for similar reasons

lol they have that Rock Goddess in one of my local charity shops, I nearly bought it because it looked a bit like Girlschool! I downloaded it tho and well, it's OK but it's no Girlschool. 99p though can't complain

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Ha. In the end, I couldn't say not to the song titles 'Satisfied Then Crucified' and 'Heavy Metal Rock n Roll'

Some other cheapo bits and pieces I've found recently:

Mike Pinera - Isla Dunno who this dude is, but it was sealed and on Capricorn. Much later than Captain Beyond etc though.
Lou Reed - The Bells
Hiroshima s/t (like Dorothy Ashby goes disco)
Alice Cooper - Easy Action
V/A - Time Between (bit suspect-looking Byrds tribute with the Chills, Thin White Rope, Dinosaur Jr, Richard Thompson, Giant Sand)
Rare Earth - Ecology
Yma Sumac - Legend of the Sun Virgin
Tangerine Dream - Thief
Stravinsky - The Fire bird (The Rest Is Just Noise homework)
V/A Deep Heat 1989 2LP house comp with Stakker Humanoid, Kevin Saunderson, Adeva amongst some possible dross

i saw this in the racks also! the cover looked a little too pristine for it to not be a reissue- re-printed covers have a certain photocopied look to them sometimes and it kinda gives it away. i avoided buying a copy of goblin's phenomena ost for similar reasons

I know... I think I wanted to be fooled... it looked way to good to be an older issue. I just did a quick glance for any barcodes or recent dates and convinced myself that for $20 it was old. Opened up it's *super* obvious. Sleeve printed on clean white cardboard, super pristine inner labels, etc. I felt like a fool when I pulled it out.

I haven't seen Goblin reissues that weren't clearly out on Dagored or something like that... was the one you saw also taped up? I feel like that is always kinda meant to give the illusion that the record is something special.

amoeba's LP-taping is like the MOST ANNOYING THING EVER

with regards to the logistics of removal, let alone sneaky reissues

wait, don't they let you open it before you buy it??? and can't you return it?

i wanted a record in a store and it was taped shut and i went to the dude and said: can you open this, please? and he said: i'm sure it's in great shape. ???????? uh, i'll be the judge of that. so finally he opened it. and it was fine. but i ain't gonna pay more than a couple of bucks for anything not sealed unless i can look at the whole package.

yeah, its just annoying because the amoeba LPs are mummified w tape. i understand its a big store, and security can only do so much to supervise customers, but having to go find a clerk to help you look at every used LP you want can be annoying, especially when you want a bunch of em...

yeesh, that sounds like a friggin' nightmare.

wouldn't it just be easier to take the record out of the sleeve and keep it behind the counter??? ah, what do i know.

yeah I get it that they need to tape up valuable records sometimes. I worked at a record store too.
they just need to do it with LESS TAPE.

my problem in this instance of course has as much to do with me not being a careful enough shopper. but really who tapes up reissues??

oh and their used price was more than the new price. I think that was part of the issue too.

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.)