Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

I'm also getting a big kick out of a Rome Johnson compilation on Cattle records. He used to be in the Sons of the Pioneers, and this record is some absolutely faultless Western Swing, which I can't seem to get enough of at the moment.

Here's a drawing of Rome:
http://www.debed.com/lanham/Gif/RomeJohnson51.jpg

ha, so strange seeing all the revenant discussion; i was about to chip in and say that there was this one store at the fmu record fair with like two boxes of records, split between all the revenant stuff i thought didn't exist anymore, and things like old OOP bonnie prince billy singles. it's the same place. $35 for anthology four doesn't seem so bad: don't you get a free HARRY SMITH POSTER?

your nigerian record looks interesting, ian

i actually haven't GOTTEN the boggs ish yet, i'm supposed to meet up with adam this week at great jones or something.

hackamore brick isn't a reissue--got a used copy from the time-lag mailing list. I've been looking for it for a few years now, since a friend of mine at work played it for me. It's a pretty all-over-the-place record, but there's something about the guitars & the songs that get into my head. "am/fm/am/pm/all day/all night/ray-dee-oooooh."

went to SF on valentine's day weekend and picked up a few lps:

miles davis - miles in the sky
elmer snowden - harlem banjo
jim hall - it's nice to be with you
root damage (sympathy for the record industry double lp comp)
i woke up one morning in may

psyched for that ofege record - i've heard a track or two compiled and i like it a bunch. any more afro stuff in the works? debating the scg deedlio too.

recent purchases: good copies of transfiguration of blind joe death, central line s/t, the beyond the implode reissue, new captured tracks & sacred bones releases, FINALLY a copy of hot snakes' audit in progress, and the scientists' blood red river.

hey pretzel walrus, ahve you gotten yer capture trax/sacred boners package yet?? or did you get them in a shop? i'll enclose a treat for you if i see it going out. there are two more releases coming up in the next few months... SJOB Movement, and Mebusas.

wow mebusas! that is really awesome!

yeah i got them today, but i think i'm gonna make an academy order @ some point in the near future. will kit. also the lady and i may be making a trip up to nyc soon. MUST HANG!

of course dog

I got the beyond the impload reissue too, which was a relief after my last Siltbreeze order went astray.

Also picked up the Rebel's Sacred Bones LP and Live Aids 7" after seeing them on a triple bill that included a duo of Anla Courtis and one of the dudes from Volcano the Bear. The Rebel was inspiringly excellent live. It's him, his cute wife on drums and a bassist. Made writing catchy songs look very simple indeed.

The Rebel, when playing live in the US, is a diff't line-up, mostly country teasers folks IIRC. And the dude from Volcano the Bear (Aaron) is on that Amolvacy record, which is one of my absolute faves from last year. New LP coming out as soon as they can get a label for it--I guess Blackvelvetfuckere is kinda sleeping.

coming soon:

john doe jr. records & books

greenfield, mass

*an independently owned & operated subsidiary of john doe inc. of hudson on the hudson*

CA ruuuules

in the mail:
blank dogs - seconds
dum dum girls s/t
new pink noise 7"
tyvek sub pop 7" :)
spirit photography 7"
beyond the implode 7"

in the stores:
grifters - organ grinder 7"
guv'ner - knight moves 2x7"
sun ra - astro black
surf city 12"
roland kirk - left and right
roland kirk - i talk w the spirits
zero boys - vicious circle
ty segall LP
juan maclean - happy house 12"
john coltrane/pharoah sanders - live in seattle
sounds of a tropical rain forest in america (recorded in asch's NYC shower LOL!)
culture - baldhead bridge

who is blank dogs???

http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/Spartacus.jpg

i am blank dogs.

hey 69 nab me a ty segall and in return i'll mail you all the records you left here when you moved!

grifters - organ grinder 7"

dude what is on this?? thought I had every grifters rekkid but that's not familiar

What's this Beyond The Implode 7" I've seen a few of you got? I've been after the Last Thoughts EP for a while. Never heard their 2nd single.

details here. not sure if there are any left, but there were still copies as of two weeks ago.

Thanks. Pity it's not a full reissue of the EP but good to see some interest in the band I guess.

cool deal ZR

btw dum dum girls is hella tight

whoa according to popsike, the 7.99 orange vinyl copy of siamese dream i got at SF amoeba is like a $50-60 record!

if i didnt love the record so much, id sell it

DISARM

im sayin

Emerson's Old Timey Custard Suckin' Band

Dreamies 'Programs Nine & Ten' (reish; totally bonkers audio collage/pop-psych. two 25 minute long pieces.)

sam & viv: the country gospel tones 'gospel songs country style' (i listened to this expecting it to be really boring jeebus country, but it's good. a husband/wife duo who both sing; he fiddles, she picks. they're competent for sure, and the interplay is nice if not exactly "hot". I don't know what year it's form, but it seems pretty dang early. The sleeve references a regional hit they had in '51, and also a tour in '54. and it's Canadian!)

Mike Gangloff brought a grip of vinyl with him to the T/F festival this weekend. I bought
Charalambides Rose/Thorn
Pelt A Stone for Angus Maclise
Spiral Joy Band Pleasure is the Headlight
Jack Rose Dr Ragtime and his Pals
He had a Jack Rose/Black Twig Pickers collab 7" that one of the dudes with him said was the best thing out of all the stuff that he brought but it was priced at Ten dollars so I didn't buy it. I tried to buy it the next day but Mike had already left town with all the vinyl. Patrick Best and Mikkael Dimmik were playing two more sets for the festival and Pat told me that a 12" with better recording quality was in the works, anyway. All the Pelt/Spiral Joy Band sets I saw this weekend were great.

Got the Abner Jay LP on Mississippi. Glad to have this one without having to shell out for an orig. Nice job with the inserts too!

oh cool beans. it looks like there's a seven inch too; is that included?

someone was telling me stories about abner jay being rosetta tharpe's tour manager recently, i don't know if that's true or not

not included but we also have that in stock.

Fucked Up / Rolo Tomassi / The Bronx - Shred Yr Face tour 7" (respectively: Chain Gang cover, original, Gun Club cover)
Joke / 2000F & J Kamaata 12" (bit of talk about this on the dubstep thread fwiw)
Fucked Up - Year of The Rat 12"
Tight Bro's From Way Back When LP
V/A Taking A Chance On Chances LP (see upthread - sleevenotes give no clue to which band ILX superstar Raw Patrick was in :/ )
Lenny Bruce - Unexpurgated LP
Ed DMX - 2K3 Beats 12"
Starkey - Angel 12"
Iron Maiden - s/t LP
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin LP
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret LP
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book LP
Brutal Knights - My Life My Fault 7"
Hygiene - Jan 09 7"

Joker not Joke, haha

how is that fucked up year of the rat??

This may not be the appropriate thread to post this, but anyone with more $$$ than myself should check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-30-LOU-REED-VELVET-UNDERGROUND-CALE-RECORDS-CDs_W0QQitemZ270349749320QQihZ017QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

A whole bunch of VU/Eno/Cale/Reed records. 4 hours to go! I'm tempted to go for it even though I know I shouldn't.

oh dip....mmmmmm...i am glad/mad you showed me that!

fuck it.

how is that fucked up year of the rat??

I dunno if I'm super impressed on first couple of listens... it sort of reminds me of the other 12" they did in this series on this label, Year Of The Dog, in that it's a notably 'unpunk' slowburner with ponderous squally guitars... all good except I just don't think FU do those that well. Having said that it has a pretty good chorus and there's plenty of time to get on board with it y'know

Pebbles 3- the acid gallery
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

during my one day in Lima (Peru) I managed to find a whole mini-mall selling used vinyl. I have almost no space or weight left in our luggage, so I only bought two albums - one of quena (flute) songs that sounded pretty good, on Philips from the 60's or 70's. I checked out some of their rare Peruvian psych (under the counter of course) and talked records with the dudes, they were definitely aware of the collectors market. They had a Traffic Sound LP for $40 that was VG- at best, and also some Telegraph Ave LPs that I didn't price. For the other record I ended up going for a Chilean record by a band called Los Jaivas, called Alturas De Machu Picchu. I think some of the words are by Pablo Neruda, he is credited on the cover as well. Only heard a bit in the store but it was good-sounding piano-driven psych-prog stuff. And since the cover was trashed with stickers and ringwear, it was only 7 bucks. Then I went down the aisle a bit and got a bunch of CDR copies of rare stuff like El Polen.

man the internet really ruined finding great scores

Not in every case.

yeah but it's definitely harder now. ebay pricing is in effect everywhere it seems like.

You can still find crazy bargains if you look hard, true, but the awareness has definitely filtered down pretty far. In an early issue of Bixobal magazine (last year maybe?) one of the guys from Climax Golden Twins talks about going to India to look for 78s and all the store owner dudes were talking about how much the rare Indian-press 78s of Beatles tunes were worth on eBay.

semi-xpost

I've scored tons of great clean vinyl in library sales. Michael Hurley, Alice Coltrane, Daniel Johnston, Sun Ra, Revolutionary Ensemble, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and more, all for fifty cents a piece.

yeah garage sales can still be good.

either people think "oh god who the hell would want these old things?" or have seen some thing about the "vinyl" craze and think "Oh god dudes are going to pay top dollar for my beat up copy of Aja!"

hahaha so true

fucking records man.
also, i like the los jaivas LPs i have--i don't have that one though. their earlier stuff was a bit folkier.

i still find cool records for cheap. but i smell them out like old crusty digger bloodhound. found this album by The Load in a record store a couple weeks back in the dollar bin. PRIVATE PROGPSYCH MONSTER:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20050327/4714204549.jpg

(cool record when it isn't all brandenburg concerto william tell overture on yer ass and even those moments have their charms. goes for a hundred/hundred fifty)

so, these people i know were kind enough to give me 400 or 500 records they wanted to get rid of in their basement and now i FINALLY own a copy of jorge ben's africa brasil! i'm so happy. i fell in love with "ponta de lanca africano (umbabarauma)", like, 20 years ago and i've NEVER seen a copy of the album. and it's a friggin' PRISTINE brasilian first pressing on Philips. the vinyl would make you weep it's so perfect. it sounds unbelievable too.

also got that cool Michigan Rocks comp from 1977 on seeds & stems records. mc5/stooges/bob seger/mitch ryder/frost/amboy dukes/third power/src/the rationals.

and a nice clean abc/impulse copy of jazz in silhouette by sun ra and a nice copy of revolution of the mind. um, but i'll probably sell those.

out of all the records i'll probably keep 10 or 12. the rest i'll sell.

New ones:

Niela Miller - Songs of Leaving (great.)
Sabir Mateen/Dave Nuss/Matt Heyner - untitled freak jazz LP (s@1)
Delmore Brothers - Sand Mountain Blues (2nd volume on County, this one is late-thirties to forties recordings.)
Georgia Tom - The Accompanist (includes plenty of Big Bill, Jane Lucas, Tampa Red etc.)

this weekend:

nice orig avengers comp LP
john fahey - america
john fahey - fare forward voyagers
the howlin wolf record (electric w pete cosey) (my copy originally owned by TOM DONAHUE :O )

Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus lp
Edan - Beauty and the Beat lp
The Who - Sell Out lp
Everly Brothers - Best of lp
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind lp
Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire - Loray Head/It Should Be Me 7"