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I read an interesting article in The Guardian the other day on how young music fans are sparking a vinyl revival in the
I used to love buying vinyl records. If I opened the sleeve and it was a color other than black I felt like I got the golden ticket in Willie Wonka. Ooohh transparent vinyl, super cool!
My friend Howie Pyro is a really great DJ in LA. He has a fantastic record collection of wild, way out, wacky stuff and has his own radio show called Intoxica every Tuesday night on Luxuria.com. Whenever Howie has to move apartments it’s a huge undertaking. The guy has over 20,000 records. He tells me that the hardest part of a DJ gig is creating the set in his head before the event and physically pulling out the records. He doesn’t use an I-Pod or laptop. Sometimes a CD player, but 90% of the time it’s vinyl. He feels that when the needle hits the disc it actually comes alive, far more than hitting a play button. Obviously the yougins in the
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Zed!
Donita!
Go, Janda!
Right behind you.
Great post. It brings back memories.
TGIF
welcome back, o vile one! the lake hasn’t been the same without you. i was worried about you.
finifinito @ 5
Hi fini!
Hi Donita!
My parents used to have an album (I think it may have old because it was very thick)
Anyway, it was every color of the rainbow. Each song was a different color vinyl. I think it was called the Atom Bomb. It was neat. Record of the month club.
I have vinyl left but not as much as your friend does. Most of mine is in storage at my brother’s house. We made a family vinyl archive a few years ago at his place because he has the only working record player amongst all of us. Family parties are always fun when the vinyl comes out. I just listened to Genesis “Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” a couple of weeks ago. I had forgotten how GREAT that album is.
Funnydiva2002 @ 3
Thanks!
I have my original “Shirley Temple” album. I swear.
FYI….
David Shuster sitting in for Tucker right now~
hope MSNBC management is seriously thinking about booting Tucker and giving this 1 hr time slot to Shuster instead….
me again. a few weeks back, you asked all us pups for cover tune ideas. my suggestions are “one way or another” or “these boots are made for walkin”. your voice and attitude are right for both, unless you think they are too obvious or on the nose.
I LOVE VINYLS! and I really think in a near future vinyls will sell more than cds… yes they’ll be back in my opinion…
here in Brazil, we still have only one vinyls small factory…
(not sure if my english is correct)
rock on!
20,000 albums? Sheesh! I have about 400 myself, boxed up in the garage. My turntable was still working last time I hooked it up but that was half a dozen moves and ten years ago so who knows.
eric the great @ 13
I can see either of these honestly. Though I do think Donita’s voice would be much better on “One Way Or Another.” Debbie Harry had a certain sneer and swagger in that tune that Donita has improved on and updated in her own material.
Hi Fini!
Hi Donita!
OMG! I found a rare cut from Donita’s EARLY DAZE…
Check this out — OUTRAGEOUS
I can understand sentimentality, but I don’t get the swooning over vinyl. It’s just a medium.
(And really, don’t bother trying to explain it to me–I’m not trying to tell anyone that they shouldn’t be sentimental about vinyl, just saying I don’t get it.)
aaah! donita! you’re back! wonderful!
alas, i own many cool, colored vinyl records, but no turntable. someday, i’ve got to get hooked up so i can play my PIL vinyl that came in a film cannister!!! does anyone remember that? so cool.
Hi Ellie from earlier! And Hi Jacqrat! OMG, Jem? 707!!!
nora @ 19
My buddy still has that PIL abum in the film can. You know, for anyone that has lots of vinyl they would like to preserve, it may be worth investing in one of the numerous new USB record players that connect to your computer for recording your vinyl collection. I know Stanton and Technics both make models with USB connections.
My parents have a collection of about 200 LPs of various rock and pop from the 60s and rock from the 70s – basically all pressed in license by Amiga ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIGA_%28label%29 ). Unfortunately those records spend their time – along with the probably broken record player – in the attic, doing nothing but endure hot summers and moist autumns for several decades now.
eric the great @ 6
No worries babe. I’m alive and well!
My 16-yr-old introduced me to this song
“Level” by The Raconteurs, which has Jack White in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrG0CVoG_ww
And I found this oldie of Judy Henske singing “Wade on the Water.” Gave me goosebumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjkUPzui7A
First 45 I ever bought was “Penny Lane.”
First LP was the first Doors album.
OOOh … I had missed the nice new track player … thank you so much for that!
finifinito @ 9
Yeah, the article in The Guardian reports that kids buy the vinyl and some don’t even have record players to play them on.
Fini, Love the new player here and on your face book page.. Still on the second song which in the beginning reminded me of Suzanne Vega a little.
Sorry I missed your radio show.. I think I slept to late. Do you have a linky I can save so I can catch it this week?
Siun @ 25
Jane saw the General using it at his place and turned us on to it, isnt it great? Then I found YouTube has a new playlist player too we’ve been playing with as well. Lots of new toys!
Norman Wagner @ 22
If you can, try to get them into book size boxes. At least they can be kept together and upright. Might help to preserve them somewhat
I love my vinyl.
I have about 4-500 albums
Remember when Styx came out with the first laser cut album?
Yup Ive got it. Some rare Iron Maiden ones too.
I fially got a turntable setup again, now for some blasting speakers.
On a side note, one time I was partying and the music was up so loud the cops came, twice.
The second time they told me if they had to come back, me AND my stereo were going to jail.
finifinito @ 9
great album. my haggard vinyl collection, in storage, is comprised mostly of 1970’s prog-rock, of which Gabriel-era Genesis was the pinnacle. with a few notable exceptions Gentle Giant, Camel, Caravan, Man, PFM, Focus, renaissance, Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, etc. haven’t stood the test of time as well.
From kiddo to Lahoma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Margot @ 24
Wow. That Judy Henske was wild, daddy-io, wild! I was worried when the chick at the beginning said, “our next performer at the Hootenanny Circus”, ’cause, well.. you just never know what you’re gonna get when someone invokes, “Hootennanny Circus” ya know?
Eureka Springs @ 27
Thanks! Sorry you missed the show, plus I had the special edition of Meet the Bloggers last night too. You can listen to both and other previous episodes at my host page on BlogTalkRadio. Blogosphere Day was fun, and Siun there was a gracious and engaging guest as well. Great job Siun!
spinn @ 18
My point is that the kids want to BUY something that they can hold in their hands and look at, as opposed to maybe STEALING ithe MP3 online. That’s not sentimentality, that’s artists getting paid.
As a college radio DJ in the early to mid 80’s, I *hated* it when we started using CD’s. Forunately, there were few at the time, so it didn’t impact my sets that much.
Don’t get me wrong, for home listening and casual parties, the sound clarity of a CD was great.
But for mixing and song segues, they sucked. On the turntable, you get a feel for how much lead space to give the record — usually a quarter to a third of a turn — so it’s at full spped when the first note kicks in.
With CD’s, you knew it was always at full speed, but you never knew how much lead space the programmer had included, which seriously mucked up your ability to keep the segue on beat.
It was annoying as hell.
BONDE DO ROLE!
YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fucking funk party…
Bonde do Role @ UK TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3l6xJ5Wyhg
also I made a video with an interview with them, is in portuguese but you can see cool live footage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IuyzxSf-6Q
By the way, not that I dont want anyone to listen to this upcoming show on Sunday, but it is gonna be a Indiana centric show this Sunday. We just had a property tax explosion that has everybody riled up and I am doing a special Indy Tea Party show about property tax in Indiana.
I went down to LA and brought back my records that a friend was storing for me. I will take vinyl anyday. Warm and rounded as opposed to cold and sqaured. Does this make sense?
I have a Shel Silverstein album for adults that includes his hit “The Smoke Off”. Anyone remember that one from the Dr. Demento days?
Seems like the record companies were able to a better job against pirating when everything was vinyl. Maybe a return to that format would help curb digital theft. Nah. People would still convert the stuff to digital and pass it around anyway.
Nice to read ya Donita. Tell Sid hello.
White Stripes can be brilliant, but I don’t get the “no bass” thing (or he playing tricks on us?). heard him interviewed on Fresh Air once, and he explained how for him music was best in groupings of three instruments, of which voice is the third.
There was a good used record store by the University of Alabama called “Vinyl Solution.”
Yup! I went to hear the Veils in NYC and Finn Andrews gave me a vinyl album; it was white. I think I got it was because I was the oldest there.
. cleter @ 41
in Oakland: “the Groove Yard”
finifinito @ 21
Jealous. Damn, that must be worth a fortune now.
I’ve read that the mixes in Metal Box are somewhat different from Second Edition. I would love to hear it someday.
nora @ 19
My friend had the tin, I was so jealous. I have it on cd now.
Great to be back. Thanks Nora
finifinito @ 16
I can see either of these honestly. Though I do think Donita’s voice would be much better on “One Way Or Another.” Debbie Harry had a certain sneer and swagger in that tune that Donita has improved on and updated in her own material.
There’s a trascript of a talk (interview) between L7 and Debbie Harry. I read it last week while I was trying to get the deeper meaning of “Andres”. Could it be the answer is given in that interview? If so: gross!
Bruno @ 37
Brazil is in da house!
The whole bottom of my closet is 78s. I don’t know why. I have a player and over the years I guess everybody’s given me their old records. My favorite is a Classic Vogue picture record from the 40s.
My sister got locked out of the house and climbed into her bedroom window… directly onto my 78 of Lena Horne singing “Stormy Weather”.
I’ve never recovered.
Channel Ocho Bumblebee Man @ 46
There’s a trascript of a talk (interview) between L7 and Debbie Harry. I read it last week while I was trying to get the deeper meaning of “Andres”. Could it be the answer is given in that interview? If so: gross!
Uh oh, can you link me that? I’m sure that we were bullshitting because Andres is not gross at all. “He’s really nice”.
Debbie Harry is a sweetheart and a hoot and a hell of a talent. She’s The Queen.
Jacqrat @ 49
Ha! Hi Jacqrat. I’ve got Yma Sumac on 78s, don’t have a 78 player though.
Jacqrat @ 49
oh man, I can see why,
Stormy Weather – Lena Horne!
you have my condolences
hug the moon @ 39
“Man, I didn’t come her to f^#k around, I came here to SMOKE…”
Hi, Donita! I’m happy that you’re back! I missed you! Great playlist! (The Brazilian bands are cool!) On this week I was thinking about the vinyl… Yes, Donita, you guessed my thoughts! Oh yeah!!
Soon, my band will begin the recordings in studio, I recommended DJ that we’ll record first in vinyl, and later to record in CD. I love vinyls, and I’m furious because here, used vinyls are worth “nothing”! Less than 1 dollar! Yes, I want that the vinyls will come back! Talking about this, I want to ask: Donita, your new album will out in vinyl? That would be great!
(Hey, Bruno!! Olá! Que bom ver mais brasileiros por aqui ^^)
Debbie Harry holds a special place in my heart. Every boy remembers his first celebrity crush. I think it was when I saw her on American Bandstand.
I am down to a couple thousand records, 98% percent were purchased second hand mint condition only in San Francisco over the course of about ten years. San Francisco, the perfect climate for storage of vinyl. They sound so much better than CD’s.
I wish someone would buy and reissue ONU Sound records..
Jandira Ferreira @ 54
Hi Jandira! I’m seriously considering putting my album out on vinyl now. I will for sure put out some candy colored 7″ singels.
finifinito @ 55
I thought it was Christy McNicohl for you. I think that Jacqrat will back me up on that Fini my man.
Eureka Springs @ 56
I agree but had to finally break down and start with CDs when my Allman Bros Fillmore East album was nothing but pops and scratches. The other plus is the amount of music on one CD. I had purchased the Fillmore East CD then later found and purchased the “Fillmore Tapes” cd. Tom Dowd went back and re-mastered all the original tapes from the Fillmore concerts and they released a two cd set. I finally got to hear Wh*pping Post going straight into the Mountain Jam in one continuous set. Plus the second CD ends with a great rap by Duane.
so, where did you spend your vacation, donita? i missed my weekly fix. must have more and all that.
if you use my song suggestions, do i get some cool swag like jacqrat? who says democrats can’t be greedy? heh-heh.
Donita Sparks @ 58
They were both about the same time. But I seriously think it was Debbie Harry on American Bandstand. Besides, I believe I said Kristy McNichol was my first actress crush, or should have been more specific. Debbie was my first rock chick though definitely. Unless Patti Smyth got to me in Sesame Street first but I dont remember back that far.
Donita Sparks @ 57
Thanks for replying, Donita! If your new album will out in vinyl… I’ll love this! Yeahh!! I’ll be one of the first people to buy it! =D
Donita Sparks @ 23
How was Australia?
Donita Sparks @ 35
But they can hold on CDs. Of course some would start collecting vinyl, but not the majority. You have to see that from the perspective of a kid to whom music is something understood and often not connected to the due value. The main reason is the easy availability in the computer age which isn’t restricted to downloading from P2P-sites alone. On-Demand-offers, such as music videos on YouTube or radio stations as Last.fm might help informing the potential customer of interesting music for him/her, they don’t raise the feeling of value for the music though.
dakine01 @ 29
They are stored together and upright. Last time I checked, I couldn’t see any damage. That doesn’t mean anything.
finifinito @ 61
Debbie trumps all.
Donita Sparks @ 64
Totally. Long live THE QUEEN!
i’ll tell you my celebrity crush. an obscure chanteuse unknown to the masses- donita sparks!
that’s right- i’m a hinkley and proud of it.
thank god for the internet, right?
cleter @ 52
“Beware of being the roller when there is nothing left to roll”
Jacqrat @ 49
…my day is complete..
eric the great @ 66
Easy dude, we track IP addresses here. I don’t have to keep an eye on you do I?
eric the great @ 60
Hi Eric! I’m not at liberty to tell you where I was vacationing, but I certainly didn’t shoot any of my friends in the face with buckshot if that eases your mind.
As for swag, maybe I’ll get another contest going here soon and make sure that you win.
finifinito @ 69
Ahh, he’s harmless, just a bit “touched”.
ok, to follow thru with your last comment, i have a joke for y’all;
what do dick cheney and rock hudson have in common? they both shot friends in the face?
eric the great @ 72
That was really bad.
Donita Sparks @ 71
In Indiana we call that “tetched in the haid.” If you say he’s cool, he’s cool. Call it a former bouncer’s reaction.
you will rock “da house” donita when your vinyl come out…
I think there used to be a website that musicians and managers could add record executives to a wish list of people to hang during the revolution or something. I wonder whatever happened to that?
Donita Sparks @ 35
Let’s hear it for artists getting paid. We call that making a living.
Donita Sparks @ 50
No, no. That I didn’t want to insinuate otherwise. In fact in that transcript (that I can’t find anymore – how embarrassing for me. The probably took it off as I googled for certain wordings that I still remembered) you didn’t say anything bad about anyone. Anyway that interview (or telephone conference, I think you were late because of car problems) must have been in 1994 or 1995, because Finch was still in the band and the movie Serial Mom was mentioned. You said something about those dresses and of related problems. Maybe you remember that talk to Ms. Harry?
I still haven’t found a cd of ‘Electric Lady Land’ that sounds as sweet and complex as it does on my vinyl edition.
I once was at the broadcast studio of WHFS – one of the finest FM stations of the 60’s and 70’s from high atop the triangle tower in Bethesda, MD. At the time, the station was blessed with a fine lineup of djs, including (for a short time) the truly legendary Murray the K, and local boy, Cerphe. While wandering thru the offices, came upon a heavy door with a big serious padlock and hasp. I stood on tip-toe to peek thru the small wire-re-enforced window, and saw a large room, filled with shelving barely able to hold the thousands of records in the improvised vault.
When I asked what was in there, my host told me that it was Murray the K’s library, what he had to choose from during his shifts. There were about 12K lps in there.
This left such an impression on me, a young hippie child, almost 40 years later I can turn around and look at my large collection that encompasses some of the 78s, early lps and 45s from not only my life, but from the 2 generations before me. I’ve got Fred Astaire, Bunny Berrigan, Broadway and UK music hall, Led Zepplin and Mississippi Fred McDowell on my shelves…. You know, just in case the apocalypse hits, we could jerry rig a non-electric powered turntable pretty fast…
that debbie harry/l7 interview can be viewed at squareweenie.8m.com.
hey, bumblebee man, am i your new hero?
I want to see that new Don Cheadle movie about that DJ from Washington DC named Petey Greene. All this talk of vinyl got me to thinking about that movie.
Hi Donita and fini
I’m sorry I got rid of my lps. I was just so tired of moving them around after CDs came to be. I should keep the imports. I do have a couple friends who still have vinyl and it’s always a treat to hear them play.
Sorry to toss this in the middle of an otherwise excellent thread, but I need to say that comments that advocate violence are not acceptable in any FDL thread.
Thanks.
One of my favorite albums was Airto, and I think it was called “Friends”, around 1973.
Nothing sounds as good as vinyl. Mr. LS has about 800 albums in perfect condition, but we don’t have a turntable. We do want to get one, however.
FYI, new thread
I throw my love out there for Debbie Harry.
I just saw her last month on the True Colors tour. It was such a treat to get a preview of her new music. I can’t wait for her cd to be released.
The crowd in front of the stage was just standing there.
I couldn’t believe it. It seemed like I was the only person dancing. Towards the end of her set, a couple of women came over to dance with me. They did point out that I was one of the few people dancing, and I looked like I was having the most fun.
I gotta run at this point. Talk to you all later!
I like my 8 track better.
Tommy
Boston1775 @ 68
Seriously don’t understand that editorial comment. Care to explain?
Don’t need a cure…
daughter works at a thrift store. she’s barely 21, but appreciates good music and the sound of vinyl. she scores great records every day. she gave her brother a classic stereo– all cased in walnut– for his graduation gift. it was his favorite present, topping even the cash. i brought those babies up so right.
though it’s dangerously addictive and can devastate long term savings, collecting vinyl is as rewarding a hobby as one can do. so much good music out there that wasn’t popular in its time but is still light years ahead of the tripe being shat out these days.
next time you see a box of old records, dig in and get your fingers dirty. you might find something that will change your life…
Jacqrat @ 89
Such an incredible story in so few words.
Sorry if I sounded in any way negative, I actually meant it as a compliment. I’ll try to find you and apologize. I think you were on-line on Saturday morning and said you got slammed. It didn’t even occur to me that I had done it. Friends?:)
Oh Jacqrat, I did go off-line after that so I didn’t see your reply.
Anybody still there? I finally found the link again that I was looking for in reply 78.
http://www.angelfire.com/punk3….._93_94.htm
(hope this is ok to link to third party sites. If not, or the content should change, just remove this reply)