Introduce Yourself (Even If You Are A Dirty Lurker)

who's reading this board? definitely seeing names i haven't seen before.

hi, i'm scott. i've been on ilx seemingly forever. i have a small used record/book store in greenfield mass. right on main street. stop by and say hi! i have always loved records. since i was a tot. i bought my first record 37 years ago (45 of bad bad leroy brown). my father and my older sister and brother all had tons of records. so, it was natural to have a collection. i like and collect all kinds of stuff. small label 60's and 70's country 45s. 70's disco. 80's freestyle. 70's hard rock and R&B. old blues. all kinds of jazz. all kinds of 60's stuff. i rarely buy stuff from the 80's unless its something really really good. i'm picky when it comes to the 80's and beyond. not so picky when it comes to the 70's or earlier. i dunno, i'm all over the place. i believe in random when it comes to record buying. put me in the crappiest used record store and i'll find SOMETHING to love. i love selling records. i don't hate CDs. i love tapes. oh, i could go on forever.

ok i'll go,

im herb albert (pronounced urb al-bear) and I'm a recordaholic. lurked on ilx forever until Skot and his record store came to town, then had to out myself lest it be crepey. now he hooks me up with crap no one else would buy.

i've been obsessed with music since diapers. first non-kiddie record was an Elvis LP as an Easter present when I was four (just discovered it was the NBC 'comeback' special, no wonder I was hooked). first real record purchased was Sgt Peppers on Parlaphone. I can get into most music except current mainstream pop, R&B and country, but top fetishes are late-60s swankadelic easy listening (when the squares had to freak out) and Indonesian music.

vinyl in the 1000s, half of which is at my parents house where I am right now. have mountains of CDs and cassettes too, but all analog is prob dwarfed by digital on the download at this point. my collection is large and contains multitudes.

also play sitar and have internet radio station(s) at weirdsville.com

hey, im pete -- i live in san francisco, work in oakland, used to live in DC, and have been on ILX for six years. the other weekend, i skipped lunch and dinner at a multi-day scrabble tournament to go buy records, and it occurred to me that this was a fairly good summary of my life right now.

i like jazz, punk, traditional african music, and pre- or non-digital experimental music. there's a lot of other shit i like, too. i am a music director at KUSF in san francisco, and i have a really great day-job where i listen to music all day in my office on a lil turntable. im very interested in the community of music-lovers and record-collectors, and i really like record-shopping with other people as stoked and energetic about it as me. i like the idea of a group of active records folks keeping an eye out for each other's wishlist, and getting records in the hands of the people who will appreciate them the most. send me your wishlists any time -- it's like i inherit a bunch of new stuff to dig around for, and sending/receiving mail is the coolest.

hobbes here. been on/off ilx since prob '02 or something. live in the far east bay suburban netherworld of northern california. first record i bought was a shiny clean copy of rem's reckoning for $2 somewhere in los angeles. my steez is classic rawk, 60s-70s jazz, disco, smooth 80s stuff, 70s brazil, and on and on... i'm a dilettante of the worst kind, really. not an expert on anything. i really miss working at a record store, where the ridonkulous discount allowed me to purchase things normally wayyy out of my price range. i dream about record shopping literally every night but am terrible at remembering details; otherwise i'd post on that record dreams thread.

i believe in random when it comes to record buying

^for realz... this is why recent arrival bins are my favorite. it's easier/more fun that mustering "oh what is it i am looking for" (because half the time, it's not there anyway). and half the time, i end up getting stuff i would not have thought/remembered to look for in the first place.

yeah, I always carry a most wanted list in my wallet but always end up buying the unexpected cool stuff stumbled across in the stacks.

got two big boxes of ray conniff records in at the store, herb. better get home quick.

i'm mizzell, i found ilx while googling a friend's band in 2003. i read a lot of the vinyl board, but don't post much. my first record was either the top gun soundtrack, run dmc's raising hell, or bon jovi's slippery when wet. i don't know if my taste has refined much since then, but i will listen to and enjoy almost anything. major dilettante like hobbes, but in general i like 70s disco and rock the best.
recently i have experienced record fatigue where i go to record stores and find stuff i want but don't make the purchase, mainly cause my storage situation won't allow it.

Pete, do you work at P4nd0r4?

heyyy. my name is erik. i, too, live in san francisco, but have also lived in san luis obispo, tucson, salt lake city, and sacramento. plus i'm moving to portland in september.

i used to be a music director at kcpr / cal poly radio, and spent around 4 years hosting a radio show called "the psychedelic gospel" at that station, hence the sn (the show is still on the air btw! albeit with a different host). i played older acid folk and psychedelic stuff mixed with newer freak folk/new weird whatever, and while i still love love love a lot of that stuff i have definitely moved on and my musical tastes are vastly different at the moment. this is somewhat typical of my musical history, i kind of binge on certain genres for a few years and then feel the need to switch it up and explore something completely different and equally deserving of my attentions (this is not to say i don't go back to old favorites, but there is a definite cycle). i started collecting vinyl in college, and a few years ago i bought turntables and started djing as well (hope i don't seem spammy when i mention i'm currently doing a night called 'tango in the night' with another ilxor). since i moved to sf my collection has expanded significantly, and these days i buy loads of disco, old-school and modern house, anything electronic from the 60s through the 80s, new age, african stuff (esp from the 80s), post-classical/minimalism, dub, idk. my current obsession is the sorta 'minimalism goes pop' subgenre that emerged in the late 70s/80s when people made really accessible albums based on reichian principles. been coming across a lot of that stuff lately.

i just made my first record purchase on ebay, but for the most part i am a proponent of the 'random' school of record buying that hobbes and scott are championing (really stoked to find out more about the vinyl spots in portland!)

hey erik, me and my gf are coming to PDX for labor day -- if yr there and settled, we should grab a beer or a coffee or 50 records or something!

xp sarahel, nah i do quantitative research at the c3n+3r 4 r35p0n5!b73 73nd1n6 -- nonprof policy/research org. i did it for four years in DC, and came to the oakland office when annie and i moved out here last year

x-post to psychgawsple-- I like your blog.

so, my turn. hi, I'm sciolism, aka Heather. Been lurking on ilx since at least '03, only began posting regularly recently. Music criticism, music blogs, and ilm have played an embarrassingly large role in the development of my tastes, most importantly in opening my eyes to disco and all its offshoots and relatives. I would do any number of unspeakable things for a crack at dan selzer's music collection, that guy's awesome. I'm an art and design nerd, and a recovering film geek. Pretty shy (read: anti-social) in real life, have never knowingly met another ilxor even though I know there's plenty out here in Orange County and we've probably bumped elbows at shows.

Adamrl. Been on ILX 10+ years haha. 32 years old somehow. Live in Los Angeles (East side), used to live in Berkeley, originally from London. Sorta experimental documentary filmmaker, do some teaching and programming too. I don't know what music I do/don't like anymore. The last records I got were by Junior Kimborough, Fats Waller, Wire, No Neck Blues Band, Arthur Russell, James Carr, TP Orchestre Polyrhythmo De Cotonou. I wish I had more deep house and cambodian rock on vinyl. I like LA record stores. Amoeba drives me a little nuts but there are lots of cool little places that are fun to hang out at. You all know me.

It's fun to introduce yourself

west coast seriously reprazentin'.

Hi, I'm Stan - born in, and still living, after interruptions, in Dublin. Which is unfortunate if you're record obsessed, because this country was a) quite poor until probably the late 70s compared to the rest of Europe, and therefore people didn't have money to spend on records, and b) when they did, they bought lame 'Country and Irish' which you think might be interesting but nearly never is, plus c) stuff imported from the UK was much more expensive. Add d), a homogeneous population until this century with almost no immigrants and the fact that, though a lot of Dublin looks like Liverpool, it could never have been so.

Anyway, I teach philosophy sometimes, and work as a stagehand/ manager other times, I have been in bands, but not anymore or again. I'm completely disorganised when it comes to collecting - the only things I really don't like is almost any metal, and these days, any indie, though I was once a huge SY/ YLT/ Flying Nun type of guy. Now its much more Jazz - Hot 5s onwards and soul, and the same indiscriminate attitude as Scott to nearly everything from the 70s.Don't actually hate CDs and buy them in charity shops for the car, but if I lose them, I almost never care, whereas the dozen or so LPs I had stolen from me at a party 7 years ago still rankles....

hey I'm Dave, been on ilx about 4 years? born in St. Louis, live in Brooklyn, started collecting vinyl in college around '93 when I really wanted the Nirvana/Jesus Lizard split 7" and things snowballed from there. DJ'd at KCOU at the University of Missouri from '93-'97 so I've got a lotta punk and indie rock from that era plus yr classic rock staples. then got super into hip-hop and funk/soul for a few years, then reggae and jazz, then psych and krautrock, then disco/italo/new wave ... like most people who have posted so far, my taste is pretty all over the place. I think I've got about 3000 Lps (how many records fit in one of those 5x5 Ikea Expedit things? basically got one of those filled with one leftover stack on the floor).

did a blog for a few years called 33/45, it's basically kaput now. still doing a weekly internet radio show at viva-radio.com/deadheat that's all vinyl when I've got the time and lazy mp3s when I don't. Every now and then I lug heavy-ass record bags on the subway to play at some bar or rock show in nyc. My collecting's kinda slowed down lately for reasons of storage space, time, and $$ (just had a kid! an awesome daughter) but I'm always on the hunt for stuff.

ILV dudes I've met IRL - ian, 69, jaxon ... probably a couple others I'm forgetting ...

hi Dave, I liked your blog too. I got Space's "Magic Fly" from you.

wow, congrats on the kid! even though they take precious money away from record-buying. they always seem to need "food" and stuff like that.

x-post

I know right? thanks man! she's 2 months old now.

xpost- it's funny, I bought that record off this guy Jer3my who DJs with Dan Selzer a lot, he was having a stoop sale in my neighborhood. glad you liked the blog!

ha, that is funny. coincidences like this make me less surprised that I don't meet too many people irl who like this stuff.

xposts to pete - sounds good! i should definitely be moved in someplace by then. and likewise, if you know any secret stashes in sf worth exploring before i take off i'm more than game. i didn't know you were an md at kusf now! i volunteered there a bit when i first moved to the city but got kinda put off by a few things, but i remember the other mds were pretty nice dudes.

xposts to sciolism - cool! i haven't updated it in a damn long time tho. hearing stuff like this makes me want to!

yeah, i just became an MD last month actually. it's a cool community -- the station taste is a (somewhat unruly) mix of styles, but there's definitely some good energy, and lots of cool folks there. im hopin to make a positive contribution!

as far as secret stashes, the only place i wanna hit is that records basement somewhere north of market -- i hear they may have a good buncha jazz. have you been to that jazz place on 20th ave in the sunset? it's kind of my dream store, and the guy who runs it is the kind of character i like, but the prices are disappointingly high. i guess i wanna hit that big SECRET place in mountain view, too? dude from gr00ve m3rch@n+ gave me this kinda unintentionally LOL description of the right way to keep from attracting attention there when you find some great record in amongst the chaff.

the store in the sunset LOOKS like my dream store, i mean -- it's v v v v HOARY

Hi, I'm Bill, from Wellington, New Zealand. Been lurking around ILX since 2001.First record I bought with my own money was Rod Stewart's 'You're in My Heart' on 7", closely followed by 10CC's 'Dreadlock Holiday'. My earliest musical epiphany was when my Dad brought home a copy of The Best of Abba sometime in 1975. I played the shit out of that record, even attempting to copy all the lyrics down. Have been buying vinyl & loving pop music ever since.

Main interests are late 70's/early 80s New Wave/Synth Pop, Punk rock, 70s funk, 80's Groove, 'Indie' for want of a better phrase - from C86 stuff through Madchester/Britpop etc. Basically any pop music really. I DJ 2 regular nights here in town - strangely enough one new wave/new romance/synth pop (since 1996) & a madchester/britpop/indie one (since 2003). Still buying loads of vinyl, though it's usually importing & UK ebay. If anyone need/wants any NZ stuff, let me know I can keep an eye out for it

If anyone need/wants any NZ stuff, let me know I can keep an eye out for it
whoa dude definitely -- sending to yr ILX email now!

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a litigation partner in my miami law firm, where i've worked since 2000. me, my wife, and our daughter live in coral gables. the first cassette and/or record i bought was either the cure's kiss me kiss me kiss me or the archies' greatest hits; i can't remember which. i've been on ilx for about 3.5 years. i'm 42. staying in touch with music makes me feel young. i kid around on ilx much more than i do in real life, but it's worth saying that i get a tremendous amount from reading the posts here. i really treasure this site.

uh hello ILV! I'm sleeve, I grew up in Virginia but have lived in Eugene OR for 20 years now (I'm 43). Been on ILX since 2005. The first records I remember listening to were a children's LP from Cricket magazine and a box set of songs about US history presented in musical form. Then I started listening to the radio, my mom gave me some Beatles LPs, and it was all over. The first record I bought was The Wall, when it came out. So I guess I started collecting in 9th grade or so (the year after that). It really shifted into high gear when I went to college and was exposed to a lot more music, most of which I still keep up with.

I dig most old school Rough Trade bands, The Ex, The Fall, Crass, the whole World Serpent (RIP) group (Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Legendary Pink Dots), Sun City Girls, Muslimgauze, etc etc. In the last decade I have been actively trying to expand the breadth of my vinyl collection, buying lotsa jazz/folk/blues/classik rok/classical type stuff, which has been fun and cheaper than the stuff I usually look for. Newer stuff I dig would be Michael Hurley, Kurt Vile, Six Organs, Es, the stuff on the psych/drone/folk thread and also some noise - really digging Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer at the moment.

These days I have around 3000 LPs and 800 45s I think? I love 45s. I do a fair amount of selling/buying on eBay etc. I started doing radio in 1984 during college and am currently with KWVA in Eugene (Mondays 4-6 pm), where I've done a wild variety mix show for the last 12 years. I was on a different station before that but it seems like a long time ago now. I used to write for west coast mega-zine Snipehunt in the 90's but don't really write about music much anymore. I have a rare tapes mp3 blog at shardsofbeauty dot blogspot.

ILV is a nice calm spot in the ILX chaos, I like it here.

ay dudes. i'm nate. i've posted on ilx under a couple other sn's for about, shit like coming up on 3 years? apart from very brief stints in phoenix and auckland i've lived almost entirely in small-to-not-as-small towns in the midwest and (for a bit as a kid) the south. currently living in the twin cities, i process donations in a warehouse. i mostly hangout with my girlfriend. she works a crummy job too but she'll be a real grownup scientist soon! my piles of vinyl are mushrooming now that i live in a city with good access to them and my cd player gave up on me. meat and potatoes of my listening: big stones and stooges head, 60s/70s country (mostly 60s/70s; i want to dive into the 80s! vern gosdin is my entry point?), out there weirdosoundsmusic (i go for musique-concrete sounding stuff over, say, power noise), i can never find enough blues records and probably will never have enough. there's good music everywhere, further platitudes and whatall.

this is me whats up http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/everytownexceptpaducah/nate_and_kg.jpg

the first record i can recall being really excited to buy was 'godz 2' which i found for 50 cents or whatever in a salvation army

Hey, Jeff here. Live on L.I. I haven't read the suburbs thread -- is it hip to live on Long Island yet? Can't really say what my first record was -- maybe the Nutty Squirrels 45, or the Hawaiian War Chant, or Purple People Eater. I was into novelty as a preteen. The life-changer was probably the Beatles' "Twist and Shout." I started reading Creem in my early teen years, I guess because they put Spider-Man on the cover of an issue, and since then I my tastes have been sort of critically-informed. I'm all over the map like everyone else up there, and have more records than I know what to do with. At heart, though, I guess I'm an old brother-back-home-with-his-Beatles-and-his-Stones. I'm not so much into randomness. But I've lodged so many reviews and recommendations in the back of my mind, many of them from this board, that for all intents and purposes it can seem like randomness when I go record shopping. I've met a couple of ilm folks -- scott & ian for sure, maybe others. A recent bout with alopecia areata (total loss of hair, not as scary as the name makes it sound, but it can still weird you out big time) has left me sorta shy and retiring, so I don't get out there record hunting as much as I used to. I had lots of fun in the days when all the stores were liquidating their vinyl.

dang, bill, i would have asked you to direct me to nz record stores had i known you were a wellington dude. too late now! are all the nz ilxors from wellington? or maybe it's just you and justin3.

i forgot the ilxors-i've-met-portion: jergins, and one time i saw ned raggett.

If anyone need/wants any NZ stuff, let me know I can keep an eye out for it
whoa dude definitely -- sending to yr ILX email now!

Hi Pete, best to send me an email here: nothingelseon (at) gmail.com - I have no idea where my ILX email goes, sorry

Hi Nate, sorry! There's actually not too many record stores round any more, tho Wellington has a couple of pretty decent 2nd hand stores, this being my favourite Slow Boat Records tho I'm biased as I used to work there! Couple of good places in Christchurch, dunno about Auckland anymore as I haven't lived there for nearly 30 years & I don't get up there much. Dunedin, I dunno either, didn't ILXor doorag have a store there?

I have no idea where my ILX email goes, sorry

wait how do you log in

is it hip to live on Long Island yet?

the extreme west iirc.

hi everybody! I'm Chris! I'm from South Jersey but just moved to North Jersey last week. I luff records all sorts; pretty much the same stuff as Scott, Herb, Chuck, Ian and Nijoli I guess. My favorite records when I was 3 were a Popeye picture disk, some hand-me-down 45s from my dad when he was a kid in the 50s (inc. Howdy Doody and his Air-O-Doodle), and whatever other records were lying around (theme from Great American Hero b/w Hill Street Blues Theme was a big hit).
I've been accumulating records at a serious clip ever since I started driving (~13 years ago) and I have a lot of them. I usually do the random thing buying at thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales but have started to go to record stores now that I live closer to them. I prefer Salvation Armies to Goodwills, but love a good yard sale more than anything.
I haven't met any ILXORS irl although I saw W.G.W. in N.Y.C. last weekend and didn't say anything to him because hey I'm just another jerk from the internet basically.
A major record epiphany was when my dad came home with this record one day circa 1990:
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He has been buying stuff at thrift stores since way before I was born (he does OK biz on da 'bay nowadays) and he just got it because he thought it was a funny cover. For some reason this struck a chord deep within my very soul and I realized what my true calling in life was to be. Also my maternal grandfather was a _serious_ jazz collector (moldy fig type). He died right before I got deep into records, but was another huge influence. When I started to play trombone in middle school he gave me a copy of Dixie Small Fry In High Fi. I quit the horn in high school but still love the old time jass.
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I would get sad about the fact that I don't know what happened to his 78s when he died but then I remember not to become attached to material things. My dad was able to grab some of his lps so now he has this massive series of Arthur Fiedler box sets along with a bunch of Benny and Bix etc.
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I have no idea where my ILX email goes, sorry

wait how do you log in

Haha yeah good point, tho my browser takes care of that usually, the main problem I have is a multitude of email addresses I have had over the years that I'm trying to rationalise. If anyone wants to hit me up, use the gmail one above, I dont check all my others that regularly.

Hi dudes. My name's Mark. I'm 33, I live in London, but grew up in the Midlands. I've been on ILX since 2004. I'm not a true vinyl guy as such, in that I didn't even own a record player til 2000 - I grew up listening to cassettes and then went to CDs aged 15 in 1991. But as time went on and I got more into forms of music (i.e. mainly punk and 80s indie) that weren't available on CD I took the plunge and have been collecting vinyl since. I still have way more CDs than vinyl though - I still generally go for CDs for albums over LPs, just cos they are cheaper both to buy and to mail order (this is especially true of buying music from the states).

I love 7" singles - that's the first place I go in any record store. I have way more of them than LPs.

Ok! I'm Bob and I've lived in Austin, TX for the last 5 years or so. I'm 37 and originally from Philadelphia -- lived in Baltimore (1991-1999) and Chicago (1999-2005) before getting here (and settling down with my wife and daughter). My parents had records and I've bought records since I can remember (first with allowance money was Men At Work's 1st one). I remember being obsessed with a 45 of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer (from The Sting sndtrk) when I was about 4 and it spiraled out from there (also at age 4: Beatles, Grease sndtrk, Queen's News of The World, and Free to be You and Me). I've bought tapes and CDs too but have never really stopped buying vinyl -- now I only buy a few tapes or CDs, mostly vinyl. The pursuit of random records (can I third or fourth this notion?) hit me in my late teens in Baltimore: the local thrift stores in the worst parts of town were plentiful with outrageous funk and soul records. I was living somewhat close to the bone and it was easy to discover lots of great stuff on a couple bucks. Then found Normal's (used books and records) which was great for finding stuff I'd only read about in Trouser Press but could never find (pre-internet). Internet is great for discovering new music, but I miss the pre-web thrill of the chase and total lack of info on older artists. Nostalgia takes over sometimes and I reminisce about old stores where I'd flip through and find what seemed like the ark of the covenant: normals, philadelphia rx, 3rd st jazz, princeton rx, vinyl ink... and thankfully Austin has some great new and used stores for a town this size.

Also: I love the haul/score/purchase thread for discovering new stuff!

hey, I was hooked on The Sting soundtrack too. my daughter's become a mini-me, running round screaming 'We Will Rock You' and memorizing all the words to Free To Be. dont dress yr snake in a MuMu...

Hello, my name is Ian and I'm an alcoholic.
Record collector, that is.
I'm 25 years old and grew up in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island. Now I live in New York, and have for almost seven years. I work at a record store. Sometimes when I come home at night all I want to do is watch TV.

I can remember playing my parents records when I was a kid. Mostly Beatles. And we had some sesame street records and stuff like that too. When I was a teenager and getting into punk & indie and stuff I dug my mom's old turntable out of the basement, mostly to listen to punk 7"s and stuff. I also started listening to some of my mom's old records, like Neil & Joni & stuff. When I was a teen and into my early twenties I got pretty into noise & far out weird stuff like Albert Ayler and krautrock and This Heat and whatever. Now I mostly like country music and pre-war blues and singer songwriter stuff. But I still try to keep up with a bit of new music too.

i haven't met any ilxors, but i once bought records from ian, only discovered it later when i posted them on a recent purchases thread.
i loved listening to my parent's records when i was kid, especially through their huge headphones. i was especially fond of the john denver and muppetts xmas record.

city worker are you, in fact, a municipal government employee?

i actually meant to write my real name in my intro above. it's mitchell.

in my late teens in Baltimore: the local thrift stores in the worst parts of town were plentiful with outrageous funk and soul records.

Sentence has me salivating with envy...

kinda like years ago when i would go to the little flea markets they would have in vacant lots north of market street in philly. i got so much great funk and soul at those and i would be the only person buying them! those were the days...

I did best with funk/soul when I lived in Norfolk VA and would go to all the Goodwills and Salvation Armies in Norfolk and Portsmouth. Sometimes I'd get a stack of 50 records for 25 or 50 bucks. (A lot of em were pretty beat up but it all averages out, there was some great stuff in there)

hi, My name is James. I live in Houston and I don't post very often because I embarrass myself easily. I grew up in a house with a box of promo 50s and 60s 45s from a dj neighbor. Now I have a couple of walls of Lps and Cds. Lots of 80s music and funk, classic rock, country, jazz, punk. In honor of this thread and my recent new phono-stage acquisition, I put on Prefab Sprout - Two Wheels Good.

I haven't been buying much lately because I fell out of love with everything for a while.

hey, I'm in Houston right now and need to find out where I can score Jandek records. I might make a pilgrimage to the Corwood PO Box if I get bored enough...

just dug out all my old 45s, will post a list. TS: Funky Worm vs Funkytown

funky worm no doubt

hi, i'm jordan. i've been lurking on ilx for probably 5 years or so and only recently discovered ilv. i was born, raised and still live in san francisco. my dad had a big record collection (mostly jazz, classical, & blues) and would take me record shopping with him when i was little. by junior high i was spending my lunch money on vinyl after school, mostly alt rock and punk stuff like devo, bad brains, pavement, etc. these days i spend most afternoons in thrifts and record stores digging, and i buy lots of disco, house, soul 45s and other things. i buy very few new releases and no cds. lately i've been taking steps into the world of record dealing. i'd love to own a record store but seems like a huge challenge in this time & place. i've done ok selling on ebay and discogs, and i'm going to be selling at a sidewalk sale in SF and the san diego record show this weekend. wish me luck!

real name jason. grew up in LA. 33. first tapes were the wall and thriller. first cd was zeppelin. listened to my mom's records a lot. 70s hippy stuff. HS i listened to classic rock (floyd was my fave), metal and hip hop. i started collecting records in early college. mostly jazz and soul/funk to discover the samples i was listening to. i realized i had the bug bad when the year after college i worked 8-12hr shifts at a record store, and then would spend hours at other record stores (usually to sell the promos we got for credit). lived in chicago for a year. been in san francisco for 8-9yrs. definitely a fan of the random. especially dollar bins. i used to have pages and pages of lists in my wallet. i'd much rather discover something i've never heard of before. i buy mostly '72-'86. always looking for weird, funky, synthy. almost no genre i won't touch - except i don't really pay attention to new music anymore. i post daily mp3s to http://www.robotsinheat.com/ and dj once a month at a happy hour called Radioactivity. we play "weirdwave and beardwave" (minimal synth, kraut, postpunk, cosmic). and sometimes i dj with a friend doing classic soul and funk. i don't think i have as many records as i pretend i do. although they are taking over the house. maybe 1500-2000? but i always say that, and i must have bought more since the last time i've said that? i am trying to get rid of some this weekend (xpost, thanks to ^ jordan who told me about that record swap at a local bar).

I'm Mark. I remember being plunked down with the big headphones in the beanbag chair with the album sides. when I conquered needle-fear & figured out how to flip it over the album, was probably abbey road. always liked weird dusty thrift store records with personality. Got to use the vinyl in college radio days with a crew of audio gremlin ninjas that happened to include mr. herb a... acquired weight through the late 90s & late 00s, the times of plenty. DJd in local bars occasionally until a couple years ago. LPs lay fallow for a while as the hard drive grew but lately it's been a bunch of new LPs and playing records just about every day. Collection is in chaos after long-undone alphabetization so I may have to go back to segregating genres, even though it feels wrong.

I lurk and occasionally post long time, formerly as aut0vac... recently acquiring psych punk shimmers and shambles, weird dusty thrift store records, unmissable reissues, interesting-looking 7"s... I can't believe I'm still keeping up with a fair amount of the ever-increasing barrage of new shit new shit. definitely concur w/ digging philosophy re: following the vibe of the place & seeing what they got. random records. deals.

city worker are you, in fact, a municipal government employee?

naw, i just needed a user name. it should more accurately say 'software worker' or 'procrastinating worker.'

xpost if yall want to grok me & snitchin's streamin steez, check it old-skool @ http://www.weirdsville.com/ucg.htm .

I need to mp3/podcast that shit but haven't had time to dig out the tapes again.

ok what is this sidewalk record swap jordan and jason are talking about. if you guys are bringing records, i am intrigued

it's at pop's, imma be there -- cant decide if ill bring shit to sell or just cruise through

psychgawsple & anyone else interested: the record swap is this saturday 2pm at Pop's on 24th and York. bring some records, or just kick it with some fellow record nerdz.

Yo, who wants to help sell off Steve Shasta's record collection (for he will be in the Central Valley AGAIN this weekend??? Jaxy i owe u a call tonight lol).

Steve Shasta, 38 years young, lived in CA for 21 goddamn years, SF for 13. Ex-college DJ at KXLU in LosAngalees. Used to have thoussssands (2 big ikea 5x5s) of records and sold off most of them when my XGF (ex-station director at KUSF where "69" is at now) and I discovered eBay in the late 90s. Really shouldn't be posting on this board cuz I sadly don't have that attachment to format that I once had. I am now resigned to be a boring professional wakeboarder, content to shralp my way across open water lakes and reservoirs around the world... but can totally to relate to most of you because I used to shop and trade and wheel and deal with the best of them.

Hello, my name's Tim. I've been on ILx since its very first day, when it was the Freaky Trigger temp comments board. I live in London (UK) but grew up in the South West of England. I'm currently taking a little while off following a (more or less welcome) redundancy.

Having been through a period with enough money to buy records but no time to look for them, I'm now in the opposite position. I've never enjoyed buying expensive records, though, so things haven't changed much. Recently I've developed a game where I can earn myself an expensive (like ten or twelve pounds) by walking to a moderately distant record shop - so far I've found really good shops I've never visited before in Beckenham, West Wickham and Putney, and as a result I have completed my run of the five LPs Charly issued of Quinvy / South Camp stuff in the 80s. Hooray!

I keep my records in broad generic sections: rock / pop (includes nindie, of which there is a fair amount); country (mostly 60s/70s I guess); soul (largely Southern); reggae; hip hop (incorporates small quantities of jungle and other associated dance); jazz/blues (small vestigial section, rarely disturbed); Brazilian. That gives you an idea of my listening. Lately I've been buying lots of country, but that's mostly because I seem to find more interesting looking stuff in the cheapo bins.

I co-host a weekly Sunday afternoon thing called The Hangover Lounge (http://hangoverlounge.blogspot.com/), the idea of which is to play great records at a volume which doesn't interfere with conversation. I wouldn't ordinarily mention it, except that in the next few weeks we will be releasing our first record! See, sometimes we have groups play (in a separate room, no amplification - none, no PA, nothing, it can be amazing) and we have invited six of them to make recordings for us, which will be coming out on a 10"EP. Test pressings arrived this week. I love vinyl.

I was (briefly) at the Hangover Lounge a couple of weeks ago! I was actually there for the record fair upstairs but I stopped for a quick drink at the bar downstairs after I'd finished.

I used to collect a lot of stuff, I especially like easy listening, soul, soundtracks, "ethnic" records, oldies, new wave and dance. I recently spent a lot of money on a turntable to strengthen my commitment to digitization so I can listen to my obscurities wherever I go. 45s are still my favorite.

I don't buy old vinyl so much anymore but I still play it. Lately I've become fond of cassettes.

I wasn't there that week, CP - hope it was good! Come say hello if you come back!

Hey everyone, I'm Rob. Been posting on ILX since around late 2002/early 2003, something like that. Don't really post much anymore other than ILV and the ILM threads that I care about. Live and work in Chicago for the past 20 years, grew up in Michigan. I'm 38. A midwesterner, you might say. The first vinyl I ever owned was either Blondie's "Call Me" 45, or Lipps, Inc.'s "Funkytown" 45. Whichever one came out first, cuz I bought them both when they hit the charts. and in fact I still have my 45s! I am kinda embarrassed when I think back to how much the shorty me played that Blondie 45. I mean over and over and over and over again, day after day. I was obsessed with it.

There were other 45s along the way but I didn't have a full-length LP of my own until the Men At Work 'Business As Usual' LP, which I got as a Xmas present. I loved that too. around mid-80s when CDs came out I did actually get the CD bug and bought tons of CDs. I got back into vinyl around 1990, when I started getting into indie shit -- actually, it was probably the original Sub Pop singles club that fostered my love of vinyl at that time. I loved all the Sub Pop bands because sometimes their riffs reminded me of Led Zeppelin who were my favorite band of all time. You couldn't get like Mudhoney or Nirvana stuff on CD at that time so I got back into vinyl. and I also went to college in 1990 and pretty much never looked back

I have around 8000 LPs at this point I think. Most of the early 90s was spent collecting old funk, soul and R&B. Late 90s I was a big jazz guy. Raided lots of Chicago records stores for amazing jazz lps at prices that were amazing in retrospect. Early 2000's were kind of my blues period, I was listening to Steve Cushing's 'Blues Before Sunrise' radio show obsessively, but a lot of the records I actually did buy on CD, because originals are impossible to find. I would say in the last 3-4 years I've kinda gone back and become obsessed with old classic rock, and of course rare psych/folk/whatsis, which i've always been into along the whole ride... But I get a big thrill out of completing my classic rock collections cheaply. I finally have all of the Hot Tuna and J. Geils Band and Steve Miller Band lps, and I did it for like an average of 2-3 dollars apiece over teh course of 3-4 years. good times. Not sure what's next, might have to get more jazz-obsessed again, the rock is kind of killing my brain.

Other than vinyl obsessiveness I am just as much a live music maven. I live to see live music and basically base most of my vacations around it. Went to see Thurston/Jandek in Portland in April, going to see Bob Dylan in Portland in August, going to the ATP New York thing over Labor Day weekend, and we'll see what turns up before the year is out... So far since June I've seen Tony Allen, Tinariwen, Bert Jansch, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Omar Souleyman, Dave Holland, On Fillmore, Hot Tuna, and Black Mountain. I am going to see Blue Oyster Cult on Sunday and Rush on Tuesday. Live music rules.

actually, i should have mentioned that lately I am more into classical shit than anything else, but I don't actually buy that stuff on LP. I just tune into the local classical station, WFMT, and let it play. It's kind of a newer world for me but I'm very much enjoying coming home from work and flipping on the station. Being surprised. but I love Haydn, Sibelius, Chopin, and Mahler. and of course Ives and all the rad 20th century Euro shit but this station don't play that, I've been collecting it for years...

I like thread because, you know how amateurist once started that thread
Please help me to distinguish between Frank Kogan and Chuck Eddy? I actually thought that way for a very long time regarding herb albert and los blue jeans.

I am glad to have the record set straight, and salute the two of you for your excellent vinyl advocacy

Hi! I'm Matt, 42, born and still live in London, been posting sporadically on ilx for too long (6 years? ulp). Used to play in a recording / gigging band, have just been making bedroom records for the last few years but hopefully I'll get back into gigging this year now I've realised that stagefright can be defeated by not giving a shit about the audience (duh - took me decades to figure that out). To be honest I'm not that fussed about vinyl over CD, but this board is great for finding out about obscuro weirdness from the ages! I started buying records properly in the early 80s, when it was all scratched-up 70s stuff (couldn't afford to buy everything new) or crappy flimsy 80s vinyl, so I never really thought of vinyl as particularly exciting. Although I guess prog gatefold sleeves were pretty amazing in my teens, but I'm less bothered these days. That's just me though! Probably own about 700 LPs and 2500 CDs, sorry...my genre filing distinctions are as follows :
Prog (inc. a separate section for Italian prog - hey it's prog, gotta have sub-sections)
Krautrock
Metal / hard rock
Jazz
Ethnic (or whatever you want to call it) - basically compilations filed by country (eg Ocora, Nonesuch Explorer series etc)
Folk / country / blues
Soundtracks
Classical
Experimental / avant garde nonsense (probably the biggest and vaguest section)
Japanese stuff of all stripes
Then everything else is A-Z

First record bought - Dire Straits, "Sultans Of Swing"
Second record bought - Dr Feelgood, "Milk & Alcohol"
First album bought - Queen, "Flash Gordon" (I had an older brother who had all the cool stuff)

I have around 8000 LPs at this point I think

Dear God! how do have the room? I have about 1/3 of that - and I'm older than you, so at it longer - and two rooms are overrun with vinyl.

you know what, sonofstan, that was just an off the cuff calculation .. I had that number lodged in my head for some reason. I guess since the last time I attempted a "guestimation". But I now think I might have been including my CDs in that calculation. In any case, it's probably more like 6000 LPs, 2000 CDs. I will attempt to post a pic to that newly-revived "post a picture of yr collection" thread...

oh, speaking of stats, this makes me realize I didn't post my IRL stats... um, I think the only IRL ILV poster I have met is Jaxon! I've met a bunch of other ILXors, but not those that are regular ILV posters. I'd love to meet anyone here, it's like a brotherhood (also want to meet Skot and Ian in their respective stores while I raid them :)

yeah if anyone here is ever traveling Interstate 5 in Oregon feel free to drop me an email here, ILV visitors always welcome.

Hi 69, just got your email - sorry, it got sent to my spam folder. Have sent you a reply.

i heart house of records in eugene oregon. gotten soooooooooooooo many great records there.

Hi! Marcos here. I'm a dirty lurker. Born and Raised in LA, went crazy and left in the 90s and came back. The first records I bought were Computer World and The LA Dream "Kings Of The West Coast" is in the house. I had a neighbor who used to throw house parties and put me up on a lot of stuff when I was a kid. As far as what I'm into, my tastes run pretty parallel to scott's in his opening thread. My favorite spots in LA are (in no particular order): Atomic Records in Burbank, Record Recycler in the South Bay (though I think it was better when it was in Los Feliz), Record Surplus in West LA (GOD I loved this place when I was a young'n. Now it's pretty overpriced, but there are still finds there every once in a while). Amoeba's okay, I guess. Good to be here! You folks seem way cool.

welcome marcos!

i like atomic records! my labor-day PDX trip has become a labor-day LA trip, so im stoked to hit that place up again!

Thanks, man! That 50c bin is well worth going through thoroughly. Oh, and the Wall O' Records... drooooool

pete, i'm gonna be in LA labor day too for a wedding. we should go record shopping.

fuck YEAH bro

Howdy ya'll.

my name is Heather Nijoli and I work in a small, awesome record store in Knoxville, Tn. with three of my best friends. I am 36 and have always lived in the South and tend to like all things Southern: sweet tea, rocking chairs, bbq, porches, cornbread, redneck bars, bourbon, etc. I collect and dj funk and soul 45's. I love gritty sweaty dance songs and sweet soul ballads.

The first record I ever had was Dee Dee Sharp's Gravy - it had been my mom's record when she was a teen - and she taught me how to mashed potato to it. She won a mashed potato contest in the 60's! The first record I ever bought for myself was a terrible Sean Cassidy record that had a gatefold and a hot picture of him on the inside. I was six.

If you ever see these records and want to be an angel, pick them up for me: irene & the scotts 'stuck on my baby' (SMASH RECORDS), don gradener 'my baby likes to boogaloo' (TRU GLO TOWN), the symphonics 'no more' (BRUNSWICK) or chuck carbo and the soul finders 'can i be your squeeze' (FIRE BALL)

Stuff that is not record related but defines me: i volunteer in our national park with the trails program, direct a non-profit women's reproductive healthcare fund, serve on the board of our local Girls Rock Camp and watch too many documentaries. I have been on ilx since 2005 and I have met a ton of ilx folk (tho not necessarily ilv folks) over the years, many during our local big ears festival: roxy is my sister, ken chu, crut, jordan, tza, ethan, hoos, ian, wMc, tipsy - maybe more? ya'll are all welcome to come to knoxville. you will love it.

oh, and my absolute serious dream is to take out my airstream trailer as a mobile record store across the country, stopping at various venues to sell records and thrift stores to buy stuff - always being on a semi-vacation and ebaying all the way. i have talked some dudes into doing this with me but i am still trying to figure out how to make this whole plan work!

God. So much about me.

Sorry, guys.

yeah! bring yr airstream to the bay area! we dont have much BBQ but we have barbacoa!

don gardener 'my baby likes to boogaloo' (TRU GLO TOWN)

^^^ truly one of the greatest tracks of all time. i'm on the lookout for an original myself

i'm 不合作的方式. selling off most of my collection because i'll be moving country soon, and you can't take it all with you. i mean i probably could but it will be too much hassle. and besides, i'll get to buy loads of new stuff when i move. selling records off is hard work but i've really appreciated going through the archives here and reading a lot of good advice. i'm still buying loads of records tbh but i've cut down on bargain bin/charity shop/boot sale mass buys for the time being. i buy a lot of house and techno from the present day backwards, my main interest is synth pop and weird 80s stuff, industrial, ambient, just the usual stuff really. i have yet to delve too deeply into 70s/60s stuff apart from the obvious things, and jazz is a major blind spot atm -- i always feel there'll be time for all that once i hit my thirties or something. today i listened to dazzle ships, a sandii & the sunsetz album, avec laudunum by stars of the lid, after the heat, this wayne county 7" my girlfriend wanted to hear, crazy conny plank produced b-sides from "nightmares" 12" by flock of seagulls, some bill nelson ambient stuff i found for a pound at the market this morning and that primitive guitars album by phil manzanera

anyway i don't really post here much, but there's a lot of good advice and stuff to read about vinyls floating about here and proves that ilxor is good for a lot more than just threads about pitchfork

crazy conny plank produced b-sides from "nightmares" 12" by flock of seagulls

i'd like to hear this

you can listen to "the last flight of yuri gagarin" on youtube, but the better of the tracks, "rosenmontag" isn't on there unfortunately. i'll post it up on leonardo if you're interested

where are you moving 不合作的方式

does crazy roger adultery still live in knoxville? didn't he move there?

or maybe i'm remembering wrong.

my main interest is synth pop and weird 80s stuff, industrial, ambient, just the usual stuff really.

There are not many places where that sentence would work....

this is such a nice thread

lexington ky iirc

ah, okay.

but the better of the tracks, "rosenmontag" isn't on there unfortunately. i'll post it up on leonardo if you're interested

if it's not too much hassle. thanks!

i was listening to that 12 inch about a month ago. rosenmontag is really crazy. that whole single is great. i don't think hunters & collectors ever did anything that cool with conny in the 80's.

I like thread because, you know how amateurist once started that thread
Please help me to distinguish between Frank Kogan and Chuck Eddy? I actually thought that way for a very long time regarding herb albert and los blue jeans.

l followed by an o followed by another l

an important distinguishing characteristic is that herb albert posts on the stonedheadmusikrollingthread but I am more or less str8 to some extent. we should kick it with some Johnny Puleo rekords some time tho

dear ilv

my name is sam. i'm 19 years old and live in montreal and we recently got our amp & needle & speakers fixed and are playing records all the time in the apartment. my roommates are film & classical guitar students respectively and aren't often up for latenight listening & joint smoking which is kind of a shame i think but i'm looking into getting a little situation set up in my bedroom. i don't own much & most of what i own is harry belafonte/burt bacharach/smoove jazz stuff i inherited from my grandfather or punk records i bought over the past year or so. we live across the street from an old factory which has been turned into a loft complex that includes a clandestine bar & a few underground punk venues that has recently become the focal point of the local punk scene in wake of some really heavyhanded noise laws, and i am somewhat involved in the community there, although being in university keeps me away from it & it breaks my heart. looking forward to branching out and buying random records but so far i have mostly stuck to new releases

some of my favourite music for the past little while has been boredoms, joao gilberto, roscoe holcomb, charles mingus. my favourite genre is really wild and noisy rock/punk bullshit. i know it's silly but i'm a sucker for any and all of that stuff, & even try to play some of it in a band. i'm keen on loads of other stuff too though

i introduced myself before, i think, but i didn't realize this was the "vinyl" board. i'm reintroducing myself because i just got a record player, and i feel like a total novice with it.

the whole thing was done on a whim/lark. i'm a annual subscriber to the numero group, but i'm on their compact disc plan. yesterday, by mistake or as a special promotion, i received a huge box from the numero group, with a 6-vinyl album pressing of their new release. i got inspired, and raced out to my local spec's music to get something to play it on (i've been toying with getting a record player for a while now). at first, i inadvertently bought a turntable, i.e., one of those devices that must link up to my PC in order to work. i'm sure that's the more sophisticated system, but (a) i was baffled by all the wires when i opened the box at home and (b) i don't want to tether my record-listening to setting up my laptop. so i returned it in favor of a more straightforward -- but kind of cheesy looking -- record player, with just a cord that connects to the wall socket.

i love it, but i'm concerned that i bought something so low-end/antiquated that i'll have regrets later. i think it's made by FYE, which owns spec's (working from memory). anyway, hi.

Welcome. That Numero six lp sounds cool.

this is it:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Syl_.jpg

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Syl_.jpg

honestly i haven't even opened it yet! i wonder if the discs and the vinyl are the same thing.

whoops, that second image was supposed to be different. trying again:

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/55/120055.jpg

oh wow a Syl Johnson box ... that looks awesome

"Is It Because I'm Black" is doooooope, haven't heard the rest of those

oh i saw an IS IT BC IM BLACK yesterday and it somehow escaped my memory...

im sure it was a reish

wow, that looks crazy. the 2 guys i dj a soul/funk night have been talking about that box. i've got 'is it because i'm black', 'diamond in the rough', and 'uptown shakedown', but i guess this box is mostly a collection of singles? diamond in the rough is so so so amazing. very typical Hi Records sound (wife was shocked we weren't listening to al green)

anxious to dig down into it.

i only know is it because i'm black from a cover-version on a blood & fire compilation.

shit, not that THAT sounds rad or anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ikvEe3rSA

lol @ screen saver video

"Different Strokes" is top 10 breakbeat of all-time for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMLaVNIsSc

(UBB extended edit there)

was thrilling when he came up and performed it as an unannounced cameo during Sharon Jones's set at the Chicago Blues Fest a couple years back

people that actually really like Syl -- instead of just collecting records -- really need to check out his comeback record on Delmark, Back in the Game. About 80% new songs, 2 or 3 old remakes of his stuff in there for good measure, but it's really smoking and the producer, Pete Nathan, got the Hodges brothers to come up from Memphis and play on the album. Everyone knows what I mean when I say "Hodges brothers", right? Fantastic record if you like Syl, but disliked his late-70s/early-80s contempo forays. It was only ever released on CD though. sorry

people that actually really like Syl -- instead of just collecting records

cmon yo, this aint wax1dermy!

hahah. new board description please

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/pixlguy.gif

i'm loving the record player at the moment. on the one hand, i love getting music so inexpensively that i can sample a bunch of stuff (e.g., emusic). on the other hand, paying a bit more for my music (e.g., vinyl) makes the music feel more valuable and precious.

crazy, i suppose.

Best of both worlds, Daniel: Cheap-Ass Records That Are Worth A Dollar Or Three Of Your Time

very cool. thanks, tim.

yeah, plenty of each of those values represented around here!

after a night of major awesomeness (featuring alastair galbraith and richard youngs at the local public art gallery; galbraith giving a talk and demonstration on his fire organ followed by a long loop and violin drone piece, followed by short prepared tape and vocal bits, song and guitar pieces, youngs and galbraith performing belsayer time, and youngs starting his set with a cover of the dead c's "sky", then a long walk home through deserted streets with fireworks exploding in the sky) i thought i'd introduce myself: hi, i'm tom and i <3 vinyl.