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Damn that is some weekend

everybody's gotta come out to cali sometime for a records weekend sometime. we do swaps and thrifts and stores and estate sales and stuff. there's so many records here!

I've been meeting some cool diggers around here lately. There's a couple in a small town about twenty minutes from where I live who do stuff with the Numero group guys (who I also just met). This couple were really innaresting. They buy lps, but only to sell them. All they listen to at home is 45s. Dude bought the Pretty 45 "Mustache in Your Face" out of a car trunk in Kansas City, it's a new Numero relase.

nice!

Dead Moon - Strange Pray Tell
Dead Moon - Stranded In The Mystery Zone
Meat Puppets - 1st (super old school SST pressing w/Thermidor label)
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (almost done filling in the back catalog)
Jessika Kenney/Eyvind Kang - The Face Of The Earth
Esplendor Geometrico - Comisario De La Luz/Blanco De Fuerza
Flying Saucer Attack - Outdoor Miner
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Funeral Pudding EP
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (Glass Fish reissue w/beautiful alternate cover that I love)
Alvarius B/Dylan Nyoukis split LP
V/A - Fanajana LP (Madagascar field recordings on Mississippi)
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Sleep (Fragment), Cover The Windows And The Walls
Dadamah - Violet Stains Red
The Three Johns - Some History
Airway - Beyond The Pink 7"/CD
Le Forte Four etc - Boris The Spider 7"/CD
Doo-Dooettes - Think Space 7"/CD

V/A - Experiments in Destiny (Bomp! Comp)
Shoes - Present Tense

Wow, unreleased Dadamah! I hadn't heard about that record.

My quarter spot went up to 50¢, so appalled.
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Magnetic South

Oh yeah, also got one of these:
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It's a book which includes a cardboard flap with a steel needle taped to it and a flexidisk that you spin with your finger.

Bought The Holydrug Couple's "Noctuary" (Sacred Bones) at their show last night at Death By Audio. Chilean psych-rock, worth seeing tonight at Mercury Lounge (with Follakzoid and La Big Vic) if you're into that kinda thing.

got a copy of nancy & lee for a buck at goodwill today. which is nice. i didn't have a copy. had one years ago, but it went somewhere. it's a kinda scuffy copy too, so i will hold on to it and not sell it

sick

dealz while annie got a shiatsu massage:

marcus allen -- petals $1
linda tillery LP $1
jimi -- are you experienced? (VG OG US for $3 but i dont have one so whatever)
black sabbath -- s/t (OG US for $5!)
first two commander cody & LPA records for a buck each
live/dead 2LP w green labels for $2
rosko/james spaulding/ron carter -- my lai LP ($17 but still a pretty good deal!)

i bought like 300 records this weekend maybe?
highlights include
sun ra 'night of the purple moon' (o.g. saturn, water damaged sleeve, $20!)
bukka white 'mississippi blues' (o.g. takoma, from the guy at the antiques market who prices 'with the book' so it was $20 but w/e i am happy with that.)
one-sided bill orcutt 12"
soft machine 7 $1
generic flipper w/ radio station writing on jacket, $4
huge stack of nonesuch explorer series titles really cheap

here is what i think i'm gonna keep for myself from my haul this weekend --
paul parrish - the forest of my mind
martin carthy w/ dave swarbrick
ISB - wee tam (didn't have this one.)
gato barbieri & don cherry on inner city
bill orcutt - way down south
barefoot jerry - watchin' tv
elyse s/t
rockin foo
tommy james - crimson & clover (used to have, love this one)
circle - paris concert (braxton/corea/holland/altschul)
pentangle - reflection
redeye - one man's poison
grateful dead - terrapin station (never owned this one)
jack hardy - the cauldron
george chambers & the country gentlemen - special release (private country/rock)
cunha - songs
jack adkins - american sunset (private ssw)
chris smither - it ain't easy
archie shepp - tree for a quarter, one for a dime
sandy courville & dennis mcgee - la vieille musique acadienne
bukka white - MS blues

Bought The Holydrug Couple's "Noctuary" (Sacred Bones) at their show last night at Death By Audio. Chilean psych-rock, worth seeing tonight at Mercury Lounge (with Follakzoid and La Big Vic) if you're into that kinda thing.

Haha I learned yesterday that C00per Cr4in played synth in Follakzoid at the Mercury Lounge show. He did sound at their gig with Psychic Ills at the Empty Bottle in Chicago and hit it off with them. Their synth dude had to get back home, so they asked Coop if he could help out. They flew him out just for the one show. He said it went really well, though. I'm sure a collaboration is on the horizon at some point.

Digging Follakzoid and HolyDrug Couple fwiw.

ian, nice find on that chris smither. it's a surprisingly great album for being mostly covers in the mid-80s, and it's also super tough to find in the wild. one of the few legitimately good records on adelphi. do you dig that rockin foo, though? i wanted to but the vox rub me the wrong way.

There are plenty of good records on Adelphi! Well, at least all the Suni McGrath records, and tbe Gerry Goffin double, and Patrick Sky's dirty record. and I like the Sam Firk too.
Rockin' Foo is okay, for a buck I can't go wrong. Also, no one wants to buy that record so I may as well hold on to it.

do you fuck w. Jack Hardy, Moe?
Even his eighties records are pretty good I think. Some people peg him as working in the Leonard Cohen style, and I guess he does fall in that school of songwriting about characters/places. Hell of a voice imo, and a great songwriter.

re: adelphi, yeah, fair enough... i guess my problem is that i only ever see the endless garbage hippie string band dreck.

re: hardy, i have only ever seen that first one talked about by klausman, i think. or maybe you? i got the impression that copies turned up in NYC fairly regularly but i've definitely never seen one on the west coast. it sure looks up my alley. will happily trade you for your next double of any of his.

yeah, they're definitely NYC records. i was surprised to find 'the cauldron' in RI. think you'd dig 'em. will keep my eyes open.

Digging Follakzoid and HolyDrug Couple fwiw.

I like Follakzoid less ... they sound like other stuff I like but it's kinda "basic krautrock 101" imo. Still was glad I saw em.

really couldnt hang w follakzoid or holydrug couple for their first records. they sort of put me off ordering sacred bonez stuff for a while tbh...

Ha that's funny cuz they are getting me interested in Sacred Bones again. I find the Men very boring.

you and me both

yeah I just posted on the Men thread today haha. new one is not so good. Leave Home was solid though

i got some dope 78s from my friend john today, including a narmour & smith record that came from Crumb's collection.

Got a nice og copy of The Four Tops on Top ('66 - has "Shake Me, Wake Me" on it) for a dollar at the swap meet yesterday. Another great sounding Motown mastering job!

someone brought a copy of the mountain bus album into the store. some radio station graffiti on the cover, but the vinyl is clean. gonna keep it. also a super-clean WLP copy of the eclection album on elektra. sounds amazing. also a copy of the Just Vandy album. cover ain't so hot cuzza the radio thing - stickers/writing - but the vinyl is really clean. i might keep it. nice record, but not like a mind-blowing record. femme folk from 1972.

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same label that put out the mason album:

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i've wanted that mountain bus for years but can never bring myself to spend money on it.
i'd be happy with an affordable copy of the akarma reissue at this point.

paying a lot of money for old akarma vinyl is just ridikkilus to me.

yeah, it's dumb. but if i found a copy for $20 i wold buy it, i guess. especially cuz the mountain bus one comes with a bonus LP.

20 bucks is fine. when i see them for 50 or higher though!

byron has an old boot of that spirit of the lotus juice album or whatever that your friend just put out and its like 50 bucks. and i wanna tell them that there is a new reissue but i always forget to.

lol. i had that bootleg, sold it before the reissue came out, and even then i think i only got like 25 bucks or so.

scored the Rita Lee S/T yesterday for 4 bucks, that made my weekend

:D

the limpest of ssw collections just rolled through my local goodwill. i had to stop myself from buying 2nd and 3rd copies of unsellable stuff i love (jonathan edwards, jd souther, etc.). this dude was a total kindred spirit.

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i love the west records. in a weird way.
is that david wiffen at the bottom?

yeah, it's a double. you need?

i've had the west a couple times and always sold it but i've been so into the ron cornelius record the last couple of years that i figured i had to give it another shot when the price was right. still looking for the 2nd west record to give it another go 'round as well...

nope, i've got the wiffen. love it.

i think the 2nd one is the west record with a version of "july you're a woman"? love their version of that great song

i love the west albums. i was just playing that record on top the other night. the dude on a&m. that's good stuff! would be totally happy to find that stuff at the thrift store.

i was listening to judy mayhan the other night too! i want that libby titus album. or i want to hear it anyway.

god i can totally see that blonde beardo sitting at the table on the cover of that one album. even though you can't see him in the picture. forget his name. not a great album.

i like casey kelly too. i like a lot of this stuff.

haha. yeah, that one's a bit of a stinker. roger troy. it looked like it had swamp-funk potential with a penn/oldham track but it's pretty doo doo mid-70s soft soul and stinky r&b.

judy mayhan is pretty interesting. i guess she has a bunch of records but i don't think i've seen any of them before. rad and unexpected cover of one of my fave tracks on the first little feat lp.