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i think my copy of 'you gotta quit kickin my dog around' is on columbia.. what a great record.

I only knew it cause I heard Michael Hurley play it once! it's not the kind of tune you forget.

<3 chris darrow <3

bought a ton of 45s today. couple thousand? maybe 3000. picking up the rest next week. sight unseen! i love 45s. and i don't even collect 45s. but i really love them. i love looking at them. i love playing them. i love selling them. guy i have bought from in the past is moving to florida and needs to get rid of stuff. i called his brother last year - i've bought stuff from his brother before too. he's a nice guy. they both are. they used to be pro party deejays in the late 70's and on into the 80's. - and said hey got anymore records and how about your brother? good timing. i put the bug in his ear. glad he didn't call any of the sharks where they live. they are sharky around there. anyway, he ended up with some radio station's 45s - a goodly amount anyway - and i love them. not all of them. but i love enough of them. almost all 60's and early 70's. rock and soul and pop. all over the place. i have a serious love for 60's rca promo 45s. and warner brothers too. oh heck i love them all. white label sugar magnolia is a beautiful thing.

also got a couple of dozen 50's R&B 78s in various conditions along with the 45s. and some decent LPs. and apparently the mother of all elvis LP collections. we'll see when i get over there next week. and 45 racks! he has a ton of sports stuff that i have no interest in. like, a million baseball cards and all that.

finally snagged a copy of Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda.

From the liner notes in the gatefold: "Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandadaji's love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore."

will do alice!

love that record so so much, was it one of those nice "limited" reissues?

went to a not very exciting record show in connecticut with maria and the kids. we were gonna sell there but then decided not to. we would have done well cuz it wasn't very exciting and my shiny goods would have stood out from the dusty boxes of unpriced stuff that a lot of lazy dudes had. i got tons of cheap stuff for the store though. and lots of nice - mostly 70's jazz - stuff for me. but most importantly i got a PRISTINE unplayed promo copy of Bongo Rock - still in the shrink! - for 40 bucks. nobody else was gonna buy it. i don't think. i couldn't resist. nicest copy ever. gonna keep it. most i've spent on a record in a while. but some things are essential to own. i bought a lot of the jazz i'm keeping from the same guy. he had great prices and nice stuff. my friend andy was there and i got some good stuff from him too. most stuff there though was either trashy trash or priced dumbly. or not worth getting at any price. but i can always manage to find cool stuff. i would have cleaned up there though. couldn't help thinking that the whole time i was there...

Went through probably 500 records in the back of a thrift in DC on Saturday am, had six for the guy who got cute on pricing (wanted $2 each, despite the fact I had a bunch of singles) -- coughed up $2 per for one 12" (Leroy Smart, 100% of Love) and one LP (West Indian Record Mart presents Reggae Explosion) and left the rest on the counter.

DC is rough for thrifts, I hear crazy stories from estate sales but don't have a car.

okay, other stuff i got yesterday since i have a rare quiet moment on a monday morning:

harvey mandel - shangrenade (janus - 1973)

michael white's magic music company - go with the flow (abc - 1974) (awesome!)

eddie harris - come on down! (atlantic - 1970)

bobby hutcherson - waiting (blue note)

jimmy castor - C (long distance) (this is great and i can't believe i'd never heard/seen it.)

chuck hammer - guitarchitecture (guitarchitect enterprises - 1981) (this is so cool and demented. special thanks to lou reed and david bowie. "not made in England")

jayson lindh - cous cous (metronome)

southern contemporary rock assembly - the ship album (atlantic - 1972)

lani hall - sun down lady (a&m - 1972)

reverberi - stairway to heaven (ua - 1977) (reverberi version of stairway as good as jimmy castor's on jimmy's C album.)

the rainbow band - s/t (elektra - 1971)

nucleus - snakehips etcetera (sire - 1975)

jimmy ponder - illusions (abc - 1976)

gene ammons - velvet soul (prestige - 1964)

hampton hawes - a little copenhagen night music (arista freedom - 1977)

the two sides of hampton hawes (jas - 1977)

bobby hutcherson - the view from the inside (blue note - 1977)

jimmy james and the vagabonds - you don't stand a chance if you can't dance (pye - 1975)

kool and the gang - open sesame (de-lite - 1976)

alphonse mouzon - by all means (pausa - 1981)

gene ammons - angel eyes (prestige - 1965)

eddie harris - how can you live like that? (atlantic - 1977)

kenny burrell - sky street (fantasy - 1976)

eddie harris - bad luck is all i have (atlantic - 1975)

tom scott - rural still life (impulse)

marek grechuta & anawa - korowod (muza) (trippy polish stuff!)

michael longo - 900 shares of the blues (groove merchant - 1974)

valdy - s/t (a&m - 1972)

there's a track on the chuck hammer album called "Guitolocaust" where he plays 9 guitars. that's all you really need to know. amazing homemade blast of a record.

i think he wrote his own wiki but its very informative. i've already switched over from frippertronics to guitarchitecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hammer#Guitarchitecture_recordings

so many 45s! wowee. i'm in 45 hog heaven. and great LPs too. love hearing cool funk singles for the first time. even a big star promo. and a CAN picture sleeve. so much cool 60's stuff i've never heard. will have to make a couple of mix tapes.

went to Other Music for the first time in a long time and picked up some indie-ish stuff, mostly went to get the Kurt Vile record that came out yesterday but couldn't stop myself from leaving with a stack

Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze (I got the regular version on black vinyl ... there's a deluxe on blue vinyl with a different cover and some Espo stickers that you're supposed to use to customize the cover ... I decided that wasn't worth six bucks to me)

Wild Yaks - Million Years (really into these guys' drunk singalong vibe)

Merchandise - Children of Desire (guess they re-pressed this? I've had the free MP3s off their site for a while but the vinyl was sold out)

Maxmillion Dunbar - House of Woo (on RVNG, from half of Beautiful Swimmers, fresh sounding retro-house-music)

Moon Duo - Mazes (was in the used bin, probably my fave Wooden Shjips related record)

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (already been listening to this a shitload on spotify)

Their used bin is growing considerably, which is good since I struggle with the idea of a record store sustaining itself merely with new product alone. Even if it is as popular as Other Music is.

i woulda given you a copy of that kurt vile album, dave! next time you want something on matador JUST ASK. especially since you are being gracious enough to host us for game of thrones.

last time i went to other music i got a sealed folk record out of the discount bin, i think i paid $5, and sold it for $40. i love their discount bin. it's always full of weird folk-rock obscurities. thanks klausman.

Oh yeah I got that new Wedding Present record for $5 from there, too.

i woulda given you a copy of that kurt vile album, dave! next time you want something on matador JUST ASK.

thanks man! didn't even occur to me. if you've got extra copies of Smoke Ring for My Halo or Constant Hitmaker lying around, hook me up ;)

i think i have a spare of smoke ring i can bring you! i'll have to double check that i did not already sell it.

or i can just ask helen to get one from work

Their used bin is growing considerably

yeah seems like they've rearranged things a bit. I can't remember what used to be on the left side where all those used records (and new electronic records) are now. more CDs I guess.

they were playing that new Charles Bradley record on Daptone in the store and that was sounding good too. think they only had the CD on it though. or else I looked in the wrong place.

Yes it used to be all CDs there! Smart of them to adapt. Much better margins than $2-$3 per $16.99 CD sale.

hanging and playing 45s with terry adams at the store made my day today. his knowledge is vast.

weekend trip to the Oregon coast and thrift store hunting yielded ten mint classical LPs (mostly on the Angel label), three Egyptian 45's (not so great), and seven mint condition Brazilian tropicalia 45s from 1970 (Veloso, Jobim, others I don't know) which are obv awesome. today I scored a super nice copy of ALice Coltrane's A Monastic Trio, life is good.

stuff I got at my friend mike's store on marthas vineyard:

burton greene - presenting burton greene (columbia) (excited to find this. great copy.)

blues magoos - gulf coast bound (abc) (also never see this one.)

fraser & debolt - with pleasure (columbia)

jay bolotin - s/t (cur) (great stuff!)

bert jansch - rosemary lane (reprise)

eddie lang & lonnie johnson - blue guitars (parlophone) (60's u.k. comp of 20's stuff. sounds amazing.)

produkt der deutsch-amerikanischen freundschaft (warning records) (never seen this one.)

iron butterfly - scorching beauty (mca)

cochise - swallow tales (ua)

possum river - s/t (ovation)

lazarus - s/t (bearsville) (don't think i've ever seen it. nice record.)

redeye - one man's poison (pentagram) ( I love redeye.)

barefoot jerry - watchin' tv (monument) (thought I had all the records, but it turns out I didn't.)

uri geller - s/t (Columbia)

king pleasure sings/annie ross sings (prestige)

force of nature - s/t (tommy records)

heartsfield - the wonder of it all (mercury)

soul flutes - trust in me (a&m) (would pay double for a sealed copy, but this one sounds nice.)

eleventh hour - ollywood hot (20th century)

got stuff for the store too. including 2 big boxes of latin records that I had priced for him about 5 years ago that were still there intact and seemingly untouched! not a big market for latin records on MVI I guess. mike gave me a great deal on both boxes. I can sell that stuff. eventually.

ive been re-interested in that burton greene after starting in on this new byard lancaster kick, scott -- lemme know how that one is!

jay bolotin is sick. nice find.

i came across a pretty sweet batch of funk/soul/jazz today at the marysville flea (near my wife's hometown, i go at least 10 times a year and buy records maybe a quarter of the time. shit, there's actually records there maybe only 50% of the time.). if i hadn't bought these today - and suggested to the seller to get the rest of their LPs out of the sun - they would have been warped by the first sunday in may.

this was the sonic highlight:

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and this was the monetary highlight:

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also got:
the general - life in the big city 12"
infinity - spread the word (doo doo oakland modern gospel that still fetches some bank, thankfully)
buncha major label boogie stuff i can't remember now

oh, yeah, also:
bobby hutcherson - san francisco
marion brown - duets
some sealed eddie palmieri lp

azar lawrence - summer solstice

the fact that i found all these in marysville is still kinda blowing my mind.

i am having kind of a similar thing happen. people ask me all the time why i still go to thrift stores, and if i ever find things etc, and the answer is for like days like today --

8 conlon nancarrow LPs, two david hykes, george crumb, elliott carter, some private new age piano things that rule, sealed CRI titles, two steve roach records, henry cowell shit, sealed windham hill stupidness. love it!

yes, EIGHT conlon nancarrow LPs. two complete sets of the complete recorded works. one for me, one for the internet/record fair.

steve roach! shit, i would love to find some steve roach vinyl. the shit is r@re l@@k even at actual record stores ime.

yeah, they were not super popular records... one of the ones i got sells for occasionally stupid money on discog, and most of this stuff is sealed.

very cool! my in-town thrift stores usually suck, I need to get out to the coast to really score (like my post above).

this place usually has NOTHING good for records. and usually less than 100 things total.
they also had a bunch of hebrew records today, but i don't know if i can just wander into that shit blind.

you never know.

that's my motto.

wlp w/ both stickers, yo. kinda disproportionately psyched about this one. sadly has some repeating marks on it, otherwise it would be my copy for life (as it is i guess i'll just have to keep two copies of this thing).

http://imageshack.us/a/img801/2714/photo36b.jpg

I like that sticker, it's a thought bubble.

bought half a dozen Kate wolf LPs for a buck apiece, all minty fresh.
Also:
John fahey - after the ball
Calexico - spiritoso
Julie Driscoll/Brian auger - jools (ridiculously good shape, like it arrived out of a time machine. Best condition record from that time I've ever seen. )

kate wolf's song "you're not standing like you used to" is probably the SADDEEST SONG EVER

fyi: this is a serious album. so good. never seen it before last Saturday.

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Calexico's Spiritoso is fantastic! I don't know whether people here generally perceive them to be kind of adult-contemporary as a band at this point or not but I love them and am very excited about this RSD release.

hey guys got some more records

12"
Planetary Assault Systems - Coad Warrior 1
Rockers Revenge Featuring Donnie Calvin - Walking On Sunshine '82

LPs

American Flyer - s/t
J. D. Jarvis - J. D. Jarvis Sings The Hyden Miners Tragedy and his most requested songs
john & suzanne - Small Treasures
The Christ Ebons Contemporary Singers - Relax in Jesus
New Edition - Heart Break
Der Verkehrsamtes Stuttgart - Das alles ist Stuttgart...
Keaggy - Private Collection Volume 1 : Underground
Min. Harvey Lewis, Jr. and the Star of Bethlehem Youth Choir - By the Time I Get to Heaven
J. D. Sumar - The Heart Of A Man
Tones on Tail - The Album Pop
Hyman Bookbinder - Image Of Freedom: 20 Years of the CIO [narrated by Melvyn Douglas, feat. Joe Glazer]
The Department Of The Treasury - "Everyone's Got A Right To Dream (Savings Bonds Musical Theme)"
The Stone Canyon Rock Group - Mac Arthur Park

i like the lazarus record. i don't think i ever bought it though. i came close. very sleepy iirc.

Got nice copies today of Randy Newman's 12 Songs ($5), Jefferson Airplane's Bark ($8), and the Byrds reunion album with the two Neil Young covers ($6). Which confirms something I've always maintained: put away your guide, sell LPs in good shape for a reasonable price, and I'll be buying.

had fun with my friends at the flywheel record fair in Easthampton today. saw lots of people i like. i like being on the front steps of the building. outside. next to my pal andy. brought my boombox and played lots of 80's metal and miami bass and indian classical tapes. so glad i did that. nobody ever brings tunes. traded with people which was nice and which meant i didn't spend a ton of cash. spent about 150 bucks. after i paid for my table i made a nice profit. i sold records to 33 people which is almost the speed of a long-playing record. here's some stuff i brought home. keeping a bunch of it. got some stuff for the store, but mostly i shopped for me today.

jimmy ponder - all things beautiful (t.k. - 1978)

buckwheat - hot tracks (london - 1973) (great southern rock!)

stardrive with robert mason - intergalactic trot (elektra - 1973) (excited to get this!)

instant funk - witch doctor (salsoul - 1979)

the new birth - comin' from all ends (rca - 1974)

liquid gold - s/t (parachute - 1979)

colosseum II - wardance (mca - 1977)

chicken shack - unlucky boy (london - 1973)

bert jansch - lucky thirteen (vanguard - 1966)

lazarus - s/t (amazon) (the OTHER lazarus. not the Xian band on bearsville whose album i got last week.)

maneige - les porches (harvest - 1975)

dada - s/t (atco - 1970)

bullseye - on target (cbs - 1979)

south bronx - the big throwdown 12 inch (brunswick - 1981)

santana - lotus (cbs - 1975) (sold my copy 4 years ago and I've regretted it ever since. thanks, willie lane!)

baby washington & don gardner - lay a little lovin' on me (master five - 1973)

hamiett bluiett - the clarinet family (black saint - 1987)

walt dickerson - peace (inner city - 1976)

rufus thomas - crown prince of dance (stax - 1973)

bautista - s/t (abc - 1977)

creative source - migration (sussex - 1974)

wah wah watson - elementary (columbia - 1976)

grant green - the main attraction (kudu - 1976)

larry carlton - singing/playing (blue thumb - 1973) (love love love!!)

frank wess - flute of the loom (enterprise - 1973)

black swan quartet - s/t (minor music - 1986)

dewey redman - the ear of the behearer (impulse - 1973)

mick greenwood - ...to friends (mca - 1973)

henry schifter - out of nowhere (Barclay - 1971) (love!)

peter bardens - the answer (transatlantic) (more love!!)

hank mobley - soul station (blue note)

chris mcGregor's brotherhood of breath - s/t (rca/neon - 1971)

krystall klear and the buells - ready for the 90's (k2b2 - 1980)

acting trio - s/t (actuel)

ivan "boogaloo joe" jones - black whip (prestige - 1973)

paul motian - tribute (ecm - 1975)

open sky - s/t (p.m. - 1973)

peter sprague - the path (xanadu - 1980)

thirty days out - miracle lick (reprise - 1972)

marian segal with silver jade - fly on strangewings (djm)

i am SO in love with the larry carlton album. its awesome. his singing even reminds me a little of my beloved michael franks. if you ever see it, buy it! on this one larry channels herb ellis and eddie hazel. so cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTb_KO5oSBQ

chris mcGregor's brotherhood of breath - s/t (rca/neon - 1971)

YESSSS

Willie Alexander - Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band
v/a - Non-Stop Merengue
Boyfriends - Dahil Mahal Kita
Bird Songs with Narration by James Baird - The Edge Of The Meadow
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
The Litter - Emerge
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Month (w/ Art Roberts, WCFL sticker)
Laura Nyro - The First Songs
Clint Eastwood - Sings Cowboy Favorites
Environments - disc 3: Be-In b/w Dusk At New Hope, Penn
Environments - disc 7: Intonation b/w Summer Cornfield

and I even got a CD: v/a - Sound Boy Killing: More Reggae Dance Hall Killers