ILV clubhouse

the problem is to run that gauntlet again
remove problem
remove gauntlet
remove run
remove is to
remove the
remove that
leave this
make this whatever

i am sitting in a clubhouse

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PLXUl2AlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

We've been separated
baby
far too long

very titanically

xp welllllllll shit. look who wants to start collecting records again.

i never collected records
i just listen to records

YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN

BOYS ARE BOYS AND GIRLS ARE CHOICE

this is exactly the traffic i was hoping for.

I dig Mirror Traffic

brb

i killed the thread with my indie rock BS

Saw a trailer for upcoming on TLC My Crazy Obsession, makes me look around at the piles and shelves of record with trepidation
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/my-crazy-obsession-my-crazy-obsession-sneak-peek.html

i never collected records
i just listen to records
words of wisdom

maria got a new record in the mail by a dude from hella and a dude from quasi. there's your indie rock for you. i was nice enough to put it on just now instead of my dumb thud rock.

well it would be THE dude from quasi. there were only two people in quasi. also i know he was in a band with elliot smith, right? see, i know something!

quasi-knowledge

that would be Sam Coomes from The Donner Party!

hey I brought some chips and salsa for the clubhouse

do you guys mind if i smoke

i'm making notes on disco 12"s. breakdown + or breakdown -. vocals: diva, male, female, falsetto, group, effeminate. female sex voice. Breakup, seduction, love, call to dance, carpe diem.

clavinet

anyone want some grapefruit

I've got whiskey and Tecate

still annoyed i forgot to listen to Leapday Night on Leapday night. and i've moved my Smog lps up to 'C' to be with the Bill Callahan records.

Ha I saw Bill Callahan play at small bar in Beaumont,TX. It was my second time seeing him, first time being in Austin in 97. I saw him standing over by the bar and saw my chance to talk to him. But when I tapped him on the shoulder I was suddenly star struck and blurted out, "You're Smog" and he said "Well I'm just Bill Callahan now, but yeah" I mumbled about seeing him at the Electric Lounge years ago and how I bought his first tapes through mail order in high school. He was a nice guy, but I totally clammed up for some reason. He ended the conversation by saying hope you enjoy the show, maybe get rid of those old tapes.

he seems like one of those 'disown-the-old-stuff' types. how was the show? i saw him when Apocalypse came out and he was fantastic, really intense. a good friend of mine worked w/ him recording in the old days, and has horror stories about working w/ him back then.

The first time I saw him, he kept his back towards the stage most of the night, but he music was really good! He played 'Stick In The Mud and Chosen One, along with Stranger. His voice was different then, and imo better. The beaumont show was good, but different, he played songs I didn't know, but they were good. He faced the crowd, but I was left with this weird feeling that smog had grown up now. His shyness and anger at the first show was really impressive and heartening, the recent show, he felt weathered and happier.

i'm drinking a gin & tonic and making a reggae mix on tape. maria is filling in for the reggae guy tomorrow on the umass radio station. she is lazy like a reggae guy. but i don't mind. i'm having fun.

Scott I finally have a nice copy of Vance Or Towers, almost completing the list you made on another thread. I only have Trefethen and Boxer to find. Never got around to telling how much fun I've had searching for the records on that list, Howard Werth & the Moonbeams was really nice, all the Danny o"Keefe and Tim Hollier. Oh and Mick Greenwood's Living Game really impressed me. So many great records I've found because of it. I would love a second list of similar odd and ends.

i don't even know what list that is!

seems like a good list though. oh wait i would say that...

i never ever see that vance or towers album. ever! which seems weird that i wouldn't come across one other copy of it. but i haven't. probably on ebay for a buck.

It's taken me almost a year to find it. I lost twice bidding on it. Found a wreaked copy that cleaned up nice, but the cover was laughable. But this week some guy posted a nice clean copy with a buy it now for fourteen dollars, I bought it 5 minutes after it was posted! The were the band on Carrie!!

annie and i got cheesesteaks, did laundry, watched the top chef finale, and now are watching the office.

i found one of those craig leon NOMMOS bootlegs at aquarius -- anyone need it?

i think we're moving to oakland.

overslept a little bit, getting ready to go to work, drinking day old coffee over ice.
think we're going to see RANGDA & Steve Gunn tonight at Zebulon even though it'll probably be super packed to the point of being uncomfortable.
got a sun ra bio yesterday for a couple bucks--also got the Calt Skip James bio early this week at a thrift store.

mornin club

over at that unfriendly board i learned of some Bill Fay reissues, including my favorite, From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock. keep meaning to check out Rangda, i fear it's too macho for me.

rangda is so good.

hey

Looks like rain here, good house cleaning day

unfriendly board?

the unfriendly board is waxidermy

hangover
coffee
eventually i will get Lower Dens record

sonny bottari was a let down, middling soulful rock, maybe 1 great song. bummed out

really really pretty in oakland today. annie's getting her bangs trimmed after work in SF, so imma go plunder amoeba, then meet her and some friends for dinner and a drink.

i started thinking yesterday about doing this records road-trip sometime this year. the plan is to rent a car/van, set out from SF/oakland, and head up to portland, stopping EVERYWHERE records might be for sale, in a crazed attempt to have tons of fun and find some finds. annie is in as long as we stop to eat. every night id do a little online sale, hawking the best of the day's finds, and mail them from the road. id stay out for a week total, maybe, crashing with friends along the way, and maybe popping for a hotel room once or twice if the finding is good.

doesnt this sound really fun?

that's basically been my life, it's so much fun. I haven't made any west coast trips, wish I could. I might be stuck working in Texas for the next few years which bums me out a little, I prefer being far away. The states up north are so easy to drive across, so on saturday and sunday, we could drive across Indiana into Kentucky or Illinois. Maryland was great too, cause in a few hours you could be in so many different states. In texas it takes hours to get out of Texas!

And so many other people are digging for records in Texas, last weekend we made a trip looking for records and so man places we stopped at, Antique stores or flea markets, we kept hearing the owners say, Ya know, just today someone else came by looking for records.

man, it sounds so fun. being in the bay area means you can kind of do this while stationary, since there's so many people w lots of records around here. but there's something to the romance of the road.

definitely!

i hope you kicked him in the shins.

I'm waiting for the right moment, maybe the third strike, then I will remind him.

haaaaa

so what's up with shrink wrap

always remove?

I have always kept it on mostly but now I've found a couple of records in my shelves where it may have pulled on the outer sleeve and bent it ... or made the edges wavy ... thinking bout going through and removing it all ...

I always keep it on, unless there's any discoloration starting underneath the shrink, like mold.

I always remove it, conventional wisdom as I heard it was that it can warp the records/jackets.

Isn't that more dependent on how you store your records than the shrink?

ive had situations happen where shrink did and did not contribute to a record or sleeve that did or did not warp, and storage has and has not been the actual cause of different instances.

in short, no general rule. i generally think of shrink as a positive thing, but i think of flat non-moldy jacket and record as much much better things.

I consider finding a record still in shrink an upgrade. I'm usually willing to pay a little more for a record in shrink. I've also watch two copies of the same record end on ebay and the one in shrink sold for considerably more, even though the one without it was in excellent condition.

huh. so no consensus. I always considered it extra protection and kept it on but I just found a couple in my shelves that it seems like this happened to ---> conventional wisdom as I heard it was that it can warp the records/jackets

I guess I will keep on keepin' it on unless I see any evidence of warping on that specific record

actually I don't think I've ever seen warping on a record from the shrinkwrap. just on some jackets.

if its too tight around the cover it can cause damage over time.

sometimes i take shrink off in the store just so people can see the covers better. like, nice covers and the shrink is kinda wrinkly or torn.

also, yeah, if a record has been subjected to heat the shrink can obviously damage it. other than that, its fine to leave it on.

note: do not store a boxes of shrinkwrapped lps in your attic for over 15 years. :\

i mean "do not store boxes"

Home turf

Penn Jillette makes stop in Greenfield and is glad he did

By DAVID RAINVILLE Recorder Staff

GREENFIELD — “When I came back to town, I didn’t realize Greenfield had turned into Brooklyn.”

Penn Jillette, internationally known comedian, author and illusionist, returned to his hometown of Greenfield Thursday night, and spent Friday walking around town before speaking at Greenfield Community College.

“When I last left Greenfield, it was a depressing, dead factory town,” he admitted.

He was impressed by all the changes that happened while he was away.

“Now, the old Clark’s Sport Shop has turned into a great performance place; it’s a club I’d love to play,” said Jillette. He was referring to the Arts Block, at Main Street and Court Square. If he had more time in town, he said, he’d try to take in a show.

In 2007, Jillette went on national television, saying that a Walmart was just the thing Greenfield needed. The town was featured on former Showtime series, “Penn & Teller: Bulls**t!” in an episode that focused on small towns’ resistance to the retail giant. On the show, Jillette lampooned Al Norman, nicknamed the “sprawlbuster” for his anti-Walmart agenda.

Jillette has since changed his mind.

“The way Greenfield looks now, I think we might have been on the wrong side of that one,” he admitted.

He couldn’t believe that the sleepy town he’d left now sports two Thai restaurants, a revamped Bank Row block and a used record store.

Jillette said he spent $200 at John Doe Jr. Used Records, buying new copies of old favorites, from stand-up comedy albums to old “dirty party records” from the 1960s.

His appearance at GCC was one of a handful of speaking engagements to promote his 2012 book, “Every Day is an Atheist Holiday,” which was recently released in paperback.

Jillette was also taken aback with the venue. Since he’d last seen the community college, it’s undergone major renovations.

“It used to be a depressing idea of a community college, a place I wouldn’t go. Now, I’m sitting here and enjoying it.”

Jillette sat in a cushy chair in front of the southern-facing, allglass wall of the upstairs library, watching the sun go down on what he said must have been “the most beautiful day of 2013.”

“Sitting here, I can’t imaging why I ever wanted to leave Greenfield.”

It was a matter of opportunity, or lack thereof, that made Jillette strap a few belongings to his back and set out on the open road, to make a go of show business. He said he knew he wasn’t going to get his big break in Franklin County.

this is a really boring question: what glue is the best glue to reglue your unglued record sleeves with? or should you not do such a thing?

obviously i'm only asking this cos i've run out of sellotape

I've always used the glue sticks that you rub on. Holds fine and leaves no trace.

I've used Aleene's Tacky Glue. I think it can be found at any craft/art supplies store. Worked great, even on a fateful sleeve.

So was Penn cool?

is anyone else surprised/confused/delighted that light in the attic is reissuing the dead's "one from the vault"?

yah, a little.

I've always been a 2 from the Vault kinda guy but the buoyancy of this 8/14/75 gig is grooving me as the work day draws to a close.

psyched to be seeing Mary Lattimore (thx pete!) tonight!

ohh cool! i have yet to see her perform. tell us how it is!

$5! at MIT!

she was really good. there were 50 people there, tops, in a theatre w/ a great sound system and acoustics. arty film backdrop.

if i was to offer advice to Mary, i'd say, "Mary, the harp is an amazing instrument, and you're a great harpist. Why must you feed it through that electronic gadget so so so so much? Let us revel more in the fantastic, unprocessed harp splendor. It is wonderful."

ian my man, if I sent you an MP3 rip of my copy of Homegas, could u listen and tell me if it is suffering from an off-center spindle hole? The needle sure sways from side to side a LOT when it is playing, but the rec is so weird sounding and unfamiliar to me that I can't tell if it's "supposed" to sound the way it does.

i can try, sleeve!

I saw pictures of this guy's collection on YouTube - including his NICE copy of SKINS by Les Baxter. Wondering if I should kill myself. He has LPs like "British Novelists Somethingorother".

I should off myself knowing I can't make a cup of tea, sit by the window at night and listen to this stuff.

http://youtu.be/4NkdE3Os_3E

At least -I- have a ProJect III to listen to my peed-on (but still priceless) copy of The Happy Moog on.

I was thinking about the records of JacobSanders last week when I was at this restaurant
http://i.imgur.com/HFPLzz7.jpg

That looks like an awesome place to eat!

I just sold a rare boogie 12" to a guy in France with no problems! So far good communication and speedy payment, insured and shipped how he wanted.

if scott isn't gonna post on ILX any more, do we need a new ILV mod?

ILX Milk Carton

Scott really has left ilx??

see link but apparently the answer is yes

(pours one out, sheds tear)

happy new year ILV!

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/5957/cover_3701510102010.jpg

Happy New Year ILV! My vinyl new years resolution is to buy more clean exotica records.

hey neighbros!
i'm gonna keep buying 78s this year, but be more selective about what i buy. i have some stuff i want to get rid of too. gotta clean out the 78s. get rid of the junk.
records are cool. i'm playing records at a bar tmrw with my buddy keegan, so that will be fun.

Hey Guys, I actually had a cool ad on Facebook today, it was for this record! http://www.etsy.com/listing/167203609/travis-to-be-as-free-as-you-1975-vinyl?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_promoted&geo=global&utm_campaign=fbx_rr_vintage
I've never bought records from Esty but this record is well worth $18 for sure, nice soft rock rural harmonies with analog synths.

they sell records on Etsy now? wild.

Also what the fuck is www.shopgoodwill.com, when did that start??

anybody want 200,000 45s for $60K?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/5238084526.html

I laughed:

http://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2015/11/03/a-degree-in-record-collecting-could-you-pass-the-qualifying-paper/

never heard of these Bhutanese "record stamps" but they look very cool

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/