used to listen to james brown , led zeppelin, and the jackson five on vinyl.
priceless education…ahem…in sound.
you youngsters don’t remember the era of “cutouts”, when record companies wanted to get rid of inventory they cut out a corner of the sleeve. the labels didn’t make anything off of those and neither did the artist.
ed, you’re making me feel old. my REM “dead letter office” was a cut-out (hell, still is). I had a few others. First time i saw a cut-out - i thought something was wrong with it - but the hippy behind the counter laughed at my youth and said “no, kid, there’s nothing wrong with it”.
A guy opened a record store in my hometown that had a lot of cutouts. Got a sweet copy of I See Good Spirits… on white vinyl. Sadly, the place didn’t stay open for long.
i predict that the smart people (not I ) who kept their vinyl will make a killing on ebay and everywhere else which i’m unfamiliar with, don’t have time for, etc.
the local record store near where i grew up had two of those sound booths, so you could hear the 7" 45 you were buying. and they had playlists from the radio stations.
i never regret my age, so , sorry to make anyone else feel old. who gives a shit.
knowledge is what knowledge is. and you pick it up along the way.
ed for philosopher nobel prize. why not.
quick. somebody call the committee!
i predict that the smart people (not I ) who kept their vinyl will make a killing on ebay and everywhere else which i’m unfamiliar with, don’t have time for, etc.
the local record store near where i grew up had two of those sound booths, so you could hear the 7" 45 you were buying. and they had playlists from the radio stations.
i never regret my age, so , sorry to make anyone else feel old. who gives a shit.
knowledge is what knowledge is. and you pick it up along the way.
ed for philosopher nobel prize. why not.
quick. somebody call the committee!
oh my god i just felt old. I remember when the record stores used to post the billboard top 200 and top singles in the store
dudes, this is history. who gives a shit about how old you are.
think of kojak, man. “who loves ya, baby?”…frantically dialing connelly who’s only the biggest kojak fan on the planet…
the subject here is vinyl. for those of us who’ve been around the block, we can inform.
DUDE.
Both my En Esch album and single are cut-outs.
[laugh]
ahh, i see
my first rockshow was seeing englebert humperdinck at the auditorium theater in chicago–a place which apparently has perfect accoustics. i was 10. it was inspirational, to say the least.
speaking of vinyl, i have a robert fripp flexi-disc from 1978 (?). i wanna say it’s a christmas song.
goddamit, now i have to look through boxes. but it was cool. and red, if i remember correctly.
Anyone who is a vinyl fiend NEEDS to check out the awesome www.discogs.com This site has whatever you want on vinyl…and cd for that matter.
thanks for the info, maggit. i was actually at the studio in new york when fripp’s thing was happening. a piece of frippertronics, i guess.
yup. i’m a geek.and sadly, (hairline heading south) i’m gay.
Yeah, discogs is cool