LouieB

This is true. I have a similar problem....I buy so much I don't get around to listening to it. How much it may be worth in the future is ridiculous. With the exception of older rare releases, the future for the increase in LPs is a very iffy proposition. There are LPs that even 30 years ago were going for alot of money that you can pick up for just a few bucks now. LouieB

Possibly. I have bought all kinds of box sets for way less than I thought they would ever cost because the artist is out of favor. I also have bought a used copy of AGIB in the bin at Lauries for half of what is was originally going for. Someone didn't have the patience to keep flipping it I guess. (Reprising a story I put in here on an earlier thread, but I picked up a used copy of Dylan's most recent new ablum (not the Whitmark Demos) and it still pretty much sounds like crap. Oh the record sounds fine, but the songs....bleh!!) I have the original Impulses (in different pressing some e

Okay...I guess I should say something here. I did go last night with a non-VC and friend and Von is really not in good shape. He is 88 and played a very short set (although his band was great as usual.) The place was hoping but the music really wasn't happening. It is sad really. It is difficult to see your musical heros/friends get old and lose their chops, but more than that it is a reminder of our own mortality and eventual fading of abilities. Ever since Fred Anderson passed (and is still being mentioned by his younger collegues at gigs) a slight pall has fallen over the Chicago ja

See the Tom Waits thread where it was mentioned that some of his old LPs are being sold on red vinyl for $25. What I said there was that those albums are highly sought after and not readily available on the resale market and if they sold them for 10 bucks a pop (which they could do in large amounts without regular black vinyl) they could sell a ton and get plenty of folks interested in buying LPs. But instead they are going for the collector market, not the regular consumer market and missing a great chance to interest more folks in them. They could reopen lots of old catelogues, but the lar

Stupid story then a comment. Most folks don't even know vinyl records are being made. My wife went to a doctor the other day who was working his way alphabetically through his iPod. When she told him I buy vinyl records he responded "with all the pops and scratches" and didn't know that new ones were being made and didn't care. Unless you live in a city and patronize somewhere like Laurie's or Reckless, folks don't even know. Only die hards are buying vinyl records or trading and buying on eBay. I may be wrong (I sort of hope so actually), but after a few years and the intial excitment by

See my reply in the Tom Waits thead. The record companies are again being totally stupid. If you want to create a market you'd better price shit so that people want to buy it (Economics 101...supply and demand curve), rather than price those interested out of the market. It is amazing to me that the limited addition Kicking Television, which supposed was pressed in a limite amount, is still out there waiting on buyers. Maybe the vinyl resurgence we all hear about isn't really all that much of a resurgence in real life. LouieB

I don't think Dennis had quite the year Kanye had. Frankly the Wilco news was by and large not even that much about Wilco (sandwichs, beer, coffee...I guess Wilco IS a mature group.) Kanye at least released an album. LouieB

Looks like WaronWar and I are going to make this scene tonight (as well as some of my geriatric friends). I hear tell that maybe a different group is going next week. Still time to go tonight if anyone is interested. LouieB

Yea, if the large record corps(e) were really interested in reviviing the music industry they would reissue all this kind of back catelogue stuff on cheap vinyl and get an entirely new generation of music buying public back into the stores. They think they are doing it by reissuing collectable releases (as mentioned on red or vinyl or in limited runs), but really the way to do it is make it available daily and in large numbers and capture the 20 and 30 (and maybe 40) year olds who want these titles but aren't going to pay 1/4 a C note for the fucking things. LouieB

Waits should release these albums on regular old black vinyl for ten bucks each. They are highly sought after used. At that price and on regular vinyl he would sell a ton and push down the price of used LPs considerably. LouieB

This is cute and stupid all at the same time. LouieB

They are going to play Chicago first. After that they are going to hit Champaign, Carbondale, Peoria, Rockford, St. Louis, Columbia, and then return to Chicago for a straight week. Okay now you have a totally unconfirmed rumor..... LouieB

I finally bought Being There, the last Wilco LPs I didn't have and it cost nearly as much to ship it as to buy it. It cost $15 to buy and $10 to ship. Crazy. LouieB

Okay cool. I have a friend or two or three from the Northside that may come down with me. Should be a good time. We may go a bit early and have dinner at the Vegetarian Soul Food restaurant down the street. Not sure yet. The New Apartment is 504 East 75th Street which is east of the Dan Ryan, LouieB

Maybe check on Wilcoworld? Or call Jeff directly. LouieB

Well considering what it was going for first time out ($70 or so) I would say so. And what people try and get for stuff on eBay. Meanwhile Pavement at $11 per is no great deal either considering they have been producing Pavement LPs all along. (Unless by some chance these are double LPs...) LouieB

Wow, those Kicking Televisions really flew off the shelves back on Record stor day.... LouieB

Wow, that is a ton (the dollar is still low I guess.), but yea, it sounds like it will be good. LouieB

How much is this boatload of unreleased stuff? (I picked up one of the Rumour LPs for a couple bucks the other day.) LouieB

Yea, true. Now that he has his own label it would be easy enough to do. LouieB

Nice article by Greg Kot in the Trib today. LouieB Captain Beefheart, dead at 69: Music as an action painting Share | When Don Van Vliet – better known as Captain Beefheart -- died Friday at age 69, he left behind a lifetime of ground-breaking albums that enchanted, puzzled and disturbed even as they assured his reputation as one of rock’s avant-garde visionaries. The confusion was at least partially by design. Whether dealing with his band members, record companies or his fans, Beefheart made himself a moving target, impossible to define or fully understand. Yet his self-contained musi

he bounced back somewhat and neither of those albums were covers exactly. Many were old folk songs which were what in jazz would be called standards, not songs that were attributed to just one artist. (Froggie went a courtin is not a cover...but with your screen name I guess you know that...) Dylan does play covers as does Wilco and as does Jeff. Also Dylan was somewhat older than Jeff when he did that and his career was pretty much totally on the rocks. Jeff's career is at its zenith therefore I agree with Aman.... I have always wanted a duets album with some of Jeff's contemporaries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hiLfB3mP2Uw&vq=medium#t=18 I think this is a pretty clever new Christmas song. I hope i put this in correctly...if not someone else can. LouieB

I too would enjoy this, but where is the money in it. Also most artists do cover albums when they are at their artistic end. I really don't think Jeff is there yet. LouieB

I don't kinow. He opened solo and was as usual quite good. But Andrew was on fire. I would guess that sometime in both of their musical pasts they did play together. LouieB