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On LP on Decca sounds brand new... LouieB

Don't make an ash of yourself... Take lots of money.... LouieB

Going to Seattle... LouieB

Fer sure.... Do all the old blues guys I saw count? Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Hounddog Taylor, Willie Dixon, etc. Or the jazz guys?? Sonny Rollins, Raahsan Roland Kirk, Oscar Petterson, Keith Jarrett, etc. LouieB

I wonder if they have my email. I gave money. On the other hand.... LouieB

Congrats....the fun is just beginning.... LouieB

Oh yea, I saw Elvis on this tour also. I completely forgot, at the dreadful Aragon in Uptown. LouieB

And for people getting older by the minute as well. LouieB

I must say, the Reader's best of 2008 offers a ton of cool stuff to do, eat, listen to, etc, for the next year. This is one time I would suggest getting the actual paper, which of course out of towners can't do. I plan to throw this in my car, since there are places I have passed and wondered about many times and not gone in and others I will look for on my travels around town. There are places I forgot to mention in the original article (Dusty Grooves record store...expensive but very fun) and there are tons of restaurants and clubs and such I never would have thought of or even known ab

Did I mention I saw the Dead Kennedys?.... LouieB

I got my $5 copy of the Capital Duke album discussed here and it is pleasant enough. It isn't the revelation that some of the other Capital reissues in this series are (Miles Birth of the Cool, Lennie Tristanto, Art Tatum, etc.) but it is okay. Duke never claimed to be a great pianist (although one should give one of Duke's mentors Willie "the Lion" Smith's solo work a listen) and this record doesn't really bolster that claim. This album actually a really nice small setting for Duke and both Duke and Trane are excellent. Not to mention the sidemen who are all top notch. LouieB

Yea, Recycled Records in Springfield even had a couple original copies several years ago but they were like $12 and I just didn't feel like I had the dough to pop for thatin those days . Now with vinyl being hot and prices much higher ($50 on e-bay) I feel like an idiot. So it goes. LouieB

Dad rock for Canadians and people like me....I think I have a LP copy of that. Summer Side of Life was always my fave. I degrooved a copy of that for sure. LouieB

Yea, I just don't have the time or energy for estate sales much. You can really burn up a ton of time and gas finding little or nothing. I have done it. I prefer resale shops simply because you can pop in (like I did yesterday) and if new stuff has come in recently you can pick up some okay stuff. Sometimes the store may be in an area where no one is interested in the LPs anyway. I really do feel fortunate, Laurie's has a great trade and prices the kind of stuff we are talking about here (I got an original Stax Staples Singers for $6) and so I am content with that. I just know that if yo

Yea, like I said I made a quick foray into eBay the other day and that place is not only a drag it is dangerous. You can get caught up in wanting something and pay way more than it is ever worth simply because there are dozens of people just like you caught up in trying to get it. The fact is that price of vinyl records is way higher than it should be based on the "hip" factor of having them. I just don't need MORE LPs enough to spend $20 bucks for something that is worth $5. (Okay I did just spend $20 on a new reissue of Bert Jansch's first LP, not entirely sure what I was thinking there,

Second actually, which was okay. They sort of sorted out the sound by then. Yea, me too.... I am particulary fond of Something there is About You...the way he sings this verse- "Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth Rainy days on the Great Lakes, walkin' the hills of old Duluth. There was me and Danny Lopez, cold eyes, black night and then there was Ruth Something there is about you that brings back a long-forgotten truth." Not only are they great lyrics (maybe also thrown together), but they are terribly evocative of what his youth must have really felt like to h

Amazingly I did find a red label 1st Stooges in a resale shop (20 years ago) just like this and believe me if I could find another I would. I think those days are over, just like finding lost 78s is probably no longer possible. The pickings at reale shops are not what they used to be. People have figured out that their old LPs are actually worth something and take them to used record stores or the used record store folks (like Lauries) are on the lookout for stuff like that at resale stores and estate sales. At least with LPs (unlike 78s) many more were made, so it is possible. If ever I fin

That sounds right.....not unlike the Basement Tapes where the same thing was going on. Sometimes you can get things right on the fly, other times you actually need to work on making a song. It isn't as easy as it looks. Don't get me wrong, I was entranced with Plant Waves (with a title cribbed from Alan Ginsburg I am pretty sure) when it came out; I mean who wasn't going to dig a new (and the first really) album by Bob Dylan and the Band after all, but it is a pretty uneven affair at best. What it did was jump start Dylan's career, particularly his touring, which had been on hold for many

That's weird...the original release had the full album. LouieB

Oh no, I don't need any reminder To know how much I really care But it's just making me blinder and blinder Because I'm up on a hill and still you're not there The early Beatles were simple pop gems (great tunes) and the Beach Boys...well that is all about the tune and the sound, the words rarely hold up to any scrutiny. The above verse from Hazel makes almost no sense......no it makes NO sense; particularly the last two lines. Walken isn't any masterpiece either..(sorry Jeff...) LouieB

Yea...it was, not a big hit the first time, then he left that band, did it again and that was ALL (s)he wrote..... LouieB

Whoa...cranking them out... LouieB

Hazel, dirty-blonde hairI wouldn't be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere. You got something I want plenty of Ooh, a little touch of your love. Hazel, stardust in your eye You're goin' somewhere and so am I. I'd give you the sky high above Ooh, for a little touch of your love. Oh no, I don't need any reminder To know how much I really care But it's just making me blinder and blinder Because I'm up on a hill and still you're not there. Hazel, you called and I came, Now don't make me play this waiting game. You've got something I want plenty of Ooh, a little touch of your love brilliant

I walked into the local Salvation Army and found a load of LPs from the 50s and 60s for 75 cents each yesterday. I only walked out with 12 that included Dave Brubeck, Errol Garner, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie (well not 60s), and Ella Fitzgerald. Someone must have dumped a collection or maybe a store I don't know. I had picked out about 20, but figured I would not take it all. When it comes right down to it, some of the stuff from that period used sounds better than the 180 gram (whatever that means) new stuff. LouieB

Apparently George Carlin was arrested with Lenny Bruce when Bruce was arrested for obsenity at the Gate of Horn in Chicago. What a great story. LouieB