Guess I’ll have to look into it. What else do I have to do with my time?
The Vinyl Thread
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Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
I'm probably only at 125 well-chosen specimens. Had a bunch more, but divorce knocked the numbers down. It's only stuff and doesn't bother me. I've been able to slowly build back my small collection in a more targeted way.
Interesting tidbit from the expo yesterday. Apparently there was a mother/daughter run studio and record label in the 50s called Band Box Records. The granddaughter of the founder (probably in her 70s) was there with a booth selling off what remains of the back catalog. These were all original pressings, but untouched - kept in storage this whole time. Mostly country & western 7" stuff, but some R&B, spoken word, and 12s in there too.
Interesting tidbit from the expo yesterday. Apparently there was a mother/daughter run studio and record label in the 50s called Band Box Records. The granddaughter of the founder (probably in her 70s) was there with a booth selling off what remains of the back catalog. These were all original pressings, but untouched - kept in storage this whole time. Mostly country & western 7" stuff, but some R&B, spoken word, and 12s in there too.
Very cool.I'm probably only at 125 well-chosen specimens. Had a bunch more, but divorce knocked the numbers down. It's only stuff and doesn't bother me. I've been able to slowly build back my small collection in a more targeted way.
Interesting tidbit from the expo yesterday. Apparently there was a mother/daughter run studio and record label in the 50s called Band Box Records. The granddaughter of the founder (probably in her 70s) was there with a booth selling off what remains of the back catalog. These were all original pressings, but untouched - kept in storage this whole time. Mostly country & western 7" stuff, but some R&B, spoken word, and 12s in there too.
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
Oops, forgot to mention the original Band Box studio and label was in Denver!
Did you pick anything up?
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Old thread pump-and-dump!
Is anyone interested in a Nitty Gritty? I'm selling one.
Is anyone interested in a Nitty Gritty? I'm selling one.
Nitty Gritty 1.5 Record Cleaner - electronics - by owner - sale - craigslist
Selling a Nitty Gritty 1.5 black semi-automatic record cleaner. Comes with the machine and optional nylon brush. Includes about 1/2 of the original bottle of cleaning fluid. It's in the original box...
westslope.craigslist.org
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
Thanks but no thanks. I’m an ultrasonic guy. Sold my VPI 17f five years ago and there is no going back for me.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
I really didn't figure Steve would need it.
I don’t need it but someone here does. If your cleaning regimen consists of running a dry brush over your records then you are missing out on hearing everything that’s contained in the grooves. A wet wash/vacuum dry system goes a very long way to unlocking data that makes a record sound closer to the real thing. Nitty Gritty cleaning machines have been around for a long time and are known to be highly effective and reliable over many years. I’m sure @DaveInDenver has treated this machine with care.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Happy Time Records HT-1026
It’s not clear who the band was and it’s no audio recording gem. Then treated poorly by me for, I dunno, a decade of the GE Wildcat. It’s rough to listen to but great distraction for the dog.
Sorry turntable needle. Really, sorry whole audio chain.
It’s not clear who the band was and it’s no audio recording gem. Then treated poorly by me for, I dunno, a decade of the GE Wildcat. It’s rough to listen to but great distraction for the dog.
Sorry turntable needle. Really, sorry whole audio chain.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
I kind of liked that band when they first came out but never saw them. My bandmate caught them on their first tour here in Denver. Afterwards they went to a local DIY/underground/warehouse venue and apparently played for 3 hours - every single song they knew. Blew the roof off the place and wrapped up at like 4AM. One of her favorite memories, and I wish I had been there too.@Hulk
Yes! Already done, but 100% thanks for the tip!
Do you even Lucero, bro?
For the record, record playing is:
Lucero
All A Man Should Do (2015)
ATO 0284
WLP 1159 of 1372
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
@Cruisertrash, right on! I've caught Lucero a couple of times but can't say I'm a superfan or anything.
Passed up the chance to see them at the Mishawaka when the P.I.L. show was cancelled and we got the option to pick new tickets. Went to see Dawes instead there. That was an AWESOME show. My limited prior exposure to them was buying All Your Favorite Bands on a tip. That was a righteous suggestion by my record store (then being the lovely Miss Lizz at Downtown Sound in Loveland) pusher.
Anyway, actually saw Ben Nichols' first band, too, Red 40. That was by accident. Was in Memphis, probably covering the basketball team's no doubt hopeless run in the OVC tournament at Southeast Missouri (goIndians Redhawks!) when I was a sportswriter/photo guy for the student newspaper. And what can ya say, when in Memphis you go to Beale.
Although that connection, college sports and being in Memphis, could be a dubious memory. I think the OVC tourney is in Nashville. But we did get to Memphis as often as St. Louis just to be idiots. We were all from St. Louis so we could do that up there any time.
But, also, in this case it wasn't Beale but a shit hole called Barrister's in spring of 1994. Memphis back then was a tough place to be a clueless Missouri kid but we survived our stumbling around none-the-less. His sound then was more punk than it is now fer sure.
Passed up the chance to see them at the Mishawaka when the P.I.L. show was cancelled and we got the option to pick new tickets. Went to see Dawes instead there. That was an AWESOME show. My limited prior exposure to them was buying All Your Favorite Bands on a tip. That was a righteous suggestion by my record store (then being the lovely Miss Lizz at Downtown Sound in Loveland) pusher.
Anyway, actually saw Ben Nichols' first band, too, Red 40. That was by accident. Was in Memphis, probably covering the basketball team's no doubt hopeless run in the OVC tournament at Southeast Missouri (go
Although that connection, college sports and being in Memphis, could be a dubious memory. I think the OVC tourney is in Nashville. But we did get to Memphis as often as St. Louis just to be idiots. We were all from St. Louis so we could do that up there any time.
But, also, in this case it wasn't Beale but a shit hole called Barrister's in spring of 1994. Memphis back then was a tough place to be a clueless Missouri kid but we survived our stumbling around none-the-less. His sound then was more punk than it is now fer sure.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Weren't you there too, @Hulk?
Was on-again, off-again dating a girl I knew from high school who was in her senior year at Mizzou and I was, well, in my first senior year at SEMO (class of '93, '94).
She went off to pharmacy school that fall and I went to the Grand Canyon later that year. It was the moment my aimless path in life changed. Still no focus but at least something to do.
And hers. She met her future husband and they have a beautiful family.
Me? It is what it is.
She's a schemer and she makes me bad
But I love her like those lonely nights
I was in a big room playing my things
Oh I wish she were here she can be so kind
When she's not trying to hide
She tries not to love me but she knows she can
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
She thinks she's a mystery to all
But I know what's behind those eyes
Sometimes I think she'll make me forget
What I need most to remember
And then I'll slip on back
Even if they say it's better
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
Was on-again, off-again dating a girl I knew from high school who was in her senior year at Mizzou and I was, well, in my first senior year at SEMO (class of '93, '94).
She went off to pharmacy school that fall and I went to the Grand Canyon later that year. It was the moment my aimless path in life changed. Still no focus but at least something to do.
And hers. She met her future husband and they have a beautiful family.
Me? It is what it is.
She's a schemer and she makes me bad
But I love her like those lonely nights
I was in a big room playing my things
Oh I wish she were here she can be so kind
When she's not trying to hide
She tries not to love me but she knows she can
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
She thinks she's a mystery to all
But I know what's behind those eyes
Sometimes I think she'll make me forget
What I need most to remember
And then I'll slip on back
Even if they say it's better
And why don't you come on back from way out west?
And love me, we can work out the rest
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No, I was in Chicago by then. Columbia was an 8 hour drive. Would have been an awesome show to have seen. It's cool that the Big Star reunion band is still going. They just played a show recently in Chicago (I didn't see it). Pat Sansone from Wilco is now a regular member of the band.
Related story: last weekend, @Mrs Hulk and I were in Chicago. An old friend was getting married (second wedding for both him and his bride) at the Empty Bottle, a dive bar with live music that has honky tonk dancing every Friday night. The last time I was at the Empty Bottle was in the mid 90s to see Alex Chilton.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
It sure must have been. I heard about it after it had already happened, too.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Did anyone grab anything interesting at 2025 Record Store Day?
I ended up with 4.
Ralph Stanley - Man of Constant Sorrow
Willie Dixon - What Happened to My Blues
Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
Clarence White - Melodies From A Byrd In Flyte: 1963-1973
The Ralph Stanley is excellent all star record, Emmylou is a live record from shows around 1998 when Buddy Miller had assembled I think a band for her in the Wrecking Ball support tour.
The Clarence White is one side of things he was trying acoustically, the back side electric. While I'm certainly a fan of him and the Kentucky Colonels and Byrds, honestly the reason he was on my mind is simply that someone here in town was selling an American Telecaster Nashville with a Parson/Green B bender last week and I did a nerd-out into the history of it. In a world where guitar acquisition isn't tempered by money and owner talent I would have loved it just for the cool machining factor.
Still need to give the Willie Dixon it's first spin.
There was a bunch that I already had on CD and decided not to double up whether I saw them or not. These were albums never on vinyl in the first place. Maybe if I see them in the wild later, but mostly I've been disappointed when I get a new pressing of a 1990s album that was never originally intended to be on wax. Even when they remaster them it's not always enough improvement to justify. Some are worse, looking at you Music On Vinyl. At least when I listen to my CDs it's on a decent chain. I'm pretty sure M.O.V. plays the CD on an old Discman portable to cut the lacquer.
In the end I only saw a few of these CD-then-vinyl, the B52s, JJ Grey & Mofro and Dada, so none I'm really that in love with anyway. I probably would have bought the Jayhawks if he had received one and someone grabbed the Bad Livers before I got to the wall.
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I ended up with 4.
Ralph Stanley - Man of Constant Sorrow
Willie Dixon - What Happened to My Blues
Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
Clarence White - Melodies From A Byrd In Flyte: 1963-1973
The Ralph Stanley is excellent all star record, Emmylou is a live record from shows around 1998 when Buddy Miller had assembled I think a band for her in the Wrecking Ball support tour.
The Clarence White is one side of things he was trying acoustically, the back side electric. While I'm certainly a fan of him and the Kentucky Colonels and Byrds, honestly the reason he was on my mind is simply that someone here in town was selling an American Telecaster Nashville with a Parson/Green B bender last week and I did a nerd-out into the history of it. In a world where guitar acquisition isn't tempered by money and owner talent I would have loved it just for the cool machining factor.
Still need to give the Willie Dixon it's first spin.
There was a bunch that I already had on CD and decided not to double up whether I saw them or not. These were albums never on vinyl in the first place. Maybe if I see them in the wild later, but mostly I've been disappointed when I get a new pressing of a 1990s album that was never originally intended to be on wax. Even when they remaster them it's not always enough improvement to justify. Some are worse, looking at you Music On Vinyl. At least when I listen to my CDs it's on a decent chain. I'm pretty sure M.O.V. plays the CD on an old Discman portable to cut the lacquer.
In the end I only saw a few of these CD-then-vinyl, the B52s, JJ Grey & Mofro and Dada, so none I'm really that in love with anyway. I probably would have bought the Jayhawks if he had received one and someone grabbed the Bad Livers before I got to the wall.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Just finished the Clarence White. Honestly, in the end, it's just OK, nothing special. I probably should have gone looking for one of the jazz records, probably the Bill Evans, Hal Blaine & company or a Mingus. I really don't have a great deal of jazz vinyl and that is a travesty.
I missed it this year. They had the remastered (disc 1) and the completely remixed version (disc 2) of Tim by the Replacements available, but I already bought the box set. FYI: the remixed version of Tim is amazing -- what it always should have sounded like.