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My friend in vinyl Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home Records just posted a great sale, check out some of the collectible vinyl he is offering!! This auction is up for a limited time, so don't snooze!
Suburban Home posts 80 Auctions on Limited Pressing (Two Cow Garage, Austin Lucas, Tim Barry and many more)
By Virgil Dickerson
So I spent some time away from posting auctions during the holidays, but this week, I am back and hope to continue adding new records every Thursday. I have 80 records listed on Limited Pressings’ auctions that span most of the Suburban Home catalog. All of the auctions end Thursday, February 3rd. The listings begin at 99 cents so there are certain to be a number of auctions that end at very low prices. Take advantage of these deals to add to your record collection.
Feast your eyes on these gems!!
1969 “Maya” LP Yellow Colored Vinyl
36 Crazyfists -The Tide And Its Takers (Red Vinyl) LP
50 Foot Wave -Power & Light (Colored Vinyl) LP
A Life Once Lost -Iron Gag (Gray And Black Vinyl) LP
A Wilhelm Scream -Mute Print (Yellow Vinyl) LP
Adolescents -Adolescents (Picture Disc) LP
Austin Lucas -Collection (Pink Vinyl) LP
Austin Lucas -Somebody Loves You LP black vinyl
Austin Lucas With The Takers -Split (whiskey coke) 7”
Austin Lucas/Cory Branan -Split 7”
Avail -4 AM Friday (Gray Double Vinyl) LP
Avail -Dixie (White Double Vinyl) LP
Avail -Over The James (Orange Vinyl) LP
Bad Astronaut -Acrophobe LP white vinyl
Banner -Frailty (Black And Silver Vinyl) LP
Boys Night Out -Make Yourself Sick (Blue Vinyl) LP
Chad Price -Smile Sweet Face (Black Vinyl) LP
Chad Price/Rocky Votolato -Split (Blue Vinyl) 7”
Cobra Skulls -American Rubicon (Red Vinyl) LP
Cory Branan/Jon Snodgrass -Split (Colored Vinyl) LP
Crispus Attucks -Destroy the Teacher LP
D.O.A. -Bloodied But Unbowed (Picture Disc) LP
Dear And The Headlights Small Steps, Heavy dbl LP gold
Drag The River Can’t Leave These Strays White/Blue 7”
Drag The River -Closed (Gold Vinyl) LP
Drag The River -Garage Rock (Whiskey Coke Vinyl) 7”
Drag The River/Chris Wollard/The Ship Thieves Split 7”
Druglords Of The Avenues Sing Songs (Blue Vinyl) LP
Every Time I Die -Gutter Phenomenon (Red Vinyl) LP
F.Y.P./Chaniwa -Split 10”
Fallen From The Sky/Wonder Years UTI Vol 13 brown 7”
Foxy Shazam -Introducing (Orange And Red Vinyl) LP
Ghost Buffalo -The Magician Red/Gold Splatter Vinyl LP
Heavy Heavy Low Low Turtle Nipple Brown/Pink Vinyl LP
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House LP white vinyl
In The Red -Volume 1.5.1 (Limited Red Vinyl) 7”
In The Red -Volume 2 (Red Vinyl) LP
Jealous Sound -Kill Them With Kindness White dbl LP
Joey Cape -Bridge (Peach With Black Splatter Vinyl) LP
Joey Cape/Mike Hale UTI Vol. 11 (Gold Vinyl) 7”
Jon Snodgrass -Visitor’s Band (Clear Vinyl) LP
Josh Small -Tall By Josh Small Mint Green Dbl LP
Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground Diggin Clear 7”
Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground Blue Dbl LP
Kevin Seconds/Kepi Ghoulie -UTI Vol. 12 (Red Vinyl) 7”
Lizzie Huffman -And Her Brother Band Red 10”
Look Mexico -To Bed To Battle (Salmon Vinyl) LP
Look Mexico -You Stay. I Go. No Following. 7”
Love Me Destroyer -Things Around Us Burn LP colored
Matt Pryor -Confidence Man (Coke Bottle Vinyl) LP
Micah Schnabel When The Stage Lights Go Dim Green LP
Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice Clear With Purple dbl LP
Murder By Death -In Bocca Al Lupo 180 Gram Orange LP
Murder By Death -Red Of Tooth And Claw Burgundy LP
Ninja Gun -Restless Rubes (Trans Green Vinyl) LP
Norma Jean -All The Studio Albums 4 LP Box Set LP
Norma Jean -Anti Mother (Red Vinyl) LP
O Pioneers!!!/New Bruises -UTI Vol 10 Blue Vinyl 7”
Playing Favorites -I Remember When Blue With White LP
Poison The Well -The Tropic Rot Peach Dbl LP
Portugal The Man It’s Complicated Being A Wizard LP
Scott Reynolds & The Steaming Beast Adventure Boy LP
See You Next Tuesday Parasite Clear w Gold Splatter LP
See You Next Tuesday Intervals Clear Rainbow Splat LP
Sidekicks So Long, Soggy Dog Marble Blue Vinyl LP
Sparta -Threes (White Double Vinyl) LP
Stereotyperider Songs In The Key Of F And U Blue/Wh LP
Takers -Curse Of A Drunk (Gray Vinyl) 7”
Takers -Taker Easy (Gold Vinyl) LP
Tim Barry -28th & Stonewall Whiskey Coke LP
Tim Barry -Rivanna Junction (Green Vinyl) LP
Tim Barry/Frank Turner -Split (Blue Vinyl) 7”
Two Cow Garage -Sweet Saint Me (Turquoise Vinyl) LP
Two Cow Garage/Jr Juggernaut UTI Vol 9 PBR Colored 7”
Useless ID -Lost Broken Bones (Red Vinyl) LP
Wayword Sons/Sam Lowry -Julianne (Red Vinyl) 7”
Yesterday’s Ring Diamonds In The Ditch Purple Dbl LP
Whiskey And Co/Ninja Gun UTI Vol. 2 White w/ Blue 7”
Yesterday’s Ring Punx Not Dead… Turquoise/White 7”
V/A -Revival Road (White Vinyl) LP
Tindersticks long awaited release of Claire Denis film scores
Cult 90s indie band Tindersticks have announced the release of Claire Denis Film Scores 1995 – 2010., which will be a boxed set collection of six Claire Denis film soundtracks and will be available for the first time together on cd, vinyl and download via Constellation Records. Released worldwide on April 26th 2011.
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Iconic album artwork: All worth making tracks to
The pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road in London, made famous by The Beatles, is now Grade II-listed. These landmarks grace famous album covers
The Beverly Hills Hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles is one of the most photographed, thanks to its appearance on the cover of The Eagles’ Hotel California album.
Don Henley, the band’s founding member, wanted the album cover to symbolise......
Alt-folk darlings the Fleet Foxes have recently announced their much-anticipated follow-up to their 2008 debut album. The Seattle-based group will release 'Helplessness Blues' on May 3 through Sub Pop. The title track, which indicates that the sophomore record will feature more delicate harmonies and instrumentation, is being offered as a free download on SubPop.com.
Once again, the band recorded songs with Phil Ek, who produced their first album and both of their EPs. Once again, the music features acoustic guitars, yearning choruses and five-part vocal harmonies. And once again the cover art – this time by painter Chris Alderson, not Pieter Bruegel the Elder – evokes a homepsun nostalgia.
Fleet Foxes have also announced a short North American tour this spring. The 15-date trek begins April 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
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AEROSMITH Guitarist Hopes To Complete New Studio Album This Year
AEROSMITH guitarist Brad Whitford has told the Boston Herald that the band is "really starting from scratch" during the songwriting sessions for the group's new album at the home recording studio of longtime collaborator/producer Marti Frederiksen.
"We basically go in the studio, just stone cold, and try to come out at the end of the day with another song, and so far it's worked great," Whitford said. "It has been great working at Marti's. His whole house is basically geared toward making music, so that's what we are doing all day long."
1) Blues Magoos~ Psychedelic Lollipop STEREO re-issue of 1966 LP 1a) Blues Magoos~Psychedellic Lollipop CD (Limited Edition of 1000)
2) Blues Magoos~Electric Comic Book STEREO re-issue of 1967 LP (with the reproduced Comic Book) 2a) Blues Magoos~Electric Comic Book CD (Limited Edition of 1000)
3) The Howard Roberts Quartet~H.R. Is A Dirty Guitar Player (180 gram STEREO re-issue of 1963 swinging jazz guitar LP)
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Sundazed Announces Four Singles For Record Store Day 2011
All 4 in awesome picture sleeves:
1) John Mayall/Eric Clapton~Lonely Years b/w Bernard Jenkins (MONO, unreleased tracks)
2) The Velvet Undergound~Foggy Notion b/w I Can’t Stand It (studio versions in MONO)
3) The Yardbirds~Goodnight Sweet Josephine b/w Think About It (studio versions in MONO)
4) Freddy King~Wash Out b/w Butterscotch (MONO, both tracks from “Let’s Hide Away” LP)
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THE CHARIOT Seven-Inch Single Detailed
Georgia's THE CHARIOT is preparing to release limited-edition seven-inch vinyl album. Side A features two tracks. Track 1 is entitled "Music of a Grateful Heart" and is a brand new unreleased track from the "Long Live" recording sessions. Track 2 , "Graciously" is an alternate and extended version of the "Long Live" track "The Audience". Side B of the seven-inch is an etching of the band's familiarly infamous skull logo. The vinyl comes in four different colors with 250 pieces pressed per color (total of 1,000 copies). Each color set is hand-numbered 1 through 250. Each set will be available for purchase in a different way; one being available only at official tour dates from the band themselves, one is available at the official pre-order with a limited time bundle package, one will be made available exclusively through Hot Topic, while the remaining color set will be available to purchase at local music retail stores.
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Did You Know?
more stuff everybody should know...
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie...really, is licking stamps a dietary problem for some?
Porcupines float in water (especially when they are dead)....
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people...powerful frog, eh?
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Same reason I am not allowed there anymore....
China has more English speakers than the United States.
and on to music history for the day:
The 7" 45 rpm record was introduced in 1949 by RCA as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs.
In 1954, backed by his Jazz ensemble, Big Joe Turner records the original version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll". The tune will top the Billboard R&B chart next June, but did not cross over to the Pop chart. Some of the original lyrics, that would have been considered highly sexual at the time, were changed when Bill Haley recorded the song five months later.
In 1963, 17 year-old Neil Young performed his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg.
In 1964, Beatlemania comes to America when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" becomes the first of twenty Billboard number one hits for The Beatles. It would stay on top for seven weeks, with world wide sales of fifteen million copies.
At Abbey Road studios in London in 1967, The Beatles started work on a new song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." It wasn't until The Beatles had recorded the song that Paul McCartney had the idea to make the song the thematic pivot for their forthcoming album.
Sgt Pepper tidbits:
3 days after the album came out, Jimi Hendrix opened a concert with this. McCartney and Harrison were both there, and were very impressed that Hendrix learned it so quickly.
The hand-painted drum skin used on the cover of the Sgt Pepper album was sold at Christie's House in London on 10th July 2008 for £541,250 ($1,071,000) - setting a record for non-lyrics Beatles memorabilia.
The album was heavily produced and took 129 days and about 700 hours to complete. The Beatles first album, 'Please Please Me,' was recorded in less than 10 hours.
The crowd noise was dubbed in. The Beatles had stopped touring by then
In 1969, Tommy James and the Shondells started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart with "Crimson And Clover."
The Eagles released Greatest Hits 1971-1975, now one of the biggest records in history, was released in 1976.
In 2004, Justin Timberlake caused a huge uproar when he tugged at Janet Jackson's outfit and revealed her left breast live on US TV during the half-time show of Superbowl XXXVIII (38). Four days later, that scene would become the most searched for image in the history of the internet.
In 2008, US space agency Nasa announced that "Across the Universe" by the Beatles was to become the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. The track would be transmitted through the Deep Space Network - a network of antennas - on the 40th anniversary of the song being recorded, being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light-years from Earth. In a message to Nasa, Sir Paul McCartney said the project was an "amazing" feat. "Well done, Nasa," he added. "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."
Born on this day in 1948, Rick James, US singer. Found dead at his Los Angeles home on August 6, 2004.
Born today in 1954, Mike Campbell, guitar, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
I highly recommend former Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker frontman David Lowery and his solo debut, 'The Palace Guards,' Bob Marley's 'Live Forever,' Cowboy Mouth with 'Mardi Gras.' Vinyl releases include a double LP from Dio 'Live-We Rock,' Papercuts with 'Do What You Will', Those Darlins with their effort 'Be Your Bro' and Spiritualized's reissue 'Lazer Guided Melodies.'
As always, CVR Blog picks are in red:
Abysmal Dawn - Leveling The Plane of Existence
Acid Mothers Temple & Stearica - Split
Alan Parsons Project - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me
Aretha Franklin - Great American Songbook
B.B. King - Makin Love Is Good for You Barclay James Harvest - Once Again (40th Anniversary)(2 CDs)
Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
Barry Manilow - Duets
Big Head Blues Club - 100 Years of Robert Johnson
Billie Holiday - Forever Lady Day (3 CDs)
"Bob’s music has always conveyed a message of hope, unity and love,” says Marley’s widow Rita Marley in a press statement. “It has brought countless people together as it did that night 30 years ago in Pittsburgh. To hear that music today and to be able to share it with a new generation shows that Bob is as relevant today as he was 30 years ago.”
The band did its sound check for the sold-out show while Marley rested backstage. Reports of his performance that night used words such as "energetic" and "spine-tingling."
"Live Forever" is being released on two CDs, three LPs, and digitally and includes his classics "Natural Mystic," "Crazy Baldhead," "No Woman No Cry," "Redemption Song," "Exodus," "Is This Love" and the last song he ever performed live, "Get Up Stand Up."
Bobby Long - A Winter Tale
Boy George - Ordinary Alien
Boz Scaggs - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Bridges and Powerlines - Eve
Campfire OK - Strange Like We Are
Catwalk - "One By Words" 7''
Christina Ashley - Let it All Go
Clannad - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Delicate Steve - Wondervisions [Luaka Pop]
Demdike Stare - Tryptych (3-CD box set) Dio - Live - We Rock (2 LPs)(vinyl)
Dirtbombs - Party Store
Duke Ellington - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Enjoy Your Pumas - Commonality
Exray - Exray
Fela Kuti - Vinyl Box Set #1 (Curated by ?uestlove) (6-LP box set)
Full Blown Chaos - Full Blown Chaos
George Michael - Faith: Legacy Edition (2 CDs) Giant Sand - Long Stem Rant (25th Anniversary Edition)
Giant Sand - Swerve (25th Anniversary Edition)
Giant Sand - The Love Songs (25th Anniversary Edition)
Gil Scott-Heron - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Gilbertville Greg Lake - Manoeuvres (vinyl)
Gurf Morlix - Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream
Herbert Hunter - Northern Soul Legend
Hot Club of Cowtown - Hot Club of Cowtown
Isolee - Well Spent Youth
Ivan & Alyosha - Fathers Be Kind EP
James McMurtry - Childish Things (reissue)
James McMurtry - Live in Aught Three With Jan Hammer Live (1977).
This set from the American guitar legend features the albums Rough And Ready (1971) (OOP in the US), Jeff Beck Group (1972) (OOP in the US), Blow By Blow (1975), Wired (1976) and Jeff Beck Group
Joan as Police Woman - Deep Field
Joe Cocker - Made in Sheffield
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers - Hymns from the Hills
John Adams - Nixon in China (3-CD box set)
John Culture - Summer Friends
John Shipe - Villain
Jonny - Jonny
Junk Culture - Summer Friends
Kiki Dee - I'm Kiki Dee: Fontana Years 1963-1968 Kinks - Kinda Kinks (reissue) (vinyl)
Korperschwache - Evil Walks
Kotchy - Two
Labelle - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Songs from a Zulu Farm
Laura Nyro - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Lazarus A.D. - Black Rivers Flow
Led Er Est - TBA 12'' EP
MEN - Talk About Body
Manowar - Battle Hymns MMXI - Battle Hymns 2011
Melvin Davis - Detroit Soul Ambassador
Memphis Slim - Chicago Blues: Boogie Woogie & Blues Played & Sung Memphis Slim-Favorite Blues Singers
Memphis Slim - Songs of Memphis Slim & Wee Willie Dixon
Men - Talk About Body
Most Precious Blood - Do Not Resuscitate Mountain - Original Album Classics
Muddy Waters - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Nathan Moore - Dear Puppeteer
Nina Simone - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Noisear - Subvert The Dominant Paradigm
North Mississippi Allstars - Keys to the Kingdom
Orleans - 75 Live in Harvard Square
Overcome - The Great Campaign of Sabotage Papercuts - Do What You Will (7" Single)(vinyl)
Patti Austin - Sound Advice
Pete Seeger - Old Time Country Music
Phish - Live Phish: 8/6/10 Greek Theatre Berkeley, CA
Phish - Live Phish: 8/7/10 Greek Theatre Berkeley, CA
Phish - Live Phish: 8/13/10 Verizon Wireless Music Center Nobelsville, IN
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
Red - Until We Have Faces Regina Spektor - Live in London (vinyl)
Ricky Martin - Musica + Alma + Sexo
Rod Stewart - The Best of the Great American Songbook
Rodney Franklin - Rodney Franklin / Youll Never Know
Rot In Hell - As Pearls Before Swine
Seefeel - Seefeel Sick Of Sarah - 2205 Six Feet Under - Wake the Night DVD)
Slave - Just a Touch of Love Spirit - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (reissue) (vinyl)
Spiritualized - Pure Phase (reissue) (vinyl)
Starfuckers - Metallic Diseases
Still Flyin' - Neu Ideas Taj Mahal - Original Album Classics
Teddy Thompson - Bella
Tennis - Cape Dory
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day (vinyl)
The Insane Warrior - We Are The Doorways
The JaneDear Girls - The JaneDear Girls
The Joy Formidable - Big Roar
The New Original Sonic Sound: The New Original Sonic Sound (members of Mudhoney, R.E.M., Gas Huffer doing Sonics covers)
The Rippingtons - Cote D'Azur
Thomas Giles - Pulse Those Darlins - Be Your Bro
Tim Cohen - Magic Trick
Tina Dico - Welcome Back Colour Todd SniderLive: The Storyteller
Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats & Follies
Tower of Power - Original Album Classics (3 CDs)
Tristen - Charlatans at the Garden Gate
Twitch The Ripper - Bodiless
Various Artists - 1960 British Hit Parade: Volume 1 (4 CDs)
Various Artists - 1960 British Hit Parade: Volume 2 (4 CDs)
Various Artists - 1960 British Hit Parade: Volume 3 (4 CDs)
Various Artists - Easy Snapping: Jamaican Hit Parade 2
Various Artists - Looking Back: Jamaican Hit Parade 1
Various Artists - Mondo Disco
Various Artists - Bossa Nova Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s
Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2011
Various Artists - Pakistan: Folk & Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 (vinyl)
Willie Wright -Telling the Truth
Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list. I also do reviews of new vinyl, email me for more information.
There are likely less than 25 sealed copies of this record in existence.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- A factory-sealed First State copy of The Beatles' famously banned "Butcher Cover" mono LP , Yesterday and Today, without a doubt the Holy Grail of vinyl, is expected to bring $30,000+ when it comes up as part of Heritage Auctions Feb. 18-19 Signature(r) Music & Entertainment Auction.
"There are likely less than 25 sealed copies of this record in existence," said Garry Shrum, Consignment Director for Music & Entertainment Auctions at Heritage, "and that's probably a generous estimate. More than that, we've never seen a copy in such great condition, and we sold a 'Livingston Copy' of the 'Butcher Cover' in 2006 for more than $38,000. That price is, to date, the highest amount ever realized for a piece of wide release, non-autographed vinyl. This may well exceed that."
Many serious collectors of Fab Four memorabilia have diligently searched for even a tattered copy of this rarity, which was pulled from record store shelves in the US almost immediately after its release in 1966, ordered to be destroyed and replaced by the more subdued "Trunk Cover" version. Millions bought the second version, but few managed a copy of the infamous original, let alone one that remained sealed.
"This 'Butcher Cover' is rare enough in and of itself in good condition," said Shrum, "but to have it sealed is mind-boggling. Who has ever bought a Beatles record and not opened it?"
Read more about other goodies at the auction ArtDaily.com
A first press of "Please Please Me" shot to the top of the list, this one with matrix numbers that indicate it was pressed with the first stampers. Two modern soul 45's make the list this week. The self-titled David Bowie test pressing at the #3 spot is an approval copy of the US release that was for producer Mike Vernon.
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo - $8,238.88
2. 45 - The Darling Dears "And I Love You" / "I Don't Think I'll Ever Love Another" Flower city - $3,050.00
3. LP - David Bowie "self-titled" Deram Test Pressing - $2,894.70
4. 45 - The Mark IV "Take This Love" / "If You Can't Tell Me Something Good" Brite Lite - $2,620.00
More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.
New Vinyl Record Talk Tuesday February 1st 8pm ET/ 5pm PT
Out of the dusty boxes this week we find an uncredited 45 titled "The Ta Ta Song". This must have been put there by the record gods just for Frankie, the goddess of Radio Dentata.
So at some point we'll spin that record, and the Teddy Mack northern 45 we have on auction, plus straight out of swinging 60's London, an amazing ska record about James Bond that will make you grip tight your Walther PPK.
And we cannot let go unnoticed or unmentioned the Northern Soul / Lesbian theme in Ep. 2 of Skins - just who is this "most dangerous show on television" really for?
Join Jane and Norm for all this and the Top 5 auction sales, and more efforts to preserve places at which one or more Beatle did just about any damn thing.
Sixties Music Legends The Chocolate Watchband Releases New Greatest Hits Album
Much to the elation of fans and music critics, the Chocolate Watchband has recorded a new album of their greatest and most popular tunes.
Los Angeles, CA – When discussing legendary psychedelic garage bands of the 1960s, the Chocolate Watchband is at the top of the list. Much to the elation of fans and music critics, this famed sixties group has recorded a new album of their greatest and most popular tunes. Recorded in 2010 at KVP Studio in Santa Clara, CA, the focus on this album was to faithfully reproduce the sound of the Chocolate Watchband in the 60's with the rawness and energy of the originals. Also added were bonus verses and extended track mixes of 13 personal and fan favorites. “The Chocolate Watchband is back on the scene and ready to rock!" says Tim Abbott, guitarist and producer of the album.
"This release is all new recordings from The Chocolate Watchband. I had the privilege of premiering some of these songs on the 2010 Bay Area Garage Band Marathon on KKUP Cupertino. This is an incredible set of vintage garage from one of the true legends of the sixties. With this album, there can no doubt the power of their music still speaks to a whole new generation," says Phil Dirt radio DJ
The goal was to re-create the sound and energy of the sessions with producer Ed Cobb, from the first three Watchband albums that were recorded for Tower Records in 1966, '67, and '68. Electronically reproducing the reverb of the old 'Echo Chamber' from American Recording studio in Studio City, CA, different percussion instruments were added including sleigh bells, tambourines, chimes, temple bells and more exotic instruments like sitars, harpsichords, theremin and bouzouki that gave the original recordings their distinctive sound.
"As the Chocolate Watchband's de facto historian and the producer behind most of their reissue packages, I can state with authority that the Greatest Hits package is as authentically Watchband as any of this singular group's vintage recordings." Alec Palao-Ace Records UK and Associate Producer
Featuring:
David Aguilar- Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion
Bill Flores- Bass
Gary Andrijasevich- Drums and Background Vocals
Tim Abbott- Lead Guitar, Keyboards, Sitar, Flute, Bazooki, Harmonica and Background Vocals.
Alby Cozzette- Electric, Acoustic, and 12 string Guitars, and Background Vocals.
The Chocolate Watchband formed in San Jose in 1965. The band's music was described as “a blend of 1960s-style garage and psychedelic rock with a distinguishable ‘Rolling Stones’ San Francisco sound. Produced by Ed Cobb, the group's early music combined the influences of blues with a psychedelic edge that featured terse lyrics and instrumental experimentation. The Chocolate Watchband appeared in the 1967 film 'Riot On Sunset Strip' and the 1968 film 'The Love Ins'. The band released three highly acclaimed LPs from 1967 to 1969 before disbanding in 1970. In 1999, they reunited at the San Diego event 66/99 in San Diego, CA, organized by musician/journalist Mike Stax. They continue to play today at garage rock festivals in Europe as well as the States with Little Steven, The Yardbirds, Love, The Zombies, Bo Diddly, Iggy Pop, the Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes.
Tracks:
1. Expo 2000
2. Gone and Passes By
3. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
4. Are You Gonna' Be There (At The Love-in)
5. No Way Out
6. Misty Lane
7. I Ain't No Miracle Worker
8. Sitting There Standing
9. Sweet Young Thing
10. Don't Need Your Lovin'
11. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
12. Let's Talk About Girls
13. Inner Mystique
I checked their website, I don't think it is being offered on vinyl, which leads me to think, if they were trying to recreate some of the sounds, why not use analog?
FIGURE FOUR's 'Suffering The Loss' To Be Released On Vinyl
Blood & Ink Records has announced the vinyl pressing of FIGURE FOUR's seminal hardcore album, "Suffering The Loss" (2003). Details are still coming together, but the label plans to have the LP out in time for the band's planned reunion at Rain Fest 2011 in late May, if not earlier.
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Vinyl record collectors causing change in some music sales
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ILLDISPOSED: New Album Cover Artwork Unveiled
Danish metal vets ILLDISPOSED will release their new album, 'There Is Light (But It's Not For Me)' on March 25 on Massacre Records. The band recorded the CD at Antfarm Studio in Ã…rhus, Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (MOONSPELL, DARK TRANQUILLITY, GOREFEST, SICK OF IT ALL).
The "There Is Light (But It's Not For Me)" artwork was created by Lasse Hoile, who previously worked with ILLDISPOSED on the "1-800 Vindication" and "Burn Me Wicked" releases.
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Vinyl, alive and kicking
by Brian Tucker
My record player may die on me. It might just need a new motor. Coming home after buying used records from Yellow Dog Discs I sat down to work and spin my purchases – The Psychedelic Furs “Forever Now,” the 1978 “Superman” soundtrack, and Leon Russell’s “Leon Russell and the Shelter People.”
Upon lifting the arm the player wouldn’t spin. I tried again. Nothing. On the third try it spun and I was able to play Russell’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Looking back I see the fitting nature of the song title – the presence of vinyl records in the vast digital market today is indeed strange. Today you can find almost as much vinyl as CD’s in both Gravity Records and Yellow Dog Discs.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
The Beach Boys recorded "Surfin' U.S.A." and "Shutdown" on this day in 1963.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself..
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
A snail can sleep for 3 years. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
THE LAW OF THE LAND:
The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time. Really? Who counts them?
MUSIC FACTS:
In 1957, Decca Records announced that Bill Haley And His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" had sold over a million copies in the UK, mostly on 10 inch 78's.
The Beach Boys recorded "Surfin' USA" in 1963, a song that climbed to number three in the US by mid-April. Although it was credited as being composed by Brian Wilson, the tune was a note-for-note cover of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen." Following a lawsuit, Berry was granted writing credit and royalties from the record.
In 1967, The Beatles spent a second day at Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England to complete filming for the ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ promotional video. The film was shot in colour, for the benefit of the US market, since UK television was still broadcasting only in black and white. Taking time out from filming John Lennon bought a 1843 poster from an antiques shop in Surrey which provided him with most the lyrics for The Beatles song ‘Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite’.
In New Orleans, LA in 1970, the Greatful Dead were busted for possession of LSD and barbituates. The event was alleged to be the inspiration for the song "Truckin."
Bigs news back in 1972 - Less than a day after an incident now known as "Bloody Sunday" in which British soldiers killed twelve Irish civil rights demonstrators, Paul McCartney writes and records "Give Ireland Back To The Irish". After some resistance from EMI, the song will finally be released on February 25th, but was immediately banned by the BBC, Radio Luxembourg and the Independent Television Authority. Despite the lack of air-play, the song would reach #1 on the singles charts in the Republic of Ireland and Spain, also climbing to #16 on the UK singles chart and #21 in the US.
The Ohio Players went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1976 with 'Love Rollercoaster.'
In 2009, Dewy Martin, drummer and backing vocalist for Buffalo Springfield on their 1967 hit "For What It's Worth", died from hardening of the arteries at the age of 68.
What gimmick will they think of next? This from Ion Audio.com
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an interesting feature from our friends up north....
Calgary's preserver of pop art past
You can't blame Jerry Keogh for being nostalgic. The poster shop owner is surrounded by rare remnants of the past, which just happen to be wise investments in pop art culture.
By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald
The modern-day Jerry Keogh would probably not approve of how a young Jerry Keogh began his collection of rare and colourful concert posters as a youth in Edmonton.
Now the owner of Calgary's Heritage Posters, which deals in rare and colourful concert posters, Keogh had a less formal mode of acquiring these items in his youth.
"You would see a poster stapled to a wooden telephone pole," he says. "So you stop and look at the poster and say 'That's great.' And you'd rip it off. That's how I started collecting all these posters. Just ripping them off telephone poles."
Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz celebrating 50 years of preserving American roots music.
By Jim Harrington Oakland Tribune
Chris Strachwitz can't seem to go 10 minutes without playing music.
As he tells the fabled history of Arhoolie Records, the El Cerrito-based label he founded in 1960, he finds it necessary to mix music with his words. He sits in his small, crowded upstairs office in the back of his record shop Down Home Music on San Pablo Avenue, and splits his attention between a vinyl turntable, a digital database of a near-infinite number of songs and some of his favorite music videos on YouTube.
Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in ending the rift between black and white teenagers and introducing cross-pollination to the charts
Neil Spencer The Observer
It was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket and something hacked about – a spiky haircut, a ripped T-shirt, a sawn-off school tie. And, of course, no flares, the despised flag of hippiedom. But at the cold, concrete roots of Britain a very different aesthetic was also in the ascendant, one calling for an oversized tam, dreadlocks and a display of "the red, gold and green", the colours of Rastafari. Flares? Fine!
The two looks represented the different worlds inhabited by young white and black Britain, worlds which a year previously had been remote from each other but which by the summer of 1977 were unexpectedly and often uncomfortably rubbing shoulders.
CHILDREN OF BODOM: Limited-Edition 'Was It Worth It?' Picture-Disc Single Due Next Month
"Was It Worth It?", the new limited-edition 12-inch picture-disc single from Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM, will be made available on February 28 exclusively through U.K.'s What Records. Limited to only 500 copies, it features the following tracks:
Side A: "Was It Worth It?"
Side B: "Angels Don’t Kill" (live at Bloodstock)
"Was It Worth It?" comes off CHILDREN OF BODOM's new album, "Relentless Reckless Forever", which will be released on March 8 via Universal Music.
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Independent retailers get ‘significant boom’ after banner year for vinyl sales
By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer
DAYTON — Vinyl record sales boomed in 2010, and several area independent music retailers are benefitting from the trend.
Vinyl was the fastest-growing music format in an otherwise distressed year, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. The throwback format increased 14 percent, selling more copies in 2010 than any other year since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. (I thought KISS had some made, anyone know?)
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia....
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. I do.....but I'm not telling
And in the great state of New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile. Ya think? And, do they really need a law for this?
and in music
In 1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his immortal version of "Blue Suede Shoes."
On this day in 1961, good ole Buck Owens' debut album was released by Capitol Records.
The Beatles performed live for the last time on the roof of the Apple Building in London in 1969. The performance of "Get Back" was filmed for the movie "Let It Be."
In 1973 - KISS played their first show under their new name at the Popcorn Club in New York. Their old name was Wicked Lester. The band performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people.
And if you see Joe Terranova of Danny and the Juniors, wish him a happy birthday! (1941)
SXSW 2011 Confirms Vinyl Record Panel for Saturday, March 19th “Vinyl Records 3.0 – Challenges and Rewards”
Industry Leaders in Mastering, Production, Printing and More Will Tackle The Question: Are Vinyl Records Surpassing All Other Music Formats in the Music Industry Market Today?
On Saturday, March 19, 2011, the SXSW Music Conference will host the panel “Vinyl Records 3.0: Challenges And Rewards,” bringing together six music industry professionals to discuss the current state and future of vinyl records in the marketplace. Within the past five years, vinyl record sales have steadily been on the rise. According to Nielsen Soundscan, 2.2 million units were sold in 2009, marking a 33% increase from the year prior, which was already a landmark for the medium with sales increasing nearly 50% in 2008. However, vinyl record production is a multi-tiered process; independent artists looking to break into the medium for the first time and those labels reacquainting themselves with the process are still faced with a unique set of decisions and challenges. The “3.0” panel will address such concerns by moderating audience questions and discussions throughout the entire event.
Panelists will discuss in detail the initial audio preparation, mastering, submission, manufacturing processes, print and packaging, design aspects and other details required to successfully release an album on vinyl. Emphasis will be placed on staying within budget and on schedule, while creatively expressing the musiciansʼ vision. A complete list of panelists is below. For more information, visit http://www.sxsw.com/ or any of the panelist websites.
Panelists Include:
Oliver Goss, President, Record Pressing (panel moderator)
Oliver Goss has 20+ years of music industry experience, including executive production, promotional event planning, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, legal affairs, marketing, and management. In addition to establishing the independent record label Cosmic Flux Musiq, Goss founded Record Pressing, the first vinyl record manufacturer with Internet presence, and raised the bar in the quality of records released in the U.S. Goss has previously appeared on panels at CMJ, California Lawyers for the Arts and the Vinyl Symposium of the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival. For more information, visit http://www.recordpressing.com/
Pete Lyman, Co-Owner & Founder, Infrasonic Sound Recording Co
Pete Lyman is the Co-Owner and Principal Mastering Engineer of Infrasonic Sound Recording Company, a CD and vinyl mastering suite in Los Angeles. Lyman broke into the industry studying alongside acclaimed RCA mastering engineer Richard Simpson and has since mastered material for artists like No Age, Best Coast, People Under the Stairs, Shooter Jennings, Ben Harper, Male Bonding and Jason Falkner to name a select few. He is one of the few engineers worldwide equipped to record and master directly to vinyl lacquer, thanks to the unique setup of Infrasonic Soundʼs recording studio and adjacent mastering suite. Lyman is also the recipient of the Shadow Hills Twin Falcon Award for excellence in mastering on the critically acclaimed Nouns (Sub Pop) by No Age. For Lymanʼs complete discography, visit http://www.infrasonicsound.com/
Jennifer Freund, Founder CEO, DoradoPkg
Jennifer Freund is the CEO of DoradoPkg, manufacturers of premium quality album covers, vinyl record jackets, CD and digipak covers, posters, tour books and numerous other music industry packaging and print products. DoradoPkgʼs clients include labels, distributors and independent artists worldwide. Dorado Pkg is a division of Corporate ImpressionsLA Inc., printers and packagers of business and marketing materials. For more information, visit http://www.doradopkg.com/
Steve Sheldon, CEO, General Manager Rainbo Records
Steve Sheldon has spent virtually his entire professional life in manufacturing for the entertainment industry. He started his career in the music business on the production floor of Rainbo Records while attending college in 1971. Sheldon was named CEO & General Manager of Rainbo in 1986 and President in 2003. Along with Jack Brown, founder of Rainbo Records, Steve has led Rainbo from a strictly vinyl record pressing plant in the 70ʼs, to a leading independent cassette manufacturer in the 80ʼs, incorporating compact discs in the 90ʼs and DVDʼs in the early 2000ʼs. For more information, visit http://www.rainborecords.com/
Nina Palmer, Sales, Marketing Manager Ross Elli
Nina Palmer was born into the music industry. Her father designed and manufactured vinyl record pressing equipment. She has been the marketing director of Ross Ellis for 30+ years, and owned her own vinyl pressing company prior to this. For more information, visit http://www.ross-ellis.com/
Jay Millar, Sales and Marketing Manager United Record Pressing
After several years of working at the now defunct Detroit record chain Harmony House, Jay Millar joined PolyGram Records in 1995. Since then, heʼs spent time with BMG (who moved him to NYC), Sony, BMG, and Universal. In 2007, Jay brought his knowledge and passion for vinyl to the industryʼs largest manufacturer, United Record Pressing, where he serves as Sales and Marketing Manager. Jay also runs vinyl reissue label Microfiche Records, with his wife. For more information, visit http://www.urpressing.com/
I would love to attend, I wonder if they could make it interactive via the Net, then they could hear from vinyl record consumers.....
1. Cake - Showroom of Compassion
2. Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
3. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
4. Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Holligans
5. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
6. Soundtrack - Country Strong
7. Steel Magnolia - Steel Magnolia
8. Rihanna - Loud
9. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
UK Albums:
1. Bruno Mars - Doo Wops & Hooligans
2 .Rihanna - Loud
3. White Lies - Ritual
4. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
5. Ellie Goulding - Lights
6. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
7. Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
8. Adele - 19
9. Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle
10. Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul
Europe Albums:
1. Take That - Progress
2. Rihanna - Loud
3. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
4. Shakira - Sale El Sol
5. Pink - Greatest Hits ... So Far
6. Bon Jovi - Greatest Hits
7. James Blunt - Some Kind Of Trouble
8. Susan Boyle - The Gift
9. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
10. JLS - Outta This World
THE HAUNTED: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed
Swedish metallers THE HAUNTED are scheduled to release their seventh studio album, 'Unseen,' in late March via Century Media Records. The efffort was once again recorded with longtime producer Tue Madsen (MOONSPELL, DARK TRANQUILLITY, GOREFEST, SICK OF IT ALL) at his Antfarm Studio in Ã…rhus, Denmark.
Regarding the "Unseen" cover artwork, THE HAUNTED said, "The artwork design was made by our friend Frode, who also did the art for (2004's) 'rEVOLVEr.' We really like his design aesthetic, and he seems to come up with something unique every single time."
The band will spend the next few months crossing Europe and North America Indie folk stars Iron & Wine will release their new album Kiss Each Other Clean January 25 on Warner Bros. in the U.S. and January 24 on 4AD internationally; right now, you can stream the whole thing at Conan O'Brien's website. And here's hoping the band enjoyed their time off, since they're going to be good and busy for the next few months, touring Europe and North America. We've got their dates below.
The Killers and Jane’s Addiction to Headline New Lollapalooza
Bryan Wawzenek
As previously reported, a second Lollapalooza music festival is beginning this year in Santiago, Chile. The festival recently announced the two-day event’s headliners, which include The Killers, Jane’s Addiction and Kanye West.
Lollapalooza Chile, taking place at Santiago’s Parque O’Higgins on April 2 and 3, also will feature the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Deftones, Fatboy Slim, The Flaming Lips.......
Panda Bear is the project of Animal Collective member Noah Lennox. Tomboy, his long-awaited fourth album as Panda Bear, and follow-up to Person Pitch, is now complete and will be released on his own
label, Paw Tracks on April 12, 2011. This is one week earlier than the originally announced release date – it was moved up so that the record will be available for Record Store Day on April 16.
Over the past six months or so, Panda Bear has released a series of vinyl singles on different labels.....
Third Man Records is happy to announce the latest in our live show and live LP series, Drive-By Truckers.
In anticipation for their upcoming album, “Go-Go Boots” (out Feb 15th on ATO) and following up from their sold out show at The Cannery Ballroom, the Truckers will be performing a special matinee all ages show here at Third Man Records on this Sunday Jan. 30th that will be recorded direct to analog tape for release as a live LP (and a limited Black & Blue split colored LP for those in attendance).
For this special show at TMR, the Truckers will be joined by David Hood on stage and the show will be a celebration of Southern soul featuring tracks from the new album and some special covers.
Black & Blue split colored LPs of the performance will be available for purchase for attendees after the show and for three days after. Save your ticket! LPs will be available for collection within a month and you will be notified via the Third Man newsletter.
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here's a cute story and a labor of love for one music lover....
A Thrifty Style Music Shop
By Veronica Lake
Collins Music and Thrift Store offers a bit of everything
From the outside looking in you would assume that only musical instruments are sold at this shop, yet once inside you will be surprised at the little of everything that Collins Music and Thrift has for sale.
Owner, Ed Collins, has owned the store since 1986 and has relocated five different times bouncing back and forth from Fairfield to Suisun. The store has been in his current location where since 2007.
Formerly known as Collins Music and Collectibles, Collins changed the name of the business in January of this year to inform potential customers that they are not solely a music shop, but carry many other non-music related products as well. Collins opened the shop 25 years ago after a fellow record store owner complimented his collection of vinyl records.
here's a guy, like thousands of others, who is helping to keep the vinyl record tradition alive...great work!
Record store celebrates anniversary, vinyl Record store celebrates anniversary, vinyl
Written by Carina A. Brunson
McALLEN — Orlie Ozuna loves vinyl. After 10 years of collecting vinyl records, and with the help of a friend, Ozuna opened Fall Back Records, which celebrates its one-year anniversary on Feb. 5.
“I had developed a mild addiction to it and I just assumed if I liked it so much, there had to be enough people out there that could make this idea a success,” the McAllen resident said about opening his
business.
He is still excited to look at what each new shipment brings to his store and immediately announces it on his Facebook page. He also shares rare finds that he acquires through hard work and lots of looking around.
But why open a vinyl record store when mp3s are so prevalent in the 21st century digital world?
A group of unicorns is called a blessing - if you believe they exist....
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living. Coool....
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. Hope he didn't have a cat....
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it! No wonder it tastes bad...
In 1958, a band called The Champs released a song called "Tequila," an instrumental that would hit number one in mid-March. The group included sax player Jim Seals and drummer Dash Crofts, who would go on to score several hits in the seventies, including "Summer Breeze" as Seals and Crofts.
In 1962, Warner Brothers Records signed Peter, Paul and Mary to their first recording contract. Their self-titled album would stay in the US Top 10 for ten months, remained in the Top 20 for two years and did not drop off the Hot 100 album chart until three-and-a-half years after its release. Their only single to make it all the way to number 1 was 1969's, Leaving On a Jet Plane, written by John Denver.
In 1966, "I Fought The Law" by The Bobby Fuller Four is released. It will enter the Hot 100 two weeks later and eventually reach #9 during an eight week chart run.
In 1977, Rose Royce, the former backing band for The Temptations, went to #1 on the US singles chart with "Car Wash".
In 1983, Men At Work top the UK and US singles charts with "Down Under" and the UK and US album charts with "Business As Usual". This feat had not been accomplished since Rod Stewart did it in 1971.
In 1996, Country superstar Garth Brooks refused to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist, saying that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did. He was right
In 2005, David Lerchey, a founding member of The Dell-Vikings who reached the Billboard Top 40 with "Come Go With Me" (#4), "Whispering Bells" (#9) and "Cool Shake" (#12), all in 1957, died of cancer the age of 67.
The late David Byron of Uriah Heep was born in 1947. He died February 28, 1985. Man, this brings back the headphone days!
The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front of which was designed by Roger Dean
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