fake records found in your dreams
DrWu
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Last night I had a dream about digging. I never have these kinds of dreams. I found this copy of a record that I copped years ago but it was different from the one pictured below. Instead it was a UK press of a Jamaican pic sleeve ep that turned out to be psyche when played at 33rpm. Seeing how this is a mishmash of several recent threads I can only conclude that I have been hanging out on SS too much.the record in question is:
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it's weird how the mind works. in the dream i turn the record over and their was the song titles, how long the songs were, a photo, the stax symbol.
all sorts of weird psych and afro beat things
some have glowing covers and all that
its not all the time... just when i dont go diggin in a long time and im not tryin to even think about the dumb things
weird right?
You know, I think I had a dream about a cover of that Lunacycle 45 once before. Slightly different break. Slower, and that Dylan wannabe was axed.
I have many dreams about fake records / illest songs in the world that do not exist yet. It's a great feeling to wake up with a melody in your head that you know you haven't heard before, hum that shit into your computer before getting ready for your day and make something of it later.
My best dream find was uncovering an old 78 from my old boss. I was from the early 1920s (did they even have 78s in the 20s?), and it was straight proto-funk. Very lo-fi, but I paid $350 for it.
Dood I need a copy of that. Ill.
fucking dreams.
I don't dream of digging, but when i was a kid I used to dream of finding an underground chamber full of Transformers; it was always in the same place and it always looked the same.
The crazy thing is that I've had the same recurring dream, and it sounds like the same recurring place (although I've never been to Portland). I always seem to have been there once, early in the dream and when I go back there, to really get to work, I can't find the place or it's no longer there.
Every once in a while at this store, I come across a tremendous, life-altering haul, but I can never focus in on the titles. I just know they're good. Then I wake up, and it puts me in a really pissy mood to start the day.
Upon hearing that some others have had similar dreams (and likely also irritated their significant others with their childish disappointment upon waking), my wife just announced that she is now quite convinced that there may really be a few extra dimensions out there.
I must add, there have been one or two times that I've dreamed that I've lost all of my music in some horrific manner, only to wake up with a tremendous sense of relief.
A spectral dream friend told me about a lady with an incredible record collection that was in the process of parting with it. I was excited and went over to her house before I had a chance to lose out on the opportunity.
I walked right up her front path and through her front door, neglecting to notice that her house was an almost carbon copy of the brick house in "Home Alone." I walked through her front room without asking - because she WAS dumping her collection, right? - and entered directly into the Record Room. Housed in a 5x5 Expedit (suspiciously just like mine in real life), in all its aged-cardboard and plastic-sleeved glory, was the Best Collection Known To Man. Kind-of like the deleted scene in High Fidelity where John Cusak meets Beverly D'Angelo and her cheating husband's collection.
The first two LPs I pulled from the shelf were both perfect Phil Cohrans, one of which I'd never seen before. I was marvelling at this discovery - and others soon to come - when the owner of the records appeared behind me and told me in no uncertain terms that her collection was most definitely NOT for sale. Ignoring the fact that she looked like a Tarantino-era Pam Grier with smart editor's pants and vest, I told her in a reasoning and mild-tempered tone that, well, my friend told me that the records WERE for sale, so there was obviously some mistake.
And then came the capper that, in real life, I won't forget for some time: Dream Pam smiled a little smile and, with a pen in her hand, wrote several words on a small yellow piece of paper. Pam folded it and held it out to me. "I'll give you the records," she told me. "Just meet me on the street corner and date listed."
I thanked her profusely and left the house and records. I was so grateful to have the 4" by 4" scrap in my posession that it wasn't until I was down her block that I opened it.
On the small paper fragment, in a slanted, loopy cursive, were these words:
"187 Bleecker St., Harlem. 12/30/77."
"I was ready then."
Played. Told. In my own dream by a strong older woman who valued her culture and past more than money or room space. Damn. Even if the street address didn't make any earthly sense, I nonetheless learned a life lesson in a dream. Who among us can claim that?
Reader's Digest material
Also: I'm more intelligent sleeping than awake. Who would admit that?
ha! i want that one.
once i found a Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem full length LP in a dream. ILL.
Amyway....
So she also has these various techniques that she uses, one of which is called 'dream incubation.' It's basically where you think about and maybe write down a question or something you want to find out and you help yourself to find the answer in your dreams. Well, when I was hunting this particular aussie funk 45 she suggested I incubate it in a dream. Now I was pretty dissmissive of this but I did it a while back and forgot about it. It was maybe a couple of weeks after this that I located a copy, and since then I have found another one!
Bear in mind, before I found the first one, I had NEVER seen a copy of this record EVER, let alone for sale.
Pretty cool, 'ey?
So... how many of yall are incubating Placebo right now?
Me neither, but since I've seen this
http://cgi.ebay.com/PHILIP-COHRAN-LOUD-M...1QQcmdZViewItem
and another lp that just ended on ebay a while ago which has him playing over someone talking about drugs.
I wish he recorded more cool stuff to find.
Cohran was definatly
My RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND "LIVE at LOW TIDE" LP SONS[/b] those hippies.
edit: is that a full dream expedit behind him at 1:55?