Seattle. Where's the soul 45s?
soulmarcosa
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I'm DJing an early evening set at this event in Seattle this weekend:http://www.emeraldcitysoulclub.com/weekender/
I'll probably hit up Jive Time (and that antique mall across the way), and the event itself has a 45 swap on Sunday. But are there any other spots nearby I should check out for decent 60s-70s soul/funk/garage 45s? I wasn't planning on visiting Portland but if the weather isn't good for outdoor stuff on Thu/Fri, then I might make the 6-hour roundtrip and check out Crossroads. And of course if anybody wants to link up, I'd be down for a drink or whatever if we can make time. Hollereth.
I'll probably hit up Jive Time (and that antique mall across the way), and the event itself has a 45 swap on Sunday. But are there any other spots nearby I should check out for decent 60s-70s soul/funk/garage 45s? I wasn't planning on visiting Portland but if the weather isn't good for outdoor stuff on Thu/Fri, then I might make the 6-hour roundtrip and check out Crossroads. And of course if anybody wants to link up, I'd be down for a drink or whatever if we can make time. Hollereth.
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And yeah, Crossroads is super dope but probably not worth the 6 hour round trip.
Instead spend those 6 hours at Bop Street. I promise you can use them. Dude has 650,000 records. Unfortunately, he pretty much knows what they're worth but you can still barter with him.
i think the best 45s in the area will obvs be broght by the DJs and spun at the event itself, but maybe some of those DJs will bring extras for trade/selling purposes, esp for sunday's 45 fair...i say this bc it expresses my own hopes as i'll be there spinning too, spinning right before you, in fact, on friday night.
then again, i've never been to seattle before, so i'm more intrigued by the prospects of the city itself than what its record stores might have to offer.
no 45's at Jive Time & the antique mall across the street is kinda weak imo
the fremont flea market yields decent soul/gospel 45s sometimes
Bop Street is your best bet. That and the big show on the weekend for sure.
You may be able to find some 45's at
Golden Oldies in Wallingford on 45th
Singles Going Steady downtown
Holy Cow Records in the pike place market
Easy Street in Queen Anne
Tacoma
Olympia
Holy shit? I had no idea The BoS were still together or even still around. Is this show being recorded? Please tell me yes...
I just want to avoid the huge store that has 10's of thousands of LPs in their bins (all crap), even more in their backroom (mostly crap), and a huge wall of 45 boxes (all overpriced crap) - does this ring a bell? I really don't want to go back to this spot - $15 Dyke & the Blazers 45s aren't my idea of an ideal afternoon digging. Any help in avoiding it would be appreciated.
Johnshade - cool to see you here man! We'll have a beer on Friday.
In any event, like a lot of you I'm counting on the Sunday 45 swap to be the best opportunity for the best wax. When I've gone to similar swaps at weekenders in Chicago, NYC and even here in NC, the selection and prices have murdered any of the local spots' offerings.
That's Bop St., the other folks were right that's the only spot with a remote possibility of finding any
soul 45's.
I can give you to directions to Supreme's condo, that's your best bet to find any raer soul 45's in Seattle.
This place was depressing if its the one I'm thinking of - at least 45-wise (the kind of spot that still has tons of old stock w/divider cards & everything but anything at all good is long gone)
The store I have the fondest memories of closed a while back (I think I read that on here anyway) - it had 'jam' in the name, cool nutty guy ran it...
Ehhhh if that IS Bop Street, I'll pass. When I was in the city about 5 years ago, I spent about an hour in there and got nothing except severely depressed.
Other than Crossroads in Portland, Jive Time was by far the best spot I hit in that area. As mentioned, they had almost no 45s, but their album selection was really good and the prices more than fair.
I highly recommend that any Strutters with good 45s to trade/sell come on out to the record swap. The ModChicago swap always has attendees like Pickwick33, luck, meatyogre, DCastillo, etc. and it's always fun as well as rich with top vinyl. I'm hoping this weekender will bring ya'll Seattle strutters out!
Jam Records was the name and dude was a nut, Jimmy Jam from Buffalo,as he was known around town.
Dude was a serious Ebay-aphobe, he thought every record you'd pull was going on Ebay.
"I better not see this on Ebay" he'd always say.
My thoughts exactly!
Did you ever see the copy of Wax Po that they had at Respect Records, that Dave from
Bop Street defaced?
Shit was funny D!
He only hit up your mug, wrote "asshole" over your face etc etc...
Ha! Here's me at Jam Records around 2002 or so with Joey Jam:
I think I already owned that record I'm holding, and I didn't leave with anything. But yeah that Jimmy dude was aight. I think we talked about tripledouble T*ny that visit.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard about that. Wish I had seen it.
while the DJs should surely be mad decent, the real treat will be seeing the live acts - jj barnes and brothers of soul - on stage performing live with a full band and a full orchestra on saturday night.
It's sounds great, I'm gonna try my best to check out some part of it.
No hate here but today I was checking out the ad in the Stranger, and there were no
show times or locations. I know it said Lo-Fi and CHAC were the venues, but no specifics,
Show times, prices per show etc etc.
Killer poster though!
ah, probably should've done that from the get go. Thanks.
Let me know son. Wanted to try and catch that record show.
I loved this dude!
the pharcyde, the roots, the jungle brothers AND sergio mendes are all playing live at various points next week. what the actual fuck? is this a rare stretch for the city or am i just totally starved for culture??