Dollar finds at the swap meet. Roadmaster is Indianapolis glam rock. No One With A Bullet is an early 80s Los Angeles indy label compilation. Alwyn Wall Band is Christian rock with a drum break. Last of Bill Bruford's solo run. JB has some open drums and a two bar loop I'm working on now. Dave Brubeck moved to Atlantic Records, enlisted his sons and went electric in tribute to his mentors Duke Ellington and Darius Milhaud, who both died within weeks before this recording. Very good stuff.
The best find however is this:
Japanese soul-jazz instrumental covers of the country's then contemporary pop hits. One is a Hammond organ version of this
Shop owner near me picked up a big lot from a local radio station, I've been slowly making my way through it. The picture above is stuff I got from him and from another dig I got to do with our old friend Moogman. I think I've picked up about 60 7"s over the past few months, but there's still some more set aside for me at the shop, and I've yet to really get to look through the bulk of the radio station lot.
These are some of the highlights so far:
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Eddie Palmieri is a Venezuelan press. The McDuff is where he plays with British musicians; has "Hunk O Funk". I gave the Tommy Jones to someone here during one of those Strut meet-ups back when, forgot about it and then found it recently. Fireballs has a GOOMLW cover. I saw them play at the Baked Potato years ago. The Banister is very good trio jazz but doesn't contain anything like the moog-out from his other one.
I like MGJ and Seventh Wave's other LPs which I found a while ago, so I'm glad I found these. I have been noticing Sam Rivers (the only other one I have is "Sizzle") and Julius Hemphill (the side-long "Hard Blues" seems to have a pressing/recording flaw, possibly related being from an earlier session?) LPs have increased in price/demand around these parts lately, but I got them each cheaply. I have yet to see the namesake RRK documentary, which looks interesting.
I have not dug out a record worth mentioning in almost six months. Since moving seven years ago to a small country town I have had droughts but this is starting to wear. It's brutal.
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Some of my finds from the Spring 2019 Austin Record Convention
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My mom is always out hitting estate sales and thrift stores for antiques. She'll send photos of random records she's pulled to see if I'm interested. She did pretty good yesterday.
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I have not dug out a record worth mentioning in almost six months. Since moving seven years ago to a small country town I have had droughts but this is starting to wear. It's brutal.
Well, after a nice self imposed decision to stop spending money on records. I still somehow manage to acquire records. - spidey
I miss digging. Just went to a couple of 2nd hand shops around here (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the cheap bins have become 500 krona ($4) bins with non-stop garbage.
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I miss digging. Just went to a couple of 2nd hand shops around here (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the cheap bins have become 500 krona ($4) bins with non-stop garbage.
Most of the thrift store dollar bins are $2 to $3 here now unfortunately. Half Price Books and Records used to have dollar clearance bins but they are $3 now also. Times are changing.
I miss digging. Just went to a couple of 2nd hand shops around here (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the cheap bins have become 500 krona ($4) bins with non-stop garbage.
Most of the thrift store dollar bins are $2 to $3 here now unfortunately. Half Price Books and Records used to have dollar clearance bins but they are $3 now also. Times are changing.
It's insanely difficult to pull dollar bin miracles these days. It's pretty much common knowledge that vinyl is back and collectable across the board, but people do slip. CDs are where it's at right. Admittedly their not as cool and a bit soulless, but there's a lot of amazing stuff to be had at 50 cents to 1 dollar. There are times I prefer the CD over the vinyl pressing.
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It's insanely difficult to pull dollar bin miracles these days. It's pretty much common knowledge that vinyl is back and collectable across the board, but people do slip. CDs are where it's at right. Admittedly their not as cool and a bit soulless, but there's a lot of amazing stuff to be had at 50 cents to 1 dollar. There are times I prefer the CD over the vinyl pressing.
You're probably right. I'm likely missing out on a lot of CD sales. Mostly I buy them to listen to when taking road trips now. This was my most recent CD haul from goodwill.
Praise be! That's better than I've ever seen at goodwill. I kinda hate CDs on an aesthetic and technical level, like a bad medium between fully digital and fully analog, but there is so much cool shit (from certain eras) that's not on any kind of record. It's tough to avoid the format, still.
$5 finds at the record store down the street. Mary Watkins is nice 80s fusion jazz from the usually bland Palo Alto label, Sammy Nestico aside. Victory Chapel Gospel Band is self pressed and based in Southern California. It is partially Santana inspired and led by an ex-junkie preacher on the drums. Hugo Montenegro is a Motown tribute follow-up to his Stevie Wonder one, both which are better than his other cover records of the time. Iliad is more polished and interesting than their other LP which has the samples. CD-R is an unrelased Sun Ra Omniverse Orchestra era album, which I assume was recorded in east Michigan, given to me by Jamaiel Shabaka. He was sitting next to me stageside at the Marshall Allen show this Tuesday. Check out this article, which coincidentally mentions the aforementioned local record store.
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Dollar finds at the swap meet. Roadmaster is Indianapolis glam rock. No One With A Bullet is an early 80s Los Angeles indy label compilation. Alwyn Wall Band is Christian rock with a drum break. Last of Bill Bruford's solo run. JB has some open drums and a two bar loop I'm working on now. Dave Brubeck moved to Atlantic Records, enlisted his sons and went electric in tribute to his mentors Duke Ellington and Darius Milhaud, who both died within weeks before this recording. Very good stuff.
The best find however is this:
Japanese soul-jazz instrumental covers of the country's then contemporary pop hits. One is a Hammond organ version of this
The AtGB one was put on a Groove Sounds In Nippon volume (https://www.discogs.com/Various-Groove-Sounds-In-Nippon-Shakin-My-Soul/release/7767846) in the late 90s which used this cover.
Eddie Palmieri is a Venezuelan press. The McDuff is where he plays with British musicians; has "Hunk O Funk". I gave the Tommy Jones to someone here during one of those Strut meet-ups back when, forgot about it and then found it recently. Fireballs has a GOOMLW cover. I saw them play at the Baked Potato years ago. The Banister is very good trio jazz but doesn't contain anything like the moog-out from his other one.
I like MGJ and Seventh Wave's other LPs which I found a while ago, so I'm glad I found these. I have been noticing Sam Rivers (the only other one I have is "Sizzle") and Julius Hemphill (the side-long "Hard Blues" seems to have a pressing/recording flaw, possibly related being from an earlier session?) LPs have increased in price/demand around these parts lately, but I got them each cheaply. I have yet to see the namesake RRK documentary, which looks interesting.
Since moving seven years ago to a small country town I have had droughts but this is starting to wear.
It's brutal.
I bought this one for $1 for the poster.
- spidey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ70TdzV-vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0O-SCVb5M
Pretty good finds from a complete non-digger.
- diego
:super sonned:
Most of the thrift store dollar bins are $2 to $3 here now unfortunately. Half Price Books and Records used to have dollar clearance bins but they are $3 now also. Times are changing.
It's insanely difficult to pull dollar bin miracles these days. It's pretty much common knowledge that vinyl is back and collectable across the board, but people do slip. CDs are where it's at right. Admittedly their not as cool and a bit soulless, but there's a lot of amazing stuff to be had at 50 cents to 1 dollar. There are times I prefer the CD over the vinyl pressing.
You're probably right. I'm likely missing out on a lot of CD sales. Mostly I buy them to listen to when taking road trips now. This was my most recent CD haul from goodwill.
https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/jamaiel-shabaka-cut-his-teeth-on-avant-garde-jazz-with-legend-sun-ra-and-drummer-alex-cline-before-recording-the-mysterious-reggae-lp-the-land-of-the-rising-sun/