Diggers Roll Call '06 Edition
Guzzo
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Every few months I like to drop this post out there, and since the last one I think we've had a lot of new people on here.Answer all this stuff1. Name?2. Location?3. Years Digging?4. Specific type of music you are into?5. What brought you to Soulstrut?6. Your most prized record and why?7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?
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can I have your pimp cane?
till spring ?
I'm new, and dig it around here, so I'll bite:
1. gareth (arthurian knight of the kitchen)
2. boston, ma
3. 7 yrs in 'da game'. took the better part of 2 years off, though, as i was at an impasse, and didn't know what i needed next.
4. soul/jazz/late-80s-mid-90s hip hop...nothing too exciting. really into Latin of late. have a bunch of guided by voices & pavement stuff on the indie tip(non-LP).
5. came up on a google search for something. made me laugh, i stuck around.
6. Linda Lyndell- "What a Man," & the 8th Day- "She's Not Just Another Woman". These two are the wedding set at my wedding this September.
7. pork tenderloin. don't mess with the tofu.
2. Location?
3. Years Digging?
4. Specific type of music you are into?
5. What brought you to Soulstrut?
6. Your most prized record and why?
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?
1. Casey
2. formerly Pasadena, currently Rancho Cucamonga
3. 8
4. all genres
5. google searching crate digging in late 2000 or so
6. A j.b. lenoir 78 on JOB. Thank god for the 78 option on my handy trax
7. The other night, my lady and I cooked jerk tofu on skewers with various other vegetables and drank red stripe while watching "Rockers." (She had never seen it)
Its been a while since I hung out here.....I havn't ever done this thread, so why not.
1. Name?
PJ
2. Location?
Boston
3. Years Digging?
djing- 12.5 years
digging seriously- roughly 6 years. I go thru cycles of severity with the sickness though.
4. Specific type of music you are into?
????? funk, soul, disco, reggae, hiphop. I am mostly into funk 45s i suppose. Recently started getting my bollywood funk learn on.
5. What brought you to Soulstrut?
I can't remember....i have been here off-and-on for a long long time.
6. Your most prized record and why?
Probably my Naomi Davis 10" test press, just cause its a fucking awesome track, and is definately my most exclusive track too.
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?
In soviet russia, tofu dish cooks YOU!
-pj
2. Location? North of Detroit[/b]
3. Years Digging? Serious since 1997 or 98[/b]
4. Specific type of music you are into? Jazz, modal, eastern sounds, waltzs, all kinds of goofy stuff, getting more and more into jazz psyche and mellow rock right now[/b]
5. What brought you to Soulstrut?I think it was an ebay auction[/b]
6. Your most prized record and why?can't think of one right now[/b]
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?I don't cook it but iam all about curry noodle with tofu at the local thai spot[/b]
2. Location?
3. Years Digging?
4. Specific type of music you are into?
5. What brought you to Soulstrut?
6. Your most prized record and why?
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?
cool...here's my stats..
1. Aaron
2. Toronto
3. 16 (but grew up in my dad's record store..so it is really second nature at this point..not sure if that's a blessing or a curse..
4. Couldn't be too specific, as I love Soul, Jazz, Hillbilly, Folk and pretty much everything else.
5. Someone (and i can't remember who) told me I should check it out.
6. Yusef Lateef Eastern sounds
7. Easily a stir fry with it cubed for maximum firmness and taste.
1. Drew
2. Burlington, Vermont
3. 2-3 Years
4. Soul
5. Found Motown's reviews while looking up info about records. Didn't discover "the Board" until months and months later.
6. Right now it's the Sensational Saints LP I got recently. This is a bomb record -- thanks to Justin and Jon for tipping me off (again).
7. Crispy
1. Name? Bruce Wayne
2. Location? South Bronx
3. Years Digging? late '80s
4. Specific type of music you are into? It changes but Hip Hop/Funk
5. What brought you to Soulstrut? Blaxploitation website
6. Your most prized record and why? that's another thread.
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?
Jerk Tofu(marinate tofu in jerk marinade then cook) But Tofu aint my thang.
no you can not, don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaught, bitch!!!
1. *n******
2. Toronto
3. bought first record with own money when i was 13
4. soulhiphoprapreggaejazzrock
5. KL, but insanity keeps me here
6. can't pick just one
7. patak extra hot-based marinade w/grated ginger, diced onion and lemon juice on the bar-b-q or grilled in the oven
2. Rochester, MN
3. 2 about
4. Sweet Sweet Soul
5. umm i dont remember
6. Al Green-Im still in love with you cuz it doeesnt really get any better than that
7. never even seen tofu
Just curious, but what were you expecting to find?
2. Location We live in BKLYN baby.
3. Years Digging Off and on for 10 years.
4. Specific type of music you are into Everything and Anything. Mainly Afrobeat, Afrohouse. but hip hop, jazz, soul, soundtracks, anything with hot women on the covers.
5. What brought you to Soulstrut? dudes droppin knowledge, peeps actin a fool, general killing of office time/productivity.
6. Your most prized record and why? collection of original issues fela LP's, dads israeli rock records. Cant forget that penthouse forum found between records. Strictly actual articles
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook? udon noodle soup with baked tofu. simple shit but filling and tastey.
2. City By the Bay
3. 7
4. tepid funk-soul raer, Bay ish
5. jinx's rants
6. philip cohran "loud mouth" ep, young D boyz "younga dayz" 12"
7. raw with shoyu-mayo dipping sauce.
2. Location Richmond, VA.
3. Years Digging since around 2000.
4. Specific type of music you are into: hip hop and jazz, recently a lot of free jazz
5. What brought you to Soulstrut? Mesh told me about it and I had a lot of free time at work.
6. Your most prized record and why? When I put something on and its exactly what I wanted to hear its my most prized record.
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook? My fiance makes really good tofu tacos.
Rich
Tejas by way of Brooklyn
25+
Everydamnthang
SS members
Ozzie The Ostrich kids record.....first record I ever owned.
I don't eat anything that came from between someone's toes.
OK, I'll do this for like the 20th time
1 Jeff
2 Santa Rosa, CA
3 since like '95
4 the sound of insects
5 Googled "Don't hate the Sayer, hate the game"
6 http://waxidermy.com/2006/01/11/aramis-camilo-la-organization-secreta/
7 Tofurky
2. Location: Lower East Village, Manhattan
3. Years of Digging: 15, maybe 8 of that knowing wtf I am doing... haha...
4. Music I Collect: Soul (all kinds but I've got a sweet tooth for falsetto leads and group harmonies), reggae (vocal and dub, late 60s to early 80s), jazz (hard, modal, somewhat spiritual but not too free, a bit of soul-jazz and fusion but not much), brazilian (60s-early 70s)... and a bit of everything else.
5. What Brought Me To Soulstrut: a mention on Phill Most's WOB site years ago around the time of brainfreeze. It had to do with a racial argument, no lie.
6. My Most Prized Record And Why: probably the handful of records that nobody I know has ever seen or has any info on, everything else is replaceable. Trinity Stage Production, Ruth Waters Show Band disco 45s, Michael Boothman "What You Won't Do For Love" 12", mystery Stamford CT Gospel LP...
7. What's The Greatest Tofu Dish I Know How To Cook: I don't cook no more, all I do is eat yalls food
2. San Francisco, Outer Mission
3. Over 10 I suppose
4. Latin, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Spoken Word, Hip Hop
5. I started out as a Stonesthrower
6. I don't really think I have a most prized record. My Curtis Mayfield LPs
7. Fried rice, raisins, peanuts, ginger, green onions, and a fried egg.
1. Name?[/b] Mike Davis the 2600 King
2. Location?[/b] Minneapolis, MN (by way of St. Louis by way of Nashville)
3. Years Digging?[/b] since 1997
4. Specific type of music you are into?[/b] cut & paste, psych rock
5. What brought you to Soulstrut?[/b] post-crateslist exodus, diplo's ebay auctions
6. Your most prized record and why?[/b] maybe test presses of my first single or some harder to find oliver sain-related 45s that represent an important era in my record collecting "career"
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook?[/b] i've never cooked with tofu, but this vietnamese place down the street makes this bbq mock duck which is one of my favorite dishes and the only tofu i've ever eaten.
1. Name - tim
2. Location - falls church va
3. Years Digging - since late 60's part time, since 97 full time
4. Specific type of music you are into? - not opera or big band
5. What brought you to Soulstrut? - asprin & rubbishvisuals, later tripledouble & secretchimp & fatback
6. Your most prized record and why? - corillions double - took 2 years of research & detective moves
7. Whats the greatest tofu dish you know how to cook? - no need, tofu factory across the street cooks it up six ways to sunday
1. Rick Smith
2. Bux County, PA
3. seriously since 1996
4. into "good" music, common & rare
5. I created this bitch
6. All or None
7. Tofu is gross
we've discussed this...