A TV show 'bout Diggin? Iz It Possible???
batmon
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How could collecting records be translated into a MTV type TV show?Dont hatt yet. Im just wondering...any ideas?Would it be character focused like the rest of their shit? Kinda like the day in the life of Timmydigalot in West Bubblefuck and his cohorts.Could Soulstrut be incorporated into the concept?Would outsiders care about the "grind"?Where would the sex appeal come from? Too obscure to crossover to Becky?Conventions & Ebay Drama?Reality Cam w/ Paychecks at Matt Dillon's?SCRATCH movie broken down for Becky and Chad?Just wondering? Feel free to shoot holes.
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it would be a food show. where i drive around and eat cheap foods. except it always comes at the end of me looking for records. if i have money left over, i always like to eat a greasy meal of some sort. i have favorite spots that i like specifically because they are close to some dive that i otherwise wouldnt be near if i wasnt in some shitty part of town looking for records. i have actually discovered much of greater los angeles this way and i feel like i know the city fairly well if i may say so. especially in regards to junk shops and food spots. ok, i digress.
This would be amazing, even as a spoof.
If it's all beat digging nerd shit then it would probably be boring. It be cool to see people dig stuff up and play it for you, but that's a licensing nightmare. I think it would have to be a side issue, where record nerds at home could spot things as they go along, like "oh shit, he pulled a Boscoe and put it back. Damn son!" But it couldn't be all in your face nerdy.
It would have to be funny enrgetic, informative, comical diggers too. The example of a bad look would be Diamond D all sweaty and seemingly angry in the first Deep Crates dvd.
Herm would be the star of that show.
As for the first idea, keep computers out of it. There has never been a good scene in a movie or tv show where someone was looking at a computer. Digalot could pull a record and say "This sold for $157 on ebay!".
I think this was done, more or less, in that John Cusak movie, you know, the one with Jack Black.
Lovin' it!
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This being said, a show where the theme is musical discovery via buying records in shops, thrifts, from dealers, etc would be interesting. But that act could never be the focus.
Whoo! I never saw this - sounds interesting. What happened there? Some guy all pissed and perspiring 'cause he came up empty while looking through records? Elaborate - what was up with that?
- spidey
My schedule is pretty open if someone wants to make this happen.
I can see it know PIMP MY CRATE.....
Diggerz challenge
Hide a few rare ($100 plus records) amongst 5000 or so dollarbin specials and let 2 contestants flip through for heat.
The worlds greatests collections
Nothing to do with recordrama but travel the world and interview a explore some of the best private collections from Japan, Us Europe etc and
Third world digging
A lonely planet style travelogue of the worlds most dangerous and exotic digging spots
Might not have much mass appeal but I would watch it.
MTV type show circa 1991, or 2008? If there's a chance I can hang out with Coral while she wrestles me until I have a cardiac arrest, I'm with this. That's my Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
Would that truly be interesting, though? I mean, we have a lot of characters here, which goes into their real lives. Doesn't matter if it's a "role" or not. Mr. Supreme can put together that party where everyone has to be in style, proper suits, proper everything. All about class. Meanwhile, I come out of the taxi with my really lepo shirt and he says "I know you got in that box what I want. In fact, I'm going to take that box from you right now. As for you, you can go back to the Issaquah Motel 6 and mope, because you're not coming in" and then with a few furious edits, it will replay the passing of the box of records in various angles. This is followed by a lady noticing me, kissing me deep, and then spitting right in my face. It then shows me at the Motel 6, smoking meth bought by the guard rails I found lying next to that Triple X root beer place.
Sure. In all seriousness (for the time being), it can be like that one show, True Life: I'm A Record Addict, but more drawn out. It can show people who love their music for various reasons, those who do it only to sell, those who admire the music, and those who forever search for the only grail, only to neglect washing their nails. Records are the drugs, some can control it, some can't, some maintain. It would compare the average record collector who is always on the hunt for something new and interesting, vs. the internet head who thinks he has anything and everything available to him with a few Google searches. Boscoe and Blogspot? Sure...
Depends how the grind is depicted. On one end, it might be viewed as a hobby as old as the parents of the viewers, or an "old man hobby". But if one is to say that the search for actual records is as important, if not more important, as someone's normal everyday MP3 search. It's people who want and need the records, those who cater to those who want and need, and those who have the money from their hobby, along with the extra things they have to do to pay bills. DJ'ing, recording, working at Uwajimaya, putting up new guard rails on highways, stripper, etc.
This would come from me, J*hn B**k.
No, considering the smart Becky, who is known on the show as Rebbie Love, is also the one who not only loves records, but makes her own stompboxes, makes her own rubber stamps, and has her own winery.
eBay drama would be funny, but how about the drama of the "dead waffle" stench? Bring in model-type ladies to come to a record convention so she can get a feel for the "vinyl junkie lifestyle" and see what smells worse, the dollar bin boxes that have caked up mold, or Larry and Boobie Bob who smell like asscrack with a hint of dollar store deodorant. Fuck good deodorant and a McChicken today, there are white label Manilows, M-.
It's a must.
Briefly, or simply a segment featuring VINYL, HIGH FIDELITY, EMPIRE RECORDS, the significance of the school dance scene in the original HAIRSPRAY (the one where the two couples are kissing outside, while the actual vocalist of the song being heard inside is walking on the sidewalk, singing to his own song, drunk and poor), and DESPERATE MAN BLUES. Who are the Joe Broussard's of today's generation? Who is music's Jeff Albertson?
Interview people who make ashtrays and handbags out of records, and then talk to the collector who is disgusted by "vinyl degradation".
To be serious again for a moment, does the hobby need a reality show in order for it to be valid? We all do this for different reasons, we all come from different walks of life. Record collecting in itself is not glamorous or sexy, but it can lead to things that are better than just hunting down old paper and round discs from oil resources. Talk with Faust and Shortee.
It should not be an MTV-type show, because MTV has not been about "M" in years. Take it to another network, find an angle and make it work, because I believe it can work. You can submit the idea, and have it say Modern technology has made it possible for anyone to buy a digital player, and with the internet be able to find any and almost every song ever made, with the click of a mouse, legally or illegally. But there are people out there who still look for their music the old fashioned way, and have different reasons for doing so. It's the thrill of the hunt, the discovery of something new, coming across the holy grail. It's about collecting records as a hobby, as a way of living, as a part of life. Across the country and around the world, we discover people who look to those discarded dreams to recapture them and perhaps bring them back to life, in their own unique way.[/b]
If anyone takes that idea, I want a cut. NO FREEBIES IN '08
That's was budgets are for. I've never seen the Hills but I imagine a reality type show. Someone could even work as an intern @ Good Records or something like that.
Speaking of Good Records, I had a dream last night that I was a new hire there. When it was time to test my grading skills Jonny presented me with a xerox mingering mike style record to grade. I said "G-, but its a Xerox...can I grade a real record?"
Jonny then Handed me a very deceiving Reggae 45 to which I replied
"A very strong Vg+"
"Good Job" he said, kind of shocked and happy at the same time.
I was about to take some $$ from petty cash to buy some records of some dude, but had to confer with Jonny before buying. Good thing I did. There was another girl working there too, and We unearthed a A&M psych banger and then I woke up. True story.
You could take roadtrips and meet up with various record nerds/producers at the spot.
You could get a few timmys, let them go buy records and then have them make "bangers" out of them. Possibly find a washed up rapper to "flow" over them?
You could treat it like a detective thing - you know, here's a record, now go find out about the artist. Maybe they can try and recreate it as well?
Maybe an 'all you need to know about *insert genre here* records' thing?
What about letting becky's and chad's loose in Good Records, making them buy a gang of records and then have them play a party later that night? They can be judged on the amount of oompa loompas pumping their fists in the crowd? Or have them at seperate bars to see who get's the best turnout? (Shades of 'The Apprentice' here I know...)
Maybe you could get bedroom dj's, have them tutored by some big name dj and then have them rock a full house later on?
I like the visits to various collectors that's been mentioned myself. Bonus points if every show ends in someone smashing an ipod!
If any of these ideas are taken I'd like a cushy role in the production somewhere please...
Sweaty Diamond D comes on at about, 2:23
Well, Diamond D doesn't seem any more pissed than the others, but he's sweating like he's trying to kick a heroin jones.
Now I KNOW this was a dream version of good records
Actually Andrew I have had two female employees in the shop over the last year... one of them didn't work out but Kate (left) still works a shift now and then
anyway
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Guzzo approached me about pitching a reality show based around my record store back when it opened several years ago.
Sounds cool until you realize that it's a reality show. About records. What makes a reality show work? Drama. I don't need no drama. Mary J and shit.
There's a public access show, forget the name, about rare joints. That's about as far as I see it going. 1 am on a Tuesday.
Not that any of these ideas are bad, but you need a protagonist... who wants to be a TV actor/asshole? Not me. The less I can deal with the Entertainment Industry, the better.
At the end, they :
1) ebay the collection off or
2) get it valued or point scored (originality, raerness etc.) by "Some Kind of Authority" - this could be a different shop each week or panel of fellow diggers.
Whatever, the digger with the "Best" finds keeps the whole lot; the other digger's finds too.
Could put digging on the map?
I think this is a good idea. A travel-type show. Anyone seen that Globetrekker show on PBS? They go all over and do stuff. The digging show could center around the music. That would be cool.
If you wanted to go with more of an MTV style, I think you'd have to do it in the vein of Rob 'N' Big. There, the point isn't so much drama as hijinx. Rob is a skateboarder, but the show is only partially related to skating. It's more him and Big goofing off, which makes it appealing to non-skate heads. A digging reality show would have to be about a digger and the various funny shit he and his boys do in the process of looking for records.
You'd just have to find a host interesting enough to pull it off.
This is what i imagine, but w/ more than one "group" of dudes.
Timmydigalot in West Bubblefuck w/ his Buddy
That kid in Japan and his buddies.....
Hemol in NYC lookin pa nub....
Rockadelic in Texas.....
All the West coast connects.....
Cab someone please post that thread where I think Rock list the various types of Diggers he encountered/encounters...ala The Elvis/Beatles dude...etc.