Baton Rouge
pabloscooter
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Any tips on visiting Baton Rouge?
Any strutters? dealers? or worthwhile food spots?
Anyone ever been to Buddy Stewart's Rock Shop?
Any strutters? dealers? or worthwhile food spots?
Anyone ever been to Buddy Stewart's Rock Shop?
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Mr. Po Boy on Airline.....save room for the baklava.
Buddy's place is good for photos and laughs.
Anyone else have much experience here? I'ill be there on business with some time to kill...
Don't know how much they had left in them, as they were also operating a tax return service out of the shop when I was there in 2009.
There's another shop with a lot of stock, mostly chud and all the vinyl is underneath the CD bins. They have the good sense to provide a scooter for you to scoot around on when you're looking at the records -- like one of those old square wooden scooters we used to have in gym class. I got a few things there too but since I couldn't tell you the name or the location, this is probably not that helpful.
Third shop had a pantload of sealed cassettes. Again, don't remember the name of it -- I think it was over by the airport -- guy was nice, had been in business for 30 years and the business was clearly dying. I got a Boogie Down Productions tape and a homespun Obama t-shirt from him.
OTHER TIPS: Hubig's pies were in short supply, except at the Texaco station near the airport. CD-Rs made in Japan were abundantly available, including at every Wal-Greens.
I also hit that spot with the little bench on wheels thingies....I found some good stuff there but also don't remember the name....I found them in the Yellow Pages....looked like the majority of his business was selling CD's and videos with titles like "Crack Ho's Go Wild".
On the main drag there are two indoor Flea Markets and a huge book store that had vinyl.
The LPs were ridiculous. Thriller for $50, stuff like that. The 45s were mostly around $4 or so if memory serves, but they are not organized in any way that makes sense, and they are on bookshelves essentially, which makes browsing laborious.
Definitely the same place. Again, your labors are long and difficult, but your patience *might* be rewarded. Depends on your taste.
I totally missed these places. Oh well.
(and thanks Jroot- forgot to say)
Any good watering holes to speak of?
My 2cents:
Forget coming up in record stores, unless you're after Cash Money dead stock 12's
and '80s Malaco blues lps. Buddy Stewarts is an institution, and you should def stop
in and spend some dough on a t-shirt or something, but it's completely picked over
for years now, and I'm not sure they even sell vinyl now, something about turning
their stock into a "library", whereby they burn a cd for a fee.
The other two are a complete wash, but again, you should go and buy a rapp tape
or t-shirt, drop some tourist dollar.
There is a vintage boutique, The Time Warp, on Government st, that has a vinyl room,
very hit-or-miss, but worth a stop.
For eats, I always reccomend Parrains Seafood to out-a-towners. Well prepared local dishes,
very fresh seafood, right by I-10. Google it.
Tony's Seafood on Plank rd., another local institution, best boudin in the city, great crawfish pies.
For drinkin, downtown has Red Star, nice dark smoky bar, hosts a "Mod Sixties" night on Fridays,
can be a good time.
Lsu has The Chimes, super huge beer menu, college kids, good food, and the best selection of
Abita beers, the local brew, on tap.
Oh, and I have been selling off my vinyl this year after ripping everything to mp3, so if you want to
look through the for sale crates, shoot me a pm.
Hope this helps!
Sounds like heaven to me, seriously.
Seriously, I bet Music Treasure Chest has 10 copies of every
Cash Money release that ever made it to vinyl.
Send me a wishlist if you wannna proxy dig...
I already have all of the Universal records, but if you ever see pre-major label distribution Cah Money releases...plaese to grab for me and I will promptly reimburse with a premium attached. Thx.