Old and New Headz ROLL CALL (Check-In)

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  • MoogManMoogMan Sao Paulo, Brazil 1,173 Posts
    Name: Edson

    Place: S??o Paulo city, Brazil

    How old is you? 49

    How did you get here? I was looking for information about a record and found Motown67 reviews.

    Sentimental Records: James Brown's Revolution of the mind, that got me addicted to the Funk.

    Places you DIG: Whatever place I think that may have records, like used stuff stores (books, clothes, fornitures, etc) and flea markets.

    Other interests: Soccer, books, Golf, and getting stoned.


    Rank: Little dude 4 life!

    Peace.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Name: BATMON

    Place: The Boogie Down Bronx

    How old is you? Freshly 42

    How did you get here? Through a Blaxploitation site

    Sentimental Records: The Children of Zoom - Playgrounds

    Places you DIG: Ive ran thru NY for a minute and have slowed down considerably.

    Other interests: Comic Books, Blu-Ray Discs, Sneakers, Food & Drinks, PS3

    Rank: My Zodiac sign is Feces

  • HumanacatHumanacat 177 Posts
    Name: Capt. Al Hubbard The Psychedelic Voyager

    Place: In the second oldest county in U.S. last time I chequed

    How old is you? 30

    How did you get here? Growing Bad Beards

    Sentimental Records: ELO TIME, Pink Floyd Obscured by Claaahds, Kinks Village Green

    Places you DIG: I've gone digging in places where you don't even have places

    Other interests: Old paperbacks I buy and stack in piles to be read later, Criterion Movie moves, & being that dude

    Rank: Rick Santorum was a baseball player, he found success playing "small ball"

  • esskayesskay 221 Posts
    Name: Steve

    Place: San Diego

    How old is you? 42

    How did you get here? Had friends & fellow record heads here & guilty lurker as charged

    Sentimental Records: Ray Barretto-"Acid", The Specials "S/T", The Jam "The Gift", Grant Green "Alive", Funk Inc. "Chickin Lickin", etc.

    Places you DIG: Where other people don't.

    Other interests: Food, Travel, Girlfriend, Promoting Concerts/Music Festivals, Music Journalism, etc.

  • oripsorips 238 Posts
    Name: Spiro

    Place: T.O.

    How old is you? 36

    How did you get here? Searching for soul/funk sites in 2000 and found SS mixes. Discovered the forums later and usually lurk, but sometimes post.

    Sentimental Records: Early '80s Prince.

    Places you DIG: Record stores, thrift shops, flea markets, and anyplace that sells vinyl.

    Other interests: Documentaries, Indian food, hockey, cycling

    Rank: Brian Peppers

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,850 Posts
    SoulOnIce said:
    vintage crime paperbacks

    I also dabble.

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    waxjunky said:
    SoulOnIce said:
    vintage crime paperbacks

    I also dabble.

    It seems to be a fairly common secondary obsession among record collectros. maybe we need a Gold Medal subforum?

  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,850 Posts
    SoulOnIce said:
    waxjunky said:
    SoulOnIce said:
    vintage crime paperbacks

    I also dabble.

    It seems to be a fairly common secondary obsession among record collectros. maybe we need a Gold Medal subforum?

    Or a Robert McGinnis appreciation thread, at the very least!

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    waxjunky said:


    Or a Robert McGinnis appreciation thread, at the very least!

    hell yeah, not a bad idea! this remains one of the best Christmas presents I ever got:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966677641

  • DanteDante 371 Posts
    Name: Dante

    Place: Mexico City

    How old is you? 21

    How did you get here? I suppose googling a record.

    Sentimental records: Sui Generis, Almendra, Pieces Of A Man, A Love Supreme...

    Places you dig: wherever I can or afford: thrifts, flea markets, stores, eBay, People's Records...

    Other interests: propa football (soccer), philosophy, comedy, african american history, art

    Rank: little dude. literally and figuratively speaking.

  • parallaxparallax no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
    Name: Parallax

    Place: Edmonton

    How old is you? 30's

    How did you get here? Probably googled a record years ago (longtime lurker-r). Stayed when I heard ako's shit pre-MPM (2002?) via Danno's Waxing Deep site, finally regged recently.

    Sentimental Records: Stefano Torossi - Feelings; Rene Costy - Small Group Sounds; S.O.U.L. - What Is It?; Frank Pleyer Big Band - S/T

    Places you DIG: The usual online spots + anywhere that has vinyl IRL

    Other interests: MMA, Chess, Hockey, dressing/eating/living well

    Rank: Rarely. I shower daily, as should you. WASH YO ASS!

  • dayday 9,612 Posts
    Name: Dee Aye Why

    Place: Palm Springs/CV

    How old is you? Old enough to know better

    How did you get here? teh internetz

    Sentimental Records: Idris Muhammad - Power of Soul, Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack - ST, Xanadu/Grease - OST

    Places you DIG: thrifts, behind the green door

    Other interests: traveling, partying, communicating, family, food and all things supple.

    Rank: Medium raer without a doubt.

  • mo.majidmo.majid 14 Posts
    Name: Mo

    Place: UK

    How old is you? 41

    How did you get here? Don't know!. Where's Soulman, Where's Danny?!.

    Sentimental Records: All from the Wall!!.

    Places you Dig: All over!.

    Other interests: Marine Aquariums!.

    Rank: Medium raer without a doubt.

  • dayday 9,612 Posts
    mo.majid said:
    Name: Mo

    Place: UK

    How old is you? 41

    How did you get here? Don't know!. Where's Soulman, Where's Danny?!.

    Sentimental Records: All from the Wall!!.

    Places you Dig: All over!.

    Other interests: traveling, partying, communicating, family, food and all things supple.

    Rank: Medium raer without a doubt.

    Lemme take a time out from all this and say, Mo was one of the OG dudes in the game when I got into this. Much respect to my man. Good to see you still around. Do the knowledge.

  • Name: Hugh

    Place: Melbourne

    How old is you? 36

    How did you get here? Can't really remember, maybe via Soulman's World of Beats circa 2000 ..

    Sentimental Records: Augustus Pablo 'This is', various Quincy Conserve things, Pamoja, Jerzy Milian

    Places you DIG: Northside Records, Real Groovy (AKL), innternets

    Other interests: biking, EPL, cooking, photography, NZ

    Rank: Outsider

  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    Name: Olivier

    Place: London

    How old is you? 41

    How did you get here? Googled a record and found one of Motown's reviews. Around 2001/2002? Think a link to a White Tea mix might have also led me here...

    Sentimental Records: Booker T and the MGs, Green Onions b/w Bootleg. First record I ever hunted down - all started there. Also The Congos, Heart of the Congos - the record that gave me faith in blind buys from unlikely places.

    Places You Dig: Charity shops, boot sales, record shops. Not so much online - I like surprises

    Other Interests: Family, concerts, playing music, old books, mountains, coconuts

    Rank: ignoramus

  • minimini 879 Posts
    Name: Miko

    Place: Helsinki

    How old is you? 36

    How did you get here? Some crate diggin related search

    Sentimental Records: P-Funk stuff

    Places You dig: Flea markets, trift stores, boutiques

    Other Interests: Family, Food, art, books, TV...

    Rank: Minimal

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,885 Posts
    Name: James J. J.

    Place: Notting-haaaaaym, yewkay.

    How old is you? Unbelieveably, 44.

    How did you get here? Came for the mixes, stayed to get called old by Foxy.

    Sentimental Records: Chic hits, Early Iron Maiden and pre-Shorter Miles.

    Places You dig: Since Decoy closed, the internet.

    Other Interests: Family, Mountain Biking, Bass playing, Being Top of the League.

    Rank: Alleged moisturiser.

  • piedpiperpiedpiper 1,279 Posts
    Name: piedpiper

    Place: Berlin

    How old is you? 31

    How did you get here? word-of-mouth advertising

    Sentimental Records: D&B/Jungle 12" & parts of the blazing downtempo collection

    Places You dig: great restaurants and record stores

    Other Interests: cooking & travelling

    Rank: Euro little dude

  • granjerogranjero 147 Posts
    Name: Tom

    Place: London

    How old is you? 39

    How did you get here? Don't remember

    Sentimental Records: Anything on Prescription, Black Male, or that I bought off the merch table at a gig

    Places you DIG: Charity shops in out-of-the-way market towns (for classical records)

    Other interests: Reading about the history of jazz, filmmaking, playing the piano, watching American tv drama

    Rank: Total insignificance

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    Name: Jonathan

    Place: NYC

    How old is you? 34

    How did you get here? Soulman mentioned this site in a WOB poast, back in like 2001.

    Sentimental Records: Today I'll go with Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds

    Places you DIG: way down in the jungle deep

    Other interests: My daughter, my record store Good Records NYC, writing about Bay Area history at citiesofdope.tumblr.com, eat good/drink good/smoke good, still fucking with samples on my ASR-10.

    Rank: OG

  • cookbookcookbook 783 Posts
    Name: chr*s

    Place: kentucky

    How old is you? late 20s

    How did you get here? 2003 web search results

    Sentimental Records: judgment!, illmatic, anythinig on goldwax

    Places you DIG: wherever

    Other interests: bourbon, astronomy, super nintendo

    Rank: ;blap: :game_over: :hated_it: :necessary: :shh: :woah:

  • Name: Noah

    Place: The Great White North

    How old is you? 36

    How did you get here? motown's reviews (where is motown anyhow?)

    Sentimental Records: Survivor "Eye of the Tiger" - the first record i actually sought out.

    Places you DIG: all over the damn place

    Other interests: my polka, guitars, song books, cooking/eating,

    Rank: Biggest Little Dude

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    gareth said:
    Place: Brooklyn, via Boston, via Ohio

    See, this is what's wrong with Brooklyn. Everybody else says New York.

    b/w

    The sign going into Brooklyn from Queens on the BQE says "Brooklyn: Believe the Hype!". G.T.F.O.O.H.W.T.B.S.

  • Name: Neil

    Place: Wales, UK

    How old is you? 31

    How did you get here? Crates mailing list, I think...

    Sentimental Records: Mary Lou Williams Black Christ of the Andes, maybe John Coltrane Coltrane

    Places you DIG: Anywhere.

    Other interests: Making, and occasionally releasing, records; cycling up hills; random computer geekery; Arsenal.

    Rank: Imminent

  • DJBombjackDJBombjack Miami 1,665 Posts
    Name: Jesse

    Place: Miami

    How old is you? 38

    How did you get here? Who knows? Maybe some random search...

    Sentimental Records: Lots... but right now? I'd say PR & CL Main Ingredient.

    Places you DIG: eh. South Florida sucks. Mostly eBay these days i'm sorry to say

    Other interests: My daughter. Being a part of the grown-up 'social' scene (I host nights). Design.

  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,778 Posts
    neil_something said:
    Name: Neil

    Place: Wales, UK

    Happy Welshness day.

    Rank: Imminent

    Have a leek on me.

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    neil_something said:
    Name: Neil

    Place: Wales, UK

    Happy Welshness day.
    /quote]

    We have a day? Is it like St. Paddy's?

  • Name: bass_fever

    Place: Indiana

    How old is you? 31

    How did you get here? Peoples instinctive travels in record nerdity

    Sentimental Records: My rap tape collection from the 80s and early 90s

    Places you DIG: No place is safe, coming to a town near you

    Other interests: Music is my life, relaxing, teetering at the cusp of alchoholism, and other indulgences.

  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,778 Posts
    DB_Cooper said:
    Duderonomy said:
    neil_something said:
    Name: Neil

    Place: Wales, UK

    Happy Welshness day.

    We have a day? Is it like St. Paddy's?

    "Dydd G??yl Dewi hapus i bawb"

    From wiki: Saint David's Day (Welsh: Dydd G??yl Dewi) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The first day of March was chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David. Tradition holds that he died on that day having eaten close to half a metric tonne of leeks in 589.[1] The date was declared a national day of celebration within Wales in the 18th century.
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