Jimster

• Afrika Bambaataa, Ice Cream - Paul Winley

  Jimster

  September 2021
  re: Artist v. Art : 
  
  I got into a (for me) heated exchange with the one PAYCHECK regarding the time he had a similar quandry.  A large and varied haul he had recently landed happened to contain some Skrewdriv*r rekkids.  For those not familiar, that band (I don't want to give them any google space) are right-wing neo-naszties and it did not sit well with Paycheck's background to either own these (natch) or sell them on to fans of that political bent.  What was a mug to do?
  
  I asked what the rule is for MJ rekkids, if we are going down the artist/art path, but that nuance was lost on him - I was accused of equating the work of MJ to that band.  He was deeply unhappy about this - Which was not my point at all.  Of course, MJ's work still endures.  He's not profiting from it, and for me, there is more to like about MJ's work than just MJ - there is the Quincy Jones production, there is the Rod Temperton chords, there is the rock solid pairing of Louis Johnson and John Robinson and probably most for me, the memories of that stuff being new, and everywhere, and the times spent with people enjoying it.
  
  That band's stuff is deliberately hateful, and personally I would have just literally destroyed shit like that.  For me, that is the difference.
  
  So for Bam, yeah, those tunes get a pass.  I think that work still stands in the context of the artform.
  
  
  

  

• Recent Finds

  Jimster

  September 2021
  Ironic you sniped it on Full Scope Records.

  

• Austin Record Convention

  Jimster

  September 2021

  billbradley said:

  OG SoulStrutter HARVEYCANAL sent me a message this morning and said he'll be coming over with a box of records.

  Say Hi to Harv.  Dude was/is his own dude and I enjoyed his poasts however mental he was/is.

  

• Did I break a record store code of conduct?

  Jimster

  September 2021
  Tell him it was marginally more hygienic than peeing on the records.
  
  If he gives you backchat, tell him you payed more in taxes this year than he will earn in his entire lifetime.
  
  If it makes you feel any better, I had a similar plight in Portinatx in Ibiza, whereby one lunchtime after foolishly consuming liberal quantities of seafood and Torres Vina Sol in the hot sun, I was stood with the family waiting for the bus back when the pressing need to "Roll a 2" came over me.  I am talking about "Non-negotiable".
  
  I thus headed into the empty bar across the road at pace, and did the needful.
  
  I have to tell you, the smell was far from pleasant.  Way past bad.  Wayyy past.  Like, "Dreadful" is a speck in the mirror.  In the outskirts of "Disgraceful (Twinned With Horrific)".  I mean, even I was gagging.  The midday heat only added to the whole affair.
  
  Thing was, the bus was due so I couldn't even order a drink once I was done.  I had to leave rapidly but still gingerly lest I provoked further below-deck activity.  I think I left the owner 5€ in shrapnel on the way out.  However, whilst exiting, I realised the miasma had engulfed his entire premises rendering it unsafe for any living creature this side of eternity.
  
  I recall being stood at the bus stop with the wife and kids while he just stood in the doorway, arms folded, glaring at me.  It is a look that still haunts me TO THIS VERY DAY.
  

  

• Recent Finds

  Jimster

  September 2021
  Great story with the Howard Johnson.  I have a 12" with the same artwork, IIRC it's Standup b/w So Fine/Keepin' Love New.  That Paul Laurence / Kashif sound.  Smooth as a nun's soap.