Record Store Day is April 18, 2009. We recorded a special (non)episode to remind our listeners to patronize their local record stores! And we got a little silly doing it. Twitter shout out!
Head over to the Record Store Day site for more information and a list of participating retailers!
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We pull out the debut album by the band Boston. This is was what Album Oriented Rock radio was invented to play. For a look at the tight chart competition in 1976 check out this list of the Best Albums of the Year created by an Amazon user.
Original album review from Rolling Stone.
Listener Daniel Edlen does original artwork on vinyl records and has offered to donate some of the proceeds from the sale of one of his pieces to the Community FoodBank of NJ. Mick on a copy of Goats Head Soup! You know you want it!
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Buy Some Girls on CD or mp3
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Thanks for the confidence and kick in the ass you’ve all given us by subscribing to our Twitter account before we even have a show done!
Welcome to Basement Vinyl. We’re still digging past the cobwebs to pull our records up from the basement. The next step is to get them settled in their new home upstairs. As we do that we’re already laughing at the memories and stories they’re evoking.
Very soon we’ll be starting up our podcast, so please subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to be among the first to hear it!
Turns out there are vinyl records in the President’s basement too!
When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th,
he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: several hundred LPs that include landmark albums in rock (Led Zeppelin IV, the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed), punk (the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia, the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols), cult classics (Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, the Flying Burrito Brothers’ The Gilded Palace of Sin) and disco. Not to mention records by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow.
We’re not quite ready to rock and roll yet, but thanks for coming by. Very soon we’ll have fun and hopefully interesting stuff for you, but first we need to get down in the basement and dig out all those vinyl records that have been ignored for far too long!
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Record Store Day at Vintage Vinyl in NJ
Had lots of fun visiting Vintage Vinyl in Fords NJ yesterday for Record Store Day. They had live music, including The Color Fred & Willie Nile. Nice size crowd (of all ages!) turned out.
Pat was on a camping trip with our kids but I met up with my friend Mike, a Vintage Vinyl veteran, to comb through the stacks and see what I could find. I was looking for some David Bowie- shockingly we don’t have any Bowie! None to be found (well, one, and Mike bought it!) but I did find a few items to fill some holes in our collection, including the No Nukes concert LP, the first Dire Straits record, and Squeeze Singles 45s & Under. Also grabbed a copy of Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years, which I used to borrow from the library! Finally have one of my own.
Also received a bag full of schwag, including some new music to check out and a few 45s. Nice!
I took some video of The Color Fred singing Hate to See You Go and Willie Nile doing Buddy Holly’s I’m Gonna Love You, Too. Enjoy!