I haven’t been here in a while, but I am listening to The Brian Jonestown Massacre, so you should be too.
Enjoy!
For this year’s Record Store Day, here’s a video of one of my favorite authors talking about a situation that I could relate to.
Now this doc, Finding The Groove was pretty fun to watch. I especially could relate to one of the young guys they interviewed, because he talked about basically building his entire sound system from stuff he just found. He then suggests that the beginning of the whole vinyl rebirth was due to kids being broke. Is that true? Perhaps.
My turntable was just traded to me by an old dealer, he cut me a supreme deal with the amp (my trusty Kenwood), and half of my speakers were just hanging around in my basement (my dad’s old speakers that he built himself in the 70s) and the other half I discovered near a dumpster. Record buying can be sort of like a found art.
(ok, I have no idea why the order of these posts got messed up, but I think the first post in this series came out as the second, so please be aware so this all makes sense)
“Vinyl” from 2004 might feature the most similar feeling and philosophy that I have about records and the pursuing of records. The guy in the Skinny Puppy shirt and I are kindred spirits I believe (even if I don’t listen to Skinny Puppy, but you’ll know what I mean when you hear him talk)
“It doesn’t matter how many you have, it doesn’t matter if you have them all. You still don’t actually have them all. It would be impossible, and to have every record that you could ever want, is impossible.”
