Time to tap those toes! Join George Jetson and me for your Saturday night spin session (and recording of 'your daily soundtrack' post).
Live and in full effect 7pm to 10pm (pst) tonight. LP #CoverArt in a thread below this post. Big Love to the Mastodon Massive, going on a full year of posting here and leaving the bird behind!
@benthos@icastico@vinylrecords in our house, we called it the "ornette fund" & used it to pay off one of my partner's outstanding debts, purchase a decent amp for myself, then go to florida for a week (with enough leftover to scoop a whole bunch of LPs & mail them home).
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Wrapping it up tonight with the great Willie Dixon … he produced and collaborated with Koko Taylor, and wrote so many of the classics.
Thanks for listening, and if you didn’t hear it live, you can always check out the recording on my SoundCloud. It will turn up here on one of my daily mixes, and if you’re so inclined, don’t forget, I have a Patreon link on my profile. Hope you enjoyed the covers! Thanks for listening, thanks for your support, and thanks for keeping the music alive!
@patmikemid@vinylrecords
Glad you dropped in! Saturday nights, unless I’m out of town and usually once during the week mid day on Tuesdays or Thursdays. If you log into Mixlr and follow me, it sends out notifications when I start playing. Thanks!
#NowPlaying - and while we're at it, also more bangers than "meet the beatles" & an album i jam way more often than "sgt. pepper." "ugliest part of your body" & "take your clothes off when you dance" still go so hard. peace to FZ & all hungry freaks. @vinylrecords
#NowPlaying - well past the point that most zappa interests me, i can kinda get with the "shut up 'n play yer #guitar" format (vol. 1, 1979-1980). shreddy af but incredibly lyrical & creative. despite being an autocratic bandleader, there was a real commitment to improvisation (& shaping it into standalone pieces) & it's almost a misdirecting title. zappa's in charge but they often feel more like jams than solos. also cool noise-blurt transitions straight outta '60s mothers LPs. @vinylrecords
@bourgwick@vinylrecords the interactions between Zappa and Vinnie Colaiuta on those Shut Up And Play Your Guitar albums are otherworldly. I remember reading that Steve Vai had to invent new musical notation to transcribe some of the rhythms (later published in the Frank Zappa Guitar Book).
@benthos@icastico@innergroove@vinylrecords "I can appreciate the song-craft" . . . "it does sound good": Dan-love is a slippery slope. I will not be surprised to find you yammering on about Fagen's dry wit and lyrical obscurantisms in due course. My wife frequently reminds me I did precisely this when I hit my mid-40s.
Monday morning. Clocking-in and spinning up some Fairport Convention for this frosty November start.
Funny how not too far from Jefferson Airplane this first record seems.
holy moly, the wonderful shop mississippi records (in portland, oregon) apparently got firebombed yesterday?! no news coverage yet, cleanup underway, much love. #pdx#records@vinylrecords
I realize the Mississippi Records label split off from the store, but now playing Last Kind Words, one of their early compilations of obscure country blues, in solidarity. #vinyl
Tonight’s first spin chosen indirectly by @scotspostpunk: U2 live at the Marquee 1980. This string of weekly gigs was the stuff of legends - from a handful of folks to sellouts with crowds outside in the street in only 4 or 5 weeks. SPP and I were each able to catch one of these and - whatever your opinion if U2 today is - they we objectively shit hot then.
Originally a fan club release, this was repressed as a 2 x 10” LP in 2015.
@TheVinylApe@kennybrown131@scotspostpunk@vinylrecords
Agree 100%. Here in the UK, we give a lot of credit to John Peel for bringing us music that we’d never heard before, but Andy Kershaw was the DJ who brought us Green On Red, The Long Ryders and a bunch more from all corners of the world.
@markmetz@vinylrecords I have the book as well. It’s a VERY short read. And it’s a very bare bones version of the movie. Sellers should have won that Oscar. One of the biggest robberies of all time. Hoffman in Kramer vs Kramer is in NO way comparable to what Sellers did.
Sellers didn’t even make the ceremony cuz he was so sick. He died very shortly thereafter.
@TheVinylApe@vinylrecords
Wow, I wasn’t aware of that history. He definitely should’ve won the Oscar! I didn’t realize he passed away after that movie, what a loss!
@markmetz@vinylrecords Ah cool, so it was really early and without Africa 70. I'm surprised I've never seen it before. I'll have to check it out. I'm still making my way through this vinyl box set.