Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store Day
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Your mention of Waves struck a chord with me – the album was well played at our student flat in Christchurch in 1975, and over the years I’ve looked for another copy in vain. Big ups to my local record store Evil Genius – a great combination of coffee and second-hand vinyl goodness.
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When i was a kid my Mum was good friends with Christine who ran Everyman records in Nelson (they had a travelling puppet theatre). Christine approved of my taste in music and would keep an eye out for things she thought would interest me. She treated me with respect and was rewarded with most of my pocket-and-babysitting money.
When I moved to Christchcurch I spent a lot of time and cash in Echo Records. There was a bewildering array of stock, spread through several adjacent buildings, but the service ranged from dismissive to surly.
There are fewer record stores here now and it's harder to linger with kids in tow (though a stop in Slow Boat in Wellington demonstrated that they're going to be keen soon) but not much tops they joy of going through the dusty bins to discover the very thing you've been wanting.
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I wonder if the sale of WeAreHunted to twitter earlier this month will add some sparkle to the music app discovery space. Bandcamp is an awesome service and with the right "front end" it can work very well for musicians. I think the community is still out there - it is just much more fragmented and unless you are a fan already the best places is something like soundcloud.
I have been working with a director who is selling quite a few DVD's to the 40+ crowd and it is surprising that many still want a physical file format. Partly that is because NZ broadband caps & speed still means that full length videos are still a bit tricky for the average user.
When I was growing up music and especially radio was the real soundtrack for life. Music TV came a bit later. I can often remember all the details of where I was when I heard a particular piece of music the first time so it then becomes a bit of easy time travel as it gets overlaid with other more recent memories and associations.
BTW @Dave Patrick - the Sounds guy you mentioned was probably Robin Lambert. I met him years later and we laughed about how much I had bought because he made shopping an actual experience.
One of the music store experiences I remember was in a Record Warehouse? in the old His Majestys arcade. That store had a grand piano all decked out in fake snow for the release of SuperTramps "Even in the Quietest Moments" album which came out in 1977.
That was a great store owned by Guy Morris and a number of others who were real music enthusiasts and collectors. Guy had something to do with a music magazine called Hotlicks which came before Rip it Up.
It turns out that Simon Grigg has already written about some of these stores over here
[ [ http://opdiner.com/2013/theres-a-stack-of-shellac-and-vinyl-which-is-yours-now-and-which-is-mine-45/ | There’s a stack of shellac and vinyl / Which is yours now and which is mine? / 45 ] ]
Unfortunately the link doesn't want to work for me so just dropping it in as is.
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Was never a great fan of vinyl - fragile and quality seriously degraded after a bit of normal use. I certainly never managed to keep my albums in archival quality.
So in Wellington, never related to the Slow Boat live, and with Real Groovy closed, frankly I found it to be a bit of a music shop wasteland. There's Rough Peel too, but that never had anything I was looking for.
Off to Amplifier for Tahuna Breaks' latest. And can Amplifier do up a mobile interface or app, and allow FLAC downloads? (I always loved them for their high-quality non-DRMed offerings in any case).
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ChrisW, in reply to
hey Jackie, cheers so much for the tip, will definitely follow up.
If you’re still around on this thread Alan – here’s the yellow villa Jackie’s recommended at Te Aroha, far left of the photo. This a short block up towards the hills from the main street, left instead of right towards Morrinsville. The stripy clock tower should catch your peripheral vision even if the yellow villa doesn’t. There may well be gold in the yellow villa, but perhaps not at charitable prices?
Recommend you check out the World War I memorial out in front too, in honour of your Fridayised Anzac holiday. Took this photo last December not for that shop but to show the context of what I’d say is a truly remarkable memorial. I'll put photos thereof on the War Stories thread lest I be accused of Capturing them all.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
well done that man, I know the very spot.
kicked off my trawl yesterday - filling my boots while the family's away. managed to squeeze in the chazzas of Papakura, Takanini, Manurewa, Papatoetoe and Otara in btwn downpours.
scored a couple of dozen great pieces for about 50c a pop. esp, but not even remotely limited too, this oddball lounge band who kick off two sides of nonsense with a blazingly quaint take on G Clinton's I Wanna Testify - not sure what they were thinking, but damn pleased they gave it a crack - and the Tommy Watt Orchestra's (feat. Tubby Hayes ) Watts Cooking, outrageously boisterous big band swing and all originals
can't wait to give 'em a spin in combat conditions.appetite fully whetted for tomorrow.
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hey Jackie and Chris, just so's you know I managed to get to that place yesterday and it indeed contributed to mighty mighty haul.
from him I scored an Aretha Franklin live album from '65, Dionne Warwick gospel album from her Sceptre period, and an Alternative Ulster 7''. As you say his prices aren't the lowest, but good gear's good gear - cheers for the tip.
highlight score was probably Pink Floyld Obscured by Clouds OST - goes for big money that one, not that I'm selling - from a stash of old Centrepoint vinyl I stumbled across in Thames. owner had forgot about all the records stored under a shelf, just listening to the sampler of early 80s German electronica (Tanz Mit Dem Herzen) I found there as well.
All up came home with about 50 albums and a handful of 7s - really enjoying Barbarella OST from a junk shop in Morrinsville. only just made it there in time.
Fave moment was walking into what I thought was a 2nd hand store and interrupting some lasses glamour photography session.
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ChrisW, in reply to
Pleased to hear it Alan - satisfaction all round.
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