Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to kiwicmc,
Titch
Died a few years back. He was in a (road crew) van that went off the road down Taupo way.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Rob Hosking,
You know the thing I miss most about record stores? The smell
I miss the conversation. Phil Bell (Sir Vere) and I were talking about this a few weeks back and we both miss the hangout at the counter talking to likeminded nutters. In Auckland you still find it at Conch but largely it's a thing of the past in NZ as stores disappear.
Gotta say, as a person who buys far too many vinyl records still, I think both SlowBoat and RPM have far better prices (and stock) than Real Groovy. Some of the RG NZ stock is outrageously priced.
I bought this for a tenner in SB a few weeks back, in almost mint condition. It's so bloody rare and goes on TradeMe for three or four times the price.
The chances of finding it in a bin at Real Groovy are about nil.
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Capture: A Funky Good Time, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Note a Mr S Grigg in that Screaming Blamatics tour pic.
Forgotten Mo took that! It was unbelievably cold if memory serves. However, it got waaayyy colder as we drove south without adequate heating in the vans.
As we all know these are but a minute fraction of the extraordinary Cammick archive.
There are more MC North Shore Netball shots on the Meemees pages here and here.
If this is the tour they played the all ages at Whakatane Memorial Hall
No, SBMatics was a follow the Springboks thingy, dates here.
The Whakatane SHOW was just Meemees wasn't it? Or Meemees and Newmatics?
and the very sweaty man in a suit
His name was Frank as far as I recall, and he was a helluva nice guy. Anything else is lost in time....
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Sacha,
Am I along in really liking Songs for Drella?
Umm..no.
Marbecks queens arcade #bye
Man, isn't that just awful. I could say all sorts of things about some people not ever being allowed near running record stores, however I won't - but the idea that the very best classical store in NZ, perhaps Australasia and Oceania, *plus* a legendary shop that once breathed formidable customer service, not being able to survive is just bullshit.
Angry. much.
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For a cult album, the Velvet Underground and Nico was never actually that hard to obtain
It was unavailable in New Zealand from about 1970 through to 1979, and in those days there were no imports allowed courtesy of Rob's import licensing schemes. There were only a handful of vinyl import licenses in the country and they were mostly used for 'real music' = jazz & classical.
So, yes it was really, really, really hard to get and went for silly money at auctions.
It was reissued in 1979 by PolyGram (along with Nico's Chelsea Girl) after we (being myself and couple of other record store employees) decided we'd had enough of asking for it to be repressed and went up to the offices in Grafton Rd and presented a formal letter of demand. Our store alone had about 40 long standing orders for it.
It sold really well (Nico didn't) and PolyGram took the credit for 'taking the risk'.
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Matthew Poole,
But yes, I am proud of my particular bit of PAS immortality.
As someone who was right in the middle of that morass, (I think a hefty part of my count came from said-thread) I do like the way that the one person I was at loggerheads with therein (and who was excised from PAS and the end of the process) has become quite a good buddy.
We talk almost daily at times.
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Congratulations Russell, it's been a mighty thing and will continue to be so. And thank you for offering the space to contribute and also linking to various bits I've created elsewhere - each time I'm extraordinarily grateful.
And thanks for the vast circle of knowledge I've been able to tap into by reading and contributing to PAS over the years, and the friends I've made here.
Special and hugely important - on ya!
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comes on cassette, because that's what all the cool kids are pretending to listen to these days
I was reminded by Paul Kean last night that I made the tapes that Toy Love played pre-band at their shows/on their tours all those years back. I had quite an (unpaid) industry doing so at the time and TL used to request these before tours.
I had completely forgotten.
Of course, it killed music stone dead....
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brilliant….
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Cracker: Bloggers: Pr*cks, Ars*holes,…, in reply to Graham Dunster,
Never discovered whether the same thing happened here - those were the days when NZ actually pressed lps locally...
Happily no, although a few short years earlier EMI did provide this edit to the NZBC:
Worth heaps now.....