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« on: January 07, 2007, 08:18:55 PM »
Mayberry's tale reminds me of a great experience... four or five years ago a local clubowner here in Providence, RI, agreed to sell me some records and told me to come down to the club and meet him. I figured we'd drive over to his house. Nope. After having a beer he brings me over to a room in the middle of the club with an unused bar along one wall. He points to the bar and says "there you go." Well, instead of liquor bottles and glasses, the shelves are crammed full of vinyl and cassettes. I'd been in this club to see bands a number of times, even played there with my band in the mid/late-90s, and never knew he housed all his vinyl there.... I was literally crawling on my hands and knees behind the bar, scraping up records from the floor amidst broken glass, dust, cobwebs, dead bugs, mold, dried alcohol and god knows what other crap. It was disgusting BUT this rescue effort netted a Freeze "Tourists", GG "Bored To Death" and "Cheri Love Affair" (all sleeveless), Nubs (NH), Buzzarians (Boston area rarity), Enemy "Want Me", Los Reactors "Dead In The Suburbs", an Ambulance "It's All Up To You" sleeve (which unfortunately contained a local new wave record instead), and a huge stack of other lesser stuff I can't remember at the moment. This all occurred between 9pm and midnight, and we were leaving for vacation at 5am the next morning. Needless to say, I was too jacked up to sleep that night. A sad postscript, the clubowner was killed in a car accident a few months ago.
Another great one is two years ago while in Florida I made it to a guy's warehouse, stacked floor to ceiling with 45 boxes. It's July and 90+ degrees and I'm in this crammed storage space with a tiny fan blowing around hot air. It was 99% major label stuff but out of nowhere I flip to a Wreck N Crew "Give Em A Fight" (comped on No One Left To Blame). That was $1. About 10 boxes later I come to a section of Stiff type releases, and I pull out a Carpets "Kill Hirb Cane", a sleeveless Rotters "Stevie Nix", Reruns "Since You Gotta Cheat", and a few other powerpop-type items I'm forgetting, all for $5 each. Pretty random, and oddly, no indie Florida titles at all.
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