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Music Shit / Re: Kid bands
« on: May 20, 2018, 10:40:38 AM »
It might fall outside the bounds of this discussion, but Chirgle Freund was approximately 15 when she took over for Regula Sing in Kleenex.
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Music Shit / Re: Kid bands
« on: May 20, 2018, 10:37:09 AM »
First act who came to mind was Chandra.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Spring is comin'. SKATE THREAD.
« on: May 09, 2018, 11:27:30 AM »
I skated four days last week and yesterday. It's been that way for twenty-three years.
What Duane Peters was doing in 1979 was edgy. If you look back on his footage form that period, there's a recklessness with his skating that was a mark of distinction, let alone taking into consideration the legendary Thrasher acid drop cover he had or how he'd intentionally hang up on coping (disaster) -- which if you skate you'll know is counterintuitive. He was fucking great and I don't even like pool skating (I grew up skating street). If you can't contextualize that footage, you won't get it.
Duane didn't transition out of skating during the early '80s industry bust. Most people did. He was a skateboarder. When the vert boom took over in '86, he couldn't be bothered to keep up with the Variflex robots and kept skating like it was 1979. When skating went bust again in the early '90s, he kept doing the same thing. What would you've expected? The skateboard industry often makes the music biz look good. It's indifferent to your well being (including getting an education) and the moment your body gives out, you're done. Couple that with American (non-existent) healthcare and (until recently) an industry that went boom and bust every five-to-ten years. A lot of people got lost in the shuffle. Drug abuse, suicide, prison and homeslessness. I've been around this for the majority of my life. I've seen generations come and go.
I'm not interested in what Duane Peters doesn't know. I'm interested in that Upland footage.
What Duane Peters was doing in 1979 was edgy. If you look back on his footage form that period, there's a recklessness with his skating that was a mark of distinction, let alone taking into consideration the legendary Thrasher acid drop cover he had or how he'd intentionally hang up on coping (disaster) -- which if you skate you'll know is counterintuitive. He was fucking great and I don't even like pool skating (I grew up skating street). If you can't contextualize that footage, you won't get it.
Duane didn't transition out of skating during the early '80s industry bust. Most people did. He was a skateboarder. When the vert boom took over in '86, he couldn't be bothered to keep up with the Variflex robots and kept skating like it was 1979. When skating went bust again in the early '90s, he kept doing the same thing. What would you've expected? The skateboard industry often makes the music biz look good. It's indifferent to your well being (including getting an education) and the moment your body gives out, you're done. Couple that with American (non-existent) healthcare and (until recently) an industry that went boom and bust every five-to-ten years. A lot of people got lost in the shuffle. Drug abuse, suicide, prison and homeslessness. I've been around this for the majority of my life. I've seen generations come and go.
I'm not interested in what Duane Peters doesn't know. I'm interested in that Upland footage.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USPS hate
« on: April 09, 2018, 11:54:32 AM »
If you're interested in improving USPS' delivery service, Kevin, there are petitions floating around to ease the burden of their pension funding scheme. I've signed'em in the past. It's a lot more productive than posting your grievances on the Termbo board.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USPS hate
« on: April 09, 2018, 11:49:32 AM »
It's not a matter of making profits, Kevin. It's a matter of curtailing losses.
The genesis of USPS can be found at the founding of this country. It will continue in one way or another. If privatized couriers were the only option, you'd really know shit service. That's why they piggyback off of USPS for rural deliveries. It's indirectly why USPS is running into major problems.
The genesis of USPS can be found at the founding of this country. It will continue in one way or another. If privatized couriers were the only option, you'd really know shit service. That's why they piggyback off of USPS for rural deliveries. It's indirectly why USPS is running into major problems.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USPS hate
« on: April 09, 2018, 11:34:54 AM »My friends in NZ and AU have mentioned the return of 7"s due to lower shipping rates and less damage. That makes sense.
I don't know if its really the case, but i can say i have pretty much stopped ordering LPs from US or Overseas, unless i REALLY want it and focused only on singles since the last few years...
Neither do I. It was just their own observations/gut feelings.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USPS hate
« on: April 09, 2018, 11:10:50 AM »
If you don't want something to work, be it an organization, social good (social security) or service, defund it. That's what the Bush Administration did to USPS. I don't have the numbers handy, but the "Postal Accountability Act" forced USPS to fund something like 80% of their benefits for the next 75 years in a breakneck amount of time. It was totally unreasonable; no large private-sector employer does anything remotely similar. Observers believe it was done to break the USPS' labor union and to give privatized couriers a leg up. I think they're right. Anyhow, the plan is working perfectly as USPS branches are closing (including the venerable one in my hometown) and rates have been going up. Disaffection with USPS is probably at an all-time high. My friend works at USPS and it took him several years to transition from temp to USPS employee. They just don't have the resources anymore to hire on like they used to. Working for USPS was notoriously stress inducing, but it was a good job with benefits for people with a high school education and being a public-sector job (with budgetary controls beyond their grasp), had an employee diversity most private-sector employers lacked.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to order internationally from the US. Rates are now obscene, although I'm willing to bet USPS is still cheaper than a private courier option. But that's what it is now. Labels on my level are now losing even more money -- $2 to $3k per year should be expected. I can take it or leave it most days.
My friends in NZ and AU have mentioned the return of 7"s due to lower shipping rates and less damage. That makes sense.
Congress has realized the Bush Act has backfired and are starting to come to terms with it, including forcing USPS to maintain delivery days for mail they've proposed ending. It's like health coverage in the US. They want a neoliberal/market-based option, but they can't come up with a viable one no matter how hard they try. The irony is USPS was profitable before the Postal Accountability Act. Again, I've had records crunched, one or two gone missing, but even a hindered USPS is better than the rest.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to order internationally from the US. Rates are now obscene, although I'm willing to bet USPS is still cheaper than a private courier option. But that's what it is now. Labels on my level are now losing even more money -- $2 to $3k per year should be expected. I can take it or leave it most days.
My friends in NZ and AU have mentioned the return of 7"s due to lower shipping rates and less damage. That makes sense.
Congress has realized the Bush Act has backfired and are starting to come to terms with it, including forcing USPS to maintain delivery days for mail they've proposed ending. It's like health coverage in the US. They want a neoliberal/market-based option, but they can't come up with a viable one no matter how hard they try. The irony is USPS was profitable before the Postal Accountability Act. Again, I've had records crunched, one or two gone missing, but even a hindered USPS is better than the rest.
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Music Shit / Re: Nocturnal Projections / Peter Jefferies
« on: April 09, 2018, 10:36:25 AM »
Children's Hour was excellent. The only way I've been able to obtain anything by them on vinyl at a decent cost has been through the Tuatara comp.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: USPS hate
« on: April 09, 2018, 08:19:03 AM »
USPS rules. $3.50 to ship a record from one coast to the other via Media Mail. They're propping up the record game. Yes, I've had my issues with them. But without USPS I'd just shut the label down. Record sales are already dismal. Try doubling shipping costs domestically with a private courier. Ending net neutrality will be another destructive change.
USPS is getting screwed by a Bush-era pension funding scheme. It's largely why international postage has skyrocketed.
USPS is getting screwed by a Bush-era pension funding scheme. It's largely why international postage has skyrocketed.
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Cities / Re: Tel Aviv / Jerusalem
« on: April 09, 2018, 08:09:09 AM »
Also, I don't know where you're from, but if you're accustomed to a cold/mild climate be conscious of heat stroke. I see that you're visiting in the summer which is why I mention it.
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Cities / Re: Tel Aviv / Jerusalem
« on: April 09, 2018, 08:06:47 AM »
Black Hole Records in Tel Aviv. It's located right next to the Dizengoff Center. The store is loaded with pirated and bootleg records. I recall purchasing the two early disowned Kraftwerk records there and bootlegs like Cocteau Twins BBC Sessions (nice silk-screened cover). He's got a lot of obscure '60s psych stuff, as well as the "classics": Count Five's Psychotic Reactions LP -- stuff like that. The owner is nice. Mixed in are just whatever collections are sold off there. Seems like someone got rid of their entire Eleventh Dream Day discography last time I was in. It's definitely worth checking out.
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Music Shit / Re: KISS
« on: March 07, 2018, 09:54:14 AM »
The story of Casablanca Records is at the very least interesting.
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Music Shit / Re: The "Why isn't this reissued on vinyl thread?" Part 2
« on: March 06, 2018, 01:16:03 PM »
I thought they went as low as 500. That's just speculation, but you can tell from the cover art on some titles that it was bare bones (color covers for CDs, black and white for LPs). Some of those titles never got an LP release.
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Music Shit / Re: The "Why isn't this reissued on vinyl thread?" Part 2
« on: March 05, 2018, 02:09:23 PM »
Crystal Gazing is another one that used to be $10 or less used in the mid-'00s (I know -- I have two copies with the price tags still on them). Insane what people are getting for those. Another case of a record being issued in a very limited run relative to the CD.
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Music Shit / Termbo update thread
« on: February 26, 2018, 10:26:32 PM »
Shit, I'll just start a new one. Coley interview is a must read.
