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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Platters du Cuyahoga 2 series: Schwartz Fox, Allen Ravenstine, and more!!

« on: October 19, 2016, 12:52:08 PM »

Smog Veil Records announces the latest entry of archival material to be released individually and as bundled specials, called Platters du Cuyahoga, Series 2.

The LPs will ship in multiple shipments beginning with the Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade LP on or around November 18, 2016.

The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: Sunday Morning Revival (1967) (November 18, 2016 release date); (2) Allen Ravenstine: Terminal Drive (1975) (spring 2017 release); (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings) (spring 2017 release).

The Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade LP is on color vinyl and contains a free download code and never before published photos.  9 studio tracks of pure post-teen garage rock blues, limited to 1500 copies, featuring members of the James Gang and Mr Stress Blues Band.  The Allen Ravenstine LP will also be pressed on colored vinyl and contain a download code and extensive liners and photos.  Allen's recording of Terminal Drive, accompanied by Albert Dennis, was thought to be lost and we searched for a year before finding it.  A beautiful electronic composition, the recording predates and predicts Allen's contributions to Pere Ubu.  The soon to be announced double LP retrospective will continue the same deep digging and musical revelations exhibited by all the releases in this series.

SERIES INFO HERE:

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-2-lp-subscription

SCHWARTZ FOX BLUES CRUSADE INFO HERE:

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/schwartz-fox-blues-crusade-sunday-morning-revival-lp

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Music Shit / Re: Music Documentaries

« on: September 29, 2016, 05:24:56 AM »

+ I Am Thor

On Netflix of you roll that way...

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Music Shit / Re: Your Theme Music

« on: September 23, 2016, 02:20:26 PM »

Entering the room in slo-mo, theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

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Music Shit / Re: Picture Discs

« on: September 02, 2016, 01:33:23 PM »

My vote for the rarest record of all time is a 1-sided etched dealio...still no confirmed sales on the various auction sites...

Haha, yeah. Probably the most valuable record of all time.

Easily, the most elaborate packaging of any record ever issued...

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Music Shit / Re: Picture Discs

« on: September 01, 2016, 06:53:26 AM »

My vote for the rarest record of all time is a 1-sided etched dealio...still no confirmed sales on the various auction sites...

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Music Shit / Re: Bands Where Only One Member Wears Makeup

« on: August 26, 2016, 09:39:49 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2SkBK1mR4&feature=youtu.be

Manakin

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Wreckage/Larry Lewis (AK-47s) Disastodrome 7"

« on: August 09, 2016, 03:03:24 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k0_U6oT5GY

I heard that there are a couple test pressings of this but that the band failed to pay the pressing bill, so test pressings are as far as this got...

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Music Shit / Re: Bands Where Only One Member Wears Makeup

« on: August 02, 2016, 05:50:49 AM »

Genesis...

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Music Shit / Re: Pink Floyd: Everything Went Pink

« on: July 31, 2016, 12:08:57 PM »

No, this film:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/53ee78f086592

A rare book dealer friend in the UK alerted me to it and was able to make a nice deal on it for me along with a scrapbook of news clippings that Syd kept.

The film is actually 2 Super 8 reels that are meant to be screened simultaneously, 1 over the top of the other.  The other copy is in the BFI archives.  I think there's a YouTube clip showing the 2 reels dubbed to a DVD and displayed on separate TVs.

I'm not sure what I plan to do with it.

The scrapbook is interesting for what Syd was interested in at the time, which seems to be mainly soccer scores.  Except for 1 very telling clipping, a diamond advertisement.

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Music Shit / Re: Pink Floyd: Everything Went Pink

« on: July 30, 2016, 01:44:06 PM »

Doesn't include a student film featuring Syd, made by his next door neighbor in '68, of which 2 copies exist, 1 of which sits in my collection.  I'll buy always...

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Music Shit / Re: Have you guys ever found anything worth a shit at Goodwill?

« on: July 30, 2016, 01:41:46 PM »

Larry Holmes and the Easton Assassins 12" EP, signed by Larry himself, 25 cents...

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: No Fun/Plurex 1978 singles collection LP

« on: June 22, 2016, 09:58:58 AM »

I grabbed one from Radiation, well worth the price...

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73

« on: June 22, 2016, 06:09:08 AM »

The Vinyl District on Robert Bensick Band "French Pictures In London" LP:

"Combining 14 tracks into a potent avant-pop brew, the results, once thought lost, are fascinating and on occasion startlingly effective. Featuring a lineup sprinkled with future Ohio punk all-stars, the Robert Bensick Band?s sole outing deepens the already labyrinthine rewards of its region and rescues its namesake from footnote status...inspires eager anticipation for the launch of Platters du Cuyahoga series 2."

http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2016/06/graded-on-a-curve-the-robert-bensick-band-french-pictures-in-london/

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73

« on: June 21, 2016, 06:07:28 AM »

Robert Bensick Band "French Pictures In London" LP/CD in stores this Friday, 6/24. Never before releases studio LP from 1975 with Scott Krauss and Tom Herman of Pere Ubu.  Brick red vinyl, 12 page insert, download code.

Last chance to get the mail-order sales price, sale ends next Wednesday 6/29.

"...an intriguing introduction to a unique musical voice and proof positive (as if any more were needed) that ?70s underground rock still hasn?t yielded all it?s treasures." --Ken Shimamoto/The Stash Dauber

Just enter the the discount code at checkout: sv118

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/robert-bensick-band-french-pictures-in-london-lp

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: No Fun/Plurex 1978 singles collection LP

« on: June 09, 2016, 10:03:26 AM »

Radiation lists it through Discogs...