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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: WFMU 2014

« on: June 02, 2014, 08:13:10 AM »

I think the 26th St. Armory made the swap seem smaller, might be the booming seventy-ft high ceilings? People might grouse about the May timing of the swap, but since one got wiped out by a hurricane, and there was continuous freezing rain and snow at the one before that, Nature has spoken.

I bought a few nice punkers at sub-Discogs prices, but it seems like a number of tables were 50% reissues. Dealers having problems getting new stock, or timing of the swap after a holiday, or what? The dollar boxes were pretty good this year, esp. when compared to the crap I see in SF. The most unexpected take home was a super clean kraut press Pack LP with the insert, freed from a box of mellotron prog. Now I only need a clean Kids debut to finish the Continental-Euro 70s Punk LP Grand Slam (Kids/Hubble Bubble/Pack/Ivy Green).

Good to see Vincenzo, who dug his mangiest denim out of the dumpster for the occasion, and Daniel ("100s of pushups a day") DiMaggio, and Mr. Scum (who I hope enjoys that slice of 60s garage he dropped that wad of dough on, couldn't tell?).

Casual plug for Spivak's tiny new store in Brooklyn. It's got a lot of potential, the vibe at that location is spot on. Anti-brunch.

Everybody in NY drinks iced qwafy, "it's nice".

I ended up catching the late screening of the new Jodorowsky. Takes balls to film your real life son shivering with plague boils getting truly pissed on by an opera singer invoking God in full contralto. "It's nice"

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Non-Music Shit / Re: TERMBO Fantasy Baseball League 2014

« on: May 27, 2014, 12:53:13 PM »

I think my points are sustainable, and with Sale back off the DL I can afford to recycle whichever SP runs out of gasss in the summer heat. This year is looking like 2009, our last decent stretch run. It's been runaway winners the last couple of years, it would be nice to have a competitive August/September.

Biggest out-of-nowhere hitter: Charlie Blackmon.

Best Outfield so far: La Flama Blanca or Canna Corn (Larson is top-heavy with Blackmon and Puig standing out)

Biggest draft bust (NOT counting injuries) first two rounds: there really aren't any, all the "busts" are due to injury. I mean, Adam Jones or Andrew McCutchen or David Wright could be doing more, but they aren't outright busts. We drafted pretty smart overall. 

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Non-Music Shit / Re: TERMBO Fantasy Baseball League 2014

« on: May 27, 2014, 08:20:41 AM »

I said before the draft that Edwin Encarnacion was the most vanilla power guy at the 3B position outside of Mr. Cabrera. He got nailed on the wrist the last week of spring training and it killed his power stroke, all good now.

My pitching staff has totally shit the bed, so all my hitters sat up to attention.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 25, 2014, 04:14:33 PM »

"I gotta admit that I really like these punk collections that have been coming out faster'n a scab outbreak on a lint-headed mid-South inbred..."

"...these platters are programmed just right for a nightly spin to go along with your inspirational readings of  RICHIE RICH"

Stigliano never disappoints, you get your racist aside and libertarian spud wank all in one tortuously-worded paragraph. We could start a "write like Stigliano" contest, but that would break the parenthesis keys on every participating keyboard.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: May 23, 2014, 08:25:30 AM »

Magical Power Mako, Hapmoniym Part 1. Last nite's listen is a li'l hazy but I recall thinking that the structure reminded me of a long(er)-form version of The Faust Tapes - wide stylistic palette whereon a random needle drop could yield up a vastly different family of sounds from one minute to the next - only the trajectory of Hapmoniym is both lower/slower and the changes more natural, as opposed to the almost-manic editing of Faust Tapes (which is part of what I love about the latter.) Relaxing/hair-raising acoustic interludes are of the Denny Wilson-meets-First Utterance variety. This band is a mystery to me. I need to hear more.

This band was the source of much interest in the early-mid 90s. The five volumes of the CD reissue series were suuuuuper hard to get and cost like $40 new, which was nuts for a fucking CD. But they are still a largely unknown source of instantly recognizable Krautian Qwality, in serious need of vinyl versions.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 08:17:06 PM »

There's no problem, I've happily hijacked the thread to rattle on about how comps are still cool. Cracker has no use for comps. Most people don't care or have an opinion.

I highly recommend the Big Butt thread for the both of you. You sound a little backed up.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: TERMBO Fantasy Baseball League 2014

« on: May 22, 2014, 08:13:53 PM »

COMMISH NOTES:

Since Fielder was on Frozen Ropes Can't Cut list, I cut him as Commish.

If anyone has a player going onto the DL that is on their No Cut List and wants to drop them, PM me and I will get rid of them for you. This includes players that will be out for a month or so, I will let teams move on quickly.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 03:46:25 PM »

Can anything be done to stop this from happening?

All you cool bros need to start humping litters of kids into your wives/girlfriends and then raisin' 'em up as vinyl-firsters. Trained young they are format fetishists for life. Could use: entire generation.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: TERMBO Fantasy Baseball League 2014

« on: May 22, 2014, 02:47:50 PM »

My first 4 picks:

1) Adam Jones - having typical vanilla year, gonna finish 30/15 just like I hoped. More boring than Matt Holliday.
2) Edwin Encarnacion - hottest slugger in the AL
3) Max Scherzer - On pace for 220IP/260K
4) Chris Sale - coming off the DL today

Eh.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 01:25:47 PM »

There is still a TON of amazing shit out there that is unfindable online in 2014, it's still in the "curated" zone of influence. You can't search for it if you don't know if exists. Released during the vinyl/cassette years this physical stuff hides out in private collections or in artists closets/garages. Never been reissued. I've got some, and my pile is nothing compared to others. There are still thousands of unknown records, or barely known and hoarded by a handful of collectors, floating around out there that could be worth a reissue or at least a track on a comp. 

Some people WILL buy this proto punk comp and be stimulated into tracking down originals, or stuff that gives them the same emotional charge on exposure, because the obscurity is a hook too; people want most what they cannot have. If you have a strong emotional reaction to some particular style of music, you want that intense feeling of discovery again. It's also the theory behind meth, I believe.

Going through the trouble of buying a vinyl comp and then getting hooked is more likely since they started via vinyl rather than idly scrolling through mp3s online. Predisposition.

I picked up that metal/hard rock double LP comp that Numero put out. I only had two tracks off this thing on original vinyl, and had been violently outbid on a handful of others (perhaps by the compilers or their friends that got early notification that the comp was coming out so buying up before prices start spiking). The comp just makes me want to track down more of this type of shit.

I.E. I am playing directly into Cracker's all-gripping hands.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 11:05:46 AM »

I was spoonfed my interest in obscure punk via Killed By Death comps back in the mid 90's. Guess I'm lame. I saw a friend of mine post a pic of one of these comps on his Facebook wall. He is in his forties and an awesome dude who played in punk bands when I was a kid and turned me onto a lot of cool stuff. He isn't a beardo just a guy in his fourties who likes this shit and was happy to have it all on one comp. What a stupid thing to get mad about

For me it was via Warren's Feel Lucky Punk, mail ordered from Crypt in 1991. That was what kicked me into total overdrive. The first 4 KBDs were out of print at that point, so I taped them at MRR and they became early search lists. Then they came back out around, uhhhh, '93? 94?

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 10:51:39 AM »

Some of these comps will go into the hands of 17 year-old music fanatics, who will get hooked on the history and the mystery and start tunneling into the cultural detritus for originals and for "stuff that sounds like this".

doubtful.

you guys are really showing your age in this thread.

Wow, I've heard of the internet. I think I'm on it now. I think.

Doubtful = many of these comps will get filed way, or stuck in cultural tourism land. Not my concern. I only care about random obsessives who get hooked via the comp (or others like it) and start turning the dirt over. If that's only 1% of potential purchasers, so be it, I'm not sweating proportionality. Only 1% of music collectors really matter to me anyway: the lifers who kept digging for stuff I am also interested in.

Cracker: KTEL. These are exactly K-Tel moderne. It's Super Hits of the 70s, Punk Edition. Not totally different than the frankenstein-ed "punk" samplers that came out in Europe in their dozens that repackage 77-79 stuff (mix of crappy 2nd tier new wave with, like, 999 or the Heartbreakers or the Drones tossed in as a prod to now-back catalog). Those comps can be fun if they're cheap, perhaps for the cover pic of a no-name fashion model turned out as a blur of Pat Benatar and Poly Styrene.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: TERMBO Fantasy Baseball League 2014

« on: May 22, 2014, 09:05:16 AM »

That pitcher threw another six shutout innings last night. He'll start the rest of the year, he'll just never throw a complete game is all, 7 IP max. He's going into the 200IP range, and at that point I will have maxed out my innings in this league.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 08:57:52 AM »

Crackums, a lot of the people buying these comps are probably never going to sweat shit, in this life. Those neckbeards and their Zooey-alike girlfriends wading into cultural wilderness areas will spend their hot young lives getting their authenticity spoon fed to them, because they are either working 70-hour-weeks in some tech/finance field, or to borrow a line: "trust funders sailing their inflatable castles across the Atlantic". There are other people, like you, who will do the dirty-fingered field work for them and when they bring their stack of 15 reissues up to the counter they will be all, like, totes thonks!!

To echo Dave Martin, these comps are for people who have zero interest in collecting originals. That takes time and effort, and they are more interested in having these sounds in the background while they make $200/hour rebuilding the back end of a sports apparel website so that the text turns to aqua when a cursor floats over the reef climbing shoes. Per spec. And they would like to be spinning Victoria Vein while doing this. Fine.

HOWEVER. Some of these comps will go into the hands of 17 year-old music fanatics, who will get hooked on the history and the mystery and start tunneling into the cultural detritus for originals and for "stuff that sounds like this". Like I did. That's why, in the end, I love and defend comps.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 21, 2014, 01:25:08 PM »

The Rhino comps were on permanent repeat at Epicenter Zone in SF in the mid 90s. But, we couldn't STOCK them for sale at the store due to the major label connection so we just played the promos we got from Cargo. Thems were the days, when the Degenerate Sons of Shemp Howard roamed the Earth sporting Earth Crisis butt flaps, puzzling the local taco joints by asking if there was lard in their refried beans.

I've always been a major supporter of comps. Boot or legit, comp that shit.