Yeah, Flea is a banger!
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I may buy a physical album for the first time in years. Where does one buy such things these days?
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Bandcamp, artists own website shop, merch stand on tour, or an actual real record shop if you live in an urban area.
She doesn’t have vinyl on her Bandcamp right now.
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Oh I wouldn’t buy vinyl. I wouldn’t have any way to play it. Hell, I’m not sure I have any way to play a CD, now that I think about it. Wow, the world has changed and I have gotten old.
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I have no way to play CDs but I always knew my vinyl would outlast my CDs.
I was in London the other week and went to some record shops looking to bring home a William Onyeabor record as a treat for my wife but unfortunately the only one I saw was a £120 box set which is… not what I was looking for.
He is on Bandcamp though:
Including records.
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HELL YEAH WILLIAM ONYEABOR!
I’m so glad to see another fan in the wild.
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Can I recommend Rough Trade?
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Norman is good too. I was in Covent Garden and Camden Town shopping with my daughter and I assumed I would have my pick of shops to get a copy. And for my hosts who are both fans.
TBH I’m sure I could get one at the weekend in Dublin it’s just that I was looking to buy presents.
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There used to be a Rough Trade in Covent Garden but it is long gone. I haven’t been round Camden properly for years, I used to help out at a book stall at weekends.
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Does your town have a small record shop? In whatever hip part of town might exist?
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It used to break my heart when I went in your shop
And you said my records were out of stock
So I don’t buy records in your shop
Now I tape them all 'cause I’m ‘Top Of The Pops’
Yeah, now I got a new way to move
It’s shiny and black and don’t need a groove
Now I don’t need no album rack
I carry my collection over my back
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I think the median age in my town is pushing 60. The only “hip” stores here are medical supply stores.
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I don’t know, you might be surprised… Gen Xers love music, after all!
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They probably carry the new Neil Young and Crazy Horse album, at least!
(Fu##in’ Up: also released today, I think, it’s a re-release/re-imagination of Ragged Glory, and it’s pretty great)
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Wow, an actual physical CD. Now…how tf am I going to play this?
ETA: Whoa, they actually still put the lyrics in the jewel case booklet!
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I was slagging off the Dead (via Phish) over on another thread and someone put up something on Garcia’s bluegrass stuff and it reminded me that those guys were extraordinary musicians with a lot more strings to their bow than the Dead which was something of an albatross. Here’s Micky Hart the drummer and part of his soundtrack to Apocalypse Now.
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It’s interesting how some popular musicians and bands get a reputation in the general public’s eye of not being great instrumentalists when they are. The Dead are a good example. John Mayer, Brad Paisley, and Keith Urban are other big, very popular artists who the general public probably doesn’t recognize as being absolutely phenomenal guitarists. And yeah, Jerry Garcia was also in that category. Karen Carpenter was an outstanding drummer, and I doubt if most people today have any idea. She once beat out John Bonham in a Playboy magazine poll for best rock drummer. Bonham was reportedly not pleased.
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Yeah, but could Bonzo play this jazz shuffle?
I think not. Jog on John Bonham!
One of my girls is a drummer and singer so Karen Carpenter was someone I tried to turn her on to.
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Garcia is an amazing guitarist from multiple perspectives. Serious proper chops.
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