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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: dyecraig on January 24, 2015, 11:04:18 pm
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anyone going? need some tunes for upcoming snow day(s).
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well i ain't making the early bird special..thats for sure...
i'd like to make it...we shall see
off to a very slow start...
please report on your finds!
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hella crowded, but still a good time.
those folks juggling the bloody mary's over the records make me nervous.
picked up:
culture - two 7's clash (joe gibbs pressing)
karthala 72 - diable du feu! ("super tough psychedelic afro-noir grooves from the unknown")
joe strummer - nefertiti rock! (rare and unreleased from belgium)
lee morgan - live at the lighthouse (wore out roommate's copy in college)
fugazi - the argument (overheard evens possibly recording 4th presently)
gbv - alien lanes
simon & garfunkel - bookends (on 4 track reel to reel - have an old working akai and some sly, sinatra and classical trumpet tapes that sound incredible)
an excellent cup of Zeke's coffee on my way out
and a copy of the poster (very cool)
spotted, nice to look at, way outta my league:
miles - kind of blue (mono promo white label - $100)
chet - baker sings ($50)
v.u. - banana ($125)
always on the lookout for:
chet - let's get lost ost
any original fela's
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joe strummer - nefertiti rock! (rare and unreleased from belgium)
is this a live album?
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lee morgan - live at the lighthouse (wore out roommate's copy in college)
i have this...great album....
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fugazi - the argument
was this new or used?
i need to get this...
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gbv - alien lanes
my favorite gbv album.. i have the original release (no barcode) signed by the classic GBV iteration (Bob, Demos, Sprout, Mitchell and Fennell)... one of my more treasured possessions
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simon & garfunkel - bookends (on 4 track reel to reel - have an old working akai and some sly, sinatra and classical trumpet tapes that sound incredible)
i was tempted by two reel to reels of bob dylan albums... but they were $25 and i know nothing about reel to reels..
i have a McCartney reel to reel..
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joe strummer - studio leftovers, no grabbers, song titles better than the actual songs, cool hand printed cover, though.
lee morgan - there's a 3 disc cd box set out there with all the full sets, worth it if you dig the LP
fugazi - new LP w/DL code
gbv - 180 g reissue - wow, you've got something there, hutch!
saw those dylan tapes, too - the s&g was only $10 - kind of a pain to set up/listen to, but I was in the a.v. club in 5th grade: filmstrips, califones, you name it, thank you mr. aufman.
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My buddy was a seller there and cleaned up. He said it was really crowded as always.
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first my thoughts on the record fair:
as has been the case with pretty much every record fair since the first one six years ago its too crowded... you can hardly have space to pull out a record and see condition and condition is everything! worse yet, at penn social you don't have enough light to really see condition of record! kind of like selling you a car without letting you take it for a drive....full of people there, mainly chicks, who just flip through records really really slowly and go "ha ha ha Men at Work!!!!" to the guy she's with and never buy anything...the other variant is the chick who wants to flirt with the record vendor by having conversations about every record making the record geek feel like a million bucks as he throws factoids about the record out ("crazy Philly accents on this one!").. then you got the guys with giant backpacks who jostle around as if they don't have backpacks while bashing into people...this time there was even a handicapped guy on a huge motorized scooter or whatever you call it (thats dedication)....personally i find the record fair is pretty hard work! its only my love of records and the scores that keeps me coming back..but i always end up with a few that don't play very well..gggrrrr
because of these factors i've learned over the years to try to keep the price of records i buy to a very low number... since you can't really, with rare exceptions, be entirely sure about condition of the record (and you cant well return them) its best to not spend too much on any one record....
from the vendor perspective the fair is a goldmine... a lot of the records kids will buy are $1 records you wouldn't be able to get rid off anywhere else...vendors are typically overcharging (the opposite of what record fairs used to be) and cleaning house on the clueless....
having said all that anything that gets a younger generation interested in vinyl is fine with me...just hope the kids actually have turntables to play their buys on....
and there is always the vendor with the deals.... usually someone from richmond it seems...
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first my thoughts on the record fair:
as has been the case with pretty much every record fair since the first one six years ago its too crowded... you can hardly have space to pull out a record and see condition and condition is everything! worse yet, at penn social you don't have enough light to really see condition of record! kind of like selling you a car without letting you take it for a drive....full of people there, mainly chicks, who just flip through records really really slowly and go "ha ha ha Men at Work!!!!" to the guy she's with and never buy anything...the other variant is the chick who wants to flirt with the record vendor by having conversations about every record making the record geek feel like a million bucks as he throws factoids about the record out ("crazy Philly accents on this one!").. then you got the guys with giant backpacks who jostle around as if they don't have backpacks while bashing into people...this time there was even a handicapped guy on a huge motorized scooter or whatever you call it (thats dedication)....personally i find the record fair is pretty hard work! its only my love of records and the scores that keeps me coming back..but i always end up with a few that don't play very well..gggrrrr
because of these factors i've learned over the years to try to keep the price of records i buy to a very low number... since you can't really, with rare exceptions, be entirely sure about condition of the record (and you cant well return them) its best to not spend too much on any one record....
from the vendor perspective the fair is a goldmine... a lot of the records kids will buy are $1 records you wouldn't be able to get rid off anywhere else...vendors are typically overcharging (the opposite of what record fairs used to be) and cleaning house on the clueless....
having said all that anything that gets a younger generation interested in vinyl is fine with me...just hope the kids actually have turntables to play their buys on....
and there is always the vendor with the deals.... usually someone from richmond it seems...
Hutch I have a small stack of LPs here 20-30 maybe), nothing even close to valuable though. There may be a couple of autographed one. I'm thinking like Arlo Guthrie and John Prine. Many of them though may be marked with my initial in black marked on the sleeve and/or disc label. If you want them as trade bait, kindling, whatever you are more than welcome to them.
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you nailed it, hutch: those observations/stereotypes are spot on, and I will continue to attend.
my max for any record is $20.
the fairs are fun, but nothing beats finding a box of goodies at an estate sale for that same $20.
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This was a good score.... this is James Brown's 4th album..from 1961! it didn't have a big hit....it was re-released with a different cover in 1963... pretty obscure... first copy I have seen..
its pretty beat up to shit... but amazingly it does play through... and for $2 I love it...I will add its hard to find these early James Brown records not beat up....
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first my thoughts on the record fair:
as has been the case with pretty much every record fair since the first one six years ago its too crowded... you can hardly have space to pull out a record and see condition and condition is everything! worse yet, at penn social you don't have enough light to really see condition of record! kind of like selling you a car without letting you take it for a drive....full of people there, mainly chicks, who just flip through records really really slowly and go "ha ha ha Men at Work!!!!" to the guy she's with and never buy anything...the other variant is the chick who wants to flirt with the record vendor by having conversations about every record making the record geek feel like a million bucks as he throws factoids about the record out ("crazy Philly accents on this one!").. then you got the guys with giant backpacks who jostle around as if they don't have backpacks while bashing into people...this time there was even a handicapped guy on a huge motorized scooter or whatever you call it (thats dedication)....personally i find the record fair is pretty hard work! its only my love of records and the scores that keeps me coming back..but i always end up with a few that don't play very well..gggrrrr
because of these factors i've learned over the years to try to keep the price of records i buy to a very low number... since you can't really, with rare exceptions, be entirely sure about condition of the record (and you cant well return them) its best to not spend too much on any one record....
from the vendor perspective the fair is a goldmine... a lot of the records kids will buy are $1 records you wouldn't be able to get rid off anywhere else...vendors are typically overcharging (the opposite of what record fairs used to be) and cleaning house on the clueless....
having said all that anything that gets a younger generation interested in vinyl is fine with me...just hope the kids actually have turntables to play their buys on....
and there is always the vendor with the deals.... usually someone from richmond it seems...
Hutch I have a small stack of LPs here 20-30 maybe), nothing even close to valuable though. There may be a couple of autographed one. I'm thinking like Arlo Guthrie and John Prine. Many of them though may be marked with my initial in black marked on the sleeve and/or disc label. If you want them as trade bait, kindling, whatever you are more than welcome to them.
i'd love any autographed ones..i don't live in richmond though....
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I will take any non-autographed ones Hutch doesn't want and I do live in Richmond.
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Thanks RatBastard.. its been on my mind to start a thread for giving away/trading stuff one doesn't need...
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first my thoughts on the record fair:
as has been the case with pretty much every record fair since the first one six years ago its too crowded... you can hardly have space to pull out a record and see condition and condition is everything! worse yet, at penn social you don't have enough light to really see condition of record! kind of like selling you a car without letting you take it for a drive....full of people there, mainly chicks, who just flip through records really really slowly and go "ha ha ha Men at Work!!!!" to the guy she's with and never buy anything...the other variant is the chick who wants to flirt with the record vendor by having conversations about every record making the record geek feel like a million bucks as he throws factoids about the record out ("crazy Philly accents on this one!").. then you got the guys with giant backpacks who jostle around as if they don't have backpacks while bashing into people...this time there was even a handicapped guy on a huge motorized scooter or whatever you call it (thats dedication)....personally i find the record fair is pretty hard work! its only my love of records and the scores that keeps me coming back..but i always end up with a few that don't play very well..gggrrrr
because of these factors i've learned over the years to try to keep the price of records i buy to a very low number... since you can't really, with rare exceptions, be entirely sure about condition of the record (and you cant well return them) its best to not spend too much on any one record....
from the vendor perspective the fair is a goldmine... a lot of the records kids will buy are $1 records you wouldn't be able to get rid off anywhere else...vendors are typically overcharging (the opposite of what record fairs used to be) and cleaning house on the clueless....
having said all that anything that gets a younger generation interested in vinyl is fine with me...just hope the kids actually have turntables to play their buys on....
and there is always the vendor with the deals.... usually someone from richmond it seems...
Hutch I have a small stack of LPs here 20-30 maybe), nothing even close to valuable though. There may be a couple of autographed one. I'm thinking like Arlo Guthrie and John Prine. Many of them though may be marked with my initial in black marked on the sleeve and/or disc label. If you want them as trade bait, kindling, whatever you are more than welcome to them.
i'd love any autographed ones..i don't live in richmond though....
You should dig up that gem of a thread about traffic around Richmond to help in planning your travels to and fro.
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hella crowded, but still a good time.
those folks juggling the bloody mary's over the records make me nervous.
Yikes. I've wanted to hit up a record fair but nobody I talk to seems to love them (too crowded, too pricey, blah, blah, blah). Shame. Seems like fun.
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Not a problem. Some how some day I'll get them to you.
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Another winter edition of the record fair is scheduled for Jan 31st at Penn Social and I will one of the Guest DJ's this time, planning on spinning all 7 inches records at some point during the day. Getting a hold of some of favorite tracks on vinyl, including some tasty 45s from Australia. Maybe, I'll see some of you there!
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Another winter edition of the record fair is scheduled for Jan 31st at Penn Social and I will one of the Guest DJ's this time, planning on spinning all 7 inches records at some point during the day. Getting a hold of some of favorite tracks on vinyl, including some tasty 45s from Australia. Maybe, I'll see some of you there!
I'll, hold out, and just read, your playlist thread.
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allright! new record fair!
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Another winter edition of the record fair is scheduled for Jan 31st at Penn Social and I will one of the Guest DJ's this time, planning on spinning all 7 inches records at some point during the day. Getting a hold of some of favorite tracks on vinyl, including some tasty 45s from Australia. Maybe, I'll see some of you there!
still working through my rsd black friday stuff (and more after saying i was going to cool it for a while), but i'll be there to hear you spin.
who else is DJing?
kid congo did a killer set last time i was there.
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btw for record buyers...... cd cellar is moving and consolidating.. they are moving the falls church location to right by the state theatre (and closing the Arlington location)... sometime in January...
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btw for record buyers...... cd cellar is moving and consolidating.. they are moving the falls church location to right by the state theatre (and closing the Arlington location)... sometime in January...
damn. i knew about the FC store moving but not the other one closing
do you knew when FC is closing its current spot and reopening by the state theatre?
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btw for record buyers...... cd cellar is moving and consolidating.. they are moving the falls church location to right by the state theatre (and closing the Arlington location)... sometime in January...
damn. i knew about the FC store moving but not the other one closing
do you knew when FC is closing its current spot and reopening by the state theatre?
its all a bit vague but I think they will close at the end of the year in FC and try to reopen as quickly as possible in their new location (JAN)
the Arlington store I think will be open til jan 15 and they had not-as of last week- made its closing public other than they were telling the regulars I guess...
it may be a win win to have one bigger store with all the vinyl.. but I always found there to be real differences in character between the two stores and I kind of dug that... the Arlington store had more of a younger/hipper vibe than the FC one...
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it may be a win win to have one bigger store with all the vinyl.. but I always found there to be real differences in character between the two stores and I kind of dug that... the Arlington store had more of a younger/hipper vibe than the FC one...
yeah i noticed that too. FC fit my tastes more but i got some great stuff at clarendon over the years. i didnt get to clarendon anywhere near as often (maybe 2/3 times a year as opposed to at least once a month in FC) cuz it wasnt as convenient for me but i always left glad i made the trip. i do like the idea of everything in one place though. better parking will be great too
ive been going to cd cellar (including the long gone leesburg location) for about 13 years so its gonna be weird going to a new spot
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DJ Line-up has been posted, I'm on Noon to 1pm...
http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/dc/2016/01/the-dc-record-fair-returns-to-penn-social-sunday-131/
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Despite a couple technical glitches, the DJ set was fun to do at the show today. Got to say hi to Dyecraig and did a little digging through the crates. Picked up a Alex Clinton EP, Syl Johnson album and some Stax, Motown and Windan 7"s.
also, i must have been something right, someone wanted to buy one of the singles I played...
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outstanding set by kosmo - always great to hear the jam's "beat surrender" pumping from a big system.
fueled by zeke's coffee. ..whoa...probably will not sleep tonight.
picked up:
ranking joe - saturday night jamdown style
david byrne & st. vincent - love this giant
sparklehorse - good morning spider
300 piece 2 sided ziggy stardust cover jigsaw puzzle. had to have that.
coolest find was a bunch of 12x12 flats of classic bowie album covers and poster for the 5 years box.
my head kind of exploded, because they were free.
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I was ticked off I had to miss it.. I demand pictures in order to feel included...
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Despite a couple technical glitches, the DJ set was fun to do at the show today. Got to say hi to Dyecraig and did a little digging through the crates. Picked up a Alex Clinton EP, Syl Johnson album and some Stax, Motown and Windan 7"s.
also, i must have been something right, someone wanted to buy one of the singles I played...
pictures please of your scores.. thank you in advance..you can even just take one picture but unless I see a picture its no fun!
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My buddy was a seller there and said it was pretty packed. The line went around the block. I knew some friends who tried to go but the line tuned them off so they went to record stores instead.
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don't cry hutch, i snagged you an extra hunky dory & man who sold the world flat for next time i see you.
it was hella crowded and those youngsters just don't know how to flip through crates like the pros...
"hmmm...this looks cool...now let me look on the back to see if i know any of these songs...you'd think 'band on the run' would be on this beatles best of thingy (the red one)...nahh....ooh ''sam cooke at the copa'....is he any good?"
don't get me wrong, i do enjoy these events, but thank god it's only twice a year.
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yeah it was a little overwhelming people wise... one set were looking at the first U2 album saying they didn't recognize any of the songs on it was a bit humorous to me, that and one of the DJs showing off the copy of Jeff Beck 's Wired they had just purchased an album i remember buying in high school..
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don't cry hutch, i snagged you an extra hunky dory & man who sold the world flat for next time i see you.
it was hella crowded and those youngsters just don't know how to flip through crates like the pros...
"hmmm...this looks cool...now let me look on the back to see if i know any of these songs...you'd think 'band on the run' would be on this beatles best of thingy (the red one)...nahh....ooh ''sam cooke at the copa'....is he any good?"
don't get me wrong, i do enjoy these events, but thank god it's only twice a year.
oh.. that does look nice!
that is so true about the kiddies.. good lord.. it takes them an hour to go through a crate as they giggle over the men at work and lionel Ritchie records....and discuss with the sellers about whether they take credit cards....urghhh
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Gosh that was the smallest dc record fair I have been to in the ten (+?)years it’s been going on....was the arbutus show today too?
On the other hand I spent only $27
Pickups:
RAS Michael - Zion Train (I guess with HR putting it together...says “re-recorded” at cue studios in falls church (5 minutes from me next to cd cellar)...it’s on SST...I just know it’s going to suck
Big youth -some great big youth comp from 1981
Jimmy smith- chicken shack (another copy)
Desmond Williams on ESL
Dennis Brown - spellbound
Astor Piazzolla lp of 1947 stuff from a reissue in 1990
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yeah arbutus was today and u st. was pretty small and not crowded.
not complaining at all.
was not as dark down there as i was expecting, like the black cat fair years ago.
i did the early bird as i was up anyway.
a fun hang and good to see some record buds.
a few jerks too and witnessed some manhandling of sleeves - flip gently from the center, yo.
no spilled drink tragedies while i was there.
saw a lot of cool and beyond my allowance stuff, but:
pedro gayle - bermuda rock
miles - birth of the cool, enhanced stereo, may suck
bowie - china girl 12"
taj mahal - sounder ost
paul simon - there goes rhymin' simon
keene plywood painting of lee morgan - the sidewinder was my favorite find for $5.
henry's soul cafe is excellent.
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I miss this every year. Not happy about it.
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I miss this every year. Not happy about it.
ya know, there are so many other little and cooler ones at breweries and other places in the dmv, you're not really missing anything.