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ARSCLIST April 2012

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Re: Record Store Day and - "ARSCers"

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Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]>

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Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:37:09 -0700

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Leah and I got to Princeton Record Exchange near the end of the day and
was able to get the 10-inch-2- disc Janis Joplin Pearl outtakes and the
10-inch Pete Townsend Quadrophenia demos. She put back The  Wall 7-inch
box.  She got an Ozzy 12-inch and 7-inch pic disc, and another 7-inch
left over from last year.  (That's Osborne, not Nelson.) I got the Muddy
Waters 12-inch.  Then today we got to the Brooklyn Annex of Academy and
thanks to Steve Ramm's heads up about the Tompkins Square 78s I was able
to get TWO copies of the Luther Dickinson one that is going for more
money on ebay than the one by Ralph Stanley.  They said they sold out of
the Stanley yesterday.  I wonder how many copies they had??  They were
$18 each.  They had them on a rack on the wall behind the register, and
I spotted them since I had seen that they were just in plain yellow
sleeves.  I agree with Steve that this was not a well thought out
promotional effort.  Too few copies and no effort to have a printed
sleeve.

We also bought oodles of other stuff and I have no idea if I will have
money in my account when the credit card bill is due!!  At Princeton we
got a lot of laser discs.  I got Vol 1-3 of Twilight Zone for 3.99 a
box, and she got four box sets of Twin Peaks for same price.  At Academy
I got the Pearl reissue of Florodora cast recordings from 1900.  Two
volumes on JEMF of "Work's Many Voices".  Some interesting early Gene
Autry reissues, one on Anthology of Country Music "sounds like Jimmie
Rodgers" with thing from the early 30s with a lot of alternate takes,
and a 4-disc box by Columbia Special Products on Murray Hill (of all
labels!) of Autry from 1929 thru 1942 with no dupes on the ACM disc.  A
Clark Galehouse special on Golden Crest by Jon and Sondra Steele which I
never knew existed.  They are most important for a 1948 recording "They
All Recorded To Beat the Ban" about the musicians union strike.  And one
record that would be interesting for Tom Fine for the info on the
gatefold album -- a mono copy of Freddy Fennell conducts Cole Porter on
the f:35d series. If only it was stereo.  But if it were stereo not only
would it have been much more than $1.00, it would have been gone long
ago.

Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]  

On Apr 22, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> There were some retro items in the RSD selections, reissues of old Vanguard albums plus old Stax/Atlantic singles, and a vinyl issue of Dr. John's new album, not to mention a red vinyl limited edition RSD exclusive of Little Richard's first LP, newly reissued. For early-middle-aged among us, Uncle Tupelo was likely on the radar in college times and now their first 3 albums are back out in vinyl. For the younger among us, punk and speed-metal fans, Refused is back together and touring, and their superb album, "The Shape of Punk To Come" (which had totally escaped my worldview back in 1998) was an RSD exclusive as a 2LP red vinyl reissue. Remember, that was 14 years ago it was issued, so when it was current, the likely fan base from that time is now in their late 20's to mid 30's. An old 40-something like me wasn't following Swedish speed metal in the late 90's, although apparently I should have been! Funny thing, what caught my attention was the
 retro-appreciating album cover and title (the title is an adaption of
an Ornette Coleman album and the graphics are lifted from the style of
old Columbia jazz albums including the "stereo 360" logo). Liking the
music was a bonus, making the $30 well spent.
> 
> By the way, one could easily count the Metallica RSD vinyl album as "retro" since they were in their heyday when I was in college back in the mid-80's. That's a generation ago now, hence retro for sure.
> 
> -- Tom Fine
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Ramm" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Record Store Day and - "ARSCers"
> 
> 
>> Cary wrote:"I have seen nothing in the way of new compilations of material
>> on vinyl or reissues of classic jazz,
>> Broadway, country, or even generic pop.  The Record Store Day releases,
>> aside from the occasional
>> "novelty" issue of  something on 78 (the Beach Boys' 78 of "Good
>> Vibrations" last year comes  to
>> mind), are still of little interest to ARSCers - at least from a West
>> Coast perspective."
>> 
>> While I'm sure I know where you are coming from in your comment Cary, I
>> think that if the term "ARSCers" will always be defined as those who collect
>> recordings (including CDs) pressed before 1980 or so (or even before 2000)
>> then  ARSC needs to broden its exposure to new collectors. We have folks like
>> Uncle  Dave Lewis who give a classical music AND a punk rock paper at an
>> ARSC  Conference (great jobs on both!) but not everyone is UDL. Are the folks
>> who  really flock RSD ARSC member (and hence ARSCLIst member) possibilities?
>> I  understand the 78-L listserve members (many who are here) but it seems
>> to me  that we should be as diverse as the MLA listsefe - and, actually, more
>> sore  since many of the MLA folks work with sound recordings as part of the
>> JOB and  not hobby (and probably could care less about RSD).
>> 
>> What I thought was the dumbest RSD move was for Tompkins Square records to
>> press 500 78s and send to the stores. They probably could have produced
>> 2,000 or  more and sold them. They'd make a nice profit and collectors would
>> thank them.  Instead those "resellers" who grabbed the 500 will put on eBay
>> and Tompkins  Square won't see a penny. We only had one (out of of 6
>> independent record  stores within blocks of my house) participate in RSD and they had
>> basically no  "special product).
>> 
>> Steve Ramm

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