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And the Ambulance Will Rock

David Lee Roth training to be an EMT. In other news, jealous Sammy Hagar enters John’s Hopkins Medical School.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004. Posted in Humor, Music | No Comments »>

eBay’ing the LPs: Punk invasion

Ok, I’ve delved back into the punk and proto-new wave 1980s era. These albums pretty much all date to my High School (and a couple to my junior high) years.

2 Joy Division LPs: Ah, the joy of suicidal, angst-ridden new wave. Powerful, emotional stuff.
2 Patti Smith Group LPs: Horse is her best IMHO. [...]

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Sleepy

Looks like my Sleepy LaBeef Gold Vinyl LP is worth more than I realized. That’s the fun of eBay.

Thursday, October 28th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

eBay’ing the LPs: Jimi, Tom, Big Bill, Lennon and Tom Verlaine

Here’s another batch up for grabs….

4 Jimi Hendrix LPs: I play guitar. I have Jimi records. Not sure what else to say…he’s the man!
3 Tom Waits LPs, Asylum Years: Heartattack and Vine is the best of these. It’s the real transition record for him from the piano bar drunkard to the eclectic [...]

Monday, October 25th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

eBaying the LPs: Elvis, Woody, Frank, Sleepy and Jesus

Here’s the newest lot of my LPs on eBay:

Elvis Presley: Set of three LPs. A cool picture LP, the Christmas LP with original photo album gatefold sleeve, and Double Trouble — to my mind the finest of his soundtrack albums.
Woody Allen: 2 LP collection of his 60s standup routines. Great fun. Easy [...]

Thursday, October 21st, 2004. Posted in Music | 1 Comment »>

Blood of the Ram

Whohoo! New Gourds record next week!

Friday, October 15th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Rock and Roll Timeline

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a cool flash timeline. Didn’t really learn much from it, but it was fun to click around on.

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

From the Vault, Eiso You’re Killing the Lizards

While I was in college at NYU, one of my roommates was a Japanese-American goth rocker by the name of Eiso. He had long hair, wore boots up to his knees everyday and didn’t own any clothes that were not black. Eiso was a very nice guy but a bit of a dingbat [...]

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

eBay’ing the LPs, Reggae and Jazz

Several more lots of the LPs up on eBay now:

8 Avant Jazz LPs, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, more: These are some the great pieces of 60s “Free Jazz” — very experimental and improvisation. Very challenging music, this ain’t no Dave Brubeck.
5 Roots Reggae LPs, Burning Spear, Culture, more: Very rootsy stuff. Includes my favorite [...]

Friday, September 24th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

From the Vault, vol. 2

Here’s two more gems from the cassette modernization project. First a solo acoustic guitar instrumental from around 1991. I think this was recorded straight in the condenser mic of a boombox. Second, a punked up Arlo Guthrie cover from around 1989.

Instrumental, Acoustic
Coming into to Los Angeles

Friday, September 24th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

eBay’ing the LPs, Bob Dylan

After a long hiatus, I’m getting back to selling off the record collection on eBay. This week, I’m featuring 5 lots of Bob Dylan records: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Highlights of this batch include the excellent 5 LP “Biograph” box set, and batch 1 which contains the three “must-have” Dylan albums, “Bring [...]

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Factory car stereos are weird

I’ve been trying to figure out what I need to be able to hook up my iPod directly into my car stereo. Turns out this is more complex than I thought. I have a 2001 Chevy Tahoe, with a “premium” sound system which consists of 6 speakers and a subwoofer and a single [...]

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

From the Vault, vol. 1

Here’s my first two tracks dredged from the vault, or rather from the cassette. These are circa 1987-8 and are among my early experiments with a cassette 4-track and drum machine. These particular tracks are solo ventures. I did all the instruments, production, etc. The first is probably a product of [...]

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004. Posted in Music | 6 Comments »>

iTunes re-mastering

Inspired by a conversation with Sean this morning, I busted out the old tape deck, and set it up to digify some of my old recordings. These instructions were very helpful, and now I’m cranking out a couple of good sounding re-masters of those old tunes. I’ll post some soon.

Friday, September 17th, 2004. Posted in Music | 6 Comments »>

Death of Democracy

This had me LOL.

Friday, September 17th, 2004. Posted in Humor, Music, Politics | 1 Comment »> « Previous Entries Next Entries »