This coming Saturday is "Record Store Day".

[Swish]

...gave the vinyl a good look, picking up a remaster of James Brown - Live at the Apollo on a nice 180 gram pressing. Also got a couple used oldies; The Waterboys - This is the Sea and The Beautiful South - Welcome to the Beautiful South. I also grabbed the lasted CDs from Gomez and Great Lake Swimmers. Not a very big day, but I lost a few hundred in Atlantic City Thursday night, so I wasn't too keen on spending a lot of money on Friday.

[Auricauricle]

So, how can we here at AR set up an internet station to do just this: Play the au courant stuff while keeping the youngsters and neophytes abreast of the "classics", etc? Mebbe I'm stepping out too far too soon or risking being redundundant, but in lieu of a radio station, mebbe the folks here can whip something like this up!

[Swish]

So, how can we here at AR set up an internet station to do just this: Play the au courant stuff while keeping the youngsters and neophytes abreast of the "classics", etc? Mebbe I'm stepping out too far too soon or risking being redundundant, but in lieu of a radio station, mebbe the folks here can whip something like this up!

I'm not sure how we would do something like that, but we have some real techo-geeks posting at RR. I know some of us have done a 'top 50' or even a 'top 100' records or essential records at one time and they would be in the archives. Maybe someone could set up a website with Google (they will host for free!) where we could keep that information stored and provide a link or sumpthin. Maybe that would be too complicated, although I'm sure others will chime in when they see your comment, or at least I hope they do.

[3-LockBox]

Didn't buy any mew music, but did go out and see the sights. I did however WIN a CD!!! At Everybody's Music no less. They were raffling off prizes a couple of time during the day and I won a new CD...something I haven't heard of:

The Whip - X Marks The Destination - like The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, this is more "80s new wave revisited by way of Erasure meets Psychadelic Furs meets New Order. Fun stuff, though like TPoBPH, they aren't completely original. Still, better than half the crap people of this age put out...like thier dad listened to some of the same stuff I did.

[Mr MidFi]

I ended up buying the new Doves disc, Cities of Rust. Me likey lots! And I got the 2-disc remaster of PT's Stupid Dream, too.

As for my 'nice long walk,' I ended up taking the wife and kid to Starved Rock State Park for a serious hike. It was awesome!
http://www.starvedrockstatepark.org/

My wife took these shots:
http://onelittleworld.zenfolio.com/p120231112

[3-LockBox]

I saw some great street performers as well. One guy I saw was a one man band, with a tin can full of metal washers and I think bearings on one shoe, while his other shoe operated a kick drum hammer, but his kick drum was the suitcase he pulled most of his stuff out of - he also had a half-tamborine mounted to some earphones, which played by bobbing his head. The tin can was the high hat, the suitcase was closely miked and sounded close enough like an actual kickdrum. He played a really old electric guitar and his microphone was ancient. He was good - he did knockout covers of old T-Rex songs Rock On and one other I didn't recognize (he said it was T-Rex). The rest were blues tunes. He had quite crowd around him for the time he was out there.

He was parked outside Avalon records, the opposite corner from Everybody's Music. I rarely go in there cuz they give next to nothing for used CDs and their prices are as bad as the malls. But they did support the street musicians on Saturday - they had four or five local street musicians play in front of their store. The big, nice amp that sat out front belonged to a guy in the store and all the musicians used it along with whatever they brought, not to mention the store's electricity.