and speakin of old vinyl records here's a real story for ya ..

[frenchy]

let me tell you there was a point that i thought ya know , i just might have a problem with all these records cause i had quite a few .. it was one of my biggest vices .. i didn't have fancy clothes , probably everybody i knew dressed better than me .. i didn't have a fancy hairstyle . i cut it when it got on my nerves .. i really didn't drive a fast sporty car.. or live in a fancy house .. but every week or two i'd go down to the record store and buy an album or three .. sometimes more .. of course back then albums at vogels and alwilks in elizabeth were 2.74 each .. when they went up to 3.74 i slowed down a little bit .. but not much .. when i moved to florida i took more than half of them with me and the ones i sold off i was probably ready to let go of .. or most of em anyway , probably a few i wish i had back .. when i split with my first wife i left her half my record collection and my stereo , but i bought all the onnes i really wanted all over again so no big deal .. just took me some time thats all ..

but this guy here.. on the one hand i'd say somebody has to do what hes doin .. but .. man oh man . i think this is a bit overboard .. read this from the ny times and see what you think ..

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnat... 

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great find frenchie...i feel lots better.  thaat is a good article and did you notice way down they mention the archive of contemporary music?

"Every new record he bought seemed to whisper in his ear: What, ultimately, do you want to do with all this stuff?

He found a possible model in George, who in 1985 converted his private collection of some 47,000 records into a publicly accessible resource called the ARChive of Contemporary Music. That collection has grown to include roughly 2.2 million tapes, records and compact discs. Musicologists, record companies and filmmakers regularly consult the nonprofit archive seeking hard-to-find songs. In 2009 George entered into a partnership with Columbia University, and his archive has attracted support from many musicians, who donate recordings, money or both. The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has provided funding for the archive’s collection of early blues recordings. David Bowie, Paul Simon, Nile Rodgers, Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme all sit on its board."

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http://arcmusic.org/

http://blog.archive.org/2014/10/28/archive-of-contemporary-music/

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it's really pretty neat that these guys are trying to preserve the music culture...even tho some we have to admit is less worthy of preservation tho what we deem worthy of preservation is pretty much subjective and personal. i love the idea of them making an accessible site to be able to listen to the archives from our past. some music comes into its own a little later than when it was released.  

   there was an article the other day with some writer carping about acts that should  be in the rock and roll hall of fame while there was another article bitching about some acts which are in there...the biggest question i had about some of the acts is "who the fuck are these people?"   followed closely by "who the fuck cares?" let's face it...rock has a lot of ultimately forgettable noise with some great acts scattered here and there...and those great acts are due also to the writers and the production....

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here is a good reason why preserving the musical culture is worth it...a 'lost album' from 1971

[frenchy]

nice song .. a holdover from the folkie days .. i'm glad they didn't do it up with all the strings like the fisherman king .. that seemed to be the solution to fix the old folkies music .. but eventually they caught on .. an acoustic guitar and a bass maybe a piano or a hammond b3 .. or if you wanna go real bluegrass a fiddle or maybe a pedal steel .. or a sweet pickin telecaster .. and guess what?? i got one by her thats done just like that .. seek and yee shall find .. this is song is great .. i love this one ..

 

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she was a great singer. she did a terrific song about 68 or 69 that b mitchel reed played all the time on kmet, the first underground fm station out of los angeles. i used to tune that station in for my graveyard shift in the boatyard and crank it up and build boats till the sunrise as they played blues and the doors etc and then head off to classes.  that song tho is just vanished. but it tells you something that i still remember it and still look for it after 45 years...she dropped out of the music business after one album and even returned the advance to the record company. many many years later she is performing now as a family group called the stone coyotes.

 there were some really great powerful female vocalists in the 60s and 70s...here's another...joanne vent

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