tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790940545413957082024-03-05T12:18:49.059-05:00Spearmint MusicKurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-73417541599759500422018-05-18T16:03:00.003-04:002018-05-18T16:16:38.522-04:00Eclipse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every now and then, I am in need of my collection of links to brilliant takes on the even more brilliant, Jim Steinman-penned song "Total Eclipse of the Heart," made famous by Welsh songbird Bonnie Tyler. It happens often enough (like, oh, maybe once a year?) that I've decided it's best to compile them here. Interested onlookers might be advised to refer first to <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44788" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">this radio show</span></a>, where I make a cursory explanation of my fascination for this song (fast forward to 1:15 if you don't want to hear all the noisy arty crap). <o:p></o:p></div>
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The most famous (and no doubt best) reworking of the song is the original (and only good ever) literal video. It used to get taken down seemingly faster than it could be posted, but seems to be stable now. (I suggest going full-screen to experience the fullness of its glory and to sidestep Blogger's dimensions not matching up with YouTube's. </div>
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Kiki and Herb do a fairly epic version of it, to the extent that something can be "fairly epic." </div>
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But perhaps even epicker is the Finnish band Hurra Torpedo's take. </div>
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Roadfill is a member of the Filipino lip-sync duo phenomenon Moymoy Palaboy (check out their "Bohemian Rhapsody"). Here he is with his gramma. </div>
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Lest it appear that I'm just in it for the laughs, here's a sincere rendition... </div>
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...and here's an unfunny one: </div>
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But enough of these fakers. Here's the originals, faking the song. I love how bored Jim gets halfway through. </div>
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And for anyone who still needs convincing, here's an instructional video that should help. </div>
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Forever's gonna start tonight. </div>
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-67826120153586947822018-04-30T19:02:00.000-04:002018-04-30T19:02:32.678-04:00Roy 2I tapped his shoulder<br />
and as he turned<br />
someone else tapped<br />
his other shoulder.<br />
Too goddamned much<br />
love in that room<br />
to even say hello.<br />
<br />Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-84800737389294023282017-04-22T00:23:00.001-04:002017-04-22T00:33:09.394-04:00Lucy in the Purple Sky With Diamonds and Pearls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dig if you will a picture<br />
Of yourself in a boat on a river<br />
With trees and the sky engaged in a kiss.<br />
How come someone calls you.<br />
You answer quite slowly<br />
As if I were the tears in your eyes?<br />
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Elephant flowers of yellow and green<br />
Are always in your hair.<br />
Look for the third eye girl in the sun<br />
And you’re gone.<br />
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Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Ahhhhhh<br />
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Go down to Graffiti Bridge, by the fountain,<br />
Where rock hard people eat a funky pie.<br />
Everyone smiles, up yours, you’re a star,<br />
They need a purple high.<br />
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Lady cab driver appears on the shore<br />
Waiting to take you away.<br />
Something about her mixes with the clouds<br />
And you’re gone.<br />
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Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Ahhhhhh<br />
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Picture yourself and I in a station<br />
With plectrum electrum engaged in a kiss.<br />
Suddenly somebody's somebody somewhere<br />
I guess I should have closed my eyes.<br />
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Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Ahhhhhh<br />
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Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Ahhhhhh<br />
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Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Lucy cried, I almost died<br />
Ahhhhhh<br />
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Freak out to a <a href="http://www.hulkshare.com/chocomang1/chocomang-raspberry-to-ride" target="_blank">BONUS JAM</a> by Chocomang<br />
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<br />Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-55077739029462169242017-02-04T12:28:00.004-05:002018-04-30T19:03:07.670-04:00Roy<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"You came!" the saxophonist said to me. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"It's just a club gig."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"Weren't they once all club gigs?" I imagined saying to him. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"No, " I imagined him responding. "I used to be in the circus."</span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-11914794680978243342016-07-12T11:30:00.001-04:002016-07-12T11:30:22.041-04:00Me interviewed on Fun 2 Know<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On a recent trip to Philadelphia, <a href="http://wprb.com/" target="_blank">WPRB</a> DJ Dan Buskirk invited me to be a guest on his <a href="https://soundcloud.com/fun2know" target="_blank">Fun 2 Know</a> podcast. He kindly and generously summed up our chat better than I could so I'll just quote him.<br />
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<span class="s1">Conversation with writer, music journalist, WFMU DJ and record producer Kurt Gottschalk. Originally out of Illinois, Kurt's earned a masters at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1997. He has written about arts and politics for All About Jazz, Signal to Noise, Time Out-New York, The Village Voice, The Wire and publications in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Russia. He has twice been recognized for "best feature writing" by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalist. He also has hosted the Miniature Minotaur radio show on WFMU. He's also the author of two works of fiction, LITTLE APPLES: A STORY CYCLE and SENTENCES. Kurt's cover story on guitarist Loren Connor is the cover story of the June 2016 issue of the British magazine The Wire.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="s2">I became familiar with Kurt in the most modern of ways, a mutual Facebook friend neither of us really know saw our shared interests and recommended that we became Facebook friends. We both have avid interest in jazz music, 20th century rock and pop music and experimental sounds. We met for lunch about a year ago when Kurt was down from New York City for a Philadelphia trip and when we planned to meet up in early summer for a show from the Philadelphia chamber choir The Crossing I took the opportunity to sit Kurt down to record a conversation at the show kitchen table studio. We discuss Kurt's love of avant gardist Anthony Braxton as well as his record collecting roots, getting cheated by the Kiss Army, living in Chicago in the 90s, John Zorn's New York, Kurt's work with guitarist Loren Connors, the late Bernie Worrell and being visited by Prince in his dreams.</span></blockquote>
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-42720641951377958832016-06-27T21:41:00.004-04:002016-06-27T21:43:59.665-04:00My first cover story for the <i>Wire </i>and one of my favorite guitarists. This was a pleasure to work on.<br />
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-840615394111390462016-01-15T00:29:00.001-05:002016-01-15T00:31:43.448-05:00January 13, approximately 11:30 pm<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We shared our first kiss</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the bitter cold -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she looked girlish, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">suddenly </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cautious. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A few strands</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of her black hair</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">blew between our lips</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">after the first, brief, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mouths almost meeting </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and the second and third,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On the way to the subway </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I listened to <i>Diamond Dogs</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because Bowie isn't here anymore.</span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-34738501548769681922015-09-03T21:31:00.001-04:002015-09-03T21:31:42.995-04:00Czech Pop (in Czech)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My friend<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <a aria-describedby="js_3z" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_3y" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1001661690&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pavel.klusak?fref=nf" id="js_40" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">Pavel Klusák</a> </span>interviewed me for this article on Czech pop of the '60s and I can't read what I said.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Composer's statement: <i>Cough Piece (after Ono)</i> continues in the Fluxus philosophy of questioning what constitutes "performance" by using as its medium a gestural act (the clearing of one's throat) usually considered to be prepatory for performance. By placing it in a concert setting, the piece is performed for an audience, albeit one which will likely either ignore or be perturbed by its execution. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Note: The performance of <i>Cough Piece (after Ono)</i> should not last longer than one second and should only be undertaken at an interval when UTC time is adjusted by one second. A commiserate piece, involving coughing for an hour during a concert when Daylight Savings Time adjustments are made, is also permissible. A third variation, involving coughing for a full day, requires the performer to find and attend (but not organize) a 24-hour concert on February 29 of a leap year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Performance note: Premiered at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York City on January 29, 2015 at 8pm (00:00 UTC) during a performance of John Adams' <i>Shaker Loops</i> by Ensemble LPR. A recording of the performance can be found <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kurt-gottschalk/cough-piece-after-ono-at">here</a>. </span><br />
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-24419878669823377932015-05-14T19:54:00.001-04:002015-05-14T19:57:24.128-04:00some upcoming things i've got coming up.should i have posted this earlier? maybe so. probably. but i'm playing twice this weekend and both are early starts so you might still be able to do that thing you really want to do after.<br />
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i'll tell you about them, then i'll tell you about the next wfmu literary guild reading and also i'll tell you about a new story i wrote. this is what they told us to do in journalism school. tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em, tell 'em, tell 'em what you told 'em. like that. telling 'em about telling 'em is my own innovation, tho. (in this example, you are "'em."}<br />
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ok, here goes. 'em ready?<br />
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i was flattered and pleased to be asked to be a part of the nyc book release party for nina hart's new collection of stories that bears the title somewhere in a town you never knew existed somewhere. it'll be a round robin of written word spoken and unwritten music played with miguel frasconi. besides playing a littel something with miguel, i'll be reading a littler something i wrote called mother's waiting.<br />
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<b>Nina Hart Book Launch with Kurt Gottschalk and Miguel Frasconi</b></div>
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<b>Word Up Books</b></div>
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then, the following day, nina, miguel and myself will head downtown to do something shorter at a benefit for abc no-rio. the music goes on 'till 10:30 or so but we'll be on from 5:40 till 6 in the back yard.<br />
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<b>Inside / Outside COMA Benefit for ABC No Rio</b></div>
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then, on june 20, i'll be reading something shorter than the thing i'm reading this weekend, which even that isn't very long, at kgb bar. these have been really fun nights. looks like this time around will be bronwyn c., dave mandl, amanda nazzario, dan bodah and myself.<br />
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ok, so one other thing. the latest of my holiday stories is posted at lulu. and get this: it's called "mother's waiting"! the same name as the story i'm reading this weekend! you can get that (and a couple few other things if you like) up at Lulu.<br />
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that's all for now. thanks for reading this. i've got some beautiful stuff pulled for the radio show tomorrow, so tune in to wfmu at 3 pm.<br />
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-90504362992430152932015-04-14T12:25:00.003-04:002015-04-14T12:26:58.728-04:00Applause<i>(found in an old notebook)</i><br />
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I like clapping<br />
Like Christmas<br />
Like ritual<br />
Like noise<br />
Like everything<br />
Like everyone<br />
Likes Christmas<br />
Likes clapping<br />
Likes ritual<br />
Would it be easier<br />
To start clapping?<br />
To go caroling?<br />
When everyone<br />
Else does?<br />
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I like clapping<br />
Like slapping<br />
like monkeys<br />
Like a moment<br />
To misbehave<br />
To make some noise<br />
Wouldn't it be better<br />
To do it all the time?<br />
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I like clapping like<br />
Contusions like<br />
Confusion like<br />
Group dynamics<br />
Like dynamite<br />
Like everything might<br />
Happen if I refuse<br />
But nothing does<br />
Just like applause<br />
Like out of step<br />
"Did you forget?"<br />
Like firecrackers<br />
On cue<br />
Did you?<br />
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I like laughing<br />
I like yelling<br />
I like falling<br />
I like things<br />
When they<br />
Don't happen<br />
On cue.<br />
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-42337397789352021622015-01-12T11:30:00.002-05:002015-01-12T11:30:42.721-05:00We've got a story to tell...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/116032667" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/116032667">Optic Nerve - Performer Announcement!</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user36138211">Optic Nerve</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-55759204544636753942015-01-05T00:07:00.000-05:002015-01-05T00:16:37.121-05:00Ebb of Year ReportMindy told me I had an ebb year last year. She wasn't judging, she was reacting to my saying that I felt like I hadn't gotten much done in 2014. This was back in the fall, on the telephone. Mindy lives in Chicago.<br />
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She said that it was OK to have an ebb year, that everyone has them, but I didn't like the sound of it. I don't want an ebb year. I suppose it gave me a bit of a start.<br />
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Or a restart. It pushed me to finish two stories for my collection of holiday tales – one for Thanksgiving (simply called "That Thanksgiving") and one for St. Lucy's Day. I wanted there to be a name day story in the collection and St. Lucy's story is so great that she inspired me to write about my own Lucy, or Lucia, in "The Enculeation of Lucia."<br />
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OK, give me a second here. “Write a short story every week," Ray Bradbury once said. "It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” I still haven't been that productive but having finished two more stories made me feel like a first draft of the collection is within grasp. I am working on a rather vulgar thing for St. Patrick's Day now and finally have an idea for a Mother's Day story and I think then I'll be nearly done.<br />
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That said, I'm in no way convinced that it's impossible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.<br />
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Anyway, what's your favorite holiday?<br />
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As for the stories, I've been continuing to make them available for limited times via <a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/SpearmintLit" style="color: #1155cc;">Lulu</a> and I've had occasion to read two of them out loud via the WFMU Literary Guild reading series, which happens once per quarter at KGB Bar in the East Village. You can see a video of me reading excerpts from one of them (a series of imagined letters to Prince) as well as my stand-up comedy debut and retirement <a href="http://spearmintmusic.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-art-of-how-to-better-public.html" style="color: #1155cc;">here</a>.<br />
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So yeah, that's something else I did this year. In keeping with my general policy of saying "yes" to whatever people ask me to do (this is not a binding rule so don't get any bright ideas), I accepted an offer from a fellow named Andrew Singer to do five minutes or so of stand-up. He runs a night at Sidewalk Cafe that is all people he invites who have never done stand-up comedy before.<br />
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Another thing I did was travel, which is my favorite thing to do. Was lucky enough to make another trip to my beloved Prague (where I <a href="http://spearmintmusic.blogspot.com/2014/07/idealist-dylan-in-town.html" style="color: #1155cc;">saw Bob Dylan</a> for the first time) and went back to Lisbon as well, while covering a couple of very nice music festivals. I would link to the articles but they were for publications that don't put stuff online. Funny, I used to <i>prefer</i> writing for publications that didn't put stuff online. And I spoke on a panel about the future of music at the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Ontario which was kinda hilarious.<br />
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I was also – and this was exciting – asked to contribute a <a href="http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Category_Code&Product_Code=BLURB1&Store_Code=RM" style="color: #1155cc;">chapter to a book</a> by the brilliantly mad Jon Rose. He was soliciting fake music criticism written prior to 1985, all of it to be published under pseudonyms. There is, of course, huge concept and backstory to the book, which I suggest you buy. I'm not telling anybody what I wrote but if you correctly guess which one is mine I'll tell you.<br />
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Other than that it was business as usual. I contintued to listen to and write about music I love. I continued to make music as well, if only occasionally, but Ecstasy Mule played a piece I conceived called "Wild Bill's Burro" at the WSB100 William S. Burroughs centennial festival in NYC. And I entered my 8<sup>th</sup> year of broadcasting at <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KU">WFMU</a>.<br />
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Speaking of WFMU, I am involved in a tribute to the Residents on January 31 at Art House Productions in Jersey City. It's kind of a jukebox musical spearheaded by Amedeo Turturro with musical direction by Scott Williams and a host of your favorite WFMU on-air personalities performing. You can find more information <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/326701307533561/" style="color: #1155cc;">here</a>.<br />
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I also wrote a profile of the Residents which will be in the upcoming issue of <a href="http://whitefungus.com/" style="color: #1155cc;">White Fungus</a>.Oh, and I decided somewhere along the line that I should have a website, so I made one on one of those rinky-dink free services. It's imperfect but, hey, it <a href="http://kcgottschalk.wix.com/kurtgottschalk">exists</a>.<br />
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Here's to mo flo in 2015!<br />
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Kurt<br />
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“If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you," he said. "Did I offend the little guy? Fuck it. His music is poison.”</div>
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Prince has notoriously fought against his music being posted on YouTube. I'm not sure why that resulted in so much derision being cast his way because posting songs or albums to YouTube is essentially bootlegging and with crap sound quality to boot, but there you go. He became the source of a lot of jokes for not wanting his work distributed for free and without his permission. I don't know that he ever went after someone for posting a video of their child dancing to one of his songs, however. The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to as a general principle, but I don't know that Prince did.<br />
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The RIAA, according to its website, "supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies." Not individual artists but companies. Now this is going to get a bit cloudy (as things often do with Prince) but let's think about what a company is. Most people who aren't Mitt Romney don't think that corporations and people are the same thing. The RIAA represents the industry - corporations - and, by extension, artists who are a part of that industry. </div>
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In 1994, Prince declared himself dead, taking a symbol as his name because his record label, Warner Brothers, wouldn't let him release what he wanted. In essence, he said, he didn't own his name. The two parties went through five years of hostile (and sometimes hilarious) negotiations before Prince was finally freed from his contract and took back his given name. </div>
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From 1999 until 2014, Prince acted as the biggest DIY artist on the planet. He recorded and produced his own albums. He paid for the compact discs to be manufactured and he hired record labels (EMI and then Universal) to distribute them. The labels didn't get a share of profits, they were paid for a service. </div>
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And what was Steve Albini doing in 1994? He was producing a record by Bush for Interscope Records that debuted at #1 on the Billboard album charts. At the time 53% of the Interscope's stock was owned by Atlantic Records. The following year it was bought out by MCA Inc. Today it is a part of the Universal Music Group. So who's industry here?</div>
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OK, so I'm stacking the deck a bit. Albini has by and large not only championed independent artists but worked in his own studio with punk/indie artists and labels. But what's his beef with Prince? The assless chaps were decades ago and "purple dwarf"? Potentially offensive but more than that, Prince had a better line anyway with "<a href="http://www.wat.tv/video/prince-lopez-tonight-2011-5n82t_2hztv_.html">from the heart of Minnesota, here comes the purple Yoda</a>."</div>
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"Did I offend the little guy?" Albini carried on. "Fuck it. His music is poison." What, Mr. Albini, does that have to do with anything. Prince should be a champion to DIY artists. He spent 15 years exploring how huge artists might survive without record labels. Sure, being a millionaire doesn't sound very punk, but faulting someone for their success is pretty petty. And unless all the contestants on American Idol have given up fantasies of dizzying wealth and popularity, living at the top of the heap without relying on record labels is a relevant part of the equation - and something I don't see Paul McCartney, Madonna or Taylor Swift risking to venture. I'm sure Albini doesn't like them either, but perhaps he should think again about what Prince has accomplished. Whether or not he likes the music, Prince is hardly corporate rock. And corporate rock still sucks. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Putting out two albums on the same day is a bold move. Guns N' Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Henry Threadgill and Tom Waits have all flexed that particular muscle. In 1981, Frank Zappa issued three volumes of the aptly titled <em style="line-height: 23px;">Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar </em><span style="line-height: 23px;">at the same time. And at the end of September, Prince joined the pack with s solo record and an album by his new band, 3rdEyeGirl.</span></span></div>
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It's on odd pair of records. Prince has
done plenty of multiple releases in the past but never have they been as
unbalanced as are <i>Art Official Age </i>and
<i>Plectrum Electrum</i>. He
has plotted multiple-disc sets that never came to pass
(notably <i>Crystal Ball</i>,
which ended up scattered across several releases). His sets too big for a single CD date back to 1982 and the
double LP <i>1999</i>, the
initial digital issues of which had one song cut so it would fit on a
single disc. Much of <i>Crystal Ball </i>ended
up on the double LP and double CD <i>Sign 'O' the Times</i>.
The 2002 live collection <i>One Nite Alone</i> came in three- and
four-CD editions. 2009's <i>Lotusflow3r</i> and <i>MPLSound</i> came
packaged with a third CD, <i>Elixer</i>, by protoge Bria Valente.
<i>Emancipation </i>(1996) was a
triple-CD set. An outtakes collection from 1998, which revived the
name and title track "Crystal Ball" (one of his greatest
songs) included as a fourth CD the largely acoustic album <i>The
Truth</i>, which might well have been remembered as one of his best records had it been put out on its own.
A fan club version of <i>Crystal Ball</i> also included a fifth disc of instrumental tracks
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He's also no stranger to
complicating things for himself. From changing his name to a symbol
to refusing interviews while waging a battle with his record label,
the man has a way of always giving people something other than his
music to talk about. And the thing to talk about now seems to be his
stripped down rock band: no keys, no horns and he the only male.
3rdEyeGirl has been playing hell out of his old songs for a little while now
and it makes sense that he wants them to have some currency.
Unfortunately the set of songs he wrote for <i>Plectrum
Electrum</i>, the 3rdEyeGirl album,
doesn't stand up to the arrangements of old tumes he did for them
when he was making them into his own cover band. There's a few solid
cuts ("Wow," "Fixurlifeup," "Boy Trouble")
but most of the first half sounds like he was writing for Led
Zeppelin and most of the second half like TLC, which makes for an
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To say there's a few good songs
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But <i>Art Official Age</i>,
the new album he recorded largely by his lonesome, made me remember
what made great Prince records great. The man deals in concept in
(public) life and in art. He seems at times to become so enamored with
symbolism (right down to his symbol pseudonym) that the reasons –
what actually is being symbolized – become less important than the
artifice. That might not help his reputation but it doesn't exactly
hurt his music. His best records have been comprised of fantastically inventive songs
hung on a vaguely constructed storyline, generally an us-versus-them
or good-versus-evil setting: the New Power Generation against the
forces that want to keep them (that being us) down; the positivity of
Lovesexy up against the dark force of the Spookyelectric; the Rainbow
Children fighting whoever they (we) were fighting. The stories never
quite make sense, but you can't criticize him for that unless you're
also going to call Janelle Monae, George Clinton and Pete Townshend
to task. If you're going to make a rock opera make sense, you're
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The skeletal story of <i>Art
Official Age </i>concerns Prince
waking up after 45 years in suspended animation to find himself in a
utopian society. That hardly matters because the story barely figures
in to the record (it's primarily delivered in a pair of spoken
interludes) but there's something about it being there that gives the
man some muscle. He may not be up to much where high concept albums are concerned,
but feeling like he's up to something seems to make him dig in and
work. Prince can lay down a groove in his sleep. When he's at his
best, however (which, at the risk of damning him to past successes, would be
the five years after <i>Purple Rain</i>), he's creating complex, multi-layered music. Today, on the heels of a half dozen solid
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Which raises the question, why
did he decide to outshine himself? It's doubtful, of course, that he
sees it that way. <i>Plectrum Electrum </i>is
a band album; <i>Art Official Age </i>is
a solitary effort. Two sides of his coin. But another question arises as well. Why are
there versions of the song "Funknroll" on both albums? Is it
meant to demonstrate the two approaches? If so, Prince pretty clearly
beats out his own band. But maybe he just likes the song. Back in the
'80s he released the same version of "When 2 R in Love" (a sappy and masterfully produced ballad) at least three times.
It's probably best not to ask questions that won't get answered. Four
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<i>Prince's appearance on </i>Saturday
Night Live<i> last weekend led me
to finally putting down some thoughts about the records but I included clips from the </i>Arsenio
<i>appearance in March primarily because it was a better performance but also because it appears as if Arsenio retained rights to post it. Between P and NBC it's
unlikely any links to the </i>SNL <i>spot
will stay live long, but at the moment it can be heard via the player above and seen </i><a href="http://vk.com/video7066833_170374430" style="font-style: italic;">here </a><i>and </i><a href="http://2dopeboyz.com/2014/11/02/prince-performs-saturday-night-live/" style="font-style: italic;">here</a><i>. The full episode can be watched legit </i><a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/november-1-chris-rock/2821962#vc3076=1" style="font-style: italic;">here</a><i>. </i><br />
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<i>UPDATE: I just saw that </i>Rolling Stone <i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-princes-incredible-eight-minute-snl-medley-20141102">posted </a>the </i>SNL <i>performance which may be more likely to be permanent. </i><br />
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A couple of months ago, I disabled the Facebook Messenger app on
my cell phone. I had heard, from people I trust and don't consider to
be alarmist, that the app could turn itself on, activate your
phone or camera and record conversations or phone calls.
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We all have our lines and this was mine. Although the Messenger plot turned out to
be <a href="http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/messenger.asp">grossly exaggerated</a>, the thought that my pocket computer (this thing that only by
an accident of history is called a "phone") could be used
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I have other friends – flesh and blood friends, not pieces of
hardware – who draw the technology/privacy line much closer to home
than do I. Some of them won't use Facebook at all, won't do Google
searches or carry a cell phone, out of concerns of their privacy being invaded. I understand that. Most of
them are a little older (and likely a little wiser) than me. If they
hadn't passed puberty by the Summer of Love, they at least remember
it. They grew up with a mindset of personal freedom and beating the
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But I graduated from high school in the auspicious year of 1984.
George Orwell's novel of the same name didn't strike me as cautionary when I read it
for English class, it just seemed like a foretelling of the
inevitable. I grew up under punk and under the mindset not of beating
the system but simply surviving it. So while the Messenger rumors unnerved me, I had never really expected much different. At some point
in my life, I'd always thought, I would more than likely be required
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A lot of the punk I was listening to in high school was revolutionary, of course, in the literal sense
of preaching political rebellion. But the post-Orewellian songs rang
truest to me, the songs that told us that in the scheme of things we
were nothing but consumers. We were numbers. If Joe Strummer
disparaged the suited class that was "turning rebellion into money," Thomas Franck <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/frank-dissent.html">informed us</a> that we'd been suckered into buying it nevertheless. So explicit has our duty as consumer citizens been made since then that one
of the most common things our elected leaders tell us in the face of
a crisis is to go shopping. For the love of freedom, keep spending
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Consumerism as patriotism was engrained in our cultural consciousness after Sept. 11, 2001. In the
immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks 13 years ago, then President
George W. Bush addressed the nation in what <i>Time </i>magazine called the
"finest, strongest, clearest, several-times-chill-giving speech
of his life." And it was a great speech, defining the enemy and
promising swift action. It was probably what the country needed to
hear. In the conclusion, he turned the tables to say what the country
needed to do. "I ask you to live your lives and hug your
children," he said. "I ask your continued participation and
confidence in the American economy. And
finally, please continue praying for the victims of terror and their
families, for those in uniform and for our great country." Bush defined the three tines of a better
future: God, children and shopping. Buildings can be rebuilt but the economy can't be allowed to collapse. Then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, looking understandably
exhausted, actually put shopping before children on the day after the
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So shopping is our civic responisbility but we're not yet electronically checked to make sure we're meeting the obligation. The Messenger monitoring scare was just a bit of mass paranoia. It will be a relief when that
day comes, though, when we don't have to worry about whether it's happened yet or not. In the meantime, however, I still haven't
reinstalled Messenger. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just one final
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In truth, I never expected privacy. I never expected individuality. I just
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Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-78843164954167843602014-09-07T09:27:00.001-04:002014-09-29T16:13:05.366-04:00FvH/LG<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Like
stone clapper made of clay, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">long,
once again occurs, they say.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Creeping
ivy grows, </span><br />
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blinds drawn – the room got so yellow!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ignored
the fact that Here it </span>
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Fred! the singer </span>
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the East! The second he began to</span><br />
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working down again, </span>
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it sometimes</span><br />
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is forever at last. </span>
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things seem – it</span><br />
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all day one day and then they</span><br />
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bells until tomorrow. </span>Kurthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17847809806116307466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2479094054541395708.post-88671829717788184592014-08-28T16:58:00.000-04:002014-08-28T16:58:36.215-04:00My Desert Island Discs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions." </div>
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"Today, you're gonna be sick, so sick. You'll prop your forehead on the sink, say, 'Oh Christ, oh Jesus Christ, my head's gonna crack like a bank.' Tonight, you'll fall asleep in clothes so late. Like a candy bar wrapped up for lunch, that's all you'll get to taste. Poverty and spit, poverty and spit."</div>
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- X, "Nausea" (1980)</div>
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I'm pretty sure that's the headline for this piece on Bob Dylan I wrote for the Czech newspaper <i><a href="http://www.lidovky.cz/">Lidovky</a>, </i>anyway.</div>
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Here is the pre-edited text. It was shortened slightly for publication. Much thanks to Pavel Klusák for the opportunity.</div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
do you say about an iconic songwriter who over a career spanning six
decades has been as adored and hated about as much as he's given
reason to revere or question him? And what do you say when you don't
speak the native tongue of the people for whom you're writing, a
people who have their own definitions of the political freedoms that
said songwriter – whether or not he wants it – is often seen to
represent?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Despite
being a Bob Dylan fan since discovering his music as an idealistic
college student during the American neo-conservatism of the 1980s, I
had never seen him in concert before attending his 2 July performance
while visiting Prague. I had had plenty of opportunities but never
seized them, dissuaded no doubt by how roundly his live shows are
disparaged: He's lost his voice (or never had one to begin with),
he's lost his mind, he's lost his passion, caring, charisma. Whatever
he had that made him rock's first poet and the unwitting spokesman of
a generation, according to consensus, he's lost it. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">At
least in America that's the consensus. I can't speak to his
reputation in the Czech Republic, although I can say that the rebel
spirit, the outspoken poet, the vagabond intellectual, the ethos of
the 1960s, seems more alive here than in my home country. I saw Lou
Reed memorial graffiti stenciled on buildings last month in Ostrava;
I have not seen that in Reed's and my hometown of New York City. Last
summer I missed seeing John Mayall and the Plastic People at the
Trutnov Open Air Festival by just a couple of days. I have been
impressed watching the films of Jan N</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ě</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">mec
and his footage of the 1968 Soviet invasion, seeing the brave acts of
peaceful resistance of nearly 50 years ago. Maybe it's the romance of
travel but the romance of idealism seems alive in the City of a
Hundred Spires. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
whether in Prague or Peoria, the inevitable question isn't of
politics or pedigree but “how did he sound?” Or more likely, “how
did his voice sound?” The fact that he either is or at least once
was a genius is never disputed. The question that wants asking is,
“How has age ravaged him?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
went to the O2 Arena to enjoy the show. I was excited. My mind was
open but my eyes not too wide. And I will go on the record as saying
that he sounded great: Animated and confident, smooth despite the
gravel. Dylan is one in a line of American singers (including Reed,
Billie Holiday and Tom Waits) for whom expressiveness is finesse,
singers who will certainly elicit reactions, who might not sound
pretty but who stir the heart. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
concert opened with a sole acoustic guitar in near darkness that led
into a full-band shuffle and that unmistakable voice. “I'm a
worried man, I got a worried mind” Dylan intoned, singing his
Academy Award winning “Things Have Changed” from the film </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Wonder
Boys</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
in a rasp that has only deepened in the 14 years since the movie's
release. He followed that up with one of the few “classic” songs
of the night. The familiar lines of “She Belongs to Me” – “She
never stumbles, she's got no place to fall / She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all” (from 1965's </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Bringing
It All Back Home</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">)
– flowed easily from the the singer's mouth. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
sound in the arena was impressively clear and the quintet of
musicians behind Dylan (guitarists Stu Kimball and Charlie Sexton,
bassist Tony Barnier, drummer George Recile and Donnie Herron playing
banjo, mandolin, violin, viola and pedal and lap steel guitars)
sounded great; slippery but not sloppy, they were there to deliver.
It wasn't about ego, and how could it be when you're looking at Bob
freakin' Dylan's backside the whole time you're playing? But Dylan,
too, was in service of the song, smooth sailing on a well-weathered
vessel. Together they floated through the 17-song set with a
remarkably steady flow of energy: tempi and volume didn't seem to
change and yet the songs never sounded the same. Dylan started
“Forgetful Heart,” (from the 2009 album </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Together
Through Life</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">at
the piano – he didn't play guitar the entire night – taking one
harmonica interlude while seated and a second standing at the front
of the stage. They weren't solos, they were added accompaniment, a
part of the flow. The-full-if-not-quite-capacity audience was there
with them, affording the same appreciation for “Tangled Up in Blue”
and “Simple Twist of Fate” as they did more recent and less
heralded songs. Not jumping-out-of-their-seats excitement but
certainly an appreciative enthusiasm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">I
have been stunned on more than a few occasions to see the way Czech
audiences stay in their seats – applauding enthusiastically but
rarely yelling and almost never standing, in stark contract to the
excitable crowds back home. This held true, with only a handful of
people wandering to the floor for a better look, until the opening
chords of “Long and Wasted Years” (from 2012's </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tempest</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
it was the last song before the encore) when the floodgates were
opened and a rushed if civilized procession filled the aisles in
front of the stage. There was an energy, almost an urgency, in the
ensuing encore calls – someone even taking it upon himself to sing
“Blowing in the Wind” – and the pursuant rush of exhilaration
which (as we Americans know) comes from the bum rush, the thrill of
the throng. </span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Dylan
and band answered the encore call with the two biggest hits of the
night – although to single them out as such would unfairly separate
them from the unified flow of the whole of the program. With Dylan at
the piano they delivered an arrangement of “All Along the
Watchtower” with a gleam that called Dire Straits to mind. And then
indeed they launched into “Blowing in the Wind,” or what might
more properly be called a new song with the same lyrics, an
arrangement underscored by Dylan's quick piano trills and featuring a
harp solo – this time it was a solo – which drew the original
melody out, teasing it just a little bit more, leaving behind the
words that declared so many years ago (though no one seemed to
notice) that it wasn't he who held the answers. He was, and is, here
just to observe and entertain.</span></div>
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These are things I used, from my private collection. Discs may have
slight scuffing. Books may have notes written on the blank / index
pages at the end (not in the text though). Some may have punched UPC
codes.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">JAZZ / IMPROV / EXPERIMENTAL CDs</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Carlo Actis Dato - Ankara Twist (Splas(c)h, 1990)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cannonball Adderly - Ballads (Blue Note) 9 track compilation</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sara Ayers - A Million Stories (Dark Wood Recordings)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Joe Colley - desperate attempts at beauty: conceptual and research exercises (ground fault, 2003) with pretty, embossed outer sleeve</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Robin Baillie / Colin Gately - infra-mince (Cash & Carry, 2003)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Barana - Elektro Shaman (Lop Lop, 2012)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bonnie Barnett - Live at Roulette (9 Winds)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bowing (Martha Mooke / Randloph Hudson) - Cafe Mars (Spy) UPC punched on back</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Geof Bradfield / Noel Kupersmith / Ted Sirota - Rule of Three (Liberated Zone)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Brooklyn Sax Quartet - The Way of the Saxophone (Innova, 2001) David Bindman, Sam Furnace, Fred Ho, Chris Jonas</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ed Chang / Blindfold - Picture Show (Jiffy Boy, 1994)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Decomposure - At Work and Unaffected (Unschooled, 2005)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Djarma - Djarma (self-released)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Dave Douglas / Chet Doxas / Steve Swallow / Jim Doxas - Riverside (Greenleaf, 2014)</strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Duofel - 20 (Trama, 2000) Brazillian guitar duo</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Electric Company and Vas Deferens Organization - More Pelvis Wick for the Baloney Boners (Tekito)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet (482 Music, 2012) upc blacked out on back</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Donat Fisch / Christian Wolfarth - Circles & Lines (Leo, 2009)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Garmarna - Guds Speleman (Omnium)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Itchy Fingers - Teranga (Virgin, 1988) British sax quartet, punch in booklet</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Itsylf - Hepcaolin (Pao, 1995) promo stamp</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Justice on a Budget - s/t (NCM East, 2004)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Koan - Prana and Drum (DOR, 1999)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Steve Lindeman with Byu Synthesis - The Day After Yesterday (Jazz Hang, 2013) upc punched on back</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mass Culture Control Bureau - Things From the Past (Ad Hoc)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Andrew Neumann - No Fly Zone: Live Electronic Music (Sublingual)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Steve Raefele with Thom Gossage & Miles Perkin - Last Century (Songlines, 2010) upc punched</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rob Reddy's Sleeping Dogs - Seeing by the Light of My Own Candle (Knitting Factory Works) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">George Schuller - JigSaw (482 Music, 2004)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabacas Loucuras (Cuneiform, 2011)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Sonny Sharrock - Into Another Light (Enemy, 1996) in opaque black jewel case</strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Skyline - Private Sectors (noiseotica vol. 3) (free103point9) sealed</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Squeaky Burger - Sweet Obscurity (Wooden Eye, 2005)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Terminal - 4 (Truckstop, 2001) Fred Lonberg-Holm, Josh Abrams, Ben Vida, Jeb Bishop, Terria Gartelos</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lizzie Thomas - Easy to Love (self-released, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Trance - Augury (Charnel House)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Steve Treseler Group feat Ingrid Jensen - Center Song (CMA, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pietro Tonolo / Gil Goldstein / Steve Swallow / Paul Motian - Your Songs: The Music of Elton John (ObliqSound, 2007) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Vromb - Emission Plot (Ant-Zen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chris Welcome - Wasteland, Untitled, Colors (Empty Room Music) cd-r</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Westerlies - Wish the Children Would Come on Home: The Music of Wayne Horvitz (Songlines, 2014) UPC blacked out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Young & Hungry - Push the Limits (House Boy Records, 1999) CDr, number 1 of 100!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">VA - Blue Piano, Vol. 2 (BMG) tracks by Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, McCoy Turner, Don Pullen, Andrew Hill & more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">VA - The Verve Story 3 (Verve) 14 tracks including Stan Getz, Blossom Dearie, Duke Ellington, Sonny Stitt, Gerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Smith</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">99Hooker - Generica (Pax, 2004)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CLASSICAL</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Joel Chadabe - Many Times... (EMF, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dave Eggar / Deoro - Xtreme Xaver (self-released, 2011) CDr, tray card warped from condensation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now Ensemble - Awake (New Amsterdam, 2011)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">ROCK / COUNTRY / METAL</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Pink Lady Lemonade From Outer Space (Riot Dragon)</strike></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Air Traffic Controllers - Women & Other Minority Groups, Vol. 1 (Parallelism, 1998)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Airplane Lady - s/t (self-released, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>The Aqua-Velvets - Nomad (Milan)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Big Ass Truck - Who Let You In Here? (Peabody Records)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Book of Knots - Traineater (Anti-, 2007) promo in printed cardboard sleeve, with Carla Kihlstedt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph, 2006) promo in printed carboard sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Wilma Lee Cooper - Classic Country Favorites (Rebel Records, 1996)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cradle of Filth - Thornography (Roadrunner)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cryptopsy - None So Live (2002-2004) (Century Media, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Discombobulators - Liana Flu Winks (ZZZZZZ Records) cdr</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dogbowl - Project Success (Shimmy-Disc)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Always Say Please and Thank You (Alternative Tentacles, 2002) upc x'd out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - s/t (Caroline, 1992)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings - A Man Called Hoss (MCA, 1987) audio auto bio</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dave Lindley & El Rayo-X - Very Greasy (Electra, 1998)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Liquor Store - Yeah Buddy (Almost Ready Records)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Meat Puppets - Golden Lies (Atlantic, 2000) promo stamp on front</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mentat - Inerte (Parade, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mike "Sport" Murphy - Willoughby (Kill Rock Stars) UPC punched</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Roger Miller - King of the Road: The Best of Roger Miller (Laserlight) 11 super hits</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Oasis - Be Here Now (Epic, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pipes & Pints - Until We Die (Unrepentant, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me (Sanctuary, 2002) promo, no cover art</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">REM - Murmur (IRS)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Jonathan Richman - Surrender to Jonathan! (Vapor) promo in printed carboard sleeve</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mark Ronson - Version (RCA, 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Royal Trux - Speed to Roam (Drag City, 2003) promo in printed cardboard sleeve</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fred Schneider - Just ... Fred (Reprise, 1996) B-52s frontman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Shakuhuachi Surprise - Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta (Skin Graft, 1996) with obi card </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Michelle Shocked - Mercury Poise: 1988-1995 (Mercury) promo stamp, before she went bats nutso</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spiritualized - The Abbey Road EP (Deconstruction, 1998)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spleen - T.S. Eliot reads the Waste Land and the Hollow Men (Skoda, 1993)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Takota - Takota (self-released) 2006</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">TOG - An Unacceptable Color (Solponticello)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Wedding's Off - s/t (Ebola Music, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">White Suns - Waking in the Reservoir (ugEXPLODE)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dwight Yokum & Buck Owens - Streets of Bakersfield (Reprise) CD single</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<strike><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">VA - 100 Proof Hits (K-Tel) 10 drinkin' songs, includin' Roger Miller, Rupert Holmes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peppermint Harris and David Frizzell</span></strike><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">VA - Black is the Color (Waxidermy, 2010) CDr #35 of 81, tracks by sandy denny, shirley collins, etc. 21 in all. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">VA - Tame Yourself - (Rhino, 1991) PETA benefit comp w/ Howard Jones, Indigo Girls, k.d. lang, B-52s, the Pretenders, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich, Erasure, Exene Cervenka, more. 14 tracks. Stuff not released elsewhere, I'm pretty sure. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">HIP HOP / SOUL / FUNK / ELECTRO</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Aphex Twin - Drukqs (Warp, 2001) promo in printed cardboard sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Arkkon - Rotunda (Soleilmoon)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Blue Dog - Blood of a Poet (self-released) CRr, imaginary soundtrack to a Cocteau film</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chicks on Speed / Kriedler - The Chicks on Speed / Kriedler Sessions (Chicks on Speed Records)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mathieuchamagne Frankcellet - Live Atome (Pink) CDr with braille insert</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mariopaint - The Electric Family (Irdial, 1995)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (Gold Mind/East West) Where the whole 'eh eh' thing came from</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hifana - Fresh Push Breakin' (W+K Tokyo Lab, 2003) cd+dvd in fancy packaging with cardboard gatefold, cardboard outer sleeve, booklet and trading cards (unseparated) $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kelis - Tasty (Star Trak, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Q-Burns Abstract Message - Oeuvre (Eighth Dimension, 1998)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spring Heel Jack - Busy Curious Thirsty (Island, 1997) UPC punched</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various - Substancia 2 (Sub Rosa)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">SOUNDTRACKS</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Michael Kamen w/ Buckethead - Last Action Hero (Columbia, 1993)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">John Travolta / Olivia Newton John - Grease OST (Polygram) possibly unplayed</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">PREVIOUSLY LISTED ITEMS</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">BLUES / COUNTRY
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Vinyl</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Moe Bandy – It's a Cheating Situation (CBS, 1979)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Patsy Cline with the Jordanaires (Decca) vinyl in pretty bad shape but the cover is beautiful for decorating (spine slightly split)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jessi Colter – Mirriam (Capitol, 1977) remainder punch in corner, original inner sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Lester Flatt – Lester Raymond Flatt (Flying Fish, 1976)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Merle Haggard and George Jones – A Taste of Yesterday's Wine (Epic, 1982) cover wear and mark from price tag on front</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Alex Harvey – True Love (Capitol, 1973)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – Dreaming My Dreams (RCA, 1975)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – The Rambling Man (RCA, 1974)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – It's Only Rock + Roll (RCA, 1983) sadly he doesn't do the Stones song</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon and Jessi – Leather and Lace (RCA, 1981) cover and vinyl almost like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – Will the Wolf Survive (MCA, 1986) like new, includes Los Lobos titular cover+</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – Turn the Page (RCA, 1985) cover and vinyl like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – Never Could Toe the Mark (RCA, 1984) cover and vinyl like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon Jennings – Black on Black (RCA, 1982) cover and vinyl like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">George Jones – We' Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at “4033” (Musicor, 1966) paper torn (not all the way through) on front cover</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Willie Nelson with Waylon Jennings – Take it to the Limit (Columbia, 1983)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Waylon and Willie – WWII (RCA, 1982) like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Wilie Nelson – Stardust (Columbia, 1978) cover unglued but intact at top</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind (Columbia, 1982) original inner sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dolly Parton – Collector's Series (RCA, 1985) compilation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job and Shove It. (Epic, 1977)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">B.J. Thomas – Everybody's Out of Town (Scepter, gatefold cover, in “stereo-monic” sound)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ernest Tubb – The Living Legend (Pete Drake Productions, 1977)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Country & Western Bulls-Eyes (Premiere) compilation with Tex Ritter, Vov Wills, Tex Williams and others, plus a full side of the Renfro Valley Pioneers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Bringin' Tennessee Country Home (Challenge, 1978) compilation with Wynn Steware, Jerry Fuller, Bonnie Guitar, Bobby Austin, more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Wagonmasters – Folk Favorites (Omega) autographed! cover in good shape and still partially in cellophane, vinyl pretty scuffed up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Slim Whitman – Christmas With Slim Whitman (Epic, 1980) promo stamp on back and “Sounds” price sticker on front, white label vinyl looks like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tammy Wynette – Let's Get Together (Columbia, 1977) promo stamp on back</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CD</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Luther Allison – South Side Safari (MIL, 1999) recorded in 1979</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bobby Bland – The Best of Bobby Bland (MCA)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Johnny Cash – God (Columbia / Legacy, 2000) compilation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Dixie Bee-Liners – s/t (self-released, 2005)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jerry Douglas – Lookout for Hope (Sugar Hill, 2002)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Lost Pines – Sweet Honey (self-released, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lyle Lovett – The Road to Ensenada (Curb Music, 1996) paper torn
on booklet</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jay McShann – Goin' to Kansas City (Stony Plain, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pickin' on Aerosmith: A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH, 2000)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Bluegrass Spirit: Twelve Songs of Faith (Rounder,
1996)</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">JAZZ / EXPERIMENTAL / IMPROV</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b>
<b>Vinyl</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sam Amidon and Aaron Siegel - “Fiddle and Drum” (Peacock)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Laurie Anderson – The Interview from the Film Soundtrack to Home
of the Brave (Warner Bros. 1986) 2 LP promo only, $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Shirley Bassey – Belts the Best! (United Artists)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bill Connors – Swimming With a Holea in My Body (ECM, 1980)
Vinyl in excellent condition, cover shows wear</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dislocation – Coyote's Call (Fusetron, 1986)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ella Fitzgerald – The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 2: The Small
Group Sessions (Verve, 1982) recordings from 1956, 2 LPs, $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Friendly Bears / Infidel?/Castro! (Rice Control / Epicene) like
new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fred Hersch with Charlie Haden and Joey Baron – Sarabande
(Sunnyside, 1987) vinyl is mint, cover has a price tag tear on front</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stan Kenton – Artistry in Bossa Nova (Capitol) Kinda worn,
surface noise but should play fine.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Elliott Sharp – Virtual Stance (Dossier, 1986) vinyl is mint,
cover has minor scuffs and dings</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stanley Turrentine – Common Touch (Blue Note, 1997, recorded in
1968) very good condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – The Jazz Scene (Verve) Neil Hefti, Lester Young, Duke
Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Willie Smith, Charlie Parker,
more. Vinyl scuffed, shows wear. Library stamp on back cover.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yuganaut – Sharks (Engine, 2010) Stephan Rush, Tom Abbs, Geoff
Mann, like new</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CDs</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Air Traffic Controllers – The Art of Looking (Parallelism)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Christopher Alper Quartet – The Jazz Expression (Alps Media,
2012)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Barbez – s/t (Important, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tigger Benford & Party – Vessel of Gratitude (self-released,
2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Randy Brecker – The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion (Piloo, 2013)
2 cds, sealed, $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">John Wolf Brennan – solopiano: The Speed of Dark (Leo, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ernie Brookings – Duplex Planet Presents: Songs of Ernie
Brookings (Gadfly, 2002)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Brussels Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano – Wild Beauty
(Half-Note, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Zanana: Monique Buzzarte / Kristin Nordeval – Holding Patterns</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chameleon Trio Group – In Between (Mindoors, 2006) cdr</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chapter One – I Know You Well Miss Clara (Moon June, 2013)
sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">John Chin – Undercover (BJU, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chrome Hill – Country of Lost Borders (Bolsge)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Barry Cleveland – Hologramatron (ElevenEleven, 2010)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Confusion Bleue – East Side Banquet (Ictus)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Controlled Bleeding – Songs From the Drain (Dossier, 1994)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jeff Covell with Ed Forenza – Thin Air Tango (Original Copy)
sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Jay D'Amico Quintet – Tango Caliente: Jazz Under Glass
(Consolidated Artists, 2012) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Isaac Darche – Boom-Baptism (BJU, 2012) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Barry Danielian – Metaphorically Speaking (Tariquah</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Eli Degibri – Twelve (BJU, 2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ernesto Diaz-Infante – s/t (Pax, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jesse Dulman Quartet – Peace Psalm (self-released, 1999) cdr</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dietrich Eichman / Jeff Arnal – the temperature dropped again
(Leo, 2004) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">John Ellis & Andy Bragen – Mobro (Parade Light, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">L. S. Ellis – Children in Peril (Music & Arts, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Flex Bent Braam – Luce Bert (BBB, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Geisser / Hayashi / Karo / Saga – On Bashamichi Avenue (Leo,
2010)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Eli Good – Bride of the Bull (Feast or Famine)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Griffith / Stevens Quartet – Only Love (Artists Recording
Collective, 2010)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Andrew Hadro – For Us, the Living (Tone Rogue, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fareed Haque – Trance Hypothesis (Delmark, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nancy Harms – Dreams in Apartments (Gazelle, 2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Thomas Helton – Doublebass (self-released)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Erdem Helvacioglu / Ulrich Mertin – Planet X (Innova, 2012)
sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">HET – Let's Het (Ad Hoc) from 1984</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anne Mette Iversen's Double Life – So Many Roads (BJU, 2014)
sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">James Johnson – Enter Twilight (Hypnos)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lee Konitz / Chris Cheek / Stephane Furic Leibovici – Jugendstil
II (ESP, 2010) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chad Lefkowitz-Brown – Imagery Manifesto (self-released) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Living Earth Show – High Art (Innova, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mark Alban Lotz – Instanbul Improv Sessions May 5<sup>th</sup>
(Loplop, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Love Trio (Ersahin / Wollesen / Murphy: – Love Trio (Nublu,
2002)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Marquis Hill – The Poet (Skiptone, 2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Robert M – s/t (Accretions, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Machine Hill feat. Dave Liebman – Inti (Moon June, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Evgeny Masloboev / Anastasio Masloboev – Russian Folksongs in
the Key of Winter (Leo, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Buerino Mazzola / Joomi Park – Passionate Message (Silkheart,
2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Earl McIntyre – Brass Carnival & Tribute (self-released.
2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch – Comeuppance (Not Two,
2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta – Scalpel Slice (Fire, 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Amanda Monaco 4 – Intention (Innova, 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nick Moran Trio – No Time Like Now (Manor Sound, 2012)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Multiphonic Ensemble – Cirque (SubRosa, 2000)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Multiphonic Ensemble – King of May SubRosa, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Murmure – they were dreaming they were stones (Ground Fault,
2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Not Missing Drums Project – Offline Adventures (Leo, 1999)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">K K Null – Prime Radical (Blossoming Noise) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Makoto Oshiro – Phenomenal World (Hitorri, 2014) 2 cds, sealed,
$10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Out Hud – It's For You (Kranky) 3 track CD single</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Out Like Lambs – Not So Winter Waltz (Music of the Spheres,
2010)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anto Pett / Christoph Baumann – Duo (Leo, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills (12k, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Marcelo Radulovich – s/t (Accretions, 1994)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet – Live in Basel (Hate Laugh
Music, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Herb Robertson & Jean-Luc Cappozzo – Passing the Torch (Ruby
Flower, 2007) limited edition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jason Roebke Octet – High/Red/Center (Delmark, 2014) upc punched</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Barry Romberg's Random Access – Crab People (Romhog Records) 2
cds, sealed, $8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rubber Band Banjo – The Circlemaker (Weirdo Recordings, 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Salaam – Train to Basra and Other Stories (self-released) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Idan Santhaus – There You Are (Posi-Tone, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Savage Aural Hotbed – The Unified Pounding Theory (Innova, 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Boris Savoldelli – Insanology (Mousemen)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Scorn (Mick Harris) – zAndEr (Invinceable)
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Justin Shatin – Time to Burn (Innova, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">simakDialog – The 6<sup>th</sup> Story (Moon June, 2012) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jeremy Siskind – Finger-Songwriter (BJU, 2012) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Perry Smith Quartet – Street Sense (BJU, 2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sound on Survival – Live (Henceforth, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spinifex – Hipsters Gone Ballistic (Trytone, 2014)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Joseph Stein – Solo: In Exchange for a Process (Leo, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Saul Stokes – Outfolding (Hypnos)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Steve Swell's Nation of We – The Business of Here: Live at
Roulette (Cadence, 2012)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Surface to Air – s/t (NCM East)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yosvany Terry – New Throned King (5Passion, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sciubba Tortuga – Flamenco-Jazz (self-released)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Charles Tyler Ensemble – s/t (ESP, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Manuel Valera – Self Portrait (Mavo, 2014)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Crossed Circutis: Sound works by the free103point9
Transmission Artists from the exhibition at Holgar Collection
04.23.05-06.06.05 (free103point9) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – selected performances from the live event
(free103point9 audio dispatch 26)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Substantia (SubRosa,0</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Andrea Veneziani Trio featuring Kenny Werner – Oltreoceano
(self-released, 2011) cdr</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Volcan – s/t (5Passion, 2013) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ellen Weller – Spirits Little Dreams and Improvisations
(Circumvention, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Woof – 7 inches (Ad Hoc)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Andrew Young – Inkplaces (Spectropol, 2013)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">James Zitro – Zitro (ESP, 2008) recorded in 1967, sealed, one
corner smashed a bit</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CLASSICAL</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Vinyl</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kurt Weill – The Threepenny Opera (MGM) recorded in NYC with Lotte Lenya and Mrs. Garrett from “Different Strokes”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">POP / ROCK / METAL</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Vinyl</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Theo Angell + Hamish Kilgour – Cloudcraft (Social Music Record
Club, 2010) like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Badfinger – No Dice (Apple, 1970) vinyl in great condition,
gatefold cover split a bit at seams</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Beach Boys – Dance Dance Dance (Capitol green label reissue)
great condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (Warner Bros., 1973) Cover
shows wear but original gatefold and inner sleeve included. Vinyl is
clean.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">John Cougar – American Fool (Riva, 1982) Excellent condition,
picture sleeve included, small deletion cut in cover</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ian Dury & the Blockheads - “Hit My With Your Rhythm Stick
(Disco Version)” / “Reasons to be Cheerful, Pt. 3” (Stiff/Epic,
1978) in Stiff “Today's Sound Today” sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sheena Easton - “101” (MCA, 1989) two versions, excellent
condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Daryl Hall / John Oates – Private Eyes (RCA, 1981) All in great
shape except picture inner sleeve is separated at seams. Picture
label.
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>George Harrison – Living in the Material World (Apple, 1973)
picture label, vinyl and cover a bit scuffed</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hot Tuna – Burgers (Grunt, 1972) cover shows a lot of wear,
vinyl in reasonably good condition.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hunters & Collectors - “Carry Me” (Epic, 1984) 3 track EP
in picture sleeve, some scuffing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Illinois Speed Press – s/t (Columbia, 1968) cover shows
slight wear, vinyl is clean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Joe Jackson – Will Power (A&M, 1987) cover and vinyl very
clean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Jazz Butcher v Max Eider - “Conspiracy” (Glass, 1986)
Three tracks, vinyl in very good shape, cover has price tag and marks
on it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Elton John – s/t (MCA, 1970) gatefold cover shows a bit of wear
on spine, vinyl pristine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Elton John – Caribou (MCA, 1974) bit of wear on spine, otherwise
almost like new, picture inner sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Elton John – Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player (MCA,
1972) cover shows a bit of wear, vinyl very good, gatefold cover with
booklet</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Janis Joplin – Pearl (Columbia, 1971) vinyl is very good, cover
is split and shows wear.
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Andrew King & Brown Sierra – The Kraken (Dais, 2009) like
new, with insert, promo sticker on back</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Malcolm McLaren – Fans (Island, 1984) all in very good condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Graham Nash – Songs for Beginners (Atlantic, 1971) Shows its age
but no scratches, record club sticker on back</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tommy Navarro and the Sundialers – Twist Around the Town
(Urania, 1961) great condition, stereo, $45</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle (Atco, 1979) cover peeling a
bit around the edges, vinyl in nice shape, picture sleeve included</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Graham Parker and the Rumour – Stick to Me (Mercury, 1977) nice
condition but someone (not me!) wrote a price on the cover in what
looks like wax pencil. Stamps not included.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rolling Stones, the – It's Only Rock'n'Roll (Rolling Stone,
1974) I dunno, I'm guessing Keef snorted up all the glue so they had
to use Mick's saliva to put the covers together. Cover and picture
sleeve are partially unglued but in good shape. Vinyl is clean.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stones, the Rolling – Undercover (Rolling Stone, 1983) promo
copy with stickers peeled off (not by me!), picture sleeve included,
vinyl clean</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles – Live! (Columbia, 1972) vinyl
like new, gatefold cover shows wear</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spit – You Would If You Loved Me (NTS, 1989) in cellophane with
“John Peel hit” sticker, like new</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Stephen Stills – s/t (Atlantic, 1970) in good shape, vinyl
slightly scuffed, with Jimi Hendrix!</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Talking Heads - “Making Flippy Floppy” / “Slippery People”
(Sire, 1983) remixes by David Byrne and Jellybean Benitez</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Three Suns – Swingin' on a Star (RCA Victor, 1959) vinyl in
good shape but shows age, cover partially split on upper seam</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Van Halen – Diver Down (Warner Bros., 1982) includes picture
sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Blitz (Thirsty Ear, 1981) New wave compilation with
Bow Wow Wow, Slow Children, Sparks, etc. White label promo with
original press materials enclosed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Wall of Voodoo – s/t (Index, 1980) Their best record! Five
tracks (includes their cover of “Ring of Fire”) with original
lyric sheet. Clean vinyl. Cover shows a bit of wear.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Time Zone featuring John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa – “World
Destruction (Meltdown Remix” (Celluloid, 1984) like new $8</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CDs</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">10cc – Deceptive Bends (Mercury) from 1977</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Airheads OST (Fox)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Agoraphobic Nosebleed – PCP Torpedo/ANBRX (Hydra Head) promo in
printed cardboard sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lily Allen – Sampler (Capitol, 2009) “Fuck You” /
“Everyone's At It” / “The Fear”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">At the Drive-In – Vaya (Fearless, 1999)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Banished From Inferno – s/t (Ibex Moon, 2008) upc x'd out on
back</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bay City Rollers – Rollerworld (Bodyguard 2001) compilation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Beacons – Brooklyn Towne (Made in Brooklyn)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Big Star – A Little Big Star (Ryko, 1992) promo only 16 song
sampler $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Black 47 – Green Suede Shoes (Tim/Kerr, 1996)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Box Tops – Soul Deep: The Best of the Box Tops (Arista)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Billy Bragg – William Bloke (Cooking Vinyl, 1996)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Butthole Surfers – Electric Larryland (Capitol, 1996)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cibo Matto – Super Relax (Warner Bros., 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Susan Clynes – Life Is … (Moon June, 2014) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Converge – Petitioning the Empty Sky (Equal Vision, 2005)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jeff Covell with Jerry Bergonzi – Cry Me a River (Original Copy)
sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>John Doe – Meet John Doe (DGC, 1990)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mike Doughty - “Strike the Motion” cdr single
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Driver X – Super 12 (Reel to Reel, 2002)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Eagles – s/t (Asylum)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Fall – I Can Hear the Grass Grow (Narnack, 2005) 3 song EP</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds (Recording Club)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Arthur H – baba love (Mystic Rumba, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Handsome – s/t (Epic)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mick Harvey – Sketches From the Book of the Dead (Mute, 2011)
promo in color cardboard sleeve</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Head East - 20<sup>th</sup> Century Masters (A&M)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sergey Latincov – I Got You (Siberian Falcon, 1995) sealed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Litany for the Whale – Dolores (Molsook / Perpetual Motion
Machine, 2009)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lloyd United – Lord Byron (Ming, 2008) 4 song EP</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Los Lobos – Good Morning, Aztlan (Mammoth)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath (Universal Motown, Gold
Standard Laboratories, 2008)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Willy Mason – s/t (self-released) weird home recordings</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Susan McKeown & The Chanting House – Bones (Prime, 1996)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Men in White Coats – s/t (OKS Recordings, 1996)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">National Heroes – Once Around the Sun (Freek, 1996)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Toshi Reagon – I Be Your Water (self-released)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Serpent Cult – Weight of Light (Rise Above, 2008)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sightings – Through the Panama (Load, 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sightings – Michigan Haters (Psycho-Path)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pete Townshend – Another Scoop (Hip-O, 2006) 2 CDs, $10</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pete Townshend – The Iron Man (Hip-O, 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pete Townshend – Deep End Live (Hip-O, 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Unireverse – Plays the Music (No Type, 2005)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – A Mighty Wind OST (Warner Bros., 2002)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Born to Choose (Ryko, 1992)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to the Ramones
(DVB/Columbia, 2003)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tom Verlaine – Around (Thrill Jockey, 2006) water damage to tray
card</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Brian Wilson – s/t (Sire, 1988)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Witchcraft – s/t (Candlelight, 2008)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">TECHNO / HIP HOP / R'N'B / FUNK / SOUL</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><br /></b>
<b>Vinyl</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mandrill – IS (Polydor, 1972) cover seams split, gatefold
sleeve, vinyl in good shape</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mobb Deep – “Win or Lose” 12” (Jive, 2004) clean,
explicit, a cappella and instrumental versions, two copies for your
mixmaster pleasuer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fat Boys – “The Twist” 12” (Tin Pan Apple, 1988) four
mixes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - “One in a Million” / “Death
Becomes You” / “What's on the Menu” / “Searching (Remix)”
white label, plain sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – The Power of Funk and Soul (2002) DJ tool, remixes of
Average White Band, George McCrae, Aretha Franklin, JB's</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Special Disco Mixer - “Hollywood” two versions. Buy anything
above and I'll give you this.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CDs</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Atari Teenage Riot – 60 Second Wipeout (DHR, 1999)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Foxy Brown – Ill Na Na (Def Jam / Violator, 1996)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">D'Angelo – Brown Sugar (EMI, 1995)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival featuring Refugee Allstars
(Ruffhouse / Columbia, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nasir Jones / Olu Dara - “Bridging the Gap” (Sony Urban, 2004)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Trey Lewd – Drop the Line (Reprise, 1992)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Musiq Soulchild – Musiqinthemagiq (Atlantic, 2011)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Spring-Heel Jack – Bank of America (Trade 2 / Island, 1997) 2
track single
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X-Ecutioners – Revolutions (Sony, 2001)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“WORLD,” NOVELTY, ODDITY</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Vinyl</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Afternoon in Amsterdam: Barrel Organ Music of the Kalverstraat
(Capitol) cover split, vinyl in nice condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CBS Laboratories – Seven Steps to Better listening (CBS
Laboratories, 1964) Hi-fi instructions and test tones.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sadie Mae of St. Louis – Trumpet Fair Organ (Audio Fidelity
Records) Vinyl in great shape, cover good but unglued across top.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Persuasive Percussion – 1966 (Command) record and cover in great
condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Henri Rose – The Fastest Piano Alive (Warner Bros) cover seams
split, vinyl in good condition</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lolita Volkstumich – Alpine Folksongs, Yodels & Dances
(Peters International, 1976)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various – Music and Rhythm (Warner, 1982) Double LP of otherwise
unavailable live recordings by Peter Gabriel, XTC, The English Beat,
Mighty Sparrow, Rico, Pete Townsend, Jon Hassell, Nurat Fateh Ali
Khan, Peter Hammill, David Byrne, Shankar, Holger Czukay and others.
Benefit for WOMAD.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Original Player Piano Roll Gems Vol. 4 (The Crackerbarrel)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">CDs</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Americamanta – Instrumental Music of the Andes (self-released,
1998)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Arte Flamenco Vol. 14 – After the War (Harmonia Mundi)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Susana Baca – s/t (Luaka Bop, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Raquy Danziger – Dust: Acoustic and Electronic Arrangements of
Middle Eastern Songs (Raquy, 2002)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gustavo Santaolalla – Ronroco (Nonesuch, 1998)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">From the Banks of the Ganges: Sacred Chants of Shiva (Heaven on
Earth, 1997)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Robin Jones and King Salsa – Ache (Royal Palm, 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Todi Neesh Zhee Singers – Dancers of Mother Earth (Canyon, 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various - Cafe Bulgaria promotional sampler (Authentic)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><b style="background-color: black;">PREVIOUSLY
LISTED ITEMS</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">MUSIC DVDs</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Count
Basie & his Orchestra featuring Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis –
Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 (18 tracks, 68 minutes)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Bleeding
Through – Wolves Among Sheep (live and studio footage from 2005, in
one of those stupid hinged cases so the inserts won't fit into
regular snapcases)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">David
Borgo – Chance, Discovery and Design (a/v design with 16 piece
band, released as DVD-R)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cannibal
Corpse – Centuries of Torment (triple DVD (live, studio, etc.) in
shiny cardboard case, one corner has peeled apart a bit)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Clash – Westway to the World: Director's Cut (Great doc by Don Letts)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Continuum
2 – (Steve Wilson and Dirk Serries from 2007)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Cthonic
– A Decade on the Throne (Japanese metal, 2 CDs + concert DVD in
attractive black and red book design, $10)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span>
Evelina Domnitch / Dmitry Gelfand – Camera Lucida (Music by Taylor Dupree & Richard Chartier, Alva Noto, Assmus Tietchens, Matmos, Coh, Carter Tutti, others, in slim cardboard case)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Envy
– Transfovista (two hour DVD of live footage)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Grails
– Acid Rain (Videos from different years and 2007 live set in
digipack with outer sleeve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Inside
Roxy Music 1972-74 (documentary about the good years with the killer
Beat Club footage)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Isis
– Clearing the Eye (live clips and videos from 2006)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">KGB
– Noise Forest (Brendan Dougherty, Guido Hennebohl, Kim Cascone
with pretty images)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mikrokolektyw
– Dew Point (Artur Majewski and Kuba Suchar 2010 concert)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mono
– Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra (CD + DVD
from 2010)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mono
– The Sky Remains the Same as Ever (110 minute documentary, live
and studio footage in nice cardboard case with cardboard outer sleeve
that I splattered coffee on)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Oliver
Mtukudzi – Shanda (documentary + CD, $8)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Opeth
– Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003 (14 tracks plus
two making-of-album shorts)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Dolly
Parton – Blue Valley Songbird (1999 movie starring Dolly and Billy
Dean)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">TV
Sheriff and the Trailbuddies – Not 4 $ale (Wacked out “video
band” from LA – sampling, collage, karaoke and mind control)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sounds
and Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher (2011 documentary about ECM
Records)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Turisas: A Finnish Summer With Turisas (metal band camping under the midnight sun, really enjoyable doc even if you're not a fan of the band)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Vader:
And Blood Was Shed in Warsaw (2007 concert)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– A History Lesson: Part 1 – Punk Rock in Los Angeles in 1984
(Directed by Dave Travis. With the Meat Puttpets, Red Kross, the
Minutemen, Twisted Roots)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Various
– Down From the Mountain (Concert film supporting “O Brother
Where Art Thou” with the Fairfield Four, John Hartford, Emmylou
Harris, Allison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch and others)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Various
– Flashbacks: Pop Parade (9 tracks of TV appearances, with Sonny
and Cher, Jim Croce, the Fifth Dimension, Kenny Rogers & the
First Edition, Raquel Welch & Tom Jones, Lou Rawls, Dionne
Warwick. It's like YouTube unpixelated!)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Various
– Flashbacks: Soul Sensations (9 tracks of TV appearances, Ike and
Tina Turner, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Bo Diddley, Lou Rawls and
Freda Payne, Dionne Warwick. Like YouTube without the commercials!)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Various
– Funk You Very Much (13 tracks of live / TV clips, with Johnny
“Guitar” Watson, Tower of Power, Curtis Mayfield, Albert Collins,
Larry Carlton, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and others)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– Fuzz: The Sound That Revolutionized the World (Great doc about
distortion with Billy Givvons, Jon Spencer, Wolfmother, more)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– Live at the Smell (No Age, Abe Vigoda, Foot Village, Ponytail,
Captain Ahab, more)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– Metal = Live Vol. 2 (2 CDs, 1 DVD, includes Bleeding Through, As
I Lay Dying, In Flames, Converge, way more, $10)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– Metallimania (Directed by Marc Paschke. With Tom Araya, Rob
Halford and Madonna)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe (90 minute
documentary with Louis Armstron, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Jan
Garbarek, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Enrico Rava,
Louis Sclavis, Ben Webster and more)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>Various
– Rock 'n Roll's Greatest Teen Idols (30+ tracks including Bobby
Vee, Paul Anka, Tommy Sands, Troy Shondell, Frankie Lymon, 120
minutes)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Various
– The Very Best of Country Music Goes to Europe, Vol. 1 (14 songs
incl. Lynn Anderson, Lacey J. Dalton, Hoyt Axton, Bill Anderson,
Billie Jo Spears, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Walker, Kris
Kristofferson, Johnny Cash)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strike>The
Who – Who's Better, Who's Best (20 tracks of live / TV footage and
promo clips, from “My Generation” to “Eminence Front” in
nice, slim cardboard case.</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Neil
Young Under Review 1976-2006 (with Robert Christgau, Barney Hoskins,
Clinton Heylin, etc.)</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">MOVIES,
CARTOONS, NON-MUSIC DOCS</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Barkley's
Barnyard Critters – funny cartoon about an animal rock band, 80
minutes</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The
Big Lebowski (uh, The Big Lebowski)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Drive-In Cult Classics – B-Movie Classics [8 trashy movies on 2 double-sided discs in extra-large snap case: Pick Up (1980); The Sister-in-Law (1974); The Stepmother (1972); The Teacher (1974); Trip With Teacher (1975); Best Friends (1975); Cindy & Donna (1970) $10]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gorehouse Greats [12 movies on three double-sided discs in extra-large snap case: Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969); Blood Mania (1970); Brain Twisters (1981); The Devil's Hand (1962); The Madmen of Mandoras (1963); Nightmare in Wax (1969); Prime Evil (1988); Satan's Slave (1976); Stanley (1972); Terrified (1963); Terror (1968); Trip With the Teacher (1975) $12]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hulk
(Ang Lee director, 2 disc version)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1978 version with Leonard Nimoy, Donald
Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Kids
in the Hall – Complete Season 1</span> (four DVDs in slim cases and box,
$15)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The
League of Gentlemen – The Complete Series 1 (six episodes of great
British weirdo comedy)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">South
Park – Imaginationland (Director's cut, 68 minutes)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Suburban
Shootout – Season One (great British dark comedy about a housewife
crime syndicate, eight episodes)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tenacious
D in The Pick of Destiny – Worth it for the Dio intro alone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Wah
Do Dem – Actually very enjoyable movie about a recently dumped
Brooklyn musician stranded in Jamaica. With Norah Jones. Music and
appearances by MGMT, Santigold, etc.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><b style="background-color: black;">BOOKS</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strike>Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong (trade paperback, super fun to read)</strike></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles by Marc Eliot (hardcover)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ozzy Knows Best: An Unauthorized Biography by Chris Nickson (2002 bio of Ozzy Osbourne, trade paperback)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Possessed: The Rise and Fall of Prince by Alex Hahn (2003, hardcover)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kings of Jazz by Bessie Smith by Paul Oliver (72 page bio, trade paperback)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><b style="background-color: black;">FICTION / LITERATURE</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">William S. Burroughs – The Place of Dead Roads (trade paperback)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine (trade paperback)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">William S. Burroughs – The Final Journals (hardcover)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch: 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Edition (hardcover in heavy cardboard case, case shows minor wear)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - <i>Breakfast of Champions </i>(Delacorte Press, 1973, first edition) Hardcover with dust jacket both in very good condition. Very minor scuffing to dust jacket (no tears), slight yellowing to pages. $300</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - <i>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater </i>(Delacorte Press, 1965, first edition) Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is frayed at edges and shows some discoloration. Book is in very good condition, pages very clean. $100</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - <i>Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade </i>(Delecorte Press, 1969, first edition, seventh printing) Hardcover with dustjacket both in very good condition. Book plate from previous owner on inside first page. $40</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - <i>Slapstick </i>(Delacorte Press, 1976, first edition, fourth printing) Hardcover with dust jacket. Small tears to dust jacket, price corner cut inside, small inscription on first page, book in excellent condition. $10</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;"><b style="background-color: black;">OTHER</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">Photo Poche: Peter Beard (small and collectable collection of prints, $25)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times New Roman;">The Joy of Pi by David Slatner (little square math geek book)</span><br />
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