Video: Sealed Beatles Record Collection

This'll make any Beatles fan drool with envy. The guy's showing off his collection of SEALED Beatles records. Holy crap!

Interestingly enough, the guy really knows his stuff and provides fascinating comments about almost every album he presents. Really cool!

Long live vinyl.
:)

Gary Bartz/Ntu Troop -- Harlem Bush Music/Taifa, Part 2

My $0.10 Find of the Week from last week is turning out to be quite a gem. There isn't a bad track on this amazing piece of wax.

Produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews (who most notably produced Monk's wonderful albums on Riverside) it features some really great  and groovy playing by the likes of Gary Bartz himself (on soprano and alto saxes), Andy Bey (vocals), Juni Booth (bass), Nat Bettis (percussion) and Harold White (drums, awesome,awesome drums!).

Check out this INCREDIBLE track:

Long live vinyl.
:)

GREAT Find of the Week!

Gary Bartz/Ntu Troop -- Harlem Bush Music/Taifa

Hard to believe, but this cost me a whopping $0.10! What a steal!

A fairly rare record of contemporary Jazz featuring great pieces, such as "Drinking Song" and "Du (Rain)".

A keeper, for sure!

Here's a sampling:

Long live vinyl.
:)

Another GREAT video featuring vinyl on a turntable!

The Rolling Stones - "Shattered"

From 1976's great "Some Girls", a great song and a great single.



Long live vinyl.
:)

GREAT Finds of the Week! Cost: $0.00

Well, we didn't find 'em, they found US! A close friend of my wife and me came by yesterday with a surprise: 5 boxes of 33RPM records, AND a box of 45s!

We had a ball sorting through everything, naturally.

Here's what we kept:

Here's what we'll be giving away:

And here's what we'll be throwing away:

Out of this whole mess, we did manage to find a few gems, including these:

MC5 - Back in the USA

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

The Fendermen - Mule Skinner Blues

Wilburn Brothers - Side By Side

The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey 

Alan Stivell - Journée à la maison

The Troggs - Wild Thing

Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis - Together

We're still sifting through the piles, and we'll probably end up throwing away and giving more stuff away.

The 45s box had a few nice Beatles singles and other cool stuff, inlcuding a very nice copy of Zeppelin's "Black Dog/Misty Mountain Hop" single.

Nothing better to make your day than getting a surprise crapload of vinyl!

Long live vinyl!
:)

Another GREAT video featuring vinyl on a turntable!

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" (from "Out of the Blue")

Great song! ELO at its most Beatlesque! Love everything about this song.

Enjoy!

Long live vinyl.
:)

Forbes: "The Record Album Re-Turns"

"The Record Album Re-Turns"

Great piece in Forbes on the resurgence of vinyl:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0718/life-vinyl-cd-music-dom-ratatat-david-shebiro-record-re-turns.html

Must-read article!

Long live vinyl.
:)

New Blog Name

I decided to scrap the old name "Les Vinyles invisibles", which I like a lot, but felt was not relevant anymore, since my blog is now an English-only publication; it started out as a bilingual blog, but that proved to be too much of a challenge, for various reasons which I won't go into. I am thinking of starting a new blog, eventually, which will be in French only.

I'm going with a short 'n' sweet title, nothing fancy.

So here it is: welcome to "Vinylese".
When I talk vinyl, I speak... "Vinylese".

Long live vinyl.
:)