This will only be a micropost, but the news is too amazing not to share.
A good friend tipped me off to a used record collection in town this morning so I took the chance and drove down to check it out. Mostly disco and jazz comps, nothing I needed, until I spotted one oddity among them.
This is the 1970 first US pressing of Parliament’s debut album, Osmium on the Invictus label.
I have the Argentinian pic disc boot and got George Clinton to sign it for me, but never expected to find the original pressing, let alone in a garage.
I hadn’t hit the ATM yet so I asked the owner how much cash I should take out.
He said, “just the one? Ahh, just take it. No charge.”
First press PFunk debut for free. I can’t believe it.
Every listener has a few – one or two exceptional records which transport them to a metaphysical beyond, or one could say, records that take them to church. One unparalleled example is Glenn Goins calling down the Mothership at Parliament Funkadelic’s performance in Houston in 1976.
But my personal favorite out-of-body musical experience is Spiritualized’s Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. The entire album is a neo-psychedelic gospel noisepop anthem and one of the finest and most cohesive works of the shoegaze genre.
J Spaceman and his band are accompanied by Dr John on the piano and the Hammond B3, as well as the voices of The London Community Gospel Choir. There are touches of hammer dulcimer, autoharp, accordion, string and horn sections, and pedal steel making for one brilliantly-refined heroin-inspired masterpiece.
The 17-minute closing epic, “Cop Shoot Cop” is a monumental performance. The track’s foundation is a simple gospel blues oscillation between two fundamental chords. J’s understated half-spoken vocals usher the listener through a series of verses varying on a primary lyrical theme, each punctuated by twelve bars of distortion pedal punching noise which culminates after the final verse with 6 minutes of an unrelenting eruption of cacophonous clamor. Impressively, the hyperactive electric bass which has been walking up and down scales for the duration of the piece slowly introduces and repeats the root note of the track and guides the performers through the fog machine and wall-of-sound pandemonium back to the familiar gospel structure for a few minutes of meditative peace while Spaceman repeats, “and I will love you… and I will love you…” for the album’s finale.
This is a record best-experienced in your finest pair of circumaural headphones, and bested only by the 3-disc UK Expanded Edition.
I’ve been saving up for this mega-post of audiophilic treasures. I’m back from a week’s vacation to my old home town where I spent my birthday visiting friends, family and my life-long favorite record shop.
Entering the shop I walked past a NM Beatles butcher cover, straight to the back where 3,000 LPs had just been traded in. Tom, the owner told me it was the best collection he’d ever seen (other than his own.)
All of the discs were alphabetical by artist, and all dead mint. Tom said, “I could easily shrink wrap the whole lot and sell ’em in Japan if I wanted to. The owner played these discs once to rip them and then filed them away.”
I passed up 20 mint Miles Davis LPs knowing I couldn’t afford to bring them all home, but my eyes went wide when I reached the Tom Waits collection. I pulled every disc I didn’t already own and walked up to the counter.
I said to Tom, “hold these – I’m going to pace around for 3 minutes… and then I’m going to come back and buy them.”
I had already ordered two other Waits’ LPs for my birthday – Bone Machine and Bad As Me. They’re in the mail now.
But getting so many Waits LPs all at once in unplayed condition and not spending a cent on shipping… totally made my birthday!
Next during a routine visit to my local antique mall I found a copy of the Rutles’ self-titled 12″ promo on yellow vinyl with the hilarious banana label from 1978.
(To anyone who isn’t familiar with the Beatles parody band – please go to Youtube and watch their uproariously funny mockumentary, All You Need Is Cash. It stars Eric Idle, George Harrison Mick Jagger, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and many others!)
Hold My Hand
Let’s Be Natural
Another birthday order arrived by mail this week – the limited edition Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pressed on red vinyl. This is a perfect compliment to my other limited edition Lips’ disc – their award winning masterpiece, The Soft Bulletin + bonus CD.
On the grounds outside the antique mall I found three more Sesame Street records which I didn’t already have in my collection, along with four Muppet and four Sesame Pez dispensers.
The vendor also had the 1984 Sesame Street Fisher Price playhouse (without the figures) and a rare 1978 9-disc box set titled “My First Sesame Street Record Collection,” the later of which I could not pass up taking home.
The set is complete with original box, printed bag, nine 45 RPM singles and their respective colorful cardboard sleeves. Little is known about these sets and various versions were sold in the late 70s. Only two photos are posted in the Muppet Wiki and my copy is far more complete than those pictured!
That weekend I went garage saling and found two more Jim Henson treasures – a Red Fraggle plush at the Super Flea and a 1986 30th Birthday poster of the Muppets and Henson, himself! The poster turned up at a garage sale for $1. Not bad.
Two more Parliament Funkadelic LPs also came by mail. Unfortunately the “original pressing” Maggot Brain I ordered turned out to be a cheap repress from the 90s so I sold it and cut my losses. The other disc was good – a sealed original copy of Funkadelic’s debut self-titled LP. (It’s breaking my heart trying to decide whether or not to open it!)
I came real close to ordering the new limited edition green vinyl re-release of White Zombie’s Astro-Creep 2000, but after contacting the label I learned that the glorious lyric art that came with the CD is not included with the vinyl, so I passed.
…which brings me to what was going to be my most celebrated find of the year.
I thought myself incredibly fortunate to finally have my dream turntable AND a new pre-amp to drastically upgrade my set up.
I was using a linear direct drive Optimus LAB-2250 turntable, a $20 economy phono stage and NAD L40 integrated amp. Sure, the NAD is nothing to turn your nose up at, but the table and cheap phono stage crippled what little quality I had.
Close friends may recall that I had a gorgeous vintage 70s McIntosh receiver, but that it had intermittent crackling which the folks at MAC headquarters could not eliminate after 2 years of servicing the unit.
Well the replacement is in transit now, but the same sadly cannot be said about the turntable.
This is the Denon DP-60L. It is what many call the finest machine ever manufactured by Denon. It has a no-contact end sensor auto-lift mechanism, back-lit controls and a rosewood plinth. As an added bonus, this specific table was fitted with a Signet cartridge which you often see paired with turntables double the value of the 60L. I thought I had finally found my dream table – until it arrived at my doorstep… broken and non-functional. It was apparently destroyed in the mail, but despite my paying for insurance on the $600 purchase, the post office chose not to accept responsibility and denied my claim. I turned to Paypal hoping they would protect my funds, but the terms of my purchase fell though a fine-print loophole and the funds were denied.
Two months later, I am appealing the USPS’s denial. WISH ME ALL THE LUCK IN THE WORLD. This was the biggest equipment purchase of my life.
On the positive side there is still the McIntosh amp waiting for me, thanks to the immeasurable generosity of a dear friend.
The new MAC eliminates the problem of the cheap phono stage. This beast (with a shipping weight of 69 pounds!) was manufactured in the early 90s. It’s the McIntosh C39 pre-amplifier. I’m working on picking up a power amp to pair it with.
The heartbreaking thing about the Denon is that I had a conversation with Tom (the record store owner mentioned at the beginning of this post) and it turns out that he’s using the exact same model at home!
This is a man with 30,000 LPs in his personal collection. If it’s good enough for him, then it’s most certainly good enough for me! One day, it will be mine.
Wish me luck with the claim. Still, it was one hell of a birthday.
I had a fantastic day antiquing with friends today!
You come across some unique characters at flea markets and antique shows and today I learned that the man I always see with a table full of archived science fiction radio broadcasts is a good friend of Mark Evanier and has personally met Sergio Aragones on numerous occasions! This man has encyclopedic knowledge of all his archived programs including all 26 seasons of Doctor Who. When I asked him if he had any of the rare merchandise of the 1960s The Prisoner series, he smiled and replied, “you mean the three paperbacks? No… but the third one is the best.” This blew my mind because few Americans I’ve met have heard of The Prisoner, let alone read the books.
But on to the records of the day…
A sealed limited edition colored vinyl landed on my doorstep last night. After verifying the catalog number I promptly re-sealed the packaging and shelved it away until the end of June. It’s going to be a little birthday gift to myself. Stay tuned for my birthday post where I’ll unveil the album.
The first table I hit at the antique market was a routine stop, and this time I found not one but two Miles Davis LPs from his electric period.
The first, Big Fun is one I’d seen at the local annual record show just a week prior. The copy at the show was $30 so I couldn’t pass up the double-LP for the $4 it was marked this time around. Big Fun is a collection of outtakes, but as a Miles Davis record even the outtakes shine. The standout track is the 20 minute, “Great Expectations.” The Allmusic guide calls it a disc for fans, because it fills in the puzzle of what was happening between 1969 and 1970.
I was delighted when I read the closing sentence of their review which stated that others should look to Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way, Jack Johnson, or Live Evil as starting points. This rang especially true for me as my in-progress introduction to Davis followed that precise path of albums, with Live Evil as the next on my list.
The other Miles Davis record was one I’d been eying at the market for the past 4 weeks and luckily, no one had purchased it. A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a wonderfully funky album. Herbie Hancock had been passing through the building where the jam session was taking place and ended up sitting in on the Hammond organ. I later learned that the first twelve minutes of the second side revolves around a single bass riff lifted from James Brown’s “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud.”
Before leaving the vendor’s booth, he noticed the album had a very minor seam split on one corner. He taught me a great fix – you first place a 12″ fitted poly bag around the album jacket with the open end on the same edge as the open end of the jacket. The tight fit holds the seam together rendering it unnoticeable and prevents further tearing. You then slide it into a 12.5″ poly bag with the open end at the top of the album. Finally, insert the disc and dust jacket vertically into the outer sleeve. The disc can now be easily accessed and the album back cover is still visible. Soon you’ll forget all about the seam split. This is just one of the many reasons I love the markets I visit.
The cement statue vendor I was looking for was away for an estate sale this weekend, so I continued on to another booth where I found a table of LPs all in poly bags. I instantly spotted Pink Floyd’s A Nice Pair which is a double album of their first two LPs. The copy has the generic “dentist” sticker at the upper right instead of the original ” W. R. Phang’s dental surgery” photo, and the nude center image is covered by the round pink “A Nice Pair” sticker, so I believe this is the more common version of the disc. Still, it is a temporary remedy for not owning a vinyl copy of “Piper…” so I picked it up.
I did however discover that there are a few differences in the audio between the original releases and the US pressings of A Nice Pair. The most disappointing change is the substitution of the live version of “Astronomy Domine” from the Ummagumma LP instead of the original recording from Piper at the Gates of Dawn. As that was one of the tracks I was most looking forward to, I will likely be putting this double LP up for sale once I secure an original pressing of their first album.
Pink Floyd – A Nice Pair (original cover uncensored)
Pink Floyd – A Nice Pair (Nude Sticker and Dentistry sticker)
I’ve also just ordered two Funkadelic recordings – one which has been missing from my P-Funk library for too long and the other will serve as a replacement for a copy I bought at a record show which has significant needle wear.
More to come, thanks so much for tuning in!
UPDATE: I made a few additional discoveries about the Miles Davis recordings which I would hate to leave out of this post.
In the year 2000, Columbia Records released a double CD version of Big Fun, catalog #C2K 63973. This version featured four additional tracks which did not appear on any of the prior releases. I researched the bonus tracks and discovered that originally appeared on the 1998 four CD set titled The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (C4K 65570).
One of these tracks is a beautiful near-ambient piece titled, “Recollections” which nearly 20 minutes in length. If you enjoyed a single moment of In a Silent Way, you should give this track a listen.
The other track I discovered is quite different from “Recollections.” I had been further exploring Davis’ electric period and came upon a live album titled Agharta from 1975. The lengthy opening track, titled “Prelude” was unlike anything I’d heard before. The Allmusic Guide stated simply that Agharta is “the greatest electric funk-rock jazz record ever made — period.”
Turn your speakers up and check out Pete Cosey’s guitar solo. Start viewing at the 7 minute mark of this clip. During the next sixty seconds the band falls silent and Cosey goes absolutely wild. Enjoy this outstanding minute of music.
I am already on the hunt for an original copy of Agharta. I’ll keep you posted.
Between my recent motherboard failure and setting up the replacement PC my stepfather so generously donated to me, I’ve picked up a lot of vinyl that didn’t make it to my blog. I thought I’d take a moment to highlight some of the better ones that I’ve neglected.
First, I found Funkadelic’s Electric Spanking of War Babies in NM shape at an antique shop. It is another outstanding example of Pedro Bell’s artwork.
The next item I picked up was the first album to feature regenerative tape loops which Robert Fripp and Brian Eno dubbed ‘Frippertronics.’ The album is an ambient classic – No Pussyfooting.
Side A is the standout track at over 20 minutes in length, titled “The Heavenly Music Corporation.”
I insist on tracking down original pressings whenever possible, and I was lucky to find an extremely clean copy at a great price.
And thanks to my friend Brrrn and good timing at a flea market, two more early Eno recordings fell into my hands. One was Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) – Eno’s second solo album and the other was a long-time favorite collaboration with Harold Budd titled Ambient 2 – Plateaux of Mirror. Plateaux was one of my first digital ambient albums many years ago.
The next treasure is a deep cut, and one of historical significance. I was exploring The Orb’s catalog and read about a curious track called “The Blue Room,” a 17 minute song which appeared on the album u.f.orb. What I discovered was that the original single was in fact 40:00 long.
From Wiki:
The UK charts had recently decided that any release with more than 40 minutes of play would be classified as an album rather than single. The Orb thus decided to record a 39:57 version of “Blue Room” for a special release. “Blue Room” is the longest single to ever reach the UK charts, peaking at number eight.
If you have ANY interest in ambient house, you need to hear this song.
The last find in the spectrum of ambient music was a dollar bin neoclassical LP by David Lanz. Nightfall is one of his best works.
There were several other discoveries including a number of Yes albums previously missing from my collection and Zappa’s Hot Rats which features wonderful contributions from Don Van Vliet.
Last but most certainly not least, I found a number of Sesame Street albums to add to my Jim Henson library. It’s getting harder and harder to find ones I don’t already have, (over 40 at last count) so these were a treat.
The Ernie LP is extra special. Mint in shrink, it includes some of my most beloved memories from the Street – “Rubber Duckie,” “Imagination,” “I Don’t Want to Live On The Moon,” and the hilarious “Dance Myself to Sleep.”
If only it featured “Put Down the Duckie” it would be my favorite Sesame record ever. Sadly, that duet between Ernie and Hoots the Owl never made it to vinyl.
Here’s the video for “Dance Myself to Sleep.” If you’re really savvy you might just catch the Andrews Sisters reference Ernie makes to a hit from 1941. Watch for it!
I’m back from the fall record show, and the funk table was back again this season. I found a number of albums from the PFunk family, including Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns and Bernie Worrell.
Prices were steep, but I talked him down on my top four from his stash.
Below is a shot of my Pfunk collection (minus the Horny Horns albums) before the show…
And here are the four new LPs I picked up. The Bootsy album was sealed with a comic inside, pictured below…
Also new in the mail from Germany is an absolute classic album from when I was a kid – They Might Be Giants’ all-time best-seller, Flood on vinyl. This was the album that featured “Birdhouse in Your Soul,” “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” and “Particle Man.”
Last night my girlfriend and I saw George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic live in Buffalo. I brought along the rare limited edition Osmium 180g picture disc which I posted to this blog on June 28th. You can re-visit the post for details here.
To sum it up, it’s a re-issue of Parliament’s first record, 750 copies were produced in Argentina in 2003, and all quickly disappeared. The copy I found was in Thessaloniki, Greece and in mint unplayed condition.
There were several setbacks looming over us during my mission to get the album signed by the captain of the Mothership. The weather man had predicted thunderstorms just as George was set to take the stage, potentially raining out the show. Also, being new to the area, we got lost on our way to the concert. Good fortune was with me because I jumped out of the car and stopped the only person I could find on the street… who then generously led us right to the show!
The rain never came, and the set was incredible. During the concert I found three other audience members with albums to get signed. We teamed up and talked to security, agreeing to meet beside the tour bus after the performance. It paid off. After the park quieted down and everyone left, Joe “Foley” McCreary stepped out of the bus and signed my disc. (He played bass with Miles Davis all through the late 80s and now plays drums for George.)
Next out of the bus was Carlos McMurray who gave an amazing performance as Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk. He signed the disc with a smile.
And just before George hopped into his van he approached me, took the album in his hands, removed his sunglasses to check out what I’d given him, and happily added his autograph.
The challenges of the night weren’t over just yet – the concert was over by 9:30 we wandered aimlessly until 11pm unable to find our car. We were still disoriented from the confusing journey into the show. Thankfully, friends came to our rescue and we stopped into a local bar only to find that luck was with us again – the woman who gave us our parking pass was sitting at the bar. She remembered us and told us right where we parked! (Honestly, what are the odds of that?!)
It was a fitting end to an exciting night. Huge thanks to Nacy for the record, which is now my favorite disc for the love and memories attached.
I’m back from my 30th birthday vacation, and it will most certainly be remembered. I took home a number of LPs, so watch this blog for several posts in the coming week(s).
Osmium, Parliament’s first full length album, was originally released on Invictus Records in 1970. A mint copy will set you back one or two hundred dollars on eBay.
All reissues have the artist name re-set horizontally instead of vertically.
The original album is highly collectible. According to popsike.com, 11 copies in varying condition have auctioned this year.
This version, produced by Earmark/Sanctuary & Get Back Records in 2003 is a limited edition 180g picture disc released in Argentina in 2003. Only 750 copies were pressed, and in the last four years I’ve found one copy for sale. So when this one surfaced in Thessaloniki, Greece I put it at the top of my birthday wish list. Thanks to a kind and loving mother in law it’s the latest addition to my PFunk family collection.
Here’s a taste of the soulful funk on this LP.
The next PFunk related disc I’m after is the “I Wanna Testify” RV207 7 inch single that George Clinton released with his doo-wop group, The Parliaments in 1967 (before Osmium was recorded.)
It’s been a busy week – I’ve picked up 50 new albums and am working on a post that will highlight a number of them. In the meantime here’s a forgotten post from Record Store Day 2010 which fell through the cracks in the months between my old blog and the new site.
I hit various record shops in NYC that morning with a specific plan of action.
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast ‘n bulbous! Got me?”
I was blown away when I found this disc. It’s been on my wish-list for quite some time, but it’s long out of print and highly sought-after, so I never thought I’d actually own a copy myself.
Matt Groening had this to say about Trout Mask Replica:
“I took it home and put it on… it was the worst drek I’d ever heard in my life. They’re not even trying! They’re just playing randomly! And then I played it again and thought, it sounds horrible, but they mean it to sound this way. The third or fourth time it started to grow on me. And the fifth or sixth time… I loved it. And the seventh or eighth time I thought it was the greatest album ever made and I still do.”
The legendary John Peel once said that Beefheart “is the most important figure to emerge from the rock era of the 1960s and 1970s. I heard echoes of his music in some of the records I listened to last week. And I’ll hear more echoes in the records I’ll listen to this week.”
He also called him “rock’s only real genius.”
Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn 7″ etched picture disc (2009)
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Symphony of Science is a musical project designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. For the song “A Glorious Dawn,” speech recordings of astrophysicist Carl Sagan and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking were auto-tuned and set to music. The result was not a kitschy novelty track, but a beautifully philosophical tune that stands quite well on its own.
As an added bonus, the b-side of the disc is etched with the image that appears on the Golden Record which was sent into space on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. (Sagan directed the committee that selected the sounds for the Voyager LP.)
Barbara Feldon – 99/Max (1966)
A strange and unusual item… Barbara Feldon played the spy 99 on the ‘Get Smart’ TV show back in the 1960’s with Don Adams. Here she sings seductively about her prowess, and then, on the B side, about her secret passion for Max (Don Adams). The music is in the same vein as Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Boots Are Made For Walkin’. I also have a recording of Beck performing this song live. “99” is the most rare of all my Get Smart collectibles.
Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns – Say Blow By Blow Backwards (1979)
The Horny Horns involved many of the members of Parliament Funkadelic, with Fred Wesley on trombone, Maceo Parker on tenor and alto sax, and production by George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. I found this disc beside a stack of Bootsy LPs, but I had to draw the line for the sake of my wallet.
Chocolate City (1975)
Another original pressing to add to my collection of all things P-Funk. “God bless Chocolate City and its vanilla suburbs.”
J.B.’s – Doin’ It To Death (1973)
Just as I was leaving the shop where I picked up Trout Mask Replica, I took a quick look through the milk crates of “bargain bin” cheap LPs on a small table outside the store. Astonishingly, stashed among the mostly disposable LPs was this copy of Doin’ It To Death, marked at $3!
This album also contains favorites like “More Peas” and “You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I’ll Be Straight.”
Sunday, May 1st was an absolute thrill. Both Buffalo and Rochester held their annual record shows the same day. I attended both, (nearly 120 eight foot tables!) and was amazed by what I found.
Standing in line for the Buffalo show to open it’s doors I was complemented by the four men in front of me for my resemblance to Captain Beefheart. From our chat I learned of Frank Zappa’s Lost Episodes album which contains a number of collaborations with the Captain from as early as 1958. Later when I researched that album I discovered a similar collection titled An Evening With FZ & CB. That’s what I love about music – there is always more to learn.
Within the first 10 minutes I found The Flaming Lips’ masterpiece, The Soft Bulletin. Yoshimi may be their most popular LP but nothing compares to The Soft Bulletin’s masterful compositions, sonic bliss, and brilliant production value. It was album-of-the-year on nearly every major list in 1999, and was selected by Pitchfork as the third greatest album of the decade. Several critics have called The Soft Bulletin “the Pet Sounds of the 1990s.” I’d been tracking copies online all month, so I bought it without a moment’s hesitation. The disc also comes with a bonus CD featuring “The Captain,” “Satellite Of You,” and “1000 Ft. Hands.” The same vendor had a red vinyl sealed copy of Yoshimi that I’d also been tracking online, but his price was a bit steep.
Next I hit up a booth with a ton of original 70s funk LPs. I purchased a near mint original German pressing of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain. The album is an absolute classic. Rolling Stone ranked the disc among the top 500 records of all time and the title track as #60 in the greatest guitar songs of all time. It has also earned the reputation of the #1 guitar solo in the history of rock. For those who aren’t familiar with the legendary solo, George Clinton allegedly told Eddie Hazel to play “like his mother just died.” The result was a ten minute opus, the conclusion of which just might have resurected Hazel’s mother from her funky grave. Beside the album was an equally rare near mint copy of Funkadelic’s self-titled album, but I didn’t have an extra $40 to spare.
The last table I stopped at was better still. The vendor asked me where I acquired my Beefheart tee. When I told him that I made it, he replied, “Me too! Hey – I’ve got that album right here if you want it!” And he promptly produced a 1970 (second pressing) copy of Safe As Milk! The first issue of that album, along with the baby Jesus bumper sticker is often considered the holy grail of record collecting. Tom Kohn, owner of Rochester’s Bop Shop once said that he’ll retire the day he finds that LP.
Just as I got ready to leave the table I saw a Jim Henson album which I snatched as quickly as I could. For $3 I took home the soundtrack to The Dark Crystal, which sells for between $50-$60 online. After looking up the album I saw photos of a fold-out poster that originally came with the LP. I hesitated for a moment, reached into the sleeve… and pulled out the mint poster from inside! Of my twenty five Jim Henson related albums, this might be my new favorite.
At the Rochester show I met up with two wonderful friends and received hugs and handshakes from several vendors I hadn’t seen in as many as fourteen years, (namely Mark of the Compact Disc Exchange.) One vendor had a mint original copy of the Meters’ Fiyo on the Bayou, but like the aforementioned Funkadelic LP I didn’t have an extra $40. I was completely surprised, however to find at the very last minute Soul Coughing’s Irresistible Bliss! I wish their debut album, Ruby Vroom had been released on vinyl, but alas it was not. Still Bliss spent years in my CD player so it’ll be great to hear it on my turntable.
I finished the day with a massive garbage plate in the company of good friends and made a few more stops around town before heading home.
All in all probably the best day of crate digging in my entire life, and in the company of people I miss dearly. Just for fun, below are the other albums I found but didn’t have the $400 extra dollars to pay for…
The Flaming Lips – Oh My Gawd! (2005 clear vinyl reissue) $20
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (red) $28
The Meters – Fiyo On The Bayou (mint original pressing) $40
Leon Redbone – Champagne (78RPM 10″ single) $4
Funkadelic – Funkadelic (original German pressing) $40
Funkadelic – America Eats Its Young $20
Funkadelic – Uncle Jam Wants You $10
Fuzzy Haskins – Radio Active $20
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – This Boot Is Made For Fonk-n $5
Tom Waits – Mule Variations $20
Tom Waits – Romeo Is Bleeding – Live From Austin $20
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones $20
Tom Waits – Glitter And Doom Live $20
Captain Beefheart – Mirrorman $20
Captain Beefheart – Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) $15
Captain Beefheart – Bluejeans And Moonbeams $15
Captain Beefheart – Unconditionally Guaranteed $20
Captain Beefheart – Spotlight Kid $20
Captain Beefheart – It Comes… In A Plain Brown Wrapper $30
Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal $20
Along with the two Zappa albums mentioned above, I’ve got a lot of new music to take in before my birthday this June! Special thanks to all my friends in Rochester who made the day memorable.
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