Vinyl to MP3

[fluffy]

Apparently they are a thing that exists:

[Paco Del Stinko]

Ha! That video is prety tame compared to when I stumbled acroos them at the now defunct Rat club in Boston about 20 years, or more, ago. Nude women covered in body paint wearing fright wigs and blacked out teete with chains that went over their fronts and backs somehow connected between their legs, bowing men in the front row being kicked and spat upon, the blonde oriental guitar player with ass-less chaps...yikes! The music is ok, but the show was nuts. Great fun and if they still tour around, don't miss them.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I'm finished! 263 albums (many double, a few just songs off of) and 2873 songs. Zoinks! Come by in the spring for the yard sale. I may have a few albums in a friends garage, old ones that belonged to my mom. There was one album in the wrong sleeve, and I hope it is in that stash. One of those 1960's Command label stereo records. Great stuff. There was only one skip I couldn't fix and a few albums were all crackly, like from some spooge or something on them, that I had to pass on. Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath and the like I could skip as I have them digitally already. Man, what a project. Next: All my old four track tapes. But not soon.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Next: All my old four track tapes. But not soon.

Do you have any 8 tracks? As in the cartridge type? I still remember rockin' the heck out of locomotive breath in the late 70s on the 8 track with a Jensen amp and 6X9s in my 1975 Honda Civic at my high school upper parking lot smokin' weed with friends. I only had like 5 or 6 as I remember, or that's all I played. Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Nazareth-hair of the dog, Foghat-fool for the city (played the hell out of slow ride) Boston, Kansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd and that's all I can remember. I also had a Richard Pryor comedy 8 track, but it was empty and had weed and zig zags hidden in it, lol.

Getting nostalgic now talking about it. What ever happened to rock?
This is SOOo good!

[Paco Del Stinko]

Ha! No, no 8 track tapes. I sure remember them, though. Those you listed sound like the standard issue 70s stoner crew package. Great stuff. My friend's family had a camp (he still does) in the lakes region of New Hampshire. Summers up there always had Boston playing and his folks, Neil Diamond. Hot August Night is a great Neil album, by the way. Oh my god, More Than A Feeling just came on the radio, right on cue! I Swear! Right on!

[Billy's Little Trip]

Oh my god, More Than A Feeling just came on the radio, right on cue! I Swear! Right on!

It's kismet!

[Caravan Ray]

Ha! No, no 8 track tapes. I sure remember them, though.

We had an 8-track in our Mazda RX4 when I was 8 years old.

We could only ever find 3 tapes to play in it:

This:


this:


and this one:


The 3rd of these was by far my favourite and the only one I now have a CD of

[Billy's Little Trip]

LOL. that's awesome, John. So "other side of the" ish.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Hey Charlie, I thought about you when I saw this. One of our Cali based record stores, Amoeba Music, specializes in out of print rare vinyl. They came up with a really cool idea and basically did what you did with all their vinyl and made it available to buy via iTunes.

I've been to the Hollywood store numerous times and it's like going back in time to the first record store you've ever gone to. Not just bins of albums as far as the eye can see, but rock posters, both rare collectables and new prints, books, gifts, they even sell turntable both old school and computer connection ready. If they had marijuana paraphernalia, it would be exactly like the record stores of old, lol.
Here's the link. http://www.amoeba.com/music/vinyl-vaults/#page-1

PS. The "what's in my bag" section at Amobea's site is pretty awesome. You'll get lost in there for why more time than you'd like.

[Paco Del Stinko]

Hey, cool. I'll check it out. Although I probably shouldn't. If you know what I mean.

[ken]

Wow. My first reaction is to wonder whether or not that is even legal...

[Billy's Little Trip]

Yeah, good point. That never occurred to me. They would certainly need distribution licensing rights other than just the right to retail the albums.

[fluffy]

Yeah, probably not. Expect Amoeba to be hit with a massive lawsuit in about, oh, 12 seconds ago.

[ken]

I guess Amoeba is trying to do the right thing: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/29/amoeba ... ownlo.html

"In some cases, the store has tracked down rightsholders for these out-of-print rarities, and cleared the music for sale for the first time; in others, it's escrowing the sales funds for payment to rightsholders when and if they present themselves. "

[fluffy]

Trying to do the right thing still isn't the legal thing, and I don't see this ending well for them especially with how litigious the RIAA is.

It's unfortunate because this is a great thing that they are doing.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I hope the best for Amoeba. They may end up being the martyr, but they are doing what needs to be done to preserve out of print music. An interview with one of the owners, Jim Henderson, he said that some of the vinyl they buy comes from people that do nothing but go to flea markets and garage sales buying vinyl records for their collections. Some are so rare that even when they do find the person that owns the rights, there aren't any masters to even do a run for them to buy. So digitizing them keeps them from possible extinction while they track down the owners.

This reminds me of the Rodriguez story. A folk singer that made two albums in the 60s that didn't sell and the record company went BK. He gave up music because he had a family to take care of and worked construction his whole life. At 70 years old he was tracked down by a company in south Africa that's similar to Amoeba there trying to get the distribution rights to his music. They thought he was dead and were surprised to find him alive. It turned out that he has been a legion in south Africa for the past 40 years and he never heard about it. Now all of a sudden they're flying him to south Africa, London, Paris, etc to perform to huge crowds that love him. There is a movie about him called Searching for Sugarman that premiered at the Sundance film festival. It's reviewing very good and I can't wait to see it. He's in the line up for this years Coachella, too.

Here's a link to the episode I watched if you're interested. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7424704n

[Caravan Ray]

Rodrigues album Cold Fact was a moderate sized hit here in the late 70s. That movie sounds interesting - I saw an ad for it the other day

[Billy's Little Trip]

Rodrigues album Cold Fact was a moderate sized hit here in the late 70s. That movie sounds interesting - I saw an ad for it the other day

Searching for Sugar man just won an Oscar last night. And it's still sitting in my Netflix queue with no shipping date. WTF?!
....it won a f**king Oscar, for god sake. Get your shit together, NetFlax!