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Cleaning Vinyl

Best method I've found for cleaning records is to steam clean them. Sounds crazy, but it works very well. Here's a thread I found a while back that piqued my interest (warning: major audiophile cockfighting ensues).http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1192142257&openflup&22&4#22Check out th...

Item: Homemade Band T-shirts

I once made a Rapeman tee shirt which I wore to a Shellac concert back in '98 (at SOBs in NYC...who else was there?). On the front in big black (pun!) letters it said "monobrow" and on the back "singular eyebrow as fashion statement," along with tastefully-sized, blue Rapeman &qu...

Favorite Neil Young Album

Several years ago I had the brief privilege of working with Al Schmidt, who recorded the three songs on Side 2 of On the Beach . During a break, I felt compelled to tell him how much I loved the performances and the sound of that record (which was still out of print at the time). He was gracious and...

Movie: Jaws

Here lies the body of Mary Lee
Died at the age of a hundred and three
For fifteen years she kept her virginity
Not a bad record for this vicinity!

Bo Diddley, R.I.P.

Absolute giant. There is not a week that goes by that I don't listen to Bo Diddley. I love Bo's records and his approach to music in general. I wish more people made records that were like Bo Diddley's, regardless of the genre. A good friend of mine had a band and Bo sat in with them a couple times...

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