bust out the vinyl!

Ok, so my main gift for my B-Day was a record player. I have brough up some of my parents old LPs from the basement. The original Star Wars sound track sounds good, but a lot of the sleves have fuzzy white mold. Any thing to worry about or watch out for with the vintage vinal?

Store them vertically. Stacking them flat will warp them. I'm sure somewhere someone sell new sleeves. You might find yourself addicted to collecting them. I've bought plenty just for the cover art.

i know one store that sells used LPs as low as $2-5 for most, things like beatles albums go for around 10, IIRC

There's a massive resurgence in vinyl right now. A lot of new records are being bought now--it won't dent mp3 or CD (lol) sales, but there has been a significant increase nevertheless.

I have some cool old stuff that a relative gave me--she was going to throw them out (!!!!) Abbey Road is the centerpiece.

Wasn't Vanilla Ice's LP touted as the first album NOT produced in vinyl? As if it was something to be proud of?

Appleseed wrote: Wasn't Vanilla Ice's LP touted as the first album NOT produced in vinyl? As if it was something to be proud of?

Imagine if it hadn't been produced at all...

Woody wrote:

Appleseed wrote: Wasn't Vanilla Ice's LP touted as the first album NOT produced in vinyl? As if it was something to be proud of?

Imagine if it hadn't been produced at all...

Did you see that episode of Family Guy where Peter never married Lois.... yeah...

Love my vinyl. I have the component stereo I bought when I got my first real job. Has a kick ass turntable. It is in my shop because it is so big. The speakers are over 4 feet tall. Lots of vinyl too. My older sister gave me hers and my wife and i have been maried long ennough that we are comfortable combining ours. I will stop at garage sales and buy and vinyl they have. My latest was 2 milk crates stuffed full for $20.00 over 50 albums in that. Lots of old Stones, all the Blondie, war of the worlds is kinda cool. I have a few from Europe in the 70's wierd stuff like local yodeling groups.

Appleseed wrote: Wasn't Vanilla Ice's LP touted as the first album NOT produced in vinyl? As if it was something to be proud of?

Oh, I thought for a minute you meant Vanilla Fudge. (Mid-'60s)

Never miiiiiiind...

No-it wasn't vanilla. Brb!

Ok-the web says I'm wrong! Vanilla it is. The problem is I was around when it happened and it was some 80's synthesizer song not the white rapper from the "hood"

It was Vanilla.

"YO VANILLA! Kick it one time, BOYYYYYYYYY!"

Look, the guy was probably on top of the hip-hop movement in the early 1990s. I think he was bigger than the Hammer. Really, who is still the most talked-about rapper of the early 1990s--it's Vanilla Ice. Everybody "hates" him so much because they're afraid to admit that they liked his music back then.

And don't get me started on that whole "He stole the music from Queen". Yeah, he stole it from Queen--it was good! But listen to EVERY modern rap song to date. If they HAVE a catchy beat, it's because they ripped it off of a real musician. "Stronger" comes to mind. "Harder. Faster. Better. Stronger." That was taken from Daft Punk by Kanye West and made into the ever-so-popular song "Stronger". Of course, unlike Ice, they probably got permission from Daft Punk to do so . . .

Kanye got permission to sample Daft Punk. Hell, DP were even in the Stronger video.

I still like the original better.

No no no.

Ice's is different. Listen:

Queen: "Dun-dun-dun-dadda-dunda."

Vanilla "Dun-dun-dun-dadda-dunda...dink."

And while we're talking about rip offs and outfits so bad they're good, where would Hammer be without Rick James?

(Probably still broke)

My old component stereo w/record player needs a needle for the record player and a new amp (volume doesn't work). The wife got me a stereo for xmas that records LPs and cassettes to CD. Pretty cool , now I can transfer all my old music to CD and listen to them in the car or on the computer. The automatic track thing doesn't quite work as advertised for LPs, must be the static noise. I have to seperate the tracks manually while I record. Slowly converting my LP & cassette collection to CD as I have time. I still enjoy listening to but want to minimize the amount of play time on the old LPs, some are first release promotional (DJ) copies my aunt gave me when I was a teen and she worked at an FM radio station back in the late 60's/early 70's. Those are Beatle albums still with the original posters, like the white album and Sgt Pepper. Show my age with that, huh!!

Oh, you can wash vinyl LPs with luke warm water, mild dish soap and air dry. It will help remove buildup and gunk from the grooves. Then use an LP brush on them to keep them clean.

I've always been a casual vinyl collector. It's one of those hobbies, like guns, that I have to consciously keep myself from getting into, because I know I'll go overboard.

But I got an old Califone suitcase record player for this past X-Mas, along with a bunch of my mom's old 45s. Something about the combination of that warm tube sound, the tinny mono speaker and scratchy/warbly 45s is simply magical - old garage, soul and country songs have never sounded better to my ears.

So now, in addition to not collecting LPs, I have to start not collecting 45s. I think the 200 or so I amassed in the couple months before I forced myself to stop should keep me entertained for a while.

But the 45 format has me so intrigued now that I'm intending to cut a couple singles onto vinyl from my band's upcoming record. If we only press 100 and I keep them for myself, I can live out my years as a shut-in, listening to myself on a scratchy 45.

I once bought a 57 Ford that had a record player under the dash... Realy. It was made by I think RCA for cars and was pipped thru the one speaker in the centre of the dash. I pulled it out and sold it for $50.00 wish I still had it.

Yup, called it the Highway Hi-Fi.

Chrysler had them too.

Shawn

alex wrote: But the 45 format has me so intrigued now that I'm intending to cut a couple singles onto vinyl from my band's upcoming record. If we only press 100 and I keep them for myself, I can live out my years as a shut-in, listening to myself on a scratchy 45.

If you do, would you be interested in selling them? You're the one with the old-time country sound, right?

We currently have 2 record players. Both are pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. Dads is a ReVox, with a mechanical-linear tracking arm-thingy. Definitely the coolest turntable ever.

Mine is a Denon that I bought as a floor model for fifty bucks. It kept breaking, it wasn't that great of a model. But we kept sending it back, and they finally got tired of fixing it and sent us a 700 dollar model.

mtn wrote:

alex wrote: But the 45 format has me so intrigued now that I'm intending to cut a couple singles onto vinyl from my band's upcoming record. If we only press 100 and I keep them for myself, I can live out my years as a shut-in, listening to myself on a scratchy 45.

If you do, would you be interested in selling them? You're the one with the old-time country sound, right?

That's me indeed.

[hairsplitting]Although I wouldn't necessarily call it 'old time,' since, to us music dorks that conjures images of strictly acoustic jug bands and such - not that there's anything wrong with that. We're more 'classic country' ca. '49-'69.[/hairsplitting]

But, yeah, I'll damn sure be selling them, since they cost a freakin' fortune to make. But even if I can't convince anybody else in the band that it's worth the money, I'm doin' it even if I have to bankroll it, because I think the 45 is a deeply cool format that's perfect for our sound, and all but overlooked these days (even though the cool kids at the Dap Tone label are doing their level best to resurrect it).

For those of you in the dark about the topic of this threadjack, see: Trigger5.com.

And that's the end of my completely gratuitous and shameless plug. As you were.

Edit: damn, I want that Revox record player.

alex wrote: acoustic jug bands and such - not that there's anything wrong with that.

That's what ALL country sounds like.

J/K

Damn, we need a "poke" smiley.

Shawn (there's some Charlie Daniels coming from my speakers at the moment)

Shawn

I assumed this thread would be about garish racing stripes. I am disappointed.

sorry wowak, but if i ever cleen up the roof of my R/T and need new stripes for that, you will be the first to know

confuZion3 wrote: Of course, unlike Ice, they probably got permission from Daft Punk to do so . . .

And, of course, UNLIKE Ice, they didn't deny ripping it off and claim they made it up, either.

12 years ago, I digitized our vinyl with a sound card and my best turntable and burned them to CD after digitally remastering them with Soundforge and manually cleaning up any pops SF couldn't fix. You just zoom in on the wave form and draw over the click. I got to where I could digitally remaster an album better than what was coming out at the time. Not as good as if I had the original master tape to start with, but still pretty good. I did some old blues stuff of my wife's that wasn't out on CD at the time. I think it has been released today. I did a Meat Loaf album I bought off eBay with a Russian cover. I don't think that one was ever released in the US. Not his best anyway, but for completeness, I have it.