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Lunch Break Lacquer: The search for Neil Young's "Ditch Trilogy" is now complete
I just got back from a jaunt over to one of Soho's (London) vinyl graveyards. I use my lunch break to seek out old records that need new life breathed into them. Today I feel like a regular Dr. Fronkensteen (not Frankenstein!).
Neil Young's three consecutive early 1970's albums "Time Fades Away", "On The Beach" and Tonight's The Night are considered by many fans the Rosetta Stone to understanding his entire body of work. Because of their dark, haunting brilliance, the albums are known as "The Ditch Trilogy".
In the often quoted hand written liner notes of Decade, Neil writes: " 'Heart of Gold' put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch." Hence, the origin of the "Ditch" term -- which is sometimes also referred to as the "Doom" period or "The Wilderness Years".
- Posted from Camden Town, United Kingdom
Flipping Vinyl: A Lunch Hour Look in to London's Vintage Vinyl Bins
Lunch breaks aren't just for eating...unless you use them to gobble up the best of London's vintage vinyl.
I have recently discovered that there are almost one dozen vintage vinyl shops near my office in London. I work off of Oxford Street, near Soho. I went for a stroll the other day and realised that I was smack dab in the middle of my London Record Shop Search map (find it here)!
This is dangerous for many reasons. In the next few months I see three things happening as a result of my lunch break discovery...I will get skinnier, my wallet will get lighter and my vinyl collection will get much fatter. The other problem I see is that I will have to come up with excuses as to why my lunch hour has turned into a lunch hours.
Damn the problems! I have mass vinyl at my fingertips!
I am going to use this post as a photo album for my lunchtime vinyl hunt exploits. The album will keep updating as I send pics frm my iphone (via the PicPosterous app). I'll update the comments so that you can see when new vinyl haunts have been properly hunted.
To kick things off, let me tell you a bit about what I saw today:
The first shop I stopped in was"On the Beat". This shop has been alive and owned by the same guy for 31+ years! He not only had the coolest old vinyl, but he was playing great tunes...RL Burnside was blaring out from the shop into the streets when I approached the shop. He had all kinds of old Melody Maker, Creem, Rolling Stone original copies hanging on the wall; tons of artifacts and souvenirs, framed, autographed pictures; many racks of obscure, bootleg and special release vinyl.
I need more time in this shop. Too much to take in just thirty minutes. I found a gem here though: an original pressing of Bob Dylan & The Band's, "Basement Tapes". There'll be good rocking at my place tonight for sure.
The second shop I stopped in was "JB's Records". JB's was a bit smaller, certainly did not lack in volume of cool vinyl. The shop itself has been there for almost 30 years; the current owner has had it for the last ten.
Here I picked up two classics from two fave acts:
- Booker T. & The MGs: "Green Onions"
- Keith Richards: "Talk is Cheap" (first solo album)
Stay tuned for more vinyl bin flipping fun...
- Posted from Camden Town, United Kingdom
Strolling London 26.09.2009
We have only been in London three weeks. Technically we are still tourists. Today we played Americans in London and walked all over the South bank and trotted over a few major bridges: London Bridge and Tower Bridge included.
It was a (picture) perfect day in here in London. The temps got up to 20 degrees Celsius (that is 65 degrees Fahrenheit for all you Yanks). They say these days won't last, so we were sure to give it a run for it's money.
I used the PicPosterous iPhone app to create this album. You can add snaps on the fly very easily with it. Unfortunately I cannot delete pics from the collection of shots (there is no way to do this from the web or iPhone app unless you dump the entire album). There are two pictures, one in particular, that I would like to remove.
Some asshole thinks it is a good idea to have a business where you trot out winged animals and chain them to a stump. This way they get to stand there while idiots like me to gawk at and take pictures of them. I took two pics of two birds: a vulture and a bald eagle. I felt like the former taking a snap of the later. I may be living in London, but I am still from the land of the ol' baldy.
I hate anything that is held against it's will be it humans or hawks. I can't stand zoos either. Prisons are another thing entirely. These birds did nothing to deserve the stump.
On that note, enjoy the rest of the random snaps.
Have a look at the tags associated with this post to see where we went and what saw
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(Sorry, I had to do this. This was too perfect. At least I chose a live version. Get your lighters ready...)
- Posted from Camberwell and Lambeth, United Kingdom
