Record Store Day

On By snowzoneIn DeepPurple, Hawkwind, JethroTull, music, T.REX, vinyl

I’m back from processing my orders/finds from Record Store Day 2018. I actually got up “early” on a weekend to go 🙂

My three favourite bands are T.REX (be a longer post about them later),  Jethro Tull, and Deep Purple/Rainbow. yes, all British bands. 

I was able to get limited editions of all of them.

Other bands I collect are Hawkwind (which it seems very few people ever heard of), and Uriah Heep. yup, British bands there, too. See a theme? With the exception of Jazz and some Canadian bands (I’m from the Great White North) most north american music sucks dead bunnies. loud. I got lucky and got Record Store Day editions also.

Today. Was. A. Good. Day. 🙂

I also picked up a remastered “Dark Side of The Moon”. If that title means nothing to you don’t worry, just means you  know practically nothing when it comes to music…and probably never will.

A colleague at work introduced me to Sigur Rós and  I found the #RecordStoreDay album with “Olsen Olson” on it. They are an Icelandic band with  very unique sound. I’m also a big fan of #Pristine a Norwegian (my kin 🙂 ) Blues/rock band. Nothing from them today though.

 

15 thoughts on “Record Store Day”

  1. Darcie in YGK

    Sigur Ros!! I took Print Journalism in college and ended up getting the ( ) album to review for our newspaper and love it so much!

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  2. Tim McDonald

    I believe I like most of the bands you like for entirely different reasons. South of the border I would have to note Stevie Ray Vaughan as a stellar group worth collecting. I know most of my other choices wouldn’t make your cut.

    I personally don’t like jazz, however do a search for Lee Aaron’s jazz stuff. Outstanding. I was lukewarm to her metal period from the eighties, her jazz vocals blew me away.

    I know the other genres I like are completely off your radar also.

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  3. I always found it fascinating, that we could have much the same musical interests, but when we diverge we *really* diverge 🙂

    forgot about SRV. I could have probably come up with a few bands. I was in a British frame of mind when I wrote that 🙂

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  4. Tim McDonald

    AC/DC is another non-British band that I’ve collected as much as I could. They did have some dud albums between Back in Black and The Razors Edge. From what I recall you never found a taste for them.

    Yeah, I can’t imagine you dipping your toes into bluegrass whatsoever. For instance, I can’t see you feeling compelled to go purchase a banjo mostly influenced by this bluegrass version of Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X8gxdCGcG0

    I wonder what you think of the following. An instrumental acoustic duo from Ottawa, call their effort “Jazzgrass”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Psmke4TLaI

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  6. Tim McDonald

    I’ve heard that song before. Doug Kershaw was not on my radar. I did a search for some of his other stuff. He probably won’t be on my collect list.

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  7. I have that! Turned it into an mp3 ages ago. A good song is a good song, doesn’t really make any difference what style you put to it (for me anyway). I’d draw that line at hearing that as a whiney country and western tune i think (i have my standards), but i like a fair bit of bluegrass.

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  8. Yeah I don’t mind that. I’ve really expanded my musical tastes since we last talked face to face. Probably driving the spotify.me algorithms crazy 🙂

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  9. Tim McDonald

    I ordered the whole cd Black & Bluegrass. It is probably the best tribute album in a bluegrass style out there. Ironhorse has an excellent lead vocalist who doesn’t have the whiney, nasally or red-neck style that some groups have. In my mind it would rank about on par with Nativity in Black II or about even. Nativity in Black I would be where the bar is set – for any tribute album. Not sure if you collect tribute albums or not – like you say, a good song is a good song – like to hear interpretations.

    I don’t think an algorithm could guess what hits or misses are on my musical tastes.

    It has been probably over 15 years since we’ve met last, so I suspect they are significantly different. I know mine are. I think the last time we spoke you were considering listening to one of the following three bands, but I can’t recall which: AC/DC, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Def Leppard.

    Many years back when yahoo has a music streamer and rogers provided content through it free you could rate the music. I picked up a lot of new artists that way, but again, the algorithm would get “stuck” and it would start playing a LOT of stuff I didn’t like.

    As per tastes, I think I recall you saying that your preferred version of Summertime Blues was the Eddie Cochran-style where I prefer the Blue Cheer version. I think the live T.Rex version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dfxVnI3rA is leaning towards the Blue Cheer style though.

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  10. Yeah I’ve heard that version, and agree, but the original recorded version found on various greatest hits albums, sounds closer to the eddie cochran version. I think it was Tom Petty i was getting into. the last year or so it’s been Robin Trower (check out his guitar work), Traffic, Blind Faith. I still tend to aim at the early ’70’s 🙂

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  11. Tim McDonald

    I thought I had some Robin Trower albums, but it appears I don’t. I thought I had some Pat Travers stuff and had mixed up the names but apparently not. There was a huge cd collection I bought in an estate sale that was predominantly blues artists.

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  12. Tim McDonald

    Someone you might want to check out is Samantha Fish. She does a wicked version of I Put a Spell On You on her Live Bait album. Same album is Shotgun, a song Vanilla Fudge also recorded. You can’t really compare it to their version though it comes up a tad short.

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  14. Yeah, i have that tab pinned on my browser and listen to it quiet a bit. Best version of that song i’ve heard. and the lead she does towards the end is a jaw dropper. amazing the sounds she gets from open strings or with one finger on a fret… her version of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs is also pretty good.

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  15. Tim McDonald

    Oh yeah her War Pigs cover is impressive also.
    Have you stumbled upon Gabriella Quevedo? She has a pile of covers all in fingerstyle.

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