Everything you ever wanted to know about Vinyl! (Curtin Call Episode 1 - Doug Snyder)

Hey Kids!  Enjoy this 30 minute interview with local Record Store Owner, Bob Geldolf, as to why Vinyl records are so great!

The Magnificent Moodies

The Moody Blues - "Go Now" (1965) - London Records

Hello Friends,

Picked up this early Moody Blues record at Record Store Day last weekend.

Sounds absolutely nothing like any Moody Blues' albums we've ever heard before.  Its R&B and Merseybeat tunes sung mostly by Denny Laine (who would later join up with the McCartneys to form Wings).  Not proggy in the least. No mellotron.  No psychedelic album artwork.  No spacey concept tying the album together.  Sounds more like a slightly above average British Invasion record that anything on the Moody's second album (which many people regard as their proper debut), Days of Future Passed.

In England, it was released in a slightly different incarnation as The Magnificent Moodies, while here in the U.S. they re-named it, Go Now - The Moody Blues # 1 to capitalize on the success of their Number One single, the cover of the R&B song, "Go Now."

There's also a James Brown cover, "I'll Go Crazy"; Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry's "I've Got A Dream"; the Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So"; Willie Dixon & Sonny Boy Williamson's "Bye Bye Bird"; et cetera.  Mister Sunshine Superman himself, Donovan, wrote the album's liner notes! 

The final track, written by Laine & organist Mike Pinder, is the British Invasion hit-that-never-was, "From The Bottom of My Heart".

Within the next two years, Laine and bassist Clint Warwick would be replaced by Justin Hayward & John Lodge, respectively, but we'll revisit the Moodys one night this Summer on a Prog-Rock Saturday.

Here's a live clip of Denny Laine performing "Go Now" as a member of Wings.

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Record Store Day (April 20, 2013)

Hey kids,

Tomorrow is record store day... get outside and go buy some records!

Jack white said in a press release for RSD, "There's no romance in a mouse click..."

Nicely put!

USA!  USA!  USA!

Jack White gets it

Hello Friends,

Do you get goosebumps when you hear the snap, crackle, popping sound when the needle hits the record?  Does listening to vinyl transport you to a Zen-like state and affect you in a way that digital music cannot?  Do you feel the "thrill of the hunt" in record stores, thrift stores, flea markets and garage sales?  

Here's a great Jack White quote regarding record stores and music, in general:

"I think its high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, guardians and neighborhood ne'er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is.  I trust no one who hasn't time for music.  What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation ophaned from one of life's great beauties."

Here at Vinyl in the Valley, we couldn't agree more!

Also, here's a great article/interview with Mr. White regarding the artistic merit and nostalgic value of listening to records.   

Jack White and the Romance of Vinyl

Thanks Jack White!  Now put away your I-Pods, buy some records and stare at the liner notes and every inch of those beautiful album covers while and let the snap, crackle & pop of the music do the rest!  

Record Store Day 2012

http://www.recordstoreday.com/

Support your local record stores!  (If you have any local record stores!)


If you don't have a "local" record store, there's definitely one driving distance from where you are right now so you should go.


People have driven further to go to Taco Bell for chrissakes.