Record Collecting wtih some hard core, hard rock, jazz, garage rock and more. Its going to be fun 

So beautiful to see Thijs and his daughter. They’re good people. I’ve had a similar experience or two in one of my locals. Amazing how people find each other in this small world. This is the true meaning of community. I only wish this would happen more frequently; there seem to be these lines drawn - which I completely reject. And I know you do too, Steve. Amazing Black Flag releases. Rise Above, Six Pack and TV Party were regulars on those homemade cassette tape that dominated my teen years. We didn’t know what we were rising above but we sure demanded it anyway. Lol. Thanks for sharing. Cheers! Shawn

Hello Steve; A pay raise for the endorsements might help & a cue card. We would have enjoyed in the mini falls. Always nice to receive VCLT. Black Flag, was our sons musical taste. The Helicopters, slamming rock. Los Nuggetz, You Really Got Me loose translation. Smooth JazzBO music with Wayne Shorter. Take care, Tina & Pat!~

Great show, never heard of the Hellicopters . Going to pick that one up.

Great albums! I love The Hellicopters. Fantastic band! Looks like you’re really enjoying your free time, when you get it! I like your RPM T-shirt. I went there last Tuesday and Wednesday. My dad and I broke it up into two days.

Thank you for the kind words! I hope you enjoy the albums! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the Struts first album and of the Donny lol!

I like the art work behind you. Hellicopters is somethingI will check out

Hi Steve, lovely eclectic selection as usual. I don't know Rival Sons but I really like that album cover. Enjoy Donny.

Quite the rockin' update! The Mexican garage rock comp sounds pretty intriguing. I think the Hellacopters are a bit underappreciated in hard rock circles, but those in the know - know! Have a great week ahead!

Beautiful scenery - Your shelves look great. Struts album - awesome VCLT. Henry was and still is one of the most intense individuals I have evert seen. Great needle drop. Sinead - individuals who march to the beat of their own drum are very hard to produce. Fantastic VMP title.

I love my rock en Español, especially the cover songs! Beautiful stream and mini waterfall intro. Hermosa Beach, Redondo and Manhattan Beach were stomping grounds for me and buddies in 1985 through 1988. The South Bay as it’s called is a great place.

Yes, I can't wait to hear your review of the Donny Osmond album, ROTFL! THAT will be HILARIOUS! Great as always, Professor, even If I don't know much of what you show, still enjoy it!

Steve! I watch all your videos, ha ha ha. I went back through them today and I don't see where you showed the Elmo Williams and Hezekiah Early LP. Maybe I have to go back farther. Glad you are enjoying the Hellacopters album. I need to get some more of theirs I missed. I have some early ones. One of my best friends saw them live, incredible. Keyboard player wore a Boba Fett helmet and was calling himself that.- JT

Hi Steve, What a nice intro. I've got all the Struts albums, saw them in a small venue 3 years ago. Yay Kendall! Hope you have a good week, and I'm happy you and your family are all together. Take care, thanks.

Love Black Flag. I was a young teenager in the 80”s and played in some punk bands. Growing up in Orange County, California, back in those days you could see live punk shows in backyard house parties as well as venues. And some prominent punk bands at that along with the local bands too of course. Though it was always a crap shoot at what time it would ultimately get shut down. I eventually got into more alternative music and then ultimately into grunge and many other genres after that. But I will never forget my roots and always have a special place set aside for punk rock. Thanks for another terrific video Mr. Carlson.

How cool that you just bumped into a VC guy at the record store. Cool VCLT from North Carolina. I'm not sure how I feel about jazz artists taking the stage without ever having truly rehearsed or played together, but it sounds like the Shorter record is growing on you so maybe it worked out well. Thanks for showing the records!

So fun to see the Mexican garage rock. I grew up in SoCal and you would hear it quite often when I was a kid. Always loved it. I think I liked it better than the American or British equivalents that was so ubiquitous on FM Pop radio. They sounded so familiar yet entirely unfamiliar, if you know what I mean. But I hear what you're saying about the commercial interludes in that particular release. They are fine ones as a curiosity but don't really lend anything to repeat listens other than wishing they weren't there. Oh well, go figure… somebody somewhere thought it was a good idea. As always, thanks for sharing! I loved the story at the beginning!

Steve, good to have impromptu VC meet-up. Not familiar with Tyce. Kendall was great to meet up with. Black Flag cool with Rollins. I forgot how good that Sinead album is. Alright, cool video. Trying to get caught up. Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman

Kendall came in clutch, big time! That Struts record is awesome, and super hard to find right now. But that Donny Osmond…..😂😂

Funny , I am wearing the same shirt this morning!

Hey Steve, left a comment earlier last Monday but it seems to have disappeared. Great meeting you and thanks for the shoutout! I still need some Black Flag in my collection. I'll be traveling soon but perhaps in August we could get together (planned this time).

I noticed every Sunday Morning Get home around 5am C.T. from work or being a deviant of the night 😂 here in Chicago after being out all night long I crack open a few few Beers before going to sleep and watching your show on Roku (RU-vid) that's why I don't hit the like button because you can't but. I will soon a bunch of them in a row since I been watching for like a year 😂....

Steve - you’ll be able to visit Absolute Vinyl in Longmont. The owner, Doug, can fill you in on Boulder’s old record shop scene, he used to be based there. 👍🏻

Found the Lion & the Cobra in my shelves after Sinead passed, I had forgotten I had it. She was mentioned in a book I just read, the autobiography of a reggae record label founder. Shew was interested in going to Jamaica and asked for help in places to go. He passed on some info, they met and got on well but later she left an irate, threatening message on his answering machine. A troubled and volatile, but very talented individual. Too expensive for record stores in Boulder, that's not good. How are the college kids going to collect their vinyls. Have a good week Steve

Looks like YT is linking your drops now. Los Nuggetz seems like it'd be fun. Esperanza Spalding has some interesting albums.

Thijs is the man. I did not figure it would take you very long to run into him.

Nice show your so right you have to do a show to put away your recent finds. Heading to record show today near Winston Salem where I think I’ll meet the Zonkman . Everyone in one nest that’s very cool.

I bet there's trout in that river along it's course someplace. That waterfall would make a good cold shower... Cool score on that Los Nuggetz album Steve... I never see any of them around here...

That whole first side of Lion and the Cobra is great. Funny you mentioned a Gabriel vibe on Hands On Me. She kind of borrowed that title from his album Security. They had a very close relationship. He respected her talent immensely. I saw her live at the Paradise Rock Club shortly after she released Lion. The show was great. Seeing Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke from The Smiths playing in her band made it even better. Check out some of the Massive Attack "100th Window". Sinead's vocals on some of the songs was really strong. You will dig it. Do you have "Blue Lines"? Check out the song "Unfinished Symphony". I appreciate your detailed review of the Shorter Jazz Fest from 2017. I did not realize that he was playing well into his eighties which was incredible. Superb update Steve. Dug the Black Flag segment too. Enjoy the upcoming week. It rained here all weekend long. How is the weather out there? Always good to spend some time with you~ Rob/Boston

No record store in Denver is left unvisited by the King of Travel!

Morning Steve. Sounds like you have the whole dang gang there in Denver. Your son doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet does he? Glad you were able to get to Paradise Found, pretty cool store. Jt has a mind like a steel trap. Cheers.

Always a great mix of records, but to find Black Flag, that's the best. Need to get serious about adding some punk to my collection. So many records, so little money.

I have quite a few Hellacopters 45s too!

I don’t have many grails left but ‘My War’ is one of them. I’m my circle of friends it was considered a bit of a joke record in the eighties as we were all anti-metal or anything that influenced metal (ie Sabbath) which was the influence of Side 2. I’ve grown to appreciate the influence it had on grunge now.....& it’s a £80.00 record 😆 I passed over it hundreds of times when it was a £5.00 record. I’ll track it down!

Get Massive Attack - 100th Window if you like Sinead. She is great on that record.

Hello punkmaister. Hope everything is awsome. I just bought my first Analog Africa, Congo Funk. Cool Black Flag hope you find an og. Take care. Jimbo

Hey Steve! Cool Hellacopters and Rival Sons records🔥 I bought the Los Nuggets comp also but have yet to listen to it 😂 If you can get to that Los Lobos show I highly recommend it just saw them Friday at Meijer Gardens opening for Little Feat excellent show 🔥Take care Brian ☮️

Hello Steve. I hope I will see Hellacopters live someday. Didnt know about their strange name. Shall try Struts or Black Flag.....

Hey Steve, you seem to be picking up those Utah 'family' albums.. well I'd almost say.... by Osmo....sis !! 🤣

Side B of My War is important to the development of Sludge as a genre. Bands like Melvins and NoLAs EyeHateGod would embrace it as musical gospel. Give it another shot. It might grow on ya

Hi Steve - Love the Sinead track on Mind Bomb by The The called Kingdom Of Rain. It was going to be a single but at the last moment her label ( Chrysalis) refused to allow CBS to release it. Too bad for Matt because it would've been a hit.

When I was 15/16, I supposedly looked a bit like one of the Osmonds. I can't remember which one, but it wasn't Donny... or Jimmy (thankfully)... or Marie! I never got into Black Flag. By the 80s I had pretty much dipped out. I like the samples. I do have a couple of records on the Nuclear Blast label, but they are heavy psych. Sinead - such a loss! That Mexcan Kinks cover had me lol. I wasn't sure about the jazz. Just jarred a bit. Cheers, Steve

Hellacopters is a great swedish band. You should get their albums By the Grace of god and High Visibility. If you want their dirty garage rock you should try their first two albums. Cheers!

Hi Uncle Steve. No blues in this, but believe it or not, a lot of bands I like. Really dig Black Flag (saw them live in '91) as well as The Hellacopters. Wayne Shorter is a favorite sax guy of mine as well. Good stuff! Thanks and have a great weekend.

I love it ! Donny Osmond transitioning into Damaged by Black Flag ! Might as well show the Grateful Dead right after that because Greg Ginn was a major Dead Head during the good old days when he was in Black Flag.. I don't think he was down with Donny Osmond, though..😆Is that a "The Lion And The Cobra" repress ?

Nice Hellacopters!! They would be cool to see live. Actually they are coming this summer to FInland. Great choise Steve! mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)

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Hi Steve, I've heard the Struts and like what I heard, I just haven't got around to picking up any of their albums, I never see them out in the wild. I have both of the Black Flag LPs, My War is my favorite of the two. The Hellacopters put out some great music over the years, Eyes of Oblivion is their comeback album, I like it, but I think their earlier stuff is better. I need to check out that Los Nuggets album, sounds cool. A nice stack this video, have a good week.

I was lucky enough to see Sinead O'Connor on a bill with the Chieftains and the Great Big Sea. A great singer and an excellent songwriter. I have one of those Black Flag albums but I do tend to like British punk more than American (I also lean towards British blues over American)... and British rock over American. Hmmm... I think I'm beginning to sense a pattern emerging.

I recently listened to my "durocs" album, I wonder if you ever listened to the one you got? I really like it.

Hi Steve can we expect a tribute video for Kat? 😿

-- Beat's Me -- "I love the sound of breaking glass / Deep into the night" Do you like to clean? I don't. I certainly like things to be clean, though. It bothers me when they're not. Like many people, I do a spring-cleaning of my house. I'm very thorough. I try to get every nook and cranny. This year, while dusting, I saw a silverfish dart under a baseboard. I've been battling these nuisances since I've been at this house. "Out of sight, out of mind," right? Not when it comes to cleanliness. I started thinking of all the gross things that must be between the walls of my house. What if the whole wall is covered with silverfish? That made me cringe. Probably more likely the wall was covered with dust and spiderwebs. But that's bad enough. How could I ever consider my house clean with all that dust and grime on its walls? I had to clean that space. At least once. One thorough cleaning and then I'd seal it back up. When I knocked a chunk of the wall out with a hammer, I saw a capital R in red paint. I thought it was some kind of marker that the workers put there. I gave the wall some more whacks and I saw the R was part of the word REALITEDIUM. What the heck kind of word is that? A made-up word is the answer. But the made-up word was intriguing. I kept on hammering. More made-up words: HUMANITEDIUM, AUTHORITEDIUM, PURITEDIUM. All in big red capital letters. I ended up knocking a huge section out of the wall. It was covered with words. I noticed all the words were ones that could end in -ity, but they had been made tedious, so to speak. Then I found more than words. I looked down between the walls and noticed a bottle of Chianti in a straw basket. What a fiasco, I thought, literally. There was a partially melted candle in the mouth of the bottle. The second item I found was a set of bongo drums. A bottle of Chianti with a candle in it, bongo drums, crazy words scrawled on the wall, I had a very good idea of what this was all about. But the hat I found put the capper on it. Though it was somewhat obscured by cobwebs, I spotted a black beret. My house had been the house of a beatnik. The house had been built in 1956, so the year fit. Ever since I moved into the house, I'd heard these arrhythmic drumming noises late at night. I wondered if some drunk person in the neighborhood was drumming. Except the sound seemed to be coming from inside the house. Couldn't be an animal, unless Animal from the Muppets was living in the walls. I never believed in spirits, so that thought didn't cross my mind. That changed when I found the bongos. I cleaned all the items and put them on a table. As I sat staring at them, another previously unthinkable thought came to me: perhaps I can contact the spirit of the beatnik. I decided to have a séance. I sat in the middle of the living room floor, with the bongos in my lap, and the beret on my head. I lit the candle in the wine bottle, then started drumming. After a while of this, I said, "If there is a spirit here that would like to make itself known, please do so now." Nothing happened. I repeated this process a few more times, and got a few more nothings. I was feeling very silly and about to give up when a bolt of energy went through me. I saw him. Dancing around in the living room, beating on the bongos. He was a young, strong man. I couldn't interact with him, but I felt the energy he generated. It was exhilarating. I got up and started dancing and drumming around the room. The beatnik's living room was bare. There was no real furniture, just some crates to sit on. There were booze bottles and broken glass on the floor. The walls were covered with more of the tedious words, all in caps, all in red paint. I have no idea how long I danced, but I was beat by the time I finished. When he was finished, the beatnik painted another word on the wall: RADIOACTIVITEDIUM. Then he quaffed a bottle of booze and threw it at the word on the wall. The bottle shattered. I was jolted out of the vision. The next night, all it took was hitting the drum once and I was off. After I woke up from my third night of revelry, I heard a ghostly voice say, "Go to where it's at, cat, the place of the hat." What a blast! I thought. This is like Field of Dreams. I figured the place of the hat was Piere's, a club near where I live. Piere's, Pierre, French name, beret. That had to be it. I put the beret on and went there. Not a single person in the club, other than me, had a beret on. And everybody looked about twenty years younger than me. The music was pummeling. When I entered, I shouted, because I had to shout to be heard, "I want some hot jazz!" "Eww!" was the response I got from one of the kids. "When are they gonna blow some hot jazz?! I wanna hear some bebop. It's the ginchiest!" As you can tell, by this time I was talking like a beatnik. I could see the kids were laughing at me, so I decided it was time to fall out. Then I realized the place of the hat meant the inside of the wall where I had found the other stuff. Next to where the beret had been, there was a record. It was even more covered by cobwebs than the beret, so I could see how I missed it before. It was an OG Savoy Records' 78 with "Ko Ko" by Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys on it. I gave the record a good cleaning, then rushed over and put it on the turntable. I have a turntable that can play 78s. As soon as the needle hit the record, I was off. I felt the beatnik's emotion when he listened to the record. Parker had died in '55, and the death had hit the beatnik hard. He was crying while dancing to it. I was crying while dancing to it. I looked in the mirror that night and said, "The Beat is me!" I saw our faces blur together. After that, during each rumpus, I would break glasses and scrawl beatnik craziness on the wall. There were no more thoughts about cleanliness. The living room floor began to look like a mirror ball had exploded on it. I had gone over to the wild side. So I did this night after night after night. I couldn't get enough. Then one night, I saw what the beatnik used for paint. He picked up a shard of broken glass and cut into his arm. The blood dripped down into a bowl. I stood there, stunned, and was about to do the same thing, but I was able to hold myself back. And that was it. I came to my senses. Had I cut my arm, I might have become permanently enmeshed with the beatnik. We would have been blood brothers. I put all the items back into the wall and sealed it back up. I very much wanted to keep the record for my collection, but knew it was bewitched. I did some research and was able to find out a little bit about the beatnik. It's a sad story. He was an alcoholic, and it took its toll. He had friends when he was younger, but drove them away as his condition worsened. When he died, he looked quite a bit older than his 47 years. But he didn't die alone. There used to be a dive bar here in Fort Wayne called the Scorpion. They had mud wrestling at the Scorpion. He was totally hammered and drowned in the mud while wrestling two women at once. What a way to go. He died in 1977, the year I was born. I still hear the drumming. I ignore it. Steve, I know you don't have as much time to read as you'd like, but I offer this to you as a cautionary tale. Neal Cassady, the Beat muse and wild man, used to live in Denver. If you ever see an old jazz record with a price that seems too good to be true, don't buy it. It could be attached to Neal. And then Neal could be attached to you. You may find yourself saying something like, "We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!" That's a quote from Neal. Your grandson's speech will evolve and yours will devo. You'll spew nothing but beatnik gibberish. "What happened to grandpa?" your grandson will ask. "Just like how kids grow up, some old people grow back to kids," his mom will answer. On his first day of school, you may say something to him like, "I saw the brightest kids in my kindergarten deranged from eating crayons and paste / I saw the corona of Crayola. I saw the ectoplasm of Elmer's. Such a waste!" Then you will throw your sippy cup at the wall. Don't let that happen to you! Beat's Me could become Beat's You. Just be cool, granddaddy-o. Catch you on the flip side. "Baby, I've been / Breaking glass in your room again"

Anything after 1990 is a new album. I remember seeing Black Flag play the slower songs live for the first time. It didn’t go over very well. The fans didn’t get belligerent but kind of just stood there. I like that first Sinead O’Connor. Jazz vocals is a big no-no for me. I think I’m done with buying Jazz. In fact once I finish purging the Classic Rock I’m going to start on the Jazz.

Nice one Steve. Been going to pick up that Wayne shorter for a while. Will do eventually. Well done for picking it up. Cool lp. Try get some golf in while you can 🏌️‍♂️