The Great Vinyl Community Debate: Tastes Great or Less Filling? And a Channel Announcement. 

What an excellent introduction to a discussion on how musical taste/ appreciation evolves. PS CAN’s Vitamin C has the greatest groove all-time! Any challengers out there? The Associates Gloomy Sunday may run close. 🤔

I'm glad you did this one. Because of all the different sections, I could write a lengthy comment but even I wouldn't want to read it later. I don't know if I saw the same video as the one you referred to but it was a similar gist. I can't speak to this person's experiences and I've only been watching VC videos since 2020 or 2021 so I don't know how the vinyl community was different in the past. However it's always seemed warm and collegial. The (mostly) guys in the British VC are always encouraging viewers to follow their fellow menbers. I like a world where Dillon from Noble Records can go on the Jazz Bums or where Dom and Mazzy can meet up or DG can pop in the Virtual Pub with John and Hedley. Maybe it's cliquish but maybe it's just friendly. Frankly if I were on RU-vid I'd probably just assume that all the comments would be negative so I'd avoid reading them as much as possible. It seems like you do an okay job.

Honest and thoughtful response... would expect nothing less. I was wondering what other people thought about that dude's 'problem with the VC.' I am overdue for a Krautrock deep dive. Regarding the age... I think your ears have to be open and the same goes with food or literature. So many times, people I respected tried to share books, cuisine or music and I just wasn't ready to receive them. No shame. And then, all of a sudden, Alice Coltrane / Faulkner / Burdock root are totally perfect.

I went digging with an old friend a while back and he said something that highlighted the difference between us. He gestured towards all the second hand records in the racks and said 'Look at all this music I'm never gonna hear'. His point being that his approach to consuming music was to stay very narrow but dig very deep. Whereas I have this insatiable need to hear every significant or interesting record that ever existed so end up doing an awful lot of surface skating. With kraut rock I never went beyond Can and Neu! but I guess there's still time.

If you are feeling "complacent" that's ok. You don't have to comment back.😄♥️ I understand. I just wanted to tell you that you inspired me to listen to Karen Dalton. She's great and I really think my daughter would love her. Billie Holiday is her favorite artist and Karen's style has a similar quality. I need to pick up that Alice Coltrane album. The disco ball totally works. You should keep it up. 🤗 Have a great weekend.

Wardrobe changes, this must be a serious video. I also wish I knew what I know now when I was younger. RU-vid is big enough for us all to exist.

Hey, nice pick up of the new press of Karen Dalton, I got one of her RSD release that was amazing so I guess I will pick this up. Need to check out that Drifters, sounds really interesting as you felt a bit exited there about it. Nice middle interludes. And hey man, you don't need to make apologize for being slow on responses, we all have a real life and it's easy to miss, I'm not offended, because even I can be both slow and miss. Great talk, got me really thinking about this. Love the part with your story when you found Suger and that it was only Suger for many years before you started researching some history of the band and found Bob Mould and Husker Dü, almost so that the music completely takes over and who is behind it is unimportant at first. Great stuff, really got my brain spinning here and rethinking the past. Cheers

The thing about taste, mood, listening to older stuff, is that it's a moving target or evolves. Some of the older stuff I collected during the late 70s,80s (punk, new wave) I wish I had bought other things like maybe some more ECM records or jazz, but it's an evolution to get where I'm at now. The other thing too is that we're more or less influneced by the local record store in the town we buy stuff at (not so much now with the internet). But pre-internet if the store owner wasn't into a particular genre, band, etc. They probably wouldn't handle it, so it wasn't available to buy. That's why I always liked looking elsewhere when I travelled.

I had a summer school stint in college - two sessions. Brutal. My friend and I decided to pick each other shows for the entire time - not telling each other until you showed up. First batch? I took him to Sugar. He took me to….Phish. :(

I remember seeing that Can album in the early 70’s at White Front in the three for $1 section. I passed because of the cover. In a similar vein around 78 I had the opportunity to see Alice Coltrane live at the Lighthouse. I passed, thinking she was just cashing in on the Coltrane name. My friends said the gig was very good. I’m sure they were right.

Don’t worry about keeping in touch and writing on videos or replying. I never even left a comment on your Americana Tag and I’m the one that pushed you into it. Hahahaha Cheers☘️

Quote of the video: 'as long as you're not buying a bunch of f***ing records just to say that you have them' The bulk of the VC condensed in one nifty sentence. Haha!

I put on the latest American Analog Set album, and my wife just HATED it. Our music tastes are drastically different. That is my favorite Can album - and it took 15-20 years to go from thinking, meh, they're ok, opposed to now where I actively listen to it.

The Karen Dalton is a lovely sounding pressing, yet I still prefer the Capitol press. I'm assuming you've seen that doc, maybe we discussed...what a troublemaker. Enigmatic and a gifted performer. Something about her way around a song is so hypnotic. Crazy she never released any of her own music. I'm doing my best to avoid common pitfalls of the VC but I think what's working best is buying less and focusing more. I guess I'm going for more a tastes great than less filling. How's that boxset holding up? I recommend not storing them in the box, or else playback won't happen. I do think Know By Heart is their best record and hopefully they compile or box up those next 3.

The public library PSA was worth the price of admission, and regarding the American information Society do you have to get secretly invited like the Masons, or can you fill out an application? Asking for a friend. 😂

Your excitement was exploding off the screen when you showed The New Drifters.

Ha look at that smirk on your face In the thumbnail lol.....reeeeely like the sample of the b-ball game🏀...hmmm like the Public Announcement? Waaaaaa??? Waaaaa Are we talking about here??? From the heart you are talking? I wasn’t aware of this person you speak of....ok listening and watching

I’m off and running w CAN! You knew we lost Damo🙏🏻....this was insightful and enlightening and inspiring....b-ball rules🏀✊🏻

What's Going Ahn Jon ? - The cool thing about My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts is that it was made simultaneously with Remain In Light. David & Brian enjoying a burst of creativity with a band by day & themselves & late night radio & UHF religious channels by night. It's an innovative & intriguing album & true world music. The sequel is a different story ...

Whales with saxophones?! I need that record! I think I have a dozen copies of CopperBlue. I buy the cd “in case I can’t find the other one” every time I see it🫣…I love that record, so it’s worth it. Hold up…Did I hear art school? Where did ya go?! What’s your medium? Tell me more!

I’m really out of the VC loop. I know nothing about the gear head that united the VC.

“That Rev guy really listens to terrible music on terrible gear.” - MOD guy

Nice seats at the Buzz 🐝 game. Audio guy chose not to read. 📚

Complacency is unforgivable.

Costume changes, Jon. Really? You’ll be adding horns next.

No one would ever buy records just to have them on their shelves though 😂

13:43 shots fired. 4:20 is that a CD or your medical records?