Friday, December 28, 2007
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Discovering Electronic Music on youtube.
I'm a fan of old synthesizers and old educational films. I was bound to find this eventually, eh?
Discovering Electronic Music
Discovering Electronic Music
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
Can you believe they used to play this stuff on MTV!?!
I really wish they still did.
I really wish they still did.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
JAM closes...city pulse article
from 7/7/06
My interest in this story goes deep. It affects me as a small business owner, a friend and former coworker of the writer and subject, a music lover and a former employee of Wherehouse records. Check it out...Chris Faulkner!
Beloved local music store heads to rock 'n' roll heaven
Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Chris Faulkner is doing a little more thinking, a little more herb gardening, and a lot more painting this spring than he has done in 27 years.
The May 6 closing of JAM Records at 3928 W. Saginaw Highway in Lansing not only angered and disappointed many loyal customers, it also ended Faulkners epic run as greater Lansings most esteemed long-playing music-store guru.
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For over a quarter century, Faulkner turned people on to the glories of John Coltrane, exhibiting the patience of the other J.C. whenever they reached for Kenny G instead. Now hes getting up early, painting while the creative juices flow, and taking time to ponder his next move.
I dont know yet what Ill do next, he says. The stones appear as you start stepping. He says he doesnt see himself working for a chain music store.
Places like Borders or Barnes & Noble seem regimented, he says. I dont color inside the lines very well.
A triple juggernaut of Internet downloads, CD burning and price-gouging chain stores has rolled over hundreds of independent music stores in the past decade. JAM held out against these market forces longer than most.
It was like blowing air in a raft, hoping it would float, Faulkner says. In its final five years, the store shrank from eight employees to two: Faulkner and Jeff Morse, who co-owned the store with his wife, Arleen.
Any CD store, Faulkner says, lives or dies by its new release sales, which pays for the slower-moving back catalogue. When that goes, so does everything else.
With the advent of file sharing and burning of CDs, our new release sales plummeted from, say, 120 in the first week to 30 a huge drop, Faulkner says. As it got harder to restock the store, inventory dried up. Despite this downward spiral, Faulkner says many customers stayed loyal by special-ordering what they wanted, putting the store on artificial life support for the last several months.
Toward the end, we were special-ordering 150-200 pieces a week, Faulkner says. They really stepped up to the plate to support us when they could have gone somewhere else. Two weeks before the store closed, Faulkner and Morse compiled a two-and-a-half-page list of regular customers and called them all.
I didnt want them coming here and seeing brown paper on the window, Faulkner says. They really thought of that store as their store as well.
I told the story dozens and dozens of times, Faulkner says. I got to the point where I sort of got OK with it, but then a person would come in and be totally wigged out and emotional and I would feel it again.
JAM Records opened in 1998 as a Western branch of Michigan WhereHouse Records, a mid-Michigan music chain that preceded JAM into rock n roll heaven, store by store, over the past decade (the flagship East Lansing store closed in 2001). WhereHouse itself began in 1976, with a few dozen cardboard boxes of LPs piled in a hippie shoe store (Roots, of course) in a now-demolished warren on MAC Avenue called the University Mall. At its height, the chain had eight stores stretching from Mount Pleasant to Big Rapids.
Faulkner joined WhereHouse in 1979 and ended up following the chains expansions and implosions for nearly three decades. When WhereHouses ownership split in 1999, co-owners Jeff and Arleen Morse took over the West Saginaw store, renaming it JAM after themselves.
The store immediately did well, in part because west-side customers werent as wired to the Internet as college students further east. JAM kept going for five more years after the East Lansing WhereHouse folded, much like the Eastern Roman Empire hung on after Rome itself fell to the barbarians. The personal touch of Faulkner and crew helped JAM weather the invasion of three chain stores (Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and Circuit City) into the area.
People would meet and talk all the time, Faulkner says. It was like a barber shop. Although the store relied heavily on rap and R&B customers, Morse and Faulkner rolled with the flow.
They probably looked at us as old guys, but cool old guys, because we made an attempt to listen and understand their music, Faulkner says.
For the last few days, it amused Faulkner that customers would simply stand in the aisles, staring at him or saying Where are you gonna go?
Im not going anywhere, he says. Its not the end of the world, and Im not dead I think. The last day was emotional, as might be expected.
One regular customer didnt go to work because he had anxiety attacks over this, Faulkner recalls. Jeff couldnt be there the last day to close the store and lock it. So I called this person and asked him to come in and help me close.
I didnt know whether he was gonna do it, but he showed up an hour and a half before, and he made the last purchase. He has that receipt. Its like an icon for him. And what was the last item purchased?
Id love to tell you it was Miles Davis Kind of Blue, Faulkner grins, but it was I think it was a Judas Priest DVD.
http://lansingcitypulse.com/content/view/215/31/
My interest in this story goes deep. It affects me as a small business owner, a friend and former coworker of the writer and subject, a music lover and a former employee of Wherehouse records. Check it out...Chris Faulkner!
Beloved local music store heads to rock 'n' roll heaven
Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Chris Faulkner is doing a little more thinking, a little more herb gardening, and a lot more painting this spring than he has done in 27 years.
The May 6 closing of JAM Records at 3928 W. Saginaw Highway in Lansing not only angered and disappointed many loyal customers, it also ended Faulkners epic run as greater Lansings most esteemed long-playing music-store guru.
Image
For over a quarter century, Faulkner turned people on to the glories of John Coltrane, exhibiting the patience of the other J.C. whenever they reached for Kenny G instead. Now hes getting up early, painting while the creative juices flow, and taking time to ponder his next move.
I dont know yet what Ill do next, he says. The stones appear as you start stepping. He says he doesnt see himself working for a chain music store.
Places like Borders or Barnes & Noble seem regimented, he says. I dont color inside the lines very well.
A triple juggernaut of Internet downloads, CD burning and price-gouging chain stores has rolled over hundreds of independent music stores in the past decade. JAM held out against these market forces longer than most.
It was like blowing air in a raft, hoping it would float, Faulkner says. In its final five years, the store shrank from eight employees to two: Faulkner and Jeff Morse, who co-owned the store with his wife, Arleen.
Any CD store, Faulkner says, lives or dies by its new release sales, which pays for the slower-moving back catalogue. When that goes, so does everything else.
With the advent of file sharing and burning of CDs, our new release sales plummeted from, say, 120 in the first week to 30 a huge drop, Faulkner says. As it got harder to restock the store, inventory dried up. Despite this downward spiral, Faulkner says many customers stayed loyal by special-ordering what they wanted, putting the store on artificial life support for the last several months.
Toward the end, we were special-ordering 150-200 pieces a week, Faulkner says. They really stepped up to the plate to support us when they could have gone somewhere else. Two weeks before the store closed, Faulkner and Morse compiled a two-and-a-half-page list of regular customers and called them all.
I didnt want them coming here and seeing brown paper on the window, Faulkner says. They really thought of that store as their store as well.
I told the story dozens and dozens of times, Faulkner says. I got to the point where I sort of got OK with it, but then a person would come in and be totally wigged out and emotional and I would feel it again.
JAM Records opened in 1998 as a Western branch of Michigan WhereHouse Records, a mid-Michigan music chain that preceded JAM into rock n roll heaven, store by store, over the past decade (the flagship East Lansing store closed in 2001). WhereHouse itself began in 1976, with a few dozen cardboard boxes of LPs piled in a hippie shoe store (Roots, of course) in a now-demolished warren on MAC Avenue called the University Mall. At its height, the chain had eight stores stretching from Mount Pleasant to Big Rapids.
Faulkner joined WhereHouse in 1979 and ended up following the chains expansions and implosions for nearly three decades. When WhereHouses ownership split in 1999, co-owners Jeff and Arleen Morse took over the West Saginaw store, renaming it JAM after themselves.
The store immediately did well, in part because west-side customers werent as wired to the Internet as college students further east. JAM kept going for five more years after the East Lansing WhereHouse folded, much like the Eastern Roman Empire hung on after Rome itself fell to the barbarians. The personal touch of Faulkner and crew helped JAM weather the invasion of three chain stores (Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and Circuit City) into the area.
People would meet and talk all the time, Faulkner says. It was like a barber shop. Although the store relied heavily on rap and R&B customers, Morse and Faulkner rolled with the flow.
They probably looked at us as old guys, but cool old guys, because we made an attempt to listen and understand their music, Faulkner says.
For the last few days, it amused Faulkner that customers would simply stand in the aisles, staring at him or saying Where are you gonna go?
Im not going anywhere, he says. Its not the end of the world, and Im not dead I think. The last day was emotional, as might be expected.
One regular customer didnt go to work because he had anxiety attacks over this, Faulkner recalls. Jeff couldnt be there the last day to close the store and lock it. So I called this person and asked him to come in and help me close.
I didnt know whether he was gonna do it, but he showed up an hour and a half before, and he made the last purchase. He has that receipt. Its like an icon for him. And what was the last item purchased?
Id love to tell you it was Miles Davis Kind of Blue, Faulkner grins, but it was I think it was a Judas Priest DVD.
http://lansingcitypulse.com/content/view/215/31/
Wazoo City Pulse...
In another loving tribute to a small business...
After 31 years, the Grand Wazoo folds his tent
Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Tuesday, 11 July 2006
That photo is East Lansing! Whoa...I remember the state Theater. Well, Wazoo will be missed. I'm really tired of seeing 20 year old business' close. All you Lansing peeps should stop into Wazoo and buy something before you can't. John won't care if you're nostalgic, curious or a Scavenger (like me), he just wants to sell this stuff to cool people like us.
"Last man sitting: At least John Novak of Wazoo wont have to turn down any more stacks of bad movie soundtracks. "-Lawrence Consentino
Man, Larry cracks me up. That one is for the record store clerks in the audience. As I know the they're laughing (like me), they're probably a little sad too thinking of the stores they had to close. There's nothing like a record store. Great article Larry.
from 7/6/06
After 31 years, the Grand Wazoo folds his tent
Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Tuesday, 11 July 2006
That photo is East Lansing! Whoa...I remember the state Theater. Well, Wazoo will be missed. I'm really tired of seeing 20 year old business' close. All you Lansing peeps should stop into Wazoo and buy something before you can't. John won't care if you're nostalgic, curious or a Scavenger (like me), he just wants to sell this stuff to cool people like us.
"Last man sitting: At least John Novak of Wazoo wont have to turn down any more stacks of bad movie soundtracks. "-Lawrence Consentino
Man, Larry cracks me up. That one is for the record store clerks in the audience. As I know the they're laughing (like me), they're probably a little sad too thinking of the stores they had to close. There's nothing like a record store. Great article Larry.
from 7/6/06
Balloon concert for town dreamers
"This is music released from the confines of gravity."
"People in Shakespeare's birthplace have been given the most unusual free concert, with music played from a series of hot air balloons."
What a crazy brilliant idea!
Click the title above for the BBC article...Thanks to Mateo for the heads up.
"People in Shakespeare's birthplace have been given the most unusual free concert, with music played from a series of hot air balloons."
What a crazy brilliant idea!
Click the title above for the BBC article...Thanks to Mateo for the heads up.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Drive-in movies!
photo collage by trash180
The first patent for the Drive-In Theater (United States Patent.. 1,909,537) was issued on May 16, 1933. With an investment of $30,000, Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in on Tuesday June 6, 1933 at a location on Crescent Boulevard, Camden, New Jersey. The price of admission was 25 cents for the car and 25 cents per person.-from about.com.
Looks like we're coming up on the 73rd anniversary, huh?
Now that it's summer it's time for me to make my yearly commitment to go to the drive-in. I rarely make it, but this year I'm doing my research and planning early. It turns out that there are a few sites to help me.
michigandriveins.com has a comprehensive list of theaters and most have some pix.
Dig the Lansing drive-ins...
I used to go to the M-78 as a kid. Of course, they've all been gone for years.
drive-ins.com had a nice list of currently operating drive-ins. Some are open year round!
It looks like the Ford Wyoming in Dearborn might be the most impressive. They say it's the largest in the world...certainly something I'd like to investigate myself...
Originally posted in the scavenger hunt blog.
The Roxanne Saga...
So, back in 1984 I was a big fan of hip hop, rap, breakdancing, and in turn U.T.F.O. The self titled UTFO tape seemed to be on every boom box and ghetto blaster within earshot.
If you knew all the lyrics to Leader of the Pack or "Beats and Rhymes" you had that much more cred with the other 8th graders. The most well known song on the tape was "Roxanne, Roxanne" where the 3 MC's competed for the attention of girl from the block Roxanne.
According to Wikipedia, when UTFO backed out on show that Mr Magic and Marley Marl were promoting, the two dj's conspired with local 14 year old, Lolita Gooden, to make record that dissed them, to get even.
"Roxanne's Revenge" and the phenomenon of response/dis records was born.
Magic and Marl used the original UTFO instrumental track, while Lolita, now newly named Roxanne Shanté freestyled her lyric over the top. When UTFO took legal action they were forced them to change the backing track, but not before 250,000 singles were sold in NY!. Soon UTFO got wise and released their own roxanne response records (which appeared on their s/t album) but by then the flood gates were open and dozens of responses followed. Some say there were well over a hundred.
Random sampling of notables from wiki:
* Sparky's Turn (Roxanne, You're Through), by Sparky D
* Roxanne's Doctor-The Real Man by Dr. Freshh
* Do the Roxanne by Dr. Rocx & co
* The Parents of Roxanne by Tony Gigolo & Lacy Lace
* Yo My Little Sister (Roxanne's Brothers) by Crush Groove
* Rappin' Roxy: Roxanne's Sister by D.W. and the Party Crew featuring Roxy
* Roxanne's a Man (The Untold Story - Final Chapter)
Feel free to send me any of the above tracks if you have em. I think I have an old copy of Roxanne's Grandma kickin in the crates, actually.
After UTFO and Shanté, hip hop and r&b response records were fairly common, but none reached quite the absurd pinacle of the Roxanne Saga.
If you knew all the lyrics to Leader of the Pack or "Beats and Rhymes" you had that much more cred with the other 8th graders. The most well known song on the tape was "Roxanne, Roxanne" where the 3 MC's competed for the attention of girl from the block Roxanne.
According to Wikipedia, when UTFO backed out on show that Mr Magic and Marley Marl were promoting, the two dj's conspired with local 14 year old, Lolita Gooden, to make record that dissed them, to get even.
"Roxanne's Revenge" and the phenomenon of response/dis records was born.
Magic and Marl used the original UTFO instrumental track, while Lolita, now newly named Roxanne Shanté freestyled her lyric over the top. When UTFO took legal action they were forced them to change the backing track, but not before 250,000 singles were sold in NY!. Soon UTFO got wise and released their own roxanne response records (which appeared on their s/t album) but by then the flood gates were open and dozens of responses followed. Some say there were well over a hundred.
Random sampling of notables from wiki:
* Sparky's Turn (Roxanne, You're Through), by Sparky D
* Roxanne's Doctor-The Real Man by Dr. Freshh
* Do the Roxanne by Dr. Rocx & co
* The Parents of Roxanne by Tony Gigolo & Lacy Lace
* Yo My Little Sister (Roxanne's Brothers) by Crush Groove
* Rappin' Roxy: Roxanne's Sister by D.W. and the Party Crew featuring Roxy
* Roxanne's a Man (The Untold Story - Final Chapter)
Feel free to send me any of the above tracks if you have em. I think I have an old copy of Roxanne's Grandma kickin in the crates, actually.
After UTFO and Shanté, hip hop and r&b response records were fairly common, but none reached quite the absurd pinacle of the Roxanne Saga.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
trash180 recording credits
trash180 recording credits
Calliope (in)organics
Calliope Braille
Calliope Sounds Like Circles Feel
Calliope Last Summer ep
Carmen Electra Paradise
Kate Peterson - undone
Sarah Cleaver
Kristin Plater
Matt Carlson and The Pantones - Memory is All
The Pantones - Sleepless Nights, Silent Morning
Millenary High Energy
Millenary Feel the Heat
Adams Castle EP
Jim Cecil
Sedated Monkey
The Hard Lessons
Honest D and The Steel Reserve
Jen Sygit
Rattling Wall Collective in Dutch
Sweater (unreleased)
Sun and Machines (unreleased)
Juice-freestyle (Chicago)
Harvestmen
Gentleman Callers
The Good Mornings
Carra Barratt
The Big Two Hearted String Band
Calliope (in)organics
Calliope Braille
Calliope Sounds Like Circles Feel
Calliope Last Summer ep
Carmen Electra Paradise
Kate Peterson - undone
Sarah Cleaver
Kristin Plater
Matt Carlson and The Pantones - Memory is All
The Pantones - Sleepless Nights, Silent Morning
Millenary High Energy
Millenary Feel the Heat
Adams Castle EP
Jim Cecil
Sedated Monkey
The Hard Lessons
Honest D and The Steel Reserve
Jen Sygit
Rattling Wall Collective in Dutch
Sweater (unreleased)
Sun and Machines (unreleased)
Juice-freestyle (Chicago)
Harvestmen
Gentleman Callers
The Good Mornings
Carra Barratt
The Big Two Hearted String Band
Friday, January 28, 2005
What's up with trash180?
trash180 is a studio. trash180 is a nom de plume. trash180 is an asthetic. trash180 records bands. trash180 makes music. trash180 remixes. trash180 believes in vintage, loves mash-ups, mixtapes, and dj mixes.
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