11.25.2003
race.ouch.oops.oh.
last night i started listening to the records that i bought on thursday. i thought i may have picked some good ones before listening to them but i wasn't exactly sure. you see, prior to thursday, every time i went vinyl hunting i had my trusty lovahhhhhh, kim, with me and she has a knack for picking the most amazing stuff (songs of the humpback whale represent!!). this was my first solo venture. marto was with me but shopping on his own.
anyway, i'm loving these records. robert redford taught me a lot about the wolf. the royal heirs album was all instrumentals which is fine with me because i can never have enough of those. the opening song on the strawberry shortcake album was pretty bouncy and funny ("one and one is fun/one and one is friends!"). the typing album had a copyright of 1960 and was still sealed. when i unwrapped it i felt like i had gone back in time or something. included with the album was a sheet that had the typing exercises written out so that one could practice without the album. there can be no denying that dorothy haydon is the master of home row. and i have never heard a man more excited to be talking about salesmanship than heartsill wilson. i had to slow the record down just to keep pace with him.
here's my dilemna, though. i have so many records filled with superstrange vocal snippets that i feel like i can't do them justice with my current turntable approach. i usually play a spoken word album on one turntable, an instrumental on the other, and record them simultaneously through my stereo. so i'm basically just adding weird vocals to an already existing song. sometimes i'll mess with the speed of the instrumental but that's about the extent of my manipulation. plus, having the results on a tape is not really optimal in the oh three. i guess i should mention that my current set-up makes it hard for me to scratch records without the needle jumping some (which never sounds good). my turntable table is not very sturdy, if you know what i'm saying. i've messed around with drews tables in vt and i've learned that i can actually scratch a bit which is encouraging. but i don't really get to practice much because we're only in vt for weekends at a time.
anyway, i have all these crazy records and the possibilites are endless but daunting. listening to the latest batch last night had me excited but also a little freaked out. i guess i'm just looking forward to getting settled wherever kim and i are going to live next and setting the tables up near the computer. then i could connect them to the computer and hopefully have a little more control over things. i'd probably need a sturdier turntable table though :)
whoa. that was long. i feel like i should end with my favorite 2003 albums. nope. passed.
last night i started listening to the records that i bought on thursday. i thought i may have picked some good ones before listening to them but i wasn't exactly sure. you see, prior to thursday, every time i went vinyl hunting i had my trusty lovahhhhhh, kim, with me and she has a knack for picking the most amazing stuff (songs of the humpback whale represent!!). this was my first solo venture. marto was with me but shopping on his own.
anyway, i'm loving these records. robert redford taught me a lot about the wolf. the royal heirs album was all instrumentals which is fine with me because i can never have enough of those. the opening song on the strawberry shortcake album was pretty bouncy and funny ("one and one is fun/one and one is friends!"). the typing album had a copyright of 1960 and was still sealed. when i unwrapped it i felt like i had gone back in time or something. included with the album was a sheet that had the typing exercises written out so that one could practice without the album. there can be no denying that dorothy haydon is the master of home row. and i have never heard a man more excited to be talking about salesmanship than heartsill wilson. i had to slow the record down just to keep pace with him.
here's my dilemna, though. i have so many records filled with superstrange vocal snippets that i feel like i can't do them justice with my current turntable approach. i usually play a spoken word album on one turntable, an instrumental on the other, and record them simultaneously through my stereo. so i'm basically just adding weird vocals to an already existing song. sometimes i'll mess with the speed of the instrumental but that's about the extent of my manipulation. plus, having the results on a tape is not really optimal in the oh three. i guess i should mention that my current set-up makes it hard for me to scratch records without the needle jumping some (which never sounds good). my turntable table is not very sturdy, if you know what i'm saying. i've messed around with drews tables in vt and i've learned that i can actually scratch a bit which is encouraging. but i don't really get to practice much because we're only in vt for weekends at a time.
anyway, i have all these crazy records and the possibilites are endless but daunting. listening to the latest batch last night had me excited but also a little freaked out. i guess i'm just looking forward to getting settled wherever kim and i are going to live next and setting the tables up near the computer. then i could connect them to the computer and hopefully have a little more control over things. i'd probably need a sturdier turntable table though :)
whoa. that was long. i feel like i should end with my favorite 2003 albums. nope. passed.
