45 Sessions, Laying Low & Thanks

The devil has been layin' low over here at in the bloggie world. See, i took the last 3 days off from work for My b-day and i've been trying to enjoy myself and trying to stay away from idiot boxes (computer - TV)and now i have a wedding to attend out out of town today so my comp access has been and will be limited but let me steal a few second here this LATE Sat. mourn and get a few words in... 1st thanks to all the kind folks that called or send me b-day wishes, friends & family alike. i love you all. I've really had a great Birthday and I've done TONS of record digging while on this little b-day celebration vacation. the JJB and i have been all over NJ & PA and dig up some nice scores, of all varieties, which i'd like to post up at some point but not today. We also spent a lot of our time eating out and doing a bit of social drinking, as well as long walks on the boardwalk... 2nd, thanks to DJ prestige over at Flea Market Funk for asking me to DJ at last nights 45 sessions. i was planning on attending but DJ Pres didn't ask me till the last minuet to DJ so i figured i'd change it up and did an all old school hip hop & rap set spun EXCLUSIVELY on 45. It was a GREAT night at the Asbury Lanes last night with all the DJ's spinning great stuff but Pres took the cake with his ROCK mix set and right into the funky stuff. Killer. and although he didn't spin it is always a pleasure to catch up w/ dJ Jack The Ripper. We talked punk rock all night! Mutha Records anyone??? The 45 Killer spun some insane African Funk, Larry Grogan always kills it and it was cool to see he finally got that Eddie Holland 45! M-fasis and DJ prime Cuts were all on point and even in the crowd was a bit thin it really was a great night. No fans were injured.
Here is what i spun:

Chase - Open Up Wide - Epic
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks - Mercury
Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock - It Takes Two - Profile
J.J. Fad - Supersonic - Ruthless
Beastie Boys - Paul Revere - Def Jam
Rub DMC - Mary Mary - Profile
Ice-T - Colors - Warner Brothers
L.L. Cool j - Going Back to Cali - Def Jam
Biz Markie - Just a Friend - Cold Chillin'
Salt-N-Pepper - Push It - Next Plateau
Newcleus - Jam on It - Sunnyview
Luke featuring 2 Live Crew - Banned in the U.S.A. - Luke Records

Dig it!?!?

Anywho, i hope to be back soon and start getting into the October swing of things with some Spooky and Kooky Halloween oriented 45 cuts!!! as well as a spooktacular collaboration w/ the red boy coming soon as well!!!

Cheers!
dd

Vinyl Record Day 2008: Vinyl Madness & Thanks!

The Devil and the Devil's Record Room of Doom!


Typical Friday Night:


Were running at half speed over here @ the devils music so please excuse our late entry into Vinyl record Day since our computer crashed we didn't even know if we would get a post in but I'd like to give a few shout outs & thanks and maybe fill you in on some of the devils vinyl madness!!!

1st many thanks to Todd Lucas over at It's Great Shakes for hipping me to "The Hits Just keep On Comin'" and this Vinyl Record Day Madness and for his and his partners great blog. And more importantly my main man DJ Prestige Flea Market Funk for alerting me to the record blogging universe and for his fine expose' over at his spot about another person i need to say thanks too, "The Old Man", who i have bought PLENTY of records from through the years and I am sure i have helped him buy many a case of Busch Beer as well!

Even though I've been collecting records now for well over 20 years I never really knew anyone who "collected" records. I of course had the casual collector friends who had a few records but none i would call true collectors. Even as a teenager when i was thriving on punk, hardcore and metal I would get shit from my friends for keeping my Pink Floyd albums and all that "Hippy" music. Hence I have always and will always collect music of ALL varieties. If you take a look around my little blogging corner you will not find music of any one particular variety, but many.

Anyway back to my little story: I knew no "real" record collectors until I met the JJB & co-worker and vinyl freak Deacon Brimstone and now DJ Prestige among others. At any rate it was a relief to know i was NOT ALONE in my endeavor to search out and find anything new and exciting and by "new" it almost always means something really "old".... Those in the know will know what i mean!

My mother probably had close to 100 records when i was a kid a HUGE amount and i'd spent a lot of time pulling through her collection, (most was crap) but she had a few that were real turn ons. (Janis Joplin's "Pearl" being one) And then at some point in my very young life my Uncle Dan came to live with us. He was a wild man with a huge Afro and wore "Manlets". This was back in the 70's. And i would spend a lot of time is his attic room staring at his crazy blacklight posters and digging through his stacks of vinyl. This is where i first heard Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix and an assortment of 60's psych and heavy 70's rock. It was an instant love affair and it even helped shape me as a musician and person I'm sure. After hearing what kind of HEAVY sounds the guitar could make, I wanted in and i wanted in NOW!!! And the quest was on. He would stand over me while i ordered records from the "Columbia House" catalog. You know, 10 for 1 penny and you only have to buy 3 more at full price over the next year!!! I was down with Kiss but he told me to buy Led Zeppelin.... Heh...

I've been very lucky over the years scoring some rare and not so rare but great sounding records. To me it's not how valuable a record is but the sounds in the groove. So for all the people above you have helped shape me as a music geek and those who continue to do so this is a big thank you! There are many who have come and gone through the years and too few time to mention them all but because of each one (including many a past girlfriend) I have amassed around 10,000 records... Maybe not as Huge a collection as many out there but on my limited budget i am very happy with my collection!!! So thanks! And keep on diggin'!!!

Forward to the Caves Play List 1/31/08 & Thanks!

Fisrt off i'd like to thank everyone who has come over to this little vinyl mess of a blog here and checked out what is going on or left comments.

As I said in my title up there this is an “eclectic” musical voyage so if something here isn’t really up your alley please do check back from time to time as I will be hitting all corners of the music world before I am through, and I won’t be through until I am through, dig?

I really want to keep this spot open and ready for anything so with that I say again, thanks for reading, so far it’s been a blast…

Now for those paying attention at home: here is what we played last night on the forward to the caves radio show.


Click - Many Times Jimbo
Incredible Hog - To the Sea
Steel Mill - Get on the Line
Morgen - Welcome to Void
Poobah – Mr. Destroyer
Dischas - Never, Never
White Lightning - William
Power of Zeus - In the Night
Atomic Rooster - All in the Name of Satan

Blackwater Park - Rock Song
Rare Bird - Hammerhead
Host - Dit Vi Ma
Silberbart - Head Tear of the Drunken Son
Spooky Tooth - Fantasy Satisfier

The Skunks - Heart Teaser
Edward Bear - Egdeware Station
Stack Waddy - Mothballs
Joseph - I ain't Fattenin' No more Frogs for Snakes
Warpig - Tough Nuts
Cactus - Feel so Bad


White Witch - The Gift
Yesterdays Children - Paranoid
Mercy - Fireball
Right of Way - Midnight Hour
What-Knots - I Ain't Dead yet
The Gents - I Wonder Why
Wishbone Ash - Torture Queen

Man the 2 hours just flies by and we really didn't even get close to playing all the records we brought with us but if anyone was checking in i hope you enjoyed it.

Until next time!
Cheers!

A few scores and thanks!

I was going to post this on Sunday but waited until after the Flea Market Funk meets The Devil's Music mix was posted so it didn't get in the way.



Also want to give a public shout once again to DJ Pestige for the most exceelent job he did on the mix. I'm glad some folks dug it. I must have listened to both mixes 30 times already!


Thanks Pres you are truly the man!


So here goes last Sunday's post today!


I got up early today and believe it or not my little man wanted to get up and go to the flea market. Not to look for records but to look for star wars figures. So of course i was all up for it and got a little digging in. It was cold but the coffee was hot. And there was a lot of action out there even with the tables covered in frost. I found some cool records on the cheap but no star wars guy for the little man. I had to explain to him that some days you score & some days you don't but its all in the trying.

Here is a list of some of the scores: I got a nice mix of Rock & Soul stuff with some cool & odd LP's. Some of this stuff I already own but these were pretty nice clean copies.

If anyone has any information on the Ill Bred Mind 45 please let me know! I had to buy a whole box of common stuff to score it and I wasn't going to let another Soul Invaders Inc scenario happen so I bought the whole box just to get this one 45. It is an organ heavy psych number with a cover of "walk on by" on the flip and no information on the record at all, not even song credits. I looked online and seached popsike and couldn't turn up anything on it so if anyone has and info please contact me and let me know as it seems pretty "rare"...

45's:
Ill Bred Mind - How Can You Be Happy Today - P.S.L.
The Beatles - She Loves You - Swan
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - P.O. Box 9847 - A&M
Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song - Atlantic
Edward Bear - Best Friends - Capitol
Mountain - Mississippi Queen - Windfall
Alice Cooper - School's Out - WB
Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray - WB
David Essex - Rock On - Columbia
The Turtles - Surfer Dan - White Whale
Free - Alright Now - A&M
Johnnie Strickland - I've Heard That Line Before - Roulette
Edwin Star - War - Gordy
Sly & the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher - Epic
100 Proof Aged in Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping - Hot Wax
Joe Tex - I Gotcha - Dial
Little Sister - Stinga - Stone Flower
Jackie Moore - Precious Precious - Atlantic
Fred Wesley & the J.B's - Damn Right I Am Somebody Pt. 1
Moments And Whatnauts - Girls (Part I) - Stang
Foxy - You Make Me Hot - Dash
The Parliments - (I Wanna) Testify - Revilot
Labelle - Lady Marmalade - Epic
Blue Magic - Welcome to the Club - Atco
The Exciters - Tell Him - UA

Lp's
Cantandole A - ME XI CO - Alta id
Eddie Heywood - S/T - EmArcy (1955)
Kai Winding Feat. Kenny Burrel - Soul Surfing - Verve
Heartsille Benjamin's Virgin Ilsand Steel Band - Philips
Japan - Its Music and Its People - Desto
Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Band - You're so Beautiful - WB (still in shrink)
V.O.S. - Yesterday & Today - Valley of Sound (private press psych/rock)
HI-FI Jazz Session - Sarah sings "Mean to Me" Feat: Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Red Norvo, Cozy Cole, Charle Ventura - Masterseal
Jake Holmes - So Close, So Very Far To Go - Polydor



and a few new Cha Cha Lp's!





Cheers!