…everybody’s got a CMJ story, right? So here’s mine.
Thursday afternoon, I was lucky enough to have two bands (The Amazing and The Blakes) on my East Village Radio show. Both bands played a couple live tunes and sounded fan-fukkin’-tastic! Actually, you can check out the post-show roundup via this here link… The Amazing and The Blakes on Beyond Beyond is Beyond on 10/22/09 (there’s even a couple great YouTube videos of the two Amazing songs).
Then, Thursday night, the good folks at Kemado/Mexican Summer Records were kind enough to have me out at their soiree in my old neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, where I got nice and toasted with the guys from The Amazing. ‘Twas a blast of a time. And Farmer Dave Scher played a pleasing set to an intimate group of pretzel-eaters.
Friday night led me to some great adventures. Mind you, my CMJ path is anything but typical…as I never even saw Surfer Blood play once! Not only that, I typically have to work weeknights, so I just can’t be doing that shit all week long. Not to mention that my liver wouldn’t be able to handle more than the 3 days that I did!
Read on to find out how Chris Squire fits into this equation…
So I just went to the WFMU Record Fair Sunday to get my music-geek on, and that I did. When I walked in, I was a bit overwhelmed, especially since I’m not the hardcore collector type. I just wanna pick up some cheap but playable cool records…and that I did. I did a couple laps around the place, the first transaction I saw upon entering was a guy ecstatically buying an old Alice Cooper band bootleg DVD.
After making a couple rounds and finding some good cheapie tables and making a few purchases, I found the jackpot at the WFMU table where they were getting rid of tons of albums at the amazing rate of 4 for $1. They were going for $1 apiece for the first 2 1/2 days of the fair, but since it was the last day and late in the afternoon, I caught them when they were just trying to get rid of ‘em. Nice timing.
So, I figured this is a good time for us to all share our most recent music acquisitions, Sh*t L*st-style. And I’m gonna get ‘er started with an enormous list of everything I scored at the record fair…all for under $20. Then you can share as many as you’d like…(jump, yo)…
…East Village Radio