09-08-2014: boris - vomitself (detroit)

their music:
https://borisheavyrocks.com/

review:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2014/08/09.html

this was before splendor solis.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Tea-Party-The-Tea-Party/release/2855948

Want: 45

Last Sold:
Lowest: CA$64.74
Median: CA$81.67
Highest: CA$135.08

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i paid $0.50.

AND, it's the copy they sent the cbc.

i'm going to send jeff martin an email and ask him if he wants it. maybe he can replace it with one he's got lying around or something. like, it has the cbc sticker on it. it's a piece of canadian rock history. i'd have to imagine it means something to him.

so, the deal at the cd firesale today was 100 discs for $50, or 50 for $35 and decreasing levels of firesaleiness. i pulled out 81 to start, so i felt i had to pull it up to 100 to get the deal.

there wasn't any obscure 80s rock music. it was largely canadian overflow due to our crtc requirements to play a certain amount of canadian music - it's stuff that was never that good to begin with and has been replaced by equally weak but more current stuff.

however, they had a large amount of jazz and classical from the cbc libraries. the cbc digitized everything and dumped it at the university, and they put it up for sale. fine with me. none of it is stuff i had on high priority, but it's all stuff i'd _eventually_ get, so might as well grab it when it's $0.50 a piece.

the one rarity i found was the first tea party demo, which was self-released on a limited edition. this is a real find.

for the rest of it, i'm not going to write it all out, i'm going to go by genre and disc number. it won't add up to exactly one hundred because some of the players and composers are on multiple discs.

prog/post-punk:
cocteau twins (1)
david bowie (1)

indie/post rock:
the hylozoists (1)
pavlov's dog orchestra (1)
hot hot heat (1)

jazz:
metheny (5)
ritenour (5)
medeski, martin, wood (3)
thelonius monk (2)
coltrane (3)
knopfler (1)
atkins (1)
scofield (2)
reinhardt (3)
grapelli (5)
brubeck (2)
basie (4)
charlie parker (1)
larry carlton (2)
jean-luc ponty (7)
ron carter (1)
ellington (1)
louis armstrong (2)
chester thompson (1)
davis (1)
sun ra (1)
benny goodman (3)
dimeola (1)
blind boys of alabama (1)

classical:
tchaikovsky (4)
dvorak (2)
mozart (1)
satie (2)
barber (1)
bristow (1)
ravel (1)
rachmaninoff (8). including 5 volume complete piano works.
shostakovich (1)
bach (1)
stravinski (1)
bartok (1)
chopin (3)
moskowski (1)
koprowski (1)
delibes (1)
mancini (1)
steve hackett (1)
paul mccartney (2) <----for reals. look it up.
symphonic yes (1)
evelyn glennie (1)
pasero (1)

world:
peter gabriel mix tapes (3)
afro-celt soundsystem (3)

electronic/ambient:
delerium (1)
david sylvian (1)

rock i listened to when i was a kid:
bryan adams (1)
duran duran (1)
tom cochrane (1)

rock i listened to when i was a teenager:
james iha (1)
tea party (1)

my old blues guitar teacher:
robert farrell band (1)

i get to sort through a university radio station's thousands of "rejections" today, at prices of $0.50 a disc.

that's a dangerous thing for me to do.

i'm getting all kinds of fantasies about it, regarding out of print material, especially from the 80s: discs from bands i've connected with over mp3 and have long expected i'll *never* find. cardiacs. swans. coil. excited...

it's going to depend on how clueless the "rejection commitee" is. a certain level of cluelessness is inherent. ever shopped at a disc-go-round? but, whether it's weak or dramatic is going to define what i can come back with.

some of the stuff i've picked up in $2.00 bins over the years defies reason. two really jump out: an sst copy of sonic youth's "sister" and an original copy of swans' omniscience.

the sonic youth disc was actually at a garage sale. it was an older lady, i have to think it was probably left by a child.

the swans disc was at the house of guitars in rochester, new york and i have to think it was put in the discount bin because they couldn't sell it. this particular swans disc has been out of print since the first pressing.

most of it was sold off under assumptions it'd be easy to find, but some of it went out of print for a while. like, i wish i didn't sell my tvt copy of pretty hate machine. or my dead kennedy's records.

at the very least, i'm hoping it's a way to reclaim some of the discs i've sold over the years.

hey, i knew i was walking into the collapse of western civilization. no surprises. no drama. this is what i knew was here.

this one i really like, actually.

i'm putting this one aside for future album art.

http://s.imwx.com/dru/2014/05/771b8d59-bb90-4091-8cf6-cf6b2a9b8ead_650x366.jpg
 

this is a recent picture of the pontiac silverdome, which was once the continent's biggest, state-of-the-art multi-purpose entertainment complex. pontiac is considered a suburb of detroit, but it's almost the distance from ottawa to montreal. i'll have to find my way out there eventually....

the main tenant was the detroit lions (an american football team), but they also set several records for largest indoor rock concerts in the 70s (first the who, then led zeppelin, both in the 70,000s).

the stadium was sold off to private management a little over ten years ago and has been abandoned, now, for several years.

but a shot like that makes you wonder if there's a way in there to reclaim the space.

http://s.imwx.com/dru/2014/05/f264f804-530a-4a59-8a77-5672fe28844a_650x366.jpg