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ALL THINGS VINYL RECORDS · Kvetch & Release

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Good morning everyone. John Lucky here on AM eight hundred CKLW filling in for
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Dan McDonald, which is weird because like, this was a roundtable that he
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went out of his way to organize and he was really excited about. And
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then I got a message and I was like, hey, John, can
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you come in? And I was like, okay, whatever. We do
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the roundtable at the start of every show. And I gotta say, I'm
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really glad to be joined around the table right now by some really great people.
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Six Langman joins me. Six How you doing good? How are you?
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I'm doing all right? You're the director of yes, I you're the
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director of the Spinning Stories documentary, yep, yeah, And we're gonna be
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talking all things Vinyl records. So that's apt. That's good on Prime.
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If you had been the director of, like, you know, a sports
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documentary, wouldn't be doing this footsball, footsball exactly. We also have football
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Ryan Richardson, host of the Go Tell Someone podcast. You hear him here
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often on the roundtable. Ryan, how are you? I'm doing great.
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It's going to be a beautiful day, apparently, nice day for going out
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and finding vinyl to buy. Absolutely as always, and last, but not
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least, we also have the organizer of the Chapter two record show, Josh
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Reed, live in the studio. Josh, great to have you. Yeah,
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thanks so much for having me, Thanks for joining. You know,
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it's a I gotta say so. Vinyl records are not something that I've ever
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really gotten into. I was saying on the morning drive that I'm going to
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inherit a large collection of records from my parents at some point. I presume
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they've got a record player. I've just you know, I've never been one
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for the tactile medium. I grew up in the digital age, so I
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guess, you know, just to start some things off six, I'll go
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to you why Vinyl? Like, what's there to love about vinyl? It's
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old, it's big. You got to hook stuff up like I can just
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go to Spotify. Apparently you don't hang out with your cool dad enough.
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Honestly, mister Litke would like to drop off the records to someone that would
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appreciate. I will, it's definitely to give you my address. What's the
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thing about, Yeah, it's I think it's definitely for me. It's a
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it is a ritual thing. Like you know, this morning, I got
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up, poured myself a coffee and threw on it a record. I can
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get through a couple of records in a morning better than streaming. It's there's
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there's something about picking the record this this big you know, this big object
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oh by twelve, and throwing it on the table and then dropping the needle
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on it, and more intentional listening than it is passive listening. So,
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you know, a lot of times it's just it is kind of thinking about
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the record and thinking about the band that you're listening to instead of thinking about
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the things that you're supposed to be doing, like cleaning house or making lunches.
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It's a it's a little bit of a bit of a distraction, and
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I tend to kind of appreciate that. And I'm not sure if that even
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stems from me doing sound loop and coach and horses and doing sound for bands.
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You know, I was often put into a bar where I was doing
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sound for bands and I didn't necessarily listen to at home, or I didn't
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have a CD for and and I just I really enjoyed that end of things
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too, So I mean, I was really intentionally doing sound with bands that
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I, you know, was introduced to and was kind of new. And
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that's that's sort of the way I feel about Vinyl as well. You know,
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I can appreciate the tactileness of it and you know, sitting and listening
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and looking at it and taking it all in. For me, the closest
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thing I think that I could probably provide as an example was when I used
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to like be younger and get an actual video game, like a physical video
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game, and like I remember the ride home looking through the through the manual
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and getting all excited to play it. And so I mean, if that's
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sort of what you're getting at, I think I can really hone into that
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feeling, Josh, when it comes to you and Vinyl, Like, what
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is it that you like when you go looking for records? Is it that
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you're going out looking for a specific record at a specific time or are there
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times where you're just like, I don't want to get some music. It's
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it's a little bit of both. Sometimes you just feel like you need something
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new in the collection so that it's your local shop and have a browse.
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I think most of us collectors too, have a bit of a grail list,
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so to say, stuff you've been searching for for a while. So
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that's I think what keeps us in the hunt and really keeps us into records
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or finding those niche titles. Six made a great point when he said it's
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more involved listening. I think it's more it demands a little bit more of
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your attention and just the physical connection to the music. Having to put the
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needle on the album and the big colorful artwork on the jackets, all that
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little stuff I think is a bit of a subconscious, you know, appeal
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well, and there's also the curation, right Josh, Like the artists put
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the songs together in a way that they intended to be put together. So
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when you start off on track one and you get to the end and then
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you flip it over and you get the B side, that's not the way
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that the Spotify experiences when you just hit shuffle one percent. I think with
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Vinyl, it's it really demands that out of you to listen to an entire
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record, and like you said, super lost in the digital age, everybody's
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making their their favorite playlists, and yeah, it's nice to see that Vinyl's
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kind of brought back the art of the full album. I think, well,
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six my Dad just texted me. You got across to him, but
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he did say he said, we got a listener. He said, I
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got one. He said, music has physical properties. Records are tactile,
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with the imperfections and all. You get to experience the music in that tangible
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way, whereas with digital it's just perfect and it's not a very realistic experience.
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Ryan, I want to bring you in because vinyl is experiencing a huge
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comeback right now from local bands that I know who have put out what are
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they like? Six inch pressings? You know what? Six I'm trying.
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I know. Why do you think that the resurgence is happening? Why is
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there such a big comeback? Well, it's interesting. I take people over
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to Third Man Records. They have a vinyl pressing plant ten to fifteen minutes
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from here, and they're pressing seventeen thousand a day right now using Canadian presses
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that were made in Toronto, and it's insane. For me, it's partially
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in nostalgia. Like I grew up, my parents always played records Bill Withers
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Still Bill. I found it a couple of weeks ago. It couldn't be
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happier, So I said, nostalgia side of it. But then there's also
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the find, you know, getting going to a new store and finding something
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that you didn't even know existed or you didn't know was ever pressed a vinyl.
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We were We did this on the weekend. I went to a store
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in the States and my wife is a huge Rick Springfield fan, like we
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and as far as I knew, we had everything he had ever put on
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a vinyl. And we stopped at the store and I'm looking through and there
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was there was a Rick Springfield section and the thing and I looked at it.
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My wife had already looked through and she said, oh, yeah,
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yeah, she thought we had that one. And when I looked at it
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and I checked my list, I was like, we don't have this one.
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This was pressed like two years ago. And like when I was a
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kid going to wallpaper stores with my mom, it was just like the most
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boring experience. That's what sometimes that's what my wife is like when you go
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to a record store, because she's like, how long are we going to
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be here? But that day she was like, oh my gosh, you
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found something I don't have my collection. This is pretty cool, so she
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kind of I got bit by the bug a little bit that the record collecting
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bug for sure, but yeah, the find for me, the find is
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the coolest thing. At the last chapter two show that you did, Josh,
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I found a copy of Stings Nothing like the Sun. Oh great.
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And I came home and the first thing we did we sat in the living
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room just put it on and just listened to it because that was an album
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we actually my wife had introduced me to at university. Nice and we just
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threw that on and we were just like, this is cold. There's there's
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you know, forty five minutes, but just kind of sitting in the living
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room just talking and listening to music. That first listen after the find is
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really really nice. It really is. Yeah, very satisfying. Yeah,
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so thank you very much. Oh my pleasure, because that's pleasure that I
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couldn't I didn't remember, you know, in that late eighties, you know
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what got pressed to vinyl and what didn't like it was there was that you
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know, the transition where everything went to CD and everyone wanted to find something
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you didn't even know had ever been released, and you pick it up.
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It's great. One person texting in right now, I had a pretty good
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rock and roll album collection in the seventies and eighties. But then I went
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and I bought the all new compact disc technology in the early eighties, so
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much easier. I didn't have to flip a CD halfway through. But I
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did really notice that all the grittiness of the music had been lost when it
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was digitized. I noticed the sound difference immediately. You know we're going to
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talk about Holy Grail finds. What your hope that you could each find is
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the only thing I can compare that to would be I think when I opened
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up a Pokemon deck when I I came across a Charisard holographic, I remember
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just looking at it and then just like putting it back in the back and
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just like running to the car with my parents be like, you gotta get
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out of here quick, We're gonna get jumped. I've found one. I
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want to find out from you guys, what's the Charizard experience for you when
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it comes to records. What's your Holy Grail find And for all of you
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listening, let us know what's that one record you would love to be able
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to come across add to your collection. You can text in at ten eight
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hundred We're going to take a break and when we get back on the side,
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we will keep this roundtable going with six Langman, Ryan Richardson and Josh
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read All Things Vinyl. Don't go anywhere, folks. John Lydkey here on
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a eight hundred. Hey, folks, we're back. John Leckey here on
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a CLW. Hope you're all doing well. It is a Thursday roundtable joined
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by six Langman, Ryan Richardson and Josh Reid. We're talking all things Vinyl
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Records. We just had Record Store Day on the twentieth of April and it
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went really well, global event, incredible. We were talking though, just
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before the break about the holy grail. Finds wanting to know from the panel
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what is the one record that you just hope to get one day and absent
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that Also, what is the one that you're most proud of that you have
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already collected. Josh, let's go to you first. What's the holy grail?
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The big holy grail I'm missing is Iggy Pop Lust for Life. I've
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had a couple less than perfect represses of it, so I'm looking for either
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a first or second press. If anybody on the airwaves has one, please
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bring it. To the Chapter two record show on Sunday. A couple that
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I'm very proud of narrow it down to two is a Terry Reid album,
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self titled. He was very popular rock singer in the seventies. That was
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kind of slightly underground that I'd been looking for for a long time and I
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actually found it at the at the record show that Chapter two, so that
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was great. Another very cool one I have is the first appearance of Ronnie
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Hawkins. Yeah, pretty neat on vinyl. And it's also the first appearance
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of Levin Helm, Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson. Yeah, it's pretty that's
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obviously something. It's pretty cool if there's just a tiny little photo of the
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three of those guys on the back and the front's Ronnie. But yeah,
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it's it's one that I found it like goodwill and it's just so neat.
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That is something, yes, yeah, but not what they used to be
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quality. That's it. That's it, Ryan, Let's bring you in.
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What's the holy grail find you're searching for? I'm looking for. I just
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saw them in Detroit two weeks ago, a band called kings X, and
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they've got an album called Gretchen Goes in Nebraska that I really would love to
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find on vinyl. I should have picked it up back in the day,
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and I did not, for sure. I mean the one I recently found,
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if you actually found it on the weekend, Howie Mandel's fits like a
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glove found that found that that was amazing. And of course that time out
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by the day brew back Quartet, Oh there you go where he actually there's
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there's actually a flaw where they missed a point and they didn't go back and
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re recorded it. Really didn't realize that until like last year I listened.
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I was like, that wasn't meant to be. Even with jazz, you
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can improvise, but there was a point where it was like, it's clearly
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a flaw and they didn't. They just left it in and it's still a
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classic jazz album. Yeah, I gotta say I really appreciate as well the
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fact that you actually did bring in visual aids for a auditory experience. We're
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gonna have a record player right in the middle. This is this is a
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show for us, John six. That's the Holy Grail. Well, the
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Holy Grail, the whole documentary that I've been working on for two years of
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sinning stories was me trying to find the Elephant Rider's record, which was Record
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Store they release gatefold on red vinyl. I ended up finding a bootleg of
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it during the documentary, but just before we had the premiere on Saturday,
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on the Monday before that, I actually found that copy, and it's the
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most expensive record I have purchased in my collection now, but the one that
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I have on my radar now. Because this is like, you know,
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collecting records is like an iceberg. You know, the ones at the top
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are the ones you're looking for, and then as you find those, everything
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melts away and then more floats to the top and you're like, oh,
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I didn't know I needed that one too exactly. But I'm looking for Snfu
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in the meantime and in between time, which is one of the only SNFU
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records I don't have. Snfu is great Canadian kind of punk band, and
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if you don't know, you should be looking them up because they influenced a
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lot of people. And when we lost Chai Pig a couple of years ago,
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the amount of people on the Internet being like, oh, he influenced
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you know some Mike Patten was one of these guys. It's like, you
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know, this was one of these great you know vocalists. So that's the
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one that's kind of on my radar. And they did repress it just a
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couple of years ago. I think it's Guts and Glory. There are a
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tattoo Shop Slash record label. They reissued it, but it's you can't find
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the reissue and you can't find the originals. They're they're really really tough to
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find. So that's on my radar now. Real quick. We could be
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sort of just one word of answers here, but six Is it better to
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go secondhand or for a reissue? What do you prefer? Well, if
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it's one you want, does it matter the fair point? You know,
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if it's in good condition, it doesn't matter to me if it's been spun
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by somebody else, if it was taken care of, that's that's the most
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important thing new new is. I mean, that's completely fine. The cost
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of new records is going up and up and up. But you know,
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either way, it's as long as it's in good condition and it gets into
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my collection, that makes me happy. Absolutely. We got one text that
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came in good morning to the record panel I've been collecting Elvis Presley records since
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nineteen seventy. I'm sorry acquired oridge pressings from his early career. But my
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prize was the last record released at the time of his death, titled Moody
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Blue. I heard it was pressed in blue vinyl. I got home,
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I opened it up, and it was black vinyl. I was bummed out,
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But I came to find out that the factory accidentally pressed a few copies
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in black when they meant to do them all in blue. They realized the
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mistake, and then they switched to the blue. I have the rare black
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one. Wow, I love my collection, says this texter. Very cool.
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It's so interesting because it is a physical medium, you do get that
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opportunity to have a mistake. Yeah, miss prints colored vinyl. Yeah,
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it's like I wonder if that was just a test print that they ended up
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kind of just throwing into the sleeve. Sometimes it's when they're changing over the
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vinyl stacks the colors themselves, and they just kind of plug that in for
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a few presses. So I like this, you know, And you guys
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are getting me excited about records now. One last text, one person said
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I'd love to be able to find a Billy Joel greatest hits. I don't
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have the greatest hits, but I have the Stranger and I have a couple
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other bi right now if you'd like them, they'll be at the Chapter two
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Records show on Sunday. So I come on down. Know if we have
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the greatest hits. I got a couple of Billy Joel sitting in the collection
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too. Well. We will talk all about that event that's coming up at
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Chapter two, as well as dive into a conversation about the Spinning Stories documentary
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as well. Don't go to our folks. John Lydkey here on AM eight
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hundred CKLW. It's the Thursday Roundtable. We're back right after this. Hey,
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folks, that John Lydkey here on AM eight hundred kl W. We
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are talking all things Vinyl records here on this Thursday Roundtable. And it's apt
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because we got a whole round table of people who just love records. It
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would be a really bad roundtable if we decided to do this with people who
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absolutely hated records. It would be bad. Will let's not do that show
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next Okay, we won't bring in the people who Hate Records, joined by
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six Langman, who's the director of the Spinning Stories documentary, Ryan Richardson,
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who's the host of the Go Tell Someone podcast, and Josh Reed, who
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is the Chapter two record show organizer. We were talking about Holy Grail record
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five just before the break. Now we're going to be talking about the Spinning
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Stories documentary. Six tell us what is it? Give us the elevator pitch
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for someone who doesn't know anything about it. This is an eight part docuseries
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about collecting vinyl. We speak with seven record stores, eight bands that are
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produced vinyl, and probably about twenty or thirty other record collectors about what makes
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them spin. Essentially kind of digging into some of those some of the influences
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about why what music they collect. You know, we talked with Tom Lusher
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about his collection and like, you know, colored vinyl and you know,
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just just a bunch of different nuances that the record collecting community kind of understand.
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So when you talk with these people, like the bands that are actually
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deciding to go do this much higher unit cost to be able to produce a
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record, that's difficult in today's economy where people are like I remember CDs ten
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bucks. When you go to a show and now I've seen twenty bucks,
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twenty five bucks. I mean, why would a band want to go and
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have a record pressed at all? Well, I think what I heard kind
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of over and over is, you know, it's a mark of pride.
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It's almost a level or a tier that bands get to. I mean at
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a certain point in time, either you're ready to invest in your career that
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way and you want to make this jump, or you know, for nostalgia
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reasons, you're like, I'd really love to hear my band on a record,
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or I'd love to have that sort of physical, you know, record
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in my hand. So that that's a big part of it. Tim Swadling,
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who he talked to on the on the in the in the series,
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he talked about, you know, the way that he learned about, you
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know, record pressing and how you master for records. So Tim Swadling in
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the documentary actually says that what you hear on a streaming service or what you
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hear on a CD is not a complete mix because the complete mix was done
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knowing that when we pressed the vinyl there would be a slightly different sound.
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It might be a little bit more warm, might be a little bit more
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bottom end. So you know, really the record was the actual final production
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of his music and not the streaming service. So I found that actually really
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really interesting as well, taking into consideration, you know, what Vinyl is
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going to do for your music instead of just trying to get your music out
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onto every sort of streaming service and have it sort of sounded, you know,
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like Vinyl, you're you're mastering it for Vinyl. Ryan, we were
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talking a bit or you brought up a briefly Jack White's third man pressing plant
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in Detroit. How many did you say that they're pressing a day. Seventeen
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thousand, so about three hundred and fifty thousand a month. Yeah, that
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is that's an obscene number, yeahsolutely. And he did a plead to the
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majors to say, you know, make more plants because we can't keep up
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with the demand right now, like you did that about year ago. So
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I'd imagine that one of the reasons why records are so expensive for represses or
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for new ones. I mean, if you've got a whole new demand for
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records from bands who traditionally weren't doing this, and you also have an industry
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that quite frankly sort of died off like a couple decades ago. It must
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be really tough to go and like flip that switch and turn everything right right,
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fire the old factories back up again. Well, because I'm sure people
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would rather you get records down to a price where you could have them.
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I don't know what a press. Well, actually, that's a good question.
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How much does it cost to have a record pressed? I don't know
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what the actual cost, like what are they selling for, probably, but
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what they're selling for is is absolutely amazing. Now six was saying earlier how
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high prices have gotten on new vinyl, and they really have a lot of
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the record store day releases. If it was under fifty bucks, you were
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very lucky. And you know a lot of them were fifty nine, sixty
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nine, seventy nine. So yeah, for one record, it is it's
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a substantial amount of money. I do know that it does cost more to
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press them and ship them and everything. But I hope the bottom kind of
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comes down on them a little bit, because it's I think it's getting to
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the point where some of them are pricing themselves out of what some people come
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up ad out. Yeah, you know, there's a few factors that kind
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of go into that. But we did, you know, during the documentary,
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I did a little bit of research. I wanted to press a seven
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inch split with two bands here Agea Wolves and Gipsy Chief Goliath. Because of
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the backup at record pressing plants, you know that was you know, there
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was COVID. There was also a fire that sort of knocked out a couple
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of plants that had the master's thanks Universal Music. Yeah yeah, so that
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kind of slowed down the record industry that way and producing it. So we
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actually moved to a format where we were Lathe cutting. So this is actually
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Lathe Cut records second by second by a woman named Robin Raymond at Red Spade
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Records. So you know, we got our the price per unit was still
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pretty high, but the fact is is, you know there's there are now
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kind of avenues where you might be able instead of pressing one hundred or two
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hundred or three hundred records, you can go and get them Lathe cut and
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and the unit price might be a little bit higher, but you're able to
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get them out at definitely a lower count, you know, twenty records or
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fifty records. So you know, there there's a cost. I think that
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when I was going through it, you know, if you could get your
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unit price down to you know, ten or fifteen dollars for a twelve inch
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record printed kind of out the door, then then that's that was good.
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You know, they were topping out sometimes twenty. But that's why you see
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the bands when when they're traveling around, even if it's a younger band or
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an older band, it doesn't matter. There's the records behind that. You
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know, the merch table are thirty dollars or forty dollars. You're not going
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to walk in and find like a twenty dollars record for sale. Usually,
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well, you got to make profit. Nobody's doing it because they got to
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make your gas money, giving way everything in life. Yeah, and it's
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it's just it's inherently a supply and demand problem right now. To me,
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absolutely demand outscript supply, and until there can be more factories that open up
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or people lose interest, the price is what it is. Also on that
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note with stock, one thing that really hurts stock was COVID. You know
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a lot of the pressing plants kind of came to a grinding halt. So
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the newer releases weren't coming out quite as much because they had to ketch up
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on the older stuff. And I really noticed that coming out of COVID.
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I think they're finally getting to the point where they're caught up now a couple
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of years after. But yeah, there's a little bit of that. But
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to Ryan's point too about you know, what Jack White wanted to do and
22:12
asking the majors to produce more plants that they could produce more records. Talking
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with Robin at Red Spade, there's also a bottleneck at the mastering end of
22:19
things. So to actually like cut your masters, there's only there's only a
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handful of people in the world that are really doing this, and that's one
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of these I don't want to say it's a lost art, but you know,
22:30
making masters. Some of the machines that they're cutting their masters on are
22:33
from the nineteen forties and fifties. There isn't like there isn't new equipment that's
22:38
really being built, and there's not necessarily, you know, a younger generation
22:44
that's like, oh, I want to sit in a studio and just you
22:45
know, cut these masters of records. So there's also a bottleneck there.
22:48
The level of expertise that comes for mastering, cutting and everything. Like you
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said, it's probably a dying art at this point, some of the and
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the older you get the worst years get a man well. One of the
23:00
other problems, though, one of the problems with having rather a tactile medium
23:04
is the fact that it is tactile, which means that there is war and
23:11
damage dirt. In one case, we have a text here, John,
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I was devastated when I found out that my vinyl collection of about one hundred
23:21
records was damaged in a flood that we have. Yeah, I don't know
23:26
how to clean the mold off so I can listen to them again, any
23:30
suggestions. I don't recommend storing records in the basement ever. Ever, if
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you do, get mounted shelves, yeah, maybe mine's in a split level,
23:41
but above the floodline, it's not possible. But yeah, people should
23:45
be very careful how they store their records. Also from temperature. Always put
23:48
them away in the sleeves. Never leave them on a turntable because they can
23:52
warp right exactly. But to the point of cleaning. I have an ultrasonic
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at home, so it's it's actually a unit that spins your records around and
24:00
it pushes it's called a record players, but it sends sound waves through uh
24:07
water and a little bit of cleaning solution, and it can usually get really
24:11
really deep into the into the grooves. There's also things like spin clean,
24:15
which is putting a record into a unit that you can spin it around,
24:21
and there's pads that that that clean out the grooves, so you know,
24:25
with mold and mildew, you can get it out. Because I've I've definitely
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seen it, I've researched it. It just it does take a little bit
24:32
of work. But honestly, if the if the collection matters, then it's
24:34
gonna it's gonna matter more as soon as you get that back to you know,
24:37
definitely worth the investment to try and clean it up. Spin cleans are
24:41
pretty, but there are there are services like even within the city of people
24:44
that that clean the stuff. Very cool stuff. I mean, it's it's
24:47
it's a need. There's always gonna be somebo who figures out how to make
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a buck. And if you know what to do, or you've got one
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of those ultra sonic did you yeah, and you've got one of those,
24:56
you know, opportunities abound Josh, let's go to you right now. You
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host the Chapter two Brew record pop up that's taking place this Sunday. Yeah,
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tell us a little bit about it. What can people expect? So,
25:06
the Chapter two Record show, we've had it going for coming up on
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two years now. It's been great. It's sort of an open event.
25:12
A lot of small independent dealers from the city, a lot of people that
25:18
thin out their record collections and bring in some records to sell and trade too.
25:22
If anybody does have records to sell or trade, bring them on down.
25:26
Yeah. All the vendors are welcome to a ten for free. There's
25:30
no table fees or any anything like that. New stock every month. There's
25:34
no no entry fees either, so very accessible event. Show up with the
25:38
milk crate filled with your vinyl records, or show up with an empty milk
25:41
crate. Sure to fill up there you go even better. How much are
25:45
records going for at the event. There is a huge range, not just
25:51
for myself but from other vendors. We have stuff as low as five dollars
25:53
and as high as one hundred or more, just depending on the rarity and
25:56
how common it is. I do have about six crates of five and ten
26:02
dollars records. Yeah, so lots of great affordable titles. I'm actually going
26:04
to do a promo this month of flash sale where all my five and ten
26:08
dollars albums are going to be buy one, get one, oh this Sunday.
26:11
So yeah, people come on out if you want to, you know,
26:15
get some stuff and save some money too. And I just want to
26:18
take a quick second to thank Chapter two of course, and Cheryl, my
26:22
friend Chase and Mikayla and everybody that makes it happen. Sorry, I gotta
26:27
say that the hard to find records we talked about earlier, I found one
26:32
at Chapter two at one of your events the day brew back time Out.
26:34
I found the orange variant on the vinyl and I was shot. It was
26:40
one of those ones again to find it was like, oh yeah, I
26:41
found it. So yeah. I highly recommend people making the time this Sunday.
26:45
Thanks. I never know what you're gonna find. Those type of stories
26:48
always make my day. When someone whether it's my table or not, runs
26:51
out of there excited because they finally found that gray item, it's awesome.
26:53
Is there a good record scene in Windsor? It seems like a stupid question
26:59
to be asked thus conversations. Well, I started doing this thing where I'm
27:06
taking people to some of the stores in the area. We're jumping on a
27:07
school bus. We're going to do it next Saturday, and we're tying in
27:11
with the Heat Seeker Hearts uscle. Yeah, it's called Hit Records and Hot
27:15
Sauce and we're going to put people on a school bus and we're going to
27:18
go visit some of the windsor Essex and let's sell record stars. Awesome,
27:22
how many people do you expect to come out, well at the school bus
27:23
hopefully forty to fifty. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
27:26
the plan. It's so interesting that there is this growing resurgence of something that
27:32
is, you know, long past, but isn't anymore. And I think
27:34
it's because you know, you hand me Steve Martin record Ryan and for the
27:41
first thing I noticed, I've never seen him without white hair before, so
27:45
that's like, that's a really interesting thing. But I mean, it's the
27:48
tactileness, it's the fact that it is more a piece of history than just
27:53
listening to the song. When you click the play button on Spotify. Everything
27:57
from the art to the line or not. It's yeah, the labels,
28:00
all the all the cool nerdy stuff about a record. Yeah, it's cool
28:04
to tactile on this. We got to take a quick break right now and
28:07
get back on the other side. We'll keep our conversation going on the Thursday
28:10
round Table, joined by Six Langman, Ryan Richardson and Josh Reed. Don't
28:12
go anywhere, folks, John Lydkey here on a hundred Hey everyone, we're
28:17
back. John Lydkey here on AM eight hundred CKLW. We're keeping our Thursday
28:21
round table spinning with six Langman, Ryan Richardson and Josh Reed. Not one
28:26
reaction from you, guys. I really like it. I thought you were
28:30
just like worried that, like, oh we're on. We were talking Josh
28:36
about the event that you've got coming up at chapter two, so you can
28:41
do swaps, trade sales. Yes, it's like anything goes in there.
28:44
We keep it pretty open. Yeah, it's again no admission. Just come
28:48
on down. We have a turntable piped into the pa there. Beer's flowing.
28:52
It's a great day and I think a lot of people that come down
28:55
kind of like the casual aspect of it. It's it's a no rush chill
28:59
kind of day you run into your community, right, that's right. Yeah.
29:03
I think that's what people really enjoy about it is you're always seeing familiar
29:07
faces other local record heads. You know, it is nice to be able
29:11
to trade stuff too. If anybody does have records to trade yourself, come
29:14
down ask for me. Or if you see something at another table, you're
29:17
like, chat with that vendor and see if he's interested in the trade too.
29:21
I love how free flowing it is. Yeah, sounds like a lot
29:22
of fun. Yeah. Yeah. We kind of tried to keep the keep
29:26
it casual, keep it fun and open and very community based. I think.
29:30
I think that's what I like about it. Okay, so we're getting
29:33
towards the end of the segment here and we're gonna, of course do plugged
29:34
in where you all get to shout out something in the community that you think
29:37
needs attention. Whether it be shameless self promotion or something else, we don't
29:41
care. It's all good. But first before we do that, I want
29:44
each of you to give me a one sentence answer. Six. The question
29:48
is why should someone get into records? Well, it makes you cooler,
29:56
yeah answer, that's my the street cred perfect, Ryan, I mean,
30:03
we converted you today. That was the goal when we got here. So
30:04
I'm pretty happy about that. I mean, I think you can answer that
30:07
it just as well as any of it. We're one for one at this
30:10
point. That's really if you guys were on a contract record today, you
30:14
were at Ryan, how about you? Why should people get into records,
30:21
I would say, Josh, no worries. I would say just the community
30:26
and the fun aspect, the people you get to meet, and the deeper
30:30
connection to the music. It's I'd say that music. Music, Yeah,
30:34
it's important, universal language. Yeah, I like that. Okay, we're
30:38
going to shift into plugged in right now. You get to do a shout
30:42
out of an event, of a group of yourself, whatever you think needs
30:47
to get some attention. Josh, let's go to you first. Well,
30:49
I'm going to take the shameless promotion route. I figured you'd guess that.
30:53
So this Sunday, the Chapter two Record Show starts at about one o'clock.
30:59
We have everybody set up. Runs until about four thirty five. We have
31:03
a couple of new vendors, thousands of albums, just a great fun,
31:07
free day. Come down, have a beer, spin some records, and
31:11
hope to see all there. Sounds like a real community experience. Absolutely,
31:15
yeah, I love it. Ryan, How about yourself? What needs to
31:17
be plugged in? Go tell someone dot com. You can find out about
31:21
our May eleventh event where we're gonna take people on a school bus and we're
31:23
gonna go to local record stores, four different record stores, and we're gonna
31:27
wind up at the Heat Seeker at Hot Sauce Festival that day, which is
31:30
an amazing event. I returned from last year very excited about that. Hit
31:34
Records in Hot Sauce. And then on June twenty second, we're gonna do
31:37
another tour, one of our first tours, going to black owned restaurants in
31:41
Windsor and Essex County. Cool and so that's coming up and getting all geared
31:45
up for that. So all the informations that go tell someone dot com what
31:49
happens if a record gets Hot Sauce on it. Well, you don't combine
31:52
the Hot Sauce and the records. Yeah yeah, you keep those in a
31:56
separate container and combined at all. Well, we're not putting, We're not
32:01
putting, We're not putting on the record. I mean some people might do
32:05
that. I mean that's their choice, but I don't do that, it
32:07
would it would give it a different, different sound, different different. It's
32:13
a nice How long you've been doing your record store tours? Just a couple
32:17
of weeks just actually yeah, yeah events. We coordinated the first one with
32:22
the Spinning Stories screening a couple of weeks ago, and I took a couple
32:24
of people around and they had they were fineing stuff they've never seen before.
32:29
It was a lot of fun. What are what record stores are there in
32:30
Windsor right, Like I can think of Doctor Disk. There's a T N
32:34
T in Essex, there's Vintage and Vinyl in LaSalle and Amersburg. There is
32:38
going through on on Ottawa, and there's also the new location for Galaxy Records
32:44
on to come see. There's quite a few wow, I think and X
32:49
yeah, doctor desk people and Doctor Chapter record show stores. A Doctor Disk
32:54
is yo, G I mean yeahs can't beat Liam and the Sunrising them all.
33:00
Yep, let's not forget that, you know, well six, let's
33:01
get to you then, what do you think needs to be plugged in?
33:06
Well, there's a little secret second screening coming up on Tuesday night, So
33:09
if you hadn't seen it, on Saturday. Let me know, give me
33:14
a message and I'll let you know where that is. I want to give
33:16
a big thank you to the sponsors that you know, made the first event
33:20
free and are also helping, you know, kind of make the second event
33:22
happen, which was the drive magazine Leuna six two five, Langman Heating and
33:25
Cooling, the Center for Cities and Downtown b I A. I really appreciate
33:29
the help and the support for that and that that. Yeah, that's coming
33:34
up on Tuesday. Then there's more record stuff on on Saturday the eleventh,
33:37
and there's record stuff on Sunday. And I think Josh is going to be
33:40
making a second appearance at the entrance of the Capitol Theater maybe on Sunday night.
33:45
I'm not sure how drunk he's going to My reputation precedes me. Well,
33:52
guys, I want to thank you so much for joining me to talk
33:54
about all things Vinyl records. I know that it was not intended to be
33:59
a conversation with me, so I hope that we all got through this together.
34:01
Maybe I am Now what do you call someone who collects a registered record
34:05
collector? Is that the term audio audio files? There? Yeah, well,
34:08
smart thank you for having us. We really appreciate you. Yeah,
34:15
Dad always loves to get a comment. Thank you so much. Six Langman,
34:22
director of Spinning Stories documentary, Ryan Richardson, host of the Go Tell
34:25
Someone podcast, and Josh Reid, who is the Chapter two record show organizer
34:31
and that's taking place this Sunday at Chapter two Brewery. Thank you so much.
34:37
Six, Ryan and Josh really appreciate it. I am John Lidkey.
34:42
You're listening to a M eight hundred c kl W. It's been the Thursday
34:45
roundtable. We're going to take a quick break when we get back after the
34:47
ten o'clock news. We're going to be talking about the state of our downtown
34:53
crime, law and order, and there's been a lot of efforts and a
34:58
lot of talk about what a we do to make it better. We are
35:00
going to be bringing on the owner of Fog Lounge and meteor Tom Lusier to
35:06
discuss what the reality is on the ground from someone who actually works there,
35:10
not just during business hours either, but like after hours, and what happens
35:15
when the sun goes down in our core. There's a story here. It's
35:20
harrowing. It's actually kind of sad. It's got some laughs in it,
35:22
but I think it really does speak to some issues that we're dealing with,
35:25
so we'll get into that and more. Don't go anywhere, folks, John
35:28
lydke here on AMAE hundred CKLW. We're back after this