tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post15322193948038710..comments2023-04-29T06:37:18.856-04:00Comments on Our God is Speed: Object Lesson IGreyhooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-32841705208148482392014-04-05T13:30:59.205-04:002014-04-05T13:30:59.205-04:00@ davidly: Like a schmuck, I didn't go to near...@ davidly: Like a schmuck, I didn't go to nearly enough of those shows. But one of the last ones I attended was a good one -- Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Bankhead, Jeff Parker, and with Josh Abrams switching out between bass and guimbri. Thing was held in the small performance space set up by a magazine I was writing for, so it was a pretty intimate, non-club setting. T'was great.<br /><br />@ Robin: I think record shows might be the worst place for pricing, certainly worse than most shops. I had more than one vendor tell me something like"I'm heading back Memphis after this, and I really don't want to have to haul a lot of this shit with me. So I'm ready to make deals."<br /><br />And I suppose I should have qualified the above by adding that I also dropped a fair amount of $$ at Dusty Groove on the near-northside, where there's always cheap bootleg vinyl reprints aplenty to be had. <br /><br />And, yeah -- nothing like having a few year's jump on the next revival trend. I had that luck with being ahead of the post-punk craze, when you could find LPs of that ilk (Rip Rig & Panic, 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, etc.) for about a buck or two each in most shops. Nobody wanted that stuff at the time. <br />Greyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-86477515364932155592014-04-05T03:17:05.492-04:002014-04-05T03:17:05.492-04:00In the years pre-PC Jazz vinyl prices have fluctua...In the years pre-PC Jazz vinyl prices have fluctuated dramatically in London during my time here. Early-80s, many bargains to be had because 'no-one liked Jazz'. Then the 'Jazz Revival' (you can guess what happened to those prices). Now, with so much available as a file, high pricing on stalls or in shops only mirrors similar desperate lunacy on sites like Amazon. Only rich fetishists will oblige. Great Art Ensemble album, by the way.Robin Tomenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18116331238512699017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-14874443751106030122014-04-01T17:43:12.809-04:002014-04-01T17:43:12.809-04:00I was fortunate enough to see a lot of these guys ...I was fortunate enough to see a lot of these guys live back when a band I was in was doing Mondays at Kahil El'Zabar's short-lived club Rituals. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Rituals Trio and David Murray, Malachi Favors, along with both Lester and Joseph Bowie, Harrison Bankhead and a whole lot of other names I can't remember. Yeah, and those Chicago record shops were something special. Some good ones on the north side, too.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.com