Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
The third saturday in April, if you did not know, is Independant Record Store Day in America. Up until this year, I had never had the oppportunity to celebrate it properly. We decided upon Redscroll Records, in Wallingford, Ct. Arriving an hour after the shop opened, we found ourselve waiting in a line to get in for more than an hour, in blustery, cold conditions. Most people leaving seemed to be clutching various cuts of new release vinyl (& what seemed to be a preponderance of 7''). We headed straight for the used cd section, and the selection was immense. A lot of artists I was not familiar with, though I ended up culling a bunch of "first albums" I did not have. I scored Yes's first album "Yes", the White Stripes "White Stripes", X's "Los Angeles", Mike Gordon's "inside in", John Cale's first album "Vintage Violence". I also grabbed a great Bill Laswell "Sacred System Volume 2", Ween "Quebec", and the Firehose album "FromOhio." ( I did end up skipping out on a couple of new Fred Firth cd's I regret). A great experience, I would highly recommend it.
The work shown (pen/ink/colored pencil/w/c), is from the series "New Grant Street Tarot", it is titled "Death".