Now That Is How You Celebrate Independant Record Store Day

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".