Tag Archives: Record Collecting
10 AWESOME AUTO ALBUM COVERS
* THE ALBUMS Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson [CBS 1971] The Orange Humble Band – Humblin’ (Across America) [Half A Cow 2000] Beach Boys – The Capital Years [Capital/EMI 1983] Chuck Berry – Motorvatin’ [Chess 1977] Original Soundtrack – Rikky and Pete [EMI 1988] The Cars – Since You’re Gone (12″ Picture […]
ALBUM COVER ART | 9 LIVES
A COVER ART JOURNEY * Some Girls – Heaven’s Pregnant Teens [2006] Barclay James Harvest – Baby James Harvest [1972] Various Artists – In the Beginning [1985] Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun [1995] James Taylor – James Taylor [1968] James Taylor – Live in Germany [1986] James Taylor – Before this World [2015] The Cure […]
10 ARTISTIC ALBUM COVER PORTRAITS
While assembling the album cover Portrait Playoff (One and Two), I considered having a satellite event where the artist portrait was not a photograph, but a painting, drawing, watercolour, stick and ochre, whatever. But that idea did not really mesh with the ‘realistic’ covers, and so was shelved. Yet those LPs making it through the qualifying rounds were diverse and […]
AGHARTA GLASSES
There have been occasions when Vinyl Connection has grouched about how much stuff is required to step outside the house. We have been heard to talk movingly of those long gone, halcyon days when a chap simply strolled breezily out the front door unencumbered by anything other than his thoughts. Nowadays it requires a hold-all […]
DO YA THINK I’M SEXY
The sun came out after a wet gloomy weekend. Some coloured vinyl quickly disrobed and primped and preened in the sunlight; the Hasselblad was loaded and a roll of film munched. Pout baby Roll over Ooh Give it to me… And here it is. So, do ya think I’m sexy? ‘Like’ = ‘Yes’ JONAS MUNK Absorb Fabric Cascade […]
HOLIDAY HUNTER
Summer at Vinyl Connection often means a beach holiday, preferably with some walking options nearby to satisfy the more active half of the VC partnership. This year we have just returned from ten days in Gippsland, a coastal region two hours south-east of Melbourne. When the weather does not shout ‘Beach!’, we visit various towns and […]
DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
So here is the Vinyl Connection New Year’s Resolution: To post a weekly diary of all – I mean all – new music arrivals at Base Camp Connection. The good, the bad (as in “that’s really, bad, man”) and the ugly. It’s been tried before and lasted two posts, there has been a holiday edition, even an […]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE [COVERART #58]
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find [Reprise, 1974] Fleetwood Mac – Future Games [Reprise, 1971] The Larry Coryell Michael Urbaniak Duo [keytone, 1982] V/A – Woodstock Two [Atlantic, 1971] * Coming next… FLEETWOOD MAC 1970 – 1974
GRAHAM: A RECORD STORE TALE
Customers coming into our little suburban record store to buy music seemed to fall into several categories. There were the positively vague. “That song on the radio, it goes Do-de-Do-de Dum Dum Dum… Got that one?” There were the negatively vague. “Don’t suppose you know what that new album’s called, the one with the zither […]
DIGGING THE AGE OF PLASTIC
Last Sunday, bright and early, I packed the car with six crates of records, a box of CDs, another of 45s and a sandwich and drove off to the Box Hill Record Fair. It’s something I’ve been doing fairly regularly for quite a while. About fifteen years in fact. This realization made the sunny morning […]
TURNED OUT NICELY
I remember buying my copy of Jethro Tull’s Stand Up at a Record Fair many years ago. The stall belonged to a guy I knew vaguely from the public radio station I presented on, 3 PBS FM. He was part of the Heavy Metal crew. Their show preceded Late Night Shopping on a Friday evening and […]
VINYL HUNTER GATHERER GOES INTERSTATE
When finding themselves in a different city, any vinyl hunter-gatherer worth their turntable will attempt to visit as many music shops as possible in the available time. Art Galleries? Phooey. Historic Buildings? Only if they contain Record Shops. What we want are records. Lots of them. Vinyl Connection was in Adelaide last week, and had […]
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