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It’s Record Store Day, what are some of your favorite memories at your local record store?
Posted on 4/20/24 at 11:12 am
Posted on 4/20/24 at 11:12 am
I remember standing in line at the sound shop in Hammond Square Mall waiting for Pearl Jam tickets in 1993.
It sold out so fast
I used to love going to Tower Records and the smaller local record stores on Decatur Street.
Went to my local store today
It sold out so fast
I used to love going to Tower Records and the smaller local record stores on Decatur Street.
Went to my local store today
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 11:28 am to STigers
Leisure Landing
In 2017 someone was making a doc about that scene:
In 2017 someone was making a doc about that scene:
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Those Chimes Street Punks
A new documentary revisits Baton Rouge’s vital punk scene
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Rebecca Hamilton and Bennet Rhodes both spent their formative years hanging out on Chimes Street near LSU, soaking up the sounds of a new form of music called punk rock.
Decades later—with the Northgate area all but neutered by urban development and chain restaurants—the two are collaborating on a documentary, Red Stick Punk, about the ‘seventies and ‘eighties, when Baton Rouge had a vital punk scene.
Before they began working together, Hamilton and Rhodes were separately documenting Baton Rouge’s punk era, which Rhodes dates to roughly 1970 through the early 1990s. “I had been carrying a notebook around,” said Hamilton. “When I ran into someone from that scene, I would make a note about what they’re doing now related to music or what they were doing back in the day. The notebook was just sort of ideas for the documentary.
“Around 2013 some people I knew from that time passed away, which happens to every generation. There comes a point where people your own age start to pass away, and it makes you think about everything that goes away with them. I started to feel a greater sense of urgency to tell our story.
“I love music documentaries, especially docs on punk rock. About 2012 or ‘13 I thought, ‘Our story is better than this. We have a story to tell.’
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 11:29 am
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:13 pm to Kafka
New Generation on Fla Blvd in Baton Rouge. I was going there every Monday for a good while because I was DJing in a club back then. Fun times
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:25 pm to Kafka
A lot of my early record collection came from Bebop and Little Big Store in Jackson MS.
The stores around campus, Liesure Landing, New Generation, Kaidairs and the used record store that Dr. Death had a room in were all great at one time. The Landing was the best but the others had great import sections for a while. A lot of my punk stuff was purchased at one of those 4 stores.
There was also a record fair at LSU around the parade grounds, with a concert by local bands that I went to in the early 80s that was awesome.
The stores around campus, Liesure Landing, New Generation, Kaidairs and the used record store that Dr. Death had a room in were all great at one time. The Landing was the best but the others had great import sections for a while. A lot of my punk stuff was purchased at one of those 4 stores.
There was also a record fair at LSU around the parade grounds, with a concert by local bands that I went to in the early 80s that was awesome.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:27 pm to STigers
I was the first to buy Soundgarden at Sam Goody's.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:55 pm to Julz5198
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New Generation on Fla Blvd in Baton Rouge.
Didn't it get struck by lightning and burn down? I bought my first "Jam Box" from there.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 1:06 pm to STigers
Along with highly discounted new releases, Peaches Records sold those lp size peach crates to store, stack or move your records in. I still have a couple of them.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 1:09 pm to STigers
Riding my 4-wheeler to Kajams for a new CD and having uncle Scott tell me it will be in stock next Tuesday.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 1:11 pm to STigers
I was a HS Sophomore, I was at that show. I remember Eddie had just gotten arrested for spitting on a bouncer in the FQ. He invited everybody in the front row to spit on him on stage.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 2:26 pm to auggie
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I was the first to buy Soundgarden at Sam Goody's.
worked at Sam Goody's while in college, still have that promo that the label rep gave me. Soundgarden was a breath of fresh air
Posted on 4/20/24 at 2:45 pm to Legba007
quote:well goody for you
worked at Sam Goody's while in college
Posted on 4/20/24 at 2:46 pm to STigers
Used to love going to Underground Sounds on Magazine st. in New Orleans. They had a pretty cool t-shirt too. I remember browsing CDs next to Trent Reznor at the Sound Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas in the very early 90s. It's an Ochsner clinic now apparently.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 2:49 pm to Saintsisit
quote:He and a White Sox pitcher, I think Jack McDowell, got tossed from the Blue Crystal in that incident. I think the got handled too. I wasn't there that night.
I remember Eddie had just gotten arrested for spitting on a bouncer in the FQ
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:56 pm to STigers
Oh man, I have some great memories. In the early seventies, I was 14-15 yrs old and all of the record stores were head shops. All had a heavy smell of incense and they all sold dirty posters. I would spend over an hour at Mushroom Records on Broadway. every employee seemed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of modern music. And they all looked high as hell.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:23 am to nealnan8
Standing in line waiting for the record shop to open so I could buy "Some Girls" the day it came out. The cool thing about that was I got an original album cover before celebrity faces had to be blocked out later.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 7:56 am to STigers
There was a period of around maybe 6 months where Paradise Records was still open and Nick Saban was the LSU coach.
I consider this to be the peak of Baton Rouge history.
I consider this to be the peak of Baton Rouge history.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 8:58 am to STigers
I can't really think of some specific memory, but I do get some occasional nostalgic pangs, thinking back to how much I enjoyed checking out all the various record stores when I'd spot them, back during the LP era. I recall being thrilled at discovering a shop, "Yesterday's Records and Tapes" in Austin in 1984, as it specialized in vintage fare, and I bought stacks of LPs on several visits, mostly early-jazz and big-band stuff. Also have a nice memory of walking at least a mile down the sidewalks on Sunset Boulevard to the Tower Records store in Los Angeles, picking up a few LPs. I made many trips to Houston to go to Don's Record Shop, but since I loathed making the drive there, I never really think of those ventures as being particularly pleasant memories.
What tempers my fond recollections of record stores somewhat is the irritating fact the stores I frequented always had rather limited selections, when it came to my vintage musical interests. Hence, for at least a whopping ten years, I was unaware of a lot of foreign labels that specialized in early jazz, which were putting out slews of releases I would have gone wild over. Labels like VJM, Swaggie, Fountain-Retrieval, Grannyphone, Tax, and many others, all often offering the remastering work of John R. T. Davies. I didn't really learn of these until I got with some mail-order catalogs. At that point, almost everything I bought came via mail, and record stores became rather moot.
What tempers my fond recollections of record stores somewhat is the irritating fact the stores I frequented always had rather limited selections, when it came to my vintage musical interests. Hence, for at least a whopping ten years, I was unaware of a lot of foreign labels that specialized in early jazz, which were putting out slews of releases I would have gone wild over. Labels like VJM, Swaggie, Fountain-Retrieval, Grannyphone, Tax, and many others, all often offering the remastering work of John R. T. Davies. I didn't really learn of these until I got with some mail-order catalogs. At that point, almost everything I bought came via mail, and record stores became rather moot.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:15 am to STigers
My favorite store of any kind of store was Paradise near the Varsity right by the old Chelsea's.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 9:28 am to STigers
Leisure Landing - 1977 - Buying tickets to see Fleetwood Mac in New Orleans.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 6:03 pm to STigers
Buying Led Zeppelin live vinyl bootlegs ! This was before the internet was big, and each purchase was a gamble. No way to really research. Some had great covers, but the sound was subpar.
The good ones more than made up for the bad ones.
The good ones more than made up for the bad ones.
This post was edited on 4/22/24 at 6:10 pm
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