It’s Record Store Day, what are some of your favorite memories at your local record store?

Leisure Landing

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.’

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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.

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New Generation on Fla Blvd in Baton Rouge.

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Didn't it get struck by lightning and burn down? I bought my first "Jam Box" from there.

Riding my 4-wheeler to Kajams for a new CD and having uncle Scott tell me it will be in stock next Tuesday.

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I was the first to buy Soundgarden at Sam Goody's.

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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

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worked at Sam Goody's while in college

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I remember Eddie had just gotten arrested for spitting on a bouncer in the FQ

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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.

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.

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.

Leisure Landing - 1977 - Buying tickets to see Fleetwood Mac in New Orleans.