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Record Store Day
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In this episode, we reflect on Record Store Day and what makes the hunt for vinyl so rewarding, from unexpected thrift store finds to the joy of discovering albums when you least expect them. We revisit artists like Richie Havens, Pat Metheny, and Joy of Cooking while sharing stories about the records that continue to surprise us. Along the way, we explore everything from Ravi Shankar’s connection to George Harrison to classic albums from Jethro Tull, Dire Straits, and INXS. As always, the conversation drifts through forgotten bands, musical connections, and the simple pleasure of spending time with records. Whether you're a longtime collector or just getting started, this episode is a reminder that the next great discovery could be waiting in the very next crate.
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It is April 19th, 2026. Jerry, why don't you get us started with this day in history?
SPEAKER_00Okay. This day, well, this day in rock history. Born today was Alexis Corner, 1928. He was like older than I thought he was. Jane Mansfield was born today in 1933. Alan Price from The Animals was born today in 1942. And then Mark Vollman from Flow and Eddie was born in 1947. Two prominent deaths today. In 1955 on this day, Albert Einstein died. I've had a picture of him on my coffee table for like 40 years, probably now. And also Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980 on this date. Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier and becomes the first United States citizen to marry a reigning monarch in 1956. And it ends with a cool one here. Johnny Be Good by Chuck Berry charts in 1958.
SPEAKER_04Let's just go around. Let's just share real quick what we are going to be presenting. Eric, would you just kind of give us a rough snapshot of you know how many albums, how many bands uh you want to talk about?
SPEAKER_03Uh I'm going to be talking about mainly three records. Um, two artists we've actually discussed in the past, but it'll be interesting just like revisiting them. And then one is an artist I've never listened to. So one is a a record of a band that I feel like I just discovered just by actually getting my own copy of it. So good.
SPEAKER_04Jerry, what do you got?
SPEAKER_00Um I I have a band uh that we've never talked about, and I have an album that I never listened to until this past week, but it's an album from a well-known band. I have um uh a record I got a few days ago that I'll just talk about briefly, and then I want to highlight a guitarist that'll be brief too. So um, yeah, and then I just kind of wanted to talk about that topic too. Sure.
SPEAKER_04Very good. Um, and before we get started, I just want to say I had no idea there was a National Record Club Day.
SPEAKER_00Maybe you gotta Yeah, that was well it is it a legit like holiday, like you were saying.
SPEAKER_04Uh well, it made the the Minnesota Star Tribune. Uh the in the variety section, there was a whole article, the 10 most popular record stores in the Twin Cities. And they in the article, I think even said, like, well, I don't know if it said national holiday, but um like the word holiday was used, and I'm like, I why have I not heard of this? Um so I I I I I'm I made a good post about you know happy record club day, and it was fun seeing some other people posting about it on you know different social medias, but I just wanted just to hear your guys' like opinion of Record Club Day before we kind of dive in here.
SPEAKER_00Record store day.
SPEAKER_04Oh sorry it should be record club day.
SPEAKER_00So record store Well, it actually is record club day for us, but yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's like every day I listen to records is record store day. Um, so when I first when I first heard of Record Store Day, I was super excited about it. This is maybe I don't know, 2015 or so. Um I was super excited about it because I heard I was hearing about specific records that were being pressed for record store day, and I would I kind of got into the hype of it of like, okay, how many pressings of this are going to be available? And what and I thought they were just rare records or unreleased records when I first heard of them being released. Um so the very first time I went to a record store on Record Store Day was um I think it was 2018, and I picked up a live soft machine album, and it was on like a purple wax, and it was like limited to like 300 or 500 or something like that. And it was fun. I really enjoyed it, but then I looked at I just kind of looked at what I saw, and I was like, okay, this is just like it's a good way to get people like in in into vinyl, yeah. And it's I kind of saw through it in a way where I was like, okay, this is just a marketing deal. Yeah, it's it's a marketing thing, which is good. It's it's nice to keep people into records, but then I think it might also push people away from records, especially when I saw like the ticket prices. Um, I bought that One Soft Machine album. I think it was like, I don't know, like 35, 40 bucks or something. And I enjoyed listening to it, but then I it was Jerry, remember when you said um you feel bad when you buy a record if you spend as much money like I have a bad feeling.
SPEAKER_00Whenever I see that record, I'm like, damn.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Um that one kind of gives me that feeling because it's like the first time I felt like I I don't want to say I got duped, but I was like, okay, I I got so excited, I I bought a record that I I don't know if I necessarily needed to spend that much money on a record. Um because I enjoy finding records like at like thrift stores, dollar bins.
SPEAKER_00Uh now when when you went to Record Store Day, um did the store have their regular stock stuff like you know, in addition to the new pressings, I mean or were they just selling all the new stuff, or did they put on sale some of their, you know, I don't know, bargain bin stuff?
SPEAKER_03Uh I don't recall there being a sale of their regular stuff, but they had boxes that were specifically record store day releases, and those were right in the front. So it's like for whatever records you wanted to get that were being released that day, and they only had so many pressings of it, they would be right there in front. Scavengers, yeah. Yep. And then of course they had the rest of their records there. So but I honestly had more fun cruising through the rest of the records, so like I normally would anyway. Um and that's the stuff that I don't think will ever get old for me is like finding like looking just the the thrill of the hunt of looking for records that you don't know you'll find versus thinking, oh, I want to get this pressing of this album. There's so many available, and it's kind of like getting into that um thought process of fear of missing out, basically. Um it kind of takes it takes the allure of the joy of records out of it a little bit, in my opinion. Um and it's uh but it was it was fun. So it was uh it was a unique thing, and it's like uh kind of going into like what I'll be talking about today with the records that I have for today. They're all from that same source of just getting them from this guy off of Facebook Marketplace at $3 each. And that was way more fun and more enjoyable than uh looking for a specific pressing. But Record Store Day, it's it's a good I think it's good that it's being recognized and that it's keeping the the joy of it alive. And it's also there might be some pressings that are just rare and unique and different in their own way. Um, but I think uh it might drive some people away when it comes to like the price of it, or then the um the the sound quality. Yeah, and then yeah, that's a whole separate topic, but yeah, yeah. The quality of it and the source, and be like, was this released in C D late early on, or was this a a repress of something else that's just being re-released with a different cover now? And you know, it's like eh.
SPEAKER_00I mean, there ain't I mean the record the record uh producers and the record stores, I mean, there's only reason they're in business is to make money, so they're gonna, you know, do as much as they have to to kind of do all that. So that's the motivation, but yeah. Talking about like looking for records, I just was reminded of um, I think I told Eric this a while back, but the this one uh used like book store that had records I used to go to. Um, I was leaving, I paid for some records, and I was leaving, and and the lady behind the counter, she sees she saw me there like you know, every two, three times a month, probably. And she's like, Well, are there some records that you want us to keep an eye out for? And I'll set them off to the side for you. And I kind of looked at her, and there was this other old guy at the counter, like white hair, white beard, like really old guy. And I just I looked at her and I said, Well, no, you don't have to do that. The records that I find are the ones I'm supposed to find. And the old guy looked at me, goes, he g he gave me a thumbs up, he goes, I like how you think. So that's what I go by. It's like what I find or what I'm supposed to find. That's what I if I if I feel like I'm getting close to fear of missing out or whatever, then I kind of kick that one in.
SPEAKER_03Right, right. And there they're like uh think about like uh my buddy who owns a record store. Like I'll tell him about like specific bands, and I'll be like, oh, do you have have you heard of this band or have you seen any of this group recently? And sometimes he'll be like, Oh, I'll if I happen to see them or run across them, I'll just set them aside for you. And I was like, Well, don't tell me about it.
SPEAKER_01Right, right, right, yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's like I don't want to I I don't want to have the discovery get or the joy of the discovery itself be uh uh not be a mystery anymore. Yeah. That's funny.
SPEAKER_00I can go into any one of my boxes and make a discovery. It's like, what? Where's this from?
SPEAKER_04All right, very good. Well, let's dive in. Um Eric, do you want to go first?
SPEAKER_00Talk about Well, we got the mission statement.
SPEAKER_04Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, can't miss that. Don't want to forget the mission statement. All right, Eric, take us a little bit. Good thing I'm on you guys, too. Thanks, Jerry.
SPEAKER_03All right, in the name of Wax is an exclusive record club for music lovers of the analog format through sharing experiences, memories, discoveries, and emotions tied to the albums. Our goal is to build continued appreciation for forgotten bands and members by understanding more of their histories and connections. We reinforce our bond with club members for love of the groove. Yes.
SPEAKER_04Very good. How could we forget the mission statement? Well, I I didn't try I didn't forget.
SPEAKER_03I was about to do the mission statement.
SPEAKER_00Well, you're you're you're in a new studio and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_04So I had I hijacked it with Record Store Day.
SPEAKER_03That's all good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm just gonna mention the first two albums, just I'm just gonna talk about them candidly. Um, I won't make it like uh guess this artist. Um so uh one record I purchased, it's from Richie Havens, and it's that Electric Havens album. I remember Jerry when you were first telling me about Richie Havens, he's he's the artist who opened for Woodstock, if I'm not mistaken, correct?
SPEAKER_00Yes, he is. That's and well, this topic will come up a little later too, but I was just gonna either remind you or double check to see if you guys watched any of those like Woodstock documentaries.
SPEAKER_04I've seen a few.
SPEAKER_00I mean, they're free they're free to watch online and and they're great. I mean, I've watched them like multiple times.
SPEAKER_03I know I've seen some, but it's been a few years since I've seen some of them that I've witnessed that I've watched before. Uh, but it's been a while.
SPEAKER_04Like I saw something where um I don't know if he was scheduled to open or because I thought there was a documentary where there were, you know, because early hours of Woodstock was very chaotic, and you know, the traffic and they were, you know, choppering bands in, and and maybe this is the artist that was just there and he was ready to go, so they just said, you just get on stage and start playing. Calm this crowd down, or something to the those effects. We need to get the show going. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I believe that is the story. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, he kind of saved, he kind of saved their saved their butts when he was he was there, and nobody else either was ready or there or whatever. Yeah. And he just kind of made stuff up at the end. He he said he sang every song he ever knew, and he didn't know anymore, so he just started, you know, playing and saying freedom kind of different different ways over and over. And yeah. Yeah, he kind of s he kind of saved some people there. Yeah, I like Richie Evans. Don't see too much of his stuff out in the wild anymore.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And I think I have I think this is like maybe my third or maybe my fourth record of his. So he's just one artist I always grab whenever I see it. Uh this next record that I listened to recently was it's my first Pat Metheny group album. Uh in uh American Garage. Uh and I only know Pat Methaney through you, Jerry, when you were disc when you were when he was your featured artist a while back and talking about how he would when you would hear him play guitar, you would you would ask yourself, like, how is he even doing this? Like, how is this happening? And I was excited to get that same feeling. And it was within the first song where just hearing his riffs that he would play, or how he would use his phrasings like melodically, but then rhythmically, and then uh be very patient with it. Like he would just instantly change styles. Like you could tell he's very much like he's a very prolific jazz player, but it was very interesting listening to him. So um Yeah, he he he doesn't have a bad album. Yeah, this one's from 1978 or 79. So this is a American Garage. And uh I was excited to get my first Pat Methane group album. I I don't think I've hardly seen any of his albums around. So uh what label is he on? He is on ECM, or at least this pressing is ECM.
SPEAKER_04Okay. I've not heard of that one. Is that are they a little more well known or a little more obscure?
SPEAKER_03Uh ECM, they can focus on I actually well I have some ECM that's it's it can be jazz. I also I also have some ECM where it's like instrumental stuff and kind of obscure obscure bands. I think uh I also have some ECM where it's more like classical as well. So I think they focus more um like more on like the musicianship of bands rather than like the persona of bands. Um yeah, but ECM is what this pressing is, uh what that presses is. It's a decent label.
SPEAKER_02Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_03Um this next band, uh I'll just mention it. Uh I got my first Joy of Cooking album. And I love that name, Joy of Cooking. Uh it was a band that I've never I've never heard of. I've only I've seen them, but I never picked them up because I didn't know anything about it. And I think you mentioned them maybe about a year ago. Or two. That's a ways back, yeah. So I just happened to see when I was at that guy's place picking up records at his house, and uh I saw this Joy of Cooking, and I was like, okay, I recall Jerry talking about these guys. So I picked them up and I listened to it. I think it was the second record I listened to that day. And see, this album, I don't it doesn't have an album name on it that I can see. It just says Joy of Cooking on it. So maybe that is the album name. But this was really great. I really, really enjoyed listening to this. Uh it gave me the feeling of or it reminded me of um Janice Joplin uh quite a bit, mainly just because not just the female vocalist, but like just the the musicianship of it. Like it was bluesy, it was groovy, um, and her singing style was really unique, and just like the heart that she was having when when she was singing, it just showed how much it it just showed how much joy they were having as uh as a group. So I just really enjoyed listening to this band and discovering them for the first time. And um I'm excited to look for more.
SPEAKER_00Did you do it did you do a deep dive into them, like on Wikipedia or something, to see if they had any connections with other bands?
SPEAKER_03I did not. I just wanted to just talk about these three albums that I just discovered and then just enjoyed listening to them. I haven't done a deep dive. I was actually thinking about wanting to listen to this Joy of Cooking again before doing a deep dive into them.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I'll look forward to that one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_04So all three of these albums did you get from the local, I'll call them a local dealer.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yep. Just off local deal. Just off of uh Facebook Marketplace. He was selling records out of his house for last week. It was last weekend, and it was just for last weekend that it was three dollars a record. Nice. So anything you can find. And then he had like mystery boxes of 90 records for $20. And I I didn't grab any of those. But um Jerry, I bet you would have.
SPEAKER_00Well, I would have scanned them a bit first before doing it. But I mean his rule space space at my place is a at a premium.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I would have I would have scanned through them if I could, but he specifically said no peaking. Yeah, yeah, I can understand. So it's like mystery box uh completely. So I was like, uh I'm like, do I want you know a whole bunch of Dixieland? Uh or like polka music or Taylor Swift. So I'm like, I'm gonna pass on those. But it was fun just like going back there. And that's the guy where I went back to his place and I I found another Wet Willy album. Remember, I was talking about Wet Willy last week. And uh I went back there and and uh I that little stack of records that I put back, it was all gone when I went back the next day.
SPEAKER_00Really? Wow. Uh I've heard good things about Wet Willy's live album. Supposed to really be good. Uh and I can't remember if I have that one or not, actually.
SPEAKER_03Was it called like Left Live or something like that? Oh no, I can't remember that, but I think that might have been because I did get a live Wet Willy album and I was listening to it this morning, and it was but it has a really bad warp, like to the point to where the needle just jumps back like every time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's left left left coast live.
SPEAKER_03Yep, yep. That's the one I just I only listened to like maybe like four songs off of it because I had to skip to like the middle of the record to get it to play through.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I had that one sitting out. I wondered why I had that one sitting out. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, just like the joy, like even with having like a decent collection that I have, it's like maybe like about 2,000 or so. Just it's fun, just like still experiencing the thrill of the needle drop and like hearing new bands, and it's like and just hearing new music, it's like it's never gonna get old. And it's been uh it's fun just like re getting that feeling reignited so easily and uh seamlessly as just looking for records.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and it's it's guaranteed to never get old because when you're as old as I am, you forget things and you can do something over and over and think it's new every time.
SPEAKER_04Well, these these vintage pressings, they're they're never gonna get pressed again. So there's there's a scarcity to it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And they are a finite commodity.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. It makes it exciting.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, it's kind of funny for some. Well, uh my daughter texted me this morning. She goes, What is what is uh remastering? So I kind of told her what that was, and I kind of explained, you know, I mean that kind of ended with you know the the original older. Stuff is the stuff that sounds the best. So it was kind of funny that she just asked me that question. I'm like, geez.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. So I guess to dive a little deeper, like I guess, so for example, you go into a a Walmart today. I'm sure you could probably find a Led Zeppelin album, you know, or a Beatles album, they say remastered. They're probably taking you know the original, you know, recordings, throwing them into like a Pro Tools rig, remastering it in a computer, and then repressing it.
SPEAKER_03Am I am I well remat remastered? It goes into remastered by who?
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03So like remastering doesn't necessarily mean that it was remastered by the band. So remastered could be it I always think of like remastering as like a reimagination of the of the levels. Because like the uh there's a Led Zeppelin album. It's the what's called like the Robert Ludwig pressing. It's it's the kind of the creme de la creme of the of this one Led Zeppelin record. Four. Yep, four. And it's if you can find that Robert Ludwig pressing, the sound quality is much better than way other pressings. Now, was that remastered by him? No, it's just that's the one that he mastered. So different pressings can have different mastering uh different masters based on when it was when it was pressed and who who configured the recording levels. So a remastering is like that could not even be approved by the band. And the band could have no no hand in that. Yeah. And not even really know, but they go, oh, it's uh remastered, and somebody might think this sounds horrible.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. They make it sound like it's good. Hey, it's remastered. Well, that's not usually not good.
SPEAKER_03So it's uh it's kind of like a a a business sleight of hand term in some in some cases.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So like uh like when uh there was an official an official uh remaster that was done by David Gilmore for Animals, and it was uh Gilmore and Mason that remastered animals in 2018, I think it was. Okay. And um that I thought was very interesting to kind of see where they go from there. But because that was the band had a had a part in it. But I've heard of other remasters where they sound worse or the band gets upset or they'll be like, well, why are you remastering this when this was good the way it was?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Or it could be people just wanting to, or maybe the record label that has the rights to the music would remaster it on their own just to get more money off of that band or that record. And the band may not even have a say because it's under under their contract where they don't have that authority because it's not their music anymore, it's the label's music. So it becomes this uh um interesting dynamic in that way of like the legal aspect of it.
SPEAKER_04Oh, very interesting.
SPEAKER_03Thank you for sharing that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. I I don't trust new vinyl.
SPEAKER_04All right. Jerry, do you wanna do you wanna go next?
SPEAKER_00Sure, sure. Um okay, I was just gonna kind of talk about a topic. Um kind of made me think about just recently or two, but um well, like I go, you know, I look at other, you know, online, I'll kind of look at other like record collectors or kind of, you know, listen to what they're doing or talking, whatever. And when a lot of the it's like all the records are all like packed in on a shelf, a big giant wall of records. It's the most boring, unexciting thing to look at. And I'm thinking, why don't people have them when boxes like I do? I mean, it's a personal thing. I mean, some people just need the space, I don't know. But I mean, I like to just walk up and flip through boxes, I can flip through boxes pretty fast. It's one of the skills I've learned. But um, and then every week or two, I pull different albums out and set them on top of the boxes so I can look at all the covers. And even when I'm not playing music, I'm looking at all these albums and you know, and getting ideas. And, you know, these these record collectors that just have them packed on a shelf, and plus, like we were talking about last week, you know, put them in vinyl sleeves and stuff to protect the records. Because when you pull those in and out, even if they're in a plastic sleeve, it's gonna kind of scuff the plastic sleeve up a little bit. Plus, it skip it's scuff it scuffs both records on either side of that record when you slide them in and out. You know, and some of these shelves full of records by these people, um, they don't even have them in plastic sleeves. I'm like, geez. I mean, it's sort of a personal thing. I understand that, but boy, uh I don't know. Well, I saw that picture you have, Eric. At least you have yours with room in between where you can kind of flip through them right on the shelf.
SPEAKER_02Right, right.
SPEAKER_00So, but um yeah, when when just someone you said, you know, living in a record store uh uh recently, I thought you you couldn't have given me a better compliment.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So it's great too, because I get really good vibes when I walk into a record store. It just it just feels good. You t you inhale and you exhale, and it's like, oh, like I'm I'm home.
SPEAKER_00And it's like you're probably gonna say it's like home.
SPEAKER_04You wake up to that every day. You're you're in your happy place.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I get a rush. I get high just walking downstairs and getting around my records again. I'm like, this is great. And it's like, oh, I forgot I sent that one out, or I need to listen to this one, or this one's related to when I, you know, like there's stories behind all the records, and yeah, it's it's um basically my dream come true, really.
SPEAKER_04I'm excited for you, just just thinking about it right now.
SPEAKER_00I know, I know. It's uh I mean there's nothing that I could get more of a rush from, or you know, basically, but uh yeah. But that was just kind of the topic I wanted to throw out there. It's like if you can display some records around your records, it just makes it more fun kind of area to be in, or you know, like like a record store has you know, where you flip through them, you know, that's how the record stores have them. So that's I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah because a lot of things you go online, it's like this gigantic wall of records on a shelf to try to find what you were looking for and something like that. I don't it'd be I'd forget about it before I found it or something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, when you were talking about just the joy of like walking downstairs and just seeing your records when I first started like really like amassing uh quantities of records, um I would get uh some flack at times, like, what are you gonna do with all these records? What are you gonna do with all these or when are you gonna sell them? When are you gonna sell them? And I would just say, like, well, I'm planning for I'm planning for when I'm older because I want to enjoy these, and I would and I feel like I'm enjoying them already just by knowing what I have and also being curious with what I don't know that I have. And it's like I am always looking forward to that day where I can actually just like finally just like uh wake up and just listen to records all day. And that's kind of like my work from home day slightly, but it's like just being able to listen to records for you know five, six albums or maybe nine in one day, it's a very great feeling. And it's like I always like to say, like, I'm planning for my retirement. That's that's my comment. I'm gonna get feedback on uh why are you collecting records? It's like I'll appreciate it when I'm older.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, right. It's like like you know, sometimes I'd buy like a bunch of them and you know not get around to listening to them for who knows how long, and then I'd find them again. And yeah, it's like I know I got good stuff, but sometimes I don't really realize it until I'm spinning it. I was just gonna talk about a quick album I got um a couple days ago. Uh it was at Salvation Army, and that's my favorite place because they're 50 cents apiece there. Um and but for the last like couple months, there's been nothing there, just kind of nothing. But I just keep checking. And I I went there and it's like, yeah, same old stuff, you know, kind of do a quick flip through. It's like, wait a sec, this one's different. I pulled it out and I'm like, is this who I think it is? And well, you can put your uh Woodstock thinking caps on for this one. I'm like, is this who I think it is? And I turned it over, and uh on the back side there was a picture of George Harrison on it. I'm like, what? You know, so I just you know bought it and brought it home. This artist performed at the Woodstock Festival on August 15th, 1969. He played a 45-minute set of uh music during a rainstorm on the first night. Although a prominent performer, he famously disliked the event, later distancing himself from the hippie drug culture. Um he was like like anti-drug.
SPEAKER_04Did he perform as a solo artist or was he in a band?
SPEAKER_00He was a solo artist. Okay um he or wait, okay. Well, he did have an accompanyance. Sorry about that. He had it looks like he had two two people accompanied him. And then it just says that he was disappointed by the event. I mean, plus he was playing in the rain, that didn't help, you know, disappointed by the event, describing the rain-soaked drug-influence crowd as not appreciating the purity of his music, and his performance uh is uh it was released on the 1970 live album at the Woodstock Festival.
SPEAKER_02Any guesses? I do not know.
SPEAKER_04The only thing I could think of, well, it it's a band, so like they so Credence Clearwater. Uh I'm just thinking of like John Fogarty because he just seems like anti-drug. And uh I don't know what night they played at, but I know they played at night. I don't know if it was the first night, but that's the only thing that I came to my mind.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I'll give you a a clue. George Harrison uh produced the album. And if you know anything about George Harrison, he kind of got into like East Indian kind of religious stuff.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_03Uh is it Ravi Shankar?
SPEAKER_00It is Ravi Shankar.
SPEAKER_04Nice. Nice. Good guess.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, I listened to it. It was great. And I thought, yeah, I mean, it's uh the only album I have that's that kind of music.
SPEAKER_03So is that is it a Ravi Shankar album? Yeah. Cool. Uh I'd be curious which one you have. I think I have maybe five or six. I've never seen a Ravi Shankar album. Yeah, I'll take a picture of my little uh Ravi Shankar collection and I'll send it to you.
SPEAKER_04Oh, and he and he found it at a Salvation Army.
SPEAKER_00Yep. Yeah, it's on the Dark Horse Records, that's George Harrison's label. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So does it have that like Indian sort of vibe to it? Oh yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's all it's all sitar music. Okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, that's that that's Ravi Shankar. He he taught the Beatles how to play the the sitar.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03Like he would like I think they did uh I think he he basically stayed with they stayed with Ravi Shankar in India to like learn about uh the culture and to learn about uh meditation and I'm sure there was probably some other nefarious things in the background. Of course. And but uh yeah, Ravi Shankar, I believe, taught uh George Harrison how to play the sitar.
SPEAKER_02Very cool. Love it.
SPEAKER_04Good find, Jerry.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, I'm like, well, I've never seen this scene before. And I mean, I saw George Harrison and I knew I was gonna buy it. I goes, this this must be who I think it is. And so yeah, it worked out.
SPEAKER_04So was that recently, just a few days ago you picked this up?
SPEAKER_00I think it was Wednesday or Thursday. Okay.
SPEAKER_03I think I remember reading an article on Ravi Shankar. He said that he didn't get popular as a musician until he was fifty. And he said that he really appreciated the fact that he was older when he started to get recognized because he said that he knew that if he was younger and got that same recognition, he wouldn't appreciate the music anymore. So, like being recognized in his older age, it made him focus even more on the fact that it was for the love of the music itself and it wasn't about the recognition or the fame of it. Like he was able to stay pure to himself. I like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04For the love of a groove. That's what I when he said that, I just like mission statement was popping in my head.
SPEAKER_00Um gay. I'll talk about an album, and I won't talk about it too long. And I'm kind of thinking that Eric probably has this album. Okay. It is a double album. Uh it's there's some live songs and some studio songs on it, and it came out in 1972. I hadn't listened to it before until this week. Uh Progressive Rock. Um, let me just get down to okay, Critical Reception, All Music Review, the collection positively stating that not only was the artist writing solid songs every time out, but the group's rhythm section was about the best in progressive rock pop division. Along with any of the group's first five albums, this collection is seminal and essential to any fan of this band or any of this group's collection. And it's the only compilation by the group that is a must-own disc. All music gave it four and a half out of five stars. Encyclopedia of Popular Music gave it four out of five. The Rolling Stone Record guy gave it five out of five. And then it got two favorable things from Rolling Stone 73 and Sounds. Um and I don't have to, I don't have to make people guess on this one or whatever, but I'll just ask if Eric has, if Eric has this album. Well, wait a second. The group that this guy plays for, you were trying to like downsize a couple years ago or something, and you were planning on getting rid of a lot of this group's records, and I told you not to do it.
SPEAKER_03Uh and it it's Jethro Tall. Yes. And I didn't get rid of any of my Jethro Toll albums. And I'm glad I didn't. Exactly. Do I really need all Jethro Tall albums? Yes, I do.
SPEAKER_00Yes, you do. Um, do you have Living in the Past? Yes, I do. It's such a cool um like the the photos inside, and it's it's almost like a it's like a whole thing itself, you know. So yeah, that was so good and super positive write-up about it too. And it's like, well, I'm glad I finally listened to it. And I've listened to it a couple times since, too.
SPEAKER_04Eric company just take one home with me today. You can take several home. Okay. I need to listen to some Jethro.
SPEAKER_03Uh you have uh you have to take benefit and Aqualung.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Good, good. Uh Benefit is Benefit is I was actually thinking about it this morning. Um when I saw your text this morning about 1968 albums, I I was thinking to myself, I should do uh an episode or a a day where I talk about albums that got me into the band. Yes. So I was thinking like Benefit. My first thought was Benefit from Jethro Tall. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah, you've talked about Benefit before, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So good. It's one of the albums where it's like uh if I see it, I just get it because I know it's that good. And it's it's uh it's a very wonderful record. Yeah, I'll send you home with Tall today. So yeah, so you can take as many as you like. Good, good.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I was just gonna highlight this one guitarist who I've liked all the time forever. I mean, he was in a band, then he went solo, but he uh he plays roots rock, uh Celtic rock, blues rock, country rock. He's left-handed, but he plays the guitar right-handed. Uh in its review of uh uh uh one of his band's album. Well, it looks like two of their albums, uh no, this magazine or whatever said that he may be the most lyrical of all guitarists. In the same year, Rolling Stone commended his innovative guitar style. According to classic rock in 2018, the bare boned economy of his songs and his dizzying guitar fills are a breath of clean air amid the lumbering rock dinosaurs and one-dimensional punk thrashers of the late seventies. He was peerless as a craftsman and virtuoso, able to plug into rock's classic lineage and bend it to sometimes wild forms. He wrote terrific songs too, uh taught mini dramas and dark depths and dazzling melodic and lyrical flourishes. He is also well known for playing Finger Style exclusively, something he attributed to Chet Atkins.
SPEAKER_02Um I'm trying to think if I can.
SPEAKER_00I mean, he did one, two, three, four, five, six albums with the group he started with, and it looks like he did about twelve on his own. Um I recently got a couple of his albums, uh, one I listened to yesterday, yesterday. But I've always liked this guitarist. Um, and and the major hint I'll give you is he he's a guitarist for uh dire straits, yeah. Mark Knoffler. Yeah, yeah. Mark Knoffler. I've always liked I mean, I like all dire straits because of him, and I like all his solo stuff. Yeah, he's a guitarist. I don't think this guitarist gets really talked about that much. That's kind of why I wanted to bring him up.
SPEAKER_04When I was a when I was younger, uh well, I was gonna say when I was a kid, but watching just some documentaries on VH1 of you know some of the greatest guitar players. I remember he was mentioned on there. So like the he's he's gotten some notoriety, but yeah, he does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's true.
SPEAKER_04But in the mainstream people forget about him. Just like how good he was. And yeah, he he is a picker. And um and actually just the other day I was driving, I don't listen to the radio hardly at all. But Sultan's a swing was on. And I'm like, hell yeah. But the sound quality was really crappy. So I turned it off and I just pulled it up on my phone and I just I cranked it up and it's that song is so good.
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SPEAKER_00My daughter she knows it's record club time, but she's texting me a bunch of like record stuff right now. Jeez. Oh let's exploit that let's talk about it. Maybe she's at a record store. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Let's talk about it right now. What is she asking?
SPEAKER_00Well I just saw some blue oyster cult and uh George Thoroughgood and I don't know some other stuff. I told her I said record clubs today so but anyway. Call her conference her in right yeah she's very outgoing she would she would totally just do whatever she needed to do yeah please explain what store are you at right now what are you looking at what are you experiencing right um okay I got another band.
SPEAKER_04Go for it.
SPEAKER_00We've never talked about this band they're an Australian rock band uh formed in 1977 um let me just uh wait a second I wrote something down I don't know too many Australian rock bands yeah I don't either I mean I think I think Eric and I probably talked about one or two in the past but yeah you don't see them that much um okay this God Haley keeps texting me these images uh okay this band got you know at the bottom of the thing they usually tell us like what uh uh awards they've gotten or accolades or whatever there's too many to say I counted them there's 82 nominations and awards and it's probably about 5050 like half were awards I mean they were Grammys and everything else uh let me get to I just listened to it well I got their well it's people say it's their best album I listened to that again this morning I I do have I think three three more of their albums this band uh has been cited as an influence by several acts such as the 1975 okay the 1975 that's the name of a band yeah and uh Maroon Five and Savage Garden according to the RIAA RIAA's the recording industry association of America this band has sold over 30 million albums in the United States alone making them the third highest selling American music act in the United States okay they're third behind ACDC and the Bee Gees this band has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2026 um okay I'll tell you the name of their most known album and most people say it's the best album so the name of the album is Kick yeah it's uh in excess their stuff is not easy to find if we lived in Australia we could find them wherever we went yeah but yeah it's yeah um yeah they're a great band I mean it's it's one of those bands that you know I've been thinking about them off and on and it's like okay I gotta cover these guys so I'm reading I mean I read a lot of this stuff I mean they uh um I mean they had they had six members they they had uh a bassist uh uh the composer and keyboardist a drummer a guitarist a lead singer and a main lyricist and the well the lyricist was also uh played guitar and saxophone or no I was another guy okay uh for 20 years they were fronted by one guy um I won't get into all this I knew my Ska Paul Brack uh funk uh okay first it's a it's a long uh Wikipedia page uh they they played for um Atlantic Mercury um Polydor Atco um yeah great group yeah I've I've heard of them but I've no I don't I don't even know if I could name one in excess song um I thought they were more of like an 80s group so you when you said they were formed in 77 right yeah yeah I thought they were I thought they were more of like an 80s group so I I was unaware that they started in 77. I also didn't know they were Australian yeah I know that's I didn't either until like yesterday how many albums did they do before um I don't know why Haley is sending me all these pictures of records I just gotta see if she's in a record store or what I mean I don't know do you know how many records they produced or released um let's see how many oh you mean how many albums yeah yeah um yeah let me get down to that more than I thought for sure I mean I knew kick and I knew uh listen like thieves is another one of their main ones I've got that on its way um okay okay not that okay they had one in 80 okay one two three four five six seven eight nine twelve albums their last one was in 2010 called Original Sin but their first self-titled album just in excess came out in 1980 and that might be Eric Way you are thinking they were uh 80s band because that was when their albums first came out 80 81 82 84 85 87 90 92 93 97 2005 and 2010 how would you describe their sound Prague rock okay yeah yeah I gotta check I gotta check them out yeah for sure I mean when they said that they uh influenced uh well the the 1975 I clicked on that I never did didn't read it though but uh it's a band I never heard of but then Maroon 5 and Savage Garden um you know that and then and then the RIAA you know said they sold over 30 million albums in the United States alone making them third highest selling Australian music act in the United States behind ACDC and the Bee Gees I didn't know the Bee Gees were Australian. Yeah me neither and then they sold 75 million worldwide as of 26 so yeah their albums are out there but yeah they they won gold award 88 they won a gold award for for their 88 album they won gold for their 89 album they won gold for both of their 91s Devil Inside I don't remember that one okay Suicide Blonde uh One Gold Disappear One Gold and uh one album I got I just gotta tell you the name of it uh it's like exquisitely wasted no elegantly wasted is the name of the album I thought well just for that VM I should get that.
SPEAKER_04Does anybody have any closing thoughts here before we wrap up this episode?
SPEAKER_03I probably will after we're done I'll probably think of something but right now I can't I I just think about like with yesterday being record store day I think about like with every day that we listen to records it's like every day feels like record like not just record store day but it's just like it's record day. Anytime that you just like a have a moment to sit down and listen to a record it's like it just feels like such like a personal appreciation for the craft and the format and it's like that can that's I try to make that as many days as possible. So it's like I don't need to wait for a record store day to appreciate records. Sure.
SPEAKER_00Yep yep we're we're luckier than we really know.
SPEAKER_04I know myself, you know, compared to you two I'm pretty new to collecting records and listening to records but it it is so fun whether I'm out in public or talking to family or talking to coworkers just telling them how I listen to records and how I put my phone down and I sit down and intently listen to it. It just it I'm so proud of myself for doing that and it's it's so fun. Now sometimes sometimes I do put a record on and I go cook or or I clean or or uh oftentimes I'll work out uh just right in my apartment um I'll put a record on and and just kind of do my thing uh but sometimes um or a lot of times I like to try to sit down and just listen to it and it's great.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah there's been a couple times where I thought to myself geez I'm really kind of envious of Justin because he doesn't know all the good stuff and it's in front of him yet.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean yeah I'm gonna be discovering bands the rest of my life exactly yep and even just like like I got really excited for you that day when you came over and you're like I got a band that I just want to tell you the name of the album and see if you can guess it and you said uh psychedelic lollipop like the blues McGoose like oh my god yeah yes um that memory is probably still really good in your mind so it's like just being excited to see your own experience of discovering records in in your own subjective way it's like it's great yeah and just being able to share it but Jerry were you able to confirm is your daughter at a record store right now um wait oh hang on just a sec I think she's I think she's just downloading songs off of something else but she's doing quite a few good ones she's got uh Bob Seeger The Knack uh this bad I've never heard of uh uh what's that one yeah oh yeah Jeff Leopard uh pour some sugar on me Carma Chameleon Tom Petty George Thoroughgood uh the oh what are I forgot what these uh what Rafferty Jerry Rafferty Blue Oyster Culk I don't know why she sending them all to me to see just to show me what she's into or something cool it makes me uh remember when you were telling me about how you would uh always like send songs to your kids and they would make playlists off of that she's still doing it I'm still sending her her her playlist gets uh rave reviews from all her friends so nice yeah um yeah I guess uh one last thing I started listening to UB40 Jerry ah good good yeah so for the listeners labor of love um I don't know if I I I I I'm very early on in my UB40 uh listening so I I was driving the other day and I'm like you know I gotta start listening to this UB40.
SPEAKER_04I gotta I gotta hear what it's about then I can start uh you know picking the records that I want to try to find and and acquire um but it you know it's good reggae I'm definitely gonna be streaming it poolside this summer when I when I've got my kiddos with me but uh red red wine I didn't I didn't know that that's a UB40 song.
SPEAKER_00That's that's one of the songs on labor of love.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_00So if you get if you just get one album of theirs Labor of Love would be the one but any UB40 is good.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah I just I had to report back to you that I at least I I attempted to listen to it right now it was it was just uh when I was in when I was driving and it was it was a greatest hits like playlist because I just wanted to hear a couple of just see if I recognize any of them before I start doing deep dives and uh because if I'm gonna sit down and listen to a whole record I would prefer it to be on vinyl uh actually listen to the record I I try to stay away from greatest hits um I I like just listening because I want to hear how it was released on the record like in its you know entirety. So um I'm excited to to learn more about them.
SPEAKER_03Cool. Yeah that's fun too just like and I appreciate the same thing of like hearing an actual the actual record versus like a greatest hits because you get to hear like the songs in the context that they're released and you also hear songs that weren't hits that are probably just as interesting or you know other music they're making around that hit that maybe wasn't known to be a hit at the time. So I think like I always like to uh appreciate the context of where it is in the record and also all the other songs that are probably forgotten or not recognized as much.
SPEAKER_04And all right well I think that concludes this episode of Record Club gentlemen.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00All right well we'll carry on