This week, I’m visiting New York, getting ready for a video shoot on Friday with David Bromberg. Before I left, I decided to post a little clip to YouTube. As any self-respecting…
Category: Record Collecting
The World’s Largest Record Collection?
Thanks to BoingBoing, I found out about an intriguing sale on eBay. From Thomas Edison to American Idol, this is the complete history of the music that shaped and defined five generations….
RIP: Village Music & Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA
I’ve been putting off this posting for some time. I’ve got way too many good memories, and I wasn’t sure how I wanted to address this. With less than two weeks to…
Support Your Local Record Store
I know that iTunes is the wave of the future for the way most music will be sold in the 21st Century. When James Brown died on Christmas, I certainly couldn’t go…
RIP: Jim Philbrook, publisher of Record Convention News
Record collectors lost a great ally when Jim Philbrook died. I’ll let his good friend Steve Propes tell the story: I met Jim Philbrook in the 1980s when he was a single…
Steve Propes’ ultra-rare “LOUIE LOVIE” 45 single
Here’s an image that you’ll be be unlikely to see anywhere else. My friend Steve Propes, who’s provided some excellent support to THE MEANING OF LOUIE documentary project over the years, has…
Hawaiian Kingsmen
Things have been super-busy at the headquarters. I’ve barely been able to do much editing on the documentary this past month, much less add anything new to the LOUIE REPORT blog. I…
Winner of the “That’s Cool- That’s Trash” fashion category
San Francisco rock legend Russell Quan (the Mummies, Phantom Surfers, BobbyTeens, and way too many other bands) demonstrates a great sense of rockin’ fashion at a recent Roy Loney (ex- Flamin’ Groovies)…
Music for Half-Assed Friends
Over the weekend, I visited one of my favorite record stores where I found a funny album cover that I decided I must own. Apparently, “Music for Half-Assed Friends” was an album…
The Death of Another Record Store
Another independent record store has bitten the dust. Compact Disc Warehouse, the only independent record store in Sunnyvale, the largest city between San Francisco and San Jose, California, has become another casualty…