Thoughts about the former brick & mortar, 1987-2002 RIP
“Homefire Blues” (from Wreck And Ruin)
10/10/21 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA (set opener)
Chad Elliott
Kevin Boehnke
Kathryn Fox
Nate Benzing
Full audio, when it’s processed, will be posted here:
Society of Broken Souls is the Folk Noir songwriting duo of multi-instrumentalists Dennis James and Lauryn Shapter (that’s mostly swiped from their web site). They’re from Fairfield, Iowa.
Shapter specifically asked me not to upload the night to Archive.org, based on her dissatisfaction with parts of the three sets due to the condition of her voice and a couple of missed chords. I argued valiantly that nobody would ever hear the chords (wherever they were) but until I convince her otherwise (evil grin), that’s the way it is.
She DID however acquiesce to my pleading for permission to just post a song or two on my own site, so we’ve selected the opening number, which we’d like to turn into a regular practice around here for the Pomeroy shows. This is a particularly appropriate day to do that since Facebook has been down for hours now.
You have perhaps noticed that we have the same damn records for sale both at Facebook AND our own site here (https://saintstevensthingery.com/shop/).
Well, not ALL records are for sale in both places, but some are.
So you may wonder: what’s the difference? Do we have a preference where you buy them?
No. Not really. Our own shop at this site has taken a long time to develop, contains many more listings that the Facebook shop, and is slightly more flexible about accepting orders if we’re doing a local face-to-face transaction. We also don’t pay platform fees when we sell it from out own place.
BUT. For whatever reason, shoppers obviously prefer Facebook. For a year now, sales there have been vigorous enough that we completely took down stuff we had listed at Amazon and Discogs. We started out in Facebook Market Place when they added options for shipping. The Thingery doesn’t enjoy that kind of traffic.
That was a little weird. FB provided shoppers who expected to dicker and make all kinds of deals like they did in buy/sell groups. We don’t really do that.
But then, Facebook made it possible to integrate a shop based on our “business page”, with shipping, and more than one shipping option at that. Market Place insisted in the beginning that we list only Things starting at $5.00 or more.
Anybody who’s really cool now knows that vinyl is hot (cringe), and that people are buying records in historic numbers, but the reality is, based on our experience in the hobby since 1987, that record albums were often sold in the millions, and there are many titles out there that just aren’t worth five bucks (opinion).
It looks like it’s possible to sell “dollar” records at Facebook now, but from our own shop there we can build categories that we think are useful for search, and to begin with at least, we’re going to use the FB shop to feature bargains that we don’t often offer from our own snooty site.
Our own snooty site is built on appeal to persnickety record buyers (with audio samples of each track of each record) who intend to shop very carefully and critically, while the same merchandise when presented at Facebook is aimed at buyers who are looking at pictures on their phones (to be blunt) and enjoying a social experience. There’s a difference.
So, no, we have no preference where you click the buttons, but buyers at FB will probably see some quick little in-and-out dollar deals that won’t appear at the Thingery.
So here’s that address if you’d like to use it: Rainy Day Music at Facebook
Thanks either way.
Matt Woods Band
Matt Woods, guitar, vocals
Erich Gaukel, bass
Dwight Dario, drums
Band was also joined by Jammin’ Jimmy Shieffer, harp and vocals, not included in this track.
Recording information:
Zoom H2n, side mics set at -4, gain set at 4, about “6 paces back” from twin Bose L1’s, to the right, about 8′ high.
Wav -> eMastered: EQ (widened the stereo a notch, raised the lows a notch, lowered the highs a notch and bumped the loudness a notch) -> Mp3 -> Audacity: fades, labels
Artist: Hall & Oates
Title: Private Eyes
Label: RCA
Number: AFL1-4028
Year: 1981
Format: Stereo LP
Cover: vg; top seam, corner wear, rounding corners
Inner Sleeve: original custom, split
Record: vg
Comment: inclusion is present
Tracks (click to listen):
Realized $6.99 4/1/22
Shawn Holt & The Teardrops “Shake Your Moneymaker”, (Elmore James 1961), Set opener, set 2, 9/19/21, Byron’s Bar
“Dead Flowers”, Jagger/Richards (1971)
set opener, set 1, wait for it, takes about 45 seconds for the audience to quiet, intro is usually longer, but edited here for talking
Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache) – Buck Owens (1960)
Body Electric:
David Zollo keyboard, vocals
Brian Cooper drums
Ryan Bernemann bass
Randall Davis guitar
Deeper listen: mixed down to mono to eliminate some out-of-phase audience noise, eMastered to widen stereo width and bring up the lows and mids a notch, returned to two tracks with fades:
Artist: Marshall Tucker Band
Title: Tuckerized
Label: Warner Brothers
Number: BSK 3684
Year: 1982
Format: Stereo LP
Cover: vg; sawmark in upper right, still in original opened shrink
Inner Sleeve: white paper
Record: vg+
Comment: LA pressing
Tracks (click to listen):
Realized $4.99 4/26/22 Facebook
Brian Johannesen and Ryne Doughty alternated sets on this night. This is Ryne’s set two opener:
