Book's Music podcast #72

For those of you who haven't listened in awhile (or at all), I have a music podcast at PodOMatic.com called Book's Music. You can stream and listen or download it to your digital player of choice. Good music all around from the vaults of me.

Digging In The Magazine Box: The Cure

An ad for a 1984 Cure show in Seattle.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: UB40

Unemployed? No problem, go check out the UB40 show. Because you know, a "UB40" in England means... eh, you know the deal. An ad for a UB40 show in Seattle, circa 1984.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Ted Nugent

Say what you want, but The Nuge is The Nuge, and will be that way until death. Here he is, an ad for a show where I'm sure he played like there was no tomorrow. Nothing mellow here.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: The Hooters mini-LP review

I wasn't a diehard fan of these guys, so I'm not sure why I saved this record review from Record magazine. I liked a few songs by The Hooters but other than that, that's it. It's a review of a record they did before they moved on to a major.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Green Monkey Records

There was a time when C/Z, eMpTy, and Sub Pop did not exist. One of the great labels of Seattle in the early to mid-80's was Green Monkey, a place where you could order a catalog and spend money on some good music. Here's a blurb from The Rocket about a 4-hour radio show organized by the label's Tom Dyer and some young kid named Jonathan Poneman.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Quiet Riot

First off, Happy Kamehameha Day to my fellow kama'aina.

Yes friends, there was a time when Quiet Riot could fill up a place like the Seattle Center Coliseum. In truth, they were one of the biggest bands in heavy metal once upon a time, and like many bands who were at the time, they've received a bit of bad rep for simply working.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Eurythmics

Circa 1985.

Digging In The Magazine Box: Bryan Adams

I saw Bryan Adams when he and his band opened up for The Police in Honolulu at the Aloha Stadium. Good show. Here's a show that may have been just as good, circa 1985.

Thrift Store Archives: Inside Track Rerecording (78 rpm): Side 1

I have not visited thrift stores in quite awhile and I'm sure someone is assuming "damn John, if you're not going to thrift stores you must be broke". Well, it's not so much that I am or am not broke, but gas is high, I don't have a bike to ride around but it's getting to that. Conservation more than "buy records in semi-moderation". But soon, I'll be heading out to a few stores again.

In the meantime, I pulled this record out of the "archives". It's an old 12" 78rpm record that someone made for themselves, similar to Recordios. In this case it was one made on RCA's "Instantaneous Recording Machine", where you would place the record on the record player, turn it on, and it would record you or whatever you were feeding into the microphone. You had one chance and one chance only, and of course these records were one-of-a-kind items. The best ones are those that are personal letters to family members or friends, or where a group of friends decided to go into their basement, have a few drinks, and sing.

Sometimes it was nothing more than someone making a "safety" record of another record, not unlike someone burning a copy of a CD to play in the car (so that the original wasn't ruined). I believe this is the case here, a record with handwriting which says Inside Track Rerecording August 14, 1945 and in red pencil the initials T.V. - ATOMIC BOMB. I decided to create MP3's for the two tracks on side 1. The first one is a song playing straight through, the second song goes almost to the end before it is interrupted by a radio broadcast about the bomb and the threat of Japan. By looking at the thickness of the grooves, it seems there was room at the end to put more content, so you can hear the music and the radio broadcast slightly mixing in, possibly due to the grooves mixing in with each other. It's unusual to hear a jazzy melody play and then lead to a discussion about how the powers that be are playing with the elements of the universe to cause destruction.

With a 78 there will be a lot of pops and crackle, so there was a good amount of editing involved. No noise reduction was used, I prefer to hear surface noise than to have something sound super clean, resulting in taking away elements of the recording itself. Outside of fixing one or two skips, the MP3's represent the recording of both tracks "as is".

If anyone knows what these songs are, or the source of the radio (or perhaps television) broadcast, please send an e-mail.

Side 1 - Track 1 (320kbps)
Side 1 - Track 2 (320kbps)

Digging In The Magazine Box: Siouxsie & The Banshees

Siouxsie Sioux hits Seattle, circa 1985

Digging In The Magazine Box: Frank Zappa

It's hard to believe this man was once of this Earth. Maybe he's jamming with Sun Ra and laughing at the continued stupidity of his former planet.

A few songs from this performance were used on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3.

Digging In The Magazine Box: Echo & The Bunnymen

Spare us the cutter, dude. This is an ad for a Seattle appearance from Echo & The Bunnymen, with The Church opening, circa 1985.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Herbie Hancock Album Ad (1984)

Sound System was the album Herbie Hancock made after his highly successful Future Shock LP. This is his "how ya like me now?" look.



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Run-DMC

An article from Record magazine:



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Dio/Whitesnake

Dio. Whitesnake. In terms of hard rock and heavy metal, you couldn't get any better than this. Yeah. Circa 1984.

Digging In The Magazine Box: Seattle Headbanger's Ball!!!

YES!!! Being a fan of hard rock and METAL, this was the kind of show I always wanted to go!!! TKO were the pride of Seattle's metal scene, which is why they got the top bill!!! Little did they know that the band below them, Metal Church, would move on to becoming much more than just local "demo tape legends"!!! I didn't attend this, but I did get a chance to see Metal Church when they opened up for Anthrax at the Tacoma Dome!!! Not the main Tacoma Dome floor, but one of those siderooms, where I was able to witness the metal strength of one Jeff Gilbert, who was talking with some friends!!! Not sure of what happened to Shadow, though!!!

Taken from The Rocket!!!



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Digging In The Magazine Box: Steve Lawson Productions

Ads like this sold me to what it could have been like to not only be an artist with all of the great machinery and buttons, but perhaps to become a producer or recording engineer. This, among other things, brought this fat boy joy. $50 an hour for top-notch studio time? When home recording was a distant dream and reality, this was the way to go.

Seattle residents will now know this recording studio as Bad Animals.