#record swap

LONG ISLAND! Stoked to be a part of this at the rad event at the Cinema Arts Centre by The Perks Dept & Mystery Trails! Come on down & buy some records & other cool stuff!

>>> RECORD SWAP @ the batting cages @ Everyone Hits – 10AM / $2 Donation for band

Looks like theres a new record swap in town. If you’re into getting some awesome wax and firing off a few balls check this out in about an hour! Check out what the event has to say:

We’re teaming up with Borderline Records to host a record swap!

Come early, before the good stuff gets snagged!

Hoagie Jungle rocks out @ 2PM!

$2 donation for the band. if you want to bring a table and sell your records, it’s $10. Or, if you don’t need a table and just wanna bring a box, it’s $5. Or if you wanna buy, you should prob bring cash for that. No other rules, really!

So get out EARLY and get some killer pieces for your collection! Then after you’re done check out Hoagie Jungle! Their name fucking rules!

Hoagie Jungle Indie, Punk, Garage

If you've ever seen or heard Antibalas, you sonically know bari sax man and founding member Martin Perna . I met Martin around the turn of the century in Brooklyn and have loved this low end sax sibling ever since.  In addition to being a great musician, Martin is a serious and learned activist and also a hilarious comic.  I always enjoy hanging out with him and knew if I could get him to #BringARecordTakeARecord I'd not only wind up adding a choice cut of vinyl to my collection, but also having a wonderful conversation.  

Before we got down to the "business" of swapping the records, I, of course, had to show Martin my new electronic wind instrument, the AKAI EWI5000 and invite him to get onboard with Electric Embouchere, the umbrella organization for all my future EWI5000 related collaborations.  Martin gave the EWI5000 a whirl and quickly realized if you know how to blow a sax you can EWI, hence the opening scene of the attached filmette. 

After some tea and refreshments we moved into the record listening chamber.  Martin broke out the Bobby Womack LP he brought, BW goes C&W,  and put it right on the RCA Victor, filling my apartment with soulful versions of classic country songs, including one of my very favorites, Charlie Rich's Behind Closed Doors, which I reference frequently.  

This record was a timely and topical gift because I've been thinking to learn some country songs on EWI5000.  It made for great listening while Martin flipped through my collection but he didn't even make it through the first side before reaching his decision.  

He almost automatically zeroed in on my too long overlooked copy of The Pretenders Learning To Crawl.  He said, as he begins to say at the end of the filmette, that his mother had loved The Pretenders and he listened to them a lot growing up.  

We listened to and marveled at Chrissie Hynde and I looked up her wikipedia page on my phone and discovered she'd moved to London from Akron, OH in 1973 and worked at NME and also at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's fledgling boutique.  Talk about getting off on the good foot.  

I love The Pretenders, but I'm happy Martin took the album with him and I love my new BW goes C&W record and intend to put it on and jam along with it right now.