A big thanks to Jonder over at Jonderblog for clueing me into this band when he used one of the cover songs they do in a compilation so I got this. Decided to start a short mini-theme of California bands below. They cover the classic tune by Bad Company 'Shooting Star' right around the time our local supergroup Golden Smog did their little cover with Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum doing the vocals.'
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Hooray, now I don't have to rip my copy of this LP! Thanks, man. I wish I was as good at rippin' vinyl as you are. Recently picked up a cheap CD of the Subterranean Records folk compilation "Devouring Our Roots" and the Muskrats are on there too.
THANKS JONDER that makes me happy I can help out. Yeah, when I first got into this racket, I went to Guitar Center (which was having occasional weekend shows believe it or not--distinctly remember one band covering Nirvana's 'Molly's Lips') and bought the complete "DJ package" at the time with the Numark TT100 or whatever it is I still use it, $20 crossfader pre-amp to computer, already had the special RCA wire that goes from red and white to one black input to soundcard line-in, and the now legendary Ortofon S-120 top DJ cart at the time...oh yeah they also had my very first Gruv-Glide (alcohol fumes base which when I moved to FL I remember the world largest record store Banana's Records in St. Pete which I found on Craiglist of all places as they didn't really advertise had a 'guide' in the store saying they didn't really recommend an alcohol base cleaner) and later added to the cleaning with PFAN-STAT anti static which I first got at Banana's and now get a box from Ebay for the initial spray cleaning as I always thought the RCA d4 or whatever which puts out only drops wasn't appropriate and would cut off the nipple and pour into a generic spray bottle Have always used this recipe along with long rectangular box flat brush, a slightly larger convex surface brush and an older long bristle carbon fiber brush that has the bristles curved now after so many years but because of that kind of replaces my fingernails for breaking off the surface gunk outside the groove chambers. I started while perpetually out of work getting a 1 year unemployment extension twice in the same claim after an earlier claim with another 1 year extension to the standard 6 month term during 911. I basically had my 30's into my 40's off to play and ride my bike along my MN river trails hitting the library 1 hours limit at 2 different ones for job search on my bike ride from my condo on American Blvd. I moved to when Jessie Ventura who I had voted in before moving to Los Angeles for one year before lay off from a Monster.com job had the light rail all finished when I moved back to be around a whole bunch of nieces and nephews in gramma' pool where I grew up and my condo was next to the Mall of America and would take this thing Jessie got built on weekends downtown to shows or to the Bodymind expo's--loving the D train back late an night back to the condo with my bike with the bar patrons late at night was always fun. Saw Youth Brigade once at the now defunct Blondies bar that my old dorm roomie was bouncer at and talked to all of them at a table about their loyalty to alcohol (must have gotten a straight-edge earful) and Sean Stern told touted the greatness which I already knew about Dillinger Fou
r as they were all over Radio K airwaves where I had been winning CD's and promo's from Lois at their office at my U of MN (CSE) campus. My other trick is to turn down the line-in computer volume to 29% to get rid of background fuzz and neutralize the old vinyl fuzzies that are usually there from caked on stuff that my alcohol GG dries so the needle can break off with play--which is why I say those old 25 cent vinyl I hoarded when CD's came into the forefront actually sounded much better years later from my playing them all the time and that is why...the gunk just breaks off over time. My AUDIO CLEANING LAB rip software I got that first time at Guitar Center from England was magic as well I still use it albeit I lost the original and bought last copy from 2004 before a later revision I never used as too complicated as my first version was Windows 3.0 or whatever I forget now. I use the software boost at 0.8 setting (pretty low) to make it 'good on loud speakers' per an old comment that gave me the approval to confirm it. As an early bootlegger to cassette I had read in high school how to set the level to it just triggers the red zone Db level during recording and always used that until I got into the very old records with a layer of fuzzies that I can turn down to below red to clip off that annoying layer. Yeah, that defunct S-120 somehow has the clearer/louder sound and must be a narrow design that cuts out lots of noises for DJ's doing sampling. It also had some software feature for the DJ's that I never used. Never did like the elliptical stylus I tried. Oh yeah that S-120 is rated at 10 mV instead of the more normal super thin needles that are rated at 3 mV so my idea is to amp it up as much as possible at the source where it picks up the sound. As Victim's Family album goes that's it in a Nutshell! Hope you all like the Subterranean catalog within! (I'm sure Jonder already had it!!) Good On Ya Jonder!
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