My name is Mike Scott, I'm the singer and founder of The Waterboys
and today I'm in Amoeba and this is What's in My Bag.
When I come to a shop like Amoeba, I don't want to shop for the top 20 albums or rock A-Z.
It's too weird and wonderful a record shop for that.
I want to look for things I won't find anyplace else.
Like this: 'The Feed-Back.'
It's an Ennio Morricone side project.
It was made some time in the late 60s or the early 70s
and it's a psychedelic mix of jazz and cocktail and lounge music.
So I can't wait to hear this. And it's a CD so I can mash it up.
'Flipper Psychout.'
It's Italian library music from the late 60s or the early 70s.
All fuzz guitar film soundtrack music.
Fab for mashing up. I love mashing things up.
Every time The Waterboys go on tour
I prepare the pre-gig tape.
There's only one rule, it's got to be all instrumental.
Well, there's two rules, it's got to be all great as well.
And I take favorite instrumentals and I mash them up and turn bits backwards
and would put weird EQs and phasers and things.
So 'Flipper Psychout' is gonna be a prime mashup contender.
Two Sonny Rollins albums, and they're both vintage. They're both from the right period.
You can tell by the sleeves and by the look of them that they're from the vintage period.
And by the players that were on them.
Clifford Brown, Max Roach, etc.
I have a book here. Glyn Johns' biography.
He's a great recording engineer who recorded the Stones and the Small Faces, occasionally the Beatles.
Like most of these memoirs, it's probably gonna be full of great stories.
So I'm looking forward to reading that. Might read it on the plane back home.
I'd say that would be half of a transatlantic flight.
'Merle Evans Circus Bands.' A CD of circus music.
Who could resist that? 'Barnum and Bailey's Favorite.'
'Royal Decree,' 'Pageant Of Progress,' 'Colossus of Columbia March'
I can just imagine it's gonna be wonderful oompa music.
Probably sound brilliant turned backwards.
Now this is from the lounge section, 'Bottoms Up.'
It's a collection of specialized, weird lounge/easy listening music.
I'm hoping most of it's gonna be instrumental.
'Music To Watch Girls By.' Well everybody knows that.
I'm more interested in the stuff that nobody knows.
'Hot Toddy,' 'Fandango,' 'Baby Elephant Walk,' 'The Donkey Serenade.'
I'll check it out.
Yeah I went to the soul music section to buy some James Brown records.
And I got this because it's all instrumentals.
But I love buying instrumentals. In fact, I would have bought this on CD if I could have found it.
But it wasn't on CD so vinyl it is.
And lastly, no visit to a record shop would be complete without buying something
just because the cover looks great.
I don't even know who this dude is, but I just love the look of it.
Looks like he means some serious business. And the back cover
the picture would seem to date it to maybe 1972-73.
There he is in his wide lapels with a couple of girl singers behind him.
So my voyage of discovery awaits when I get this home.
And that's it, that's my lot.
Good booty.