Hi this is Greg Anderson, I'm here at Amoeba Music and this is 'What's in My Bag'
I came in specifically looking for this
Black Sabbath 'Paranoid' deluxe version
with some bonus discs, on it some live stuff
and I guess it's a remaster.
Sabbath is...everything kind of starts and ends for me
and a lot of the bands I work with on the label
and so this is, I mean, an incredibly important band and album.
When I was in the sixth grade, I had this teacher
he would allow one person that had been particularly good to bring in an album and
there was this girl that I had a crush on in the sixth grade
and she was cool, y'know, I think she would smoke cigarettes, which was just like, no one did that
and she brought in 'Paranoid'
and I remember the gatefold, she opened it up and there's that picture in the field
and Ozzy just looking so ominous with his cross
it was just like, whoa what is this?
and the song she chose to play was 'Iron Man,' which, of course, y'know I hadn't heard at the time
It was just the darkest, but
strangely magnetic thing I'd ever heard
I'm kind of a geek for all this Sabbath stuff
and I have a lot of live bootlegs, but these ones don't look familiar.
This is an amazing underground metal band called 'Grief.'
This was a huge influence on me, musically, actually
When I started high school I was really into classic rock
and I was really into Sabbath and stuff like that but then I got turned on to Black Flag
from then on it was all about punk rock.
But there were a few bands that came out, particularly The Melvins
who mixed the punk and hardcore
Black Flag with Sabbath, and I was hooked on that sound
I'm a huge fan of it and played in several bands that have beaten that style to death
but this is one band that plays in that style
that's just ridiculously slow, it's like
it's like The Melvins on quaaludes. It's even slower.
Found these Soundgarden bootlegs that I didn't have before.
I'm a huge fan of this band.
I grew up in Seattle and this is one of those bands that
they also had Sabbath as an influence and punk rock
but they kind of took it to a whole further level, went way beyond
but I've always been a big fan of these guys
and I wasn't aware of these, so...
and these are from kind of what I would consider their best era
which was right before 'Badmotorfinger' came out, or right during 'Badmotorfinger'
which is pretty much my... that's my favorite era of that band
Lately I got really obsessed with Bernard Herrmann and his soundtracks
specifically for 'Vertigo.'
This movie is just, it's mesmerizing, it's just so dark
and the pacing is so...
it's like a drug almost, watching that movie
something about it is really special.
Recently I just got really, I've been listening to this soundtrack over and over again
usually in my car I'll listen to something extremely heavy and loud
and oftentimes fast.
I started listening to the 'Vertigo' soundtrack in my car when I'm driving
and I find it to be a lot more calming
makes me feel better and when I get home from work I'm chilled out.
So I also picked out the special edition DVD.
Also, of course, Hitchcock, I'm a huge fan
so here's 'Rear Window' as well.
Is he cleaning house?
He's washing down the bathroom walls.
Hmm, must've splattered a lot.
And then another Bernard Herrmann score for Taxi Driver.
I've seen this movie a ton of times, not for quite a long time
and I wasn't aware that he did the soundtrack til recently
so then I started listening to that as well, as a soundtrack
and it made a lot of sense, so it's really cool, I love his work
it's dark and heavy in it's own way.
I thought I was done shopping, and then I got sidetracked in the jazz section
and I found these bootlegs that I didn't know existed.
One is Miles Davis from '72
he's playing material from 'On the Corner'
that's one of my favorite albums from Miles Davis
the electric period, which is my favorite era of his.
And then a Mahavishnu Orchestra double live album
that I didn't know existed.
Of course John McLaughlin's guitar playing is unbelievable.
Completely mind-blowing.
This is an Incantation album.
I picked this one out, wanted to talk about it.
Helloween put together this festival called 'The Power of the Riff'
and Incantation's one of the bands playing
this really amazing death metal band that's been going along for a really long time.
This band in particular is, I think, one of the best
extreme death metal bands that has ever existed.
Great band.
I think that's it... any other stuff.
Yeah, I think that's it. That's good.
Cool.