I could literally spend all day in this place.
Today it was mostly vinyl, that was what I was mostly drawn to.
And this is a Sun Ra album.
Sun Ra is a name that every music fan should know, I guess.
This is an early record, maybe his second record, from back in the 1950s.
Y'know, when I saw this I went, oh yeah, because it was produced by a guy named Tom Wilson.
Wilson is a real important person in popular music.
Y'know, kind of single-handedly shifted popular music.
He discovered Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa, produced Bob Dylan.
Next I grabbed this. I already have a lot of this stuff.
I just grabbed this because I like the cover.
I love this period of their work. This is the first stuff they did back i n the 1950s and it's just
very raw sounding and very beautiful sounding. It's a music that I just love. I love his guitar playing.
First time I ever heard any of this stuff, I was at the home of a famous
song stylist/country singer down in Nashville.
And there was some singer/songwriter stuff playing and she goes
'Ok, enough of this wimp shit.' Then she took the cassette out and threw it
and then put in a cassette of the Staple Singers on Vee-Jay records and I had never heard it before.
And I was just like...
This is a new album by guitarist Nels Cline.
I'm a guitar player.
Nels Cline is somebody whose brain I wish that I could steal.
Or maybe I just don't work as hard as he does, but he's a great muso.
I got a book. Mitch Ryder's autobiography.
I'm from the Detroit area. I grew up there.
I feel a connection to the musical legacy of Detroit so I'd like to read this book.
And the other thing is, somebody told me that he mentioned me in the back of the book
and said that I'm a hidden jewel
So I figured I'd reciprocate and buy his book and plug it.
So that's that.
And then this, I just dug it and grabbed it.
Y'know the visual thing of it.
I love Indian music. R.D. Burman featuring Asha Bhosle. Those are names I'm familiar with.
And this is kind of like Bollywood stuff, right?
What could possibly go wrong with this?
And lastly
I do a radio show in New York every Saturday night on WFUV.
And it's called 'The Bottomless Pit' and I just play stuff from my record collection.
And when I get back home, the first show I want to record is an 'all Buddy' show.
Everybody on the show will be named 'Buddy.' This is Buddy Collette.
He plays flute a lot of the time, and I love jazz flute. I kind of tend to like it.
And then I noticed that he has Earl Palmer on drums
on this record and Earl Palmer is my all-time favorite
musician to listen to. It's like you really can't go wrong with him.
And that's it.
Well thank you for talking with us today.
Thank you for inviting me. I had a great time.