Hey this is Sebastian Bach and I'm so excited to be here today
I was just here yesterday and two days before that
but I'm really excited to be here today
This is my happy place.
Ladies and gentlemen, Amoeba Records.
So here's my route. I'm a Kiss fan, and the first place I go is the Kiss bin.
And it's right this way, I know right where it is.
Someone's in that section
So if that's busy, we go to the Rush vinyl section.
I have most of these. Ooh, 'Hemispheres.'
This is a great one. For some reason, a lot of Rush albums have a nude guy's ass on the front
which is a recurring theme.
I never noticed that when I was a child.
Ok, I gotta get this.
Rush, 'Farewell to Kings,' 200 grams
My first pressing of 'Farewell to Kings' is beat to shit
'cause I got it when I was 11.
So I am going to take the plunge and pick this up today.
That'll do it for Rush, let's see if there's anybody in the 'K' section.
If there's any first pressings in here, I will emit a small squeal.
This is 'Crazy Crazy Crazy Nights'
which is not to be confused with 'Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Nights'
which is the remix.
Y'know, I was going to get this because this is the one-of-a-kind copy
that belonged to Steve
Japanese pressing. Ok, ch-ching, for the win!
Honey, this is ours.
I get sid e A, you get side B.
Wow that is trippy when you're wearing these glasses
Ok I have many pressings of this album
This was the first Kiss album I ever had when I was a kid
The very first pressing of 'Kiss: Alive'
was mastered by a guy named Robert Ludwig
and you can only tell if you look at the run out in the grooves
that's the only one I don't have, and if this is it...
Moment of truth, is this the Robert Ludwig
mastered first pressing which supposedly has more low-end
than subsequent pressings
Ooh, nice clean cover
A little ring wear... ooh, perfect.
Ok, let's look inside
No, this is not the Bogart label. This is a later edition.
Still very collectible.
This came out in '77.
Very collectible. Not the one I'm looking for.
Just for fun I'm going to get one of the reissues
Just to compare it with the other ones.
I'm gonna go for one.
I love this cover.
It was a little confusing to me as a child.
Picture's worth a thousand words
but it stuck in my head, that's for sure.
I also like to go to the Neil Young section, I like to go to Steely Dan, Jeff Buckley, I like to go to a lot of sections.
but I also don't just listen to music, I make music
so part of my job is, I have to go to my own section
and see if my record company is doing what they should do
and that's my second stop at Amoeba Records.
How do I spell 'Bach?'
Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Backstreet Boys...
Sebastian Bach, come here...
Hey, Frontiers Records
How many records do I got in here?
Zero! She's all sold out, folks.
Time to restock.
The last time I was here there was quite a few in there, so wah wah wah wahhh...
Anyways, another section I love here at Amoeba is the t-shirt section
which is located way in the back
Wonder if they've got any 'Axl/DC' shirts
I would buy one if they did.
Rush shirts? Let's check this out.
I'm gonna wear this to school.
Me and my wife, Suzanne, we love Rush because Rush is so sexy
and y'know I took her to see the band, she's like, 'these guys are hot.'
So she loves Rush too.
Actually, what she did say when I took her to Rush
for $300 a ticket, she's like,
'You never take me to anything cool, like Poison.'
I love how unique the shirts are here. You'll never see...
an Electric Lucifer shirt at Best Buy.
Iron Virgin. They don't have this at Walmart.
Let's go to this section.
Ok, cool, it's a shirt for people that are winos forever.
Alright, this way.
Al Di Meola. I already have this, but if I didn't I would get it.
Love Al Di Meola.
Ok we have a lot of vinyl equipment here, very useful.
Cleaning equipment, brushes, stylus, turntables...
but I bet you didn't know, maybe some of you do...
the ultimate friend to your vinyl collection is wood glue
Do you know what I'm talking about?
I have collected albums all my life
and my house was in Hurricane Irene
in New Jersey, and I lost my home, and I lost
most of my collectibles that were in the basement and stuff
and I wouldn't throw out my albums. I wouldn't.
I had to throw out most of this sleeves that got wet
and a couple weeks ago
I go 'how do I clean my records?' on Youtube
and it said 'wood glue,' and I go, you gotta be kidding me.
It was either that or throw them out. They were unplayable.
So I did it. Tears in my eyes.
It could've been the wine.
My albums, when I was a kid, that I bought
My dad's Led Zeppelin first pressing
You peel that off after a couple days, it sounds brand new
There's not a pop or a crackle between the songs, nothing. Clean.
I'm not even joking, it's all about wood glue
Ok, Neil Young first pressings. Whaddya got?
Paul Young? No. Neil Young? Yes.
Who's Matthew Young? I'm Matthew Young! You know me from Neil Young.
Whoa!
Second pressing with...what does that say?
Time for the glasses, Gramps.
Neil Young came from a town called Omemee, Ontario, Canada
I came from Cavan, which...
I used to ride my bike over to Omemee
And he came to L.A. and
had one of the ultimate musical careers of all time
and I was like, I want to go to L.A. and do that
and this cover looks like that, like what I just said
There he is, he's here, he's killing it, he's rocking in L.A.
Ok I'm buying this.
Here's the remastered. I will take the original.
Let's go check out the Joe Walsh section.
I've always been an Eagles fan, and even more so since I moved out here.
about five years ago, I've lived in L.A. And of course, that's the sound of L.A., y'know.
'The History of The Eagles' came out and I was blown away by Joe Walsh in that documentary.
Everything he had to say
his demeanor, and how he said things, and how cool he was
And the record company didn't care if we farted and burped.
They would put that out.
'When can we have it?' Because that was their whole corporate quarter.
Since then I've been obsessed with buying everything he's ever done
so let's see if there's anything that I'm missing here
Here we go. I do not have this on vinyl. I do now.
I have this on vinyl, but I want another copy
I do not have this on vinyl until right now.
Van Halen section. Could there be any
Burbank label, Warner Brothers first pressings?
Germany! with poster.
Property of Sebastian Bach.
Another collectible is the highly-coveted hype sticker. Boom!
This one will be coming home with me because it has the Van Halen logo on it, thank you.
Ray Davies.
Yes, I'll be getting this.
He's a fired up individual.
Wow, 'Never Surrender: The Autobiography of Biff Byford from Saxon'
This you don't find at Best Buy.
This will be coming home with me.
I don't listen to CD's anymore. Barely.
Wait, this is Japanese?
Ok, I'll listen to this one.
It's a Japanese 'Dressed to Kill' with the Obi.
I don't know if it's the first edition Obi. People fight over that kind of thing.
The cover of my next record. Live in L.A.
The very last place I always go is the 'Fresh Stuff Daily' section
because, who knows what happened while we were goofing off over there
Somebody could've brought that Robert Ludwig Kiss master in here
We don't know.
Oh, it's not Japanese
Wow. Geez, never seen that.
That's Mick Jagger.
What's on it? Jack Nitzsche.
That's not Mick Jagger.
Yes it is.
As a Neil Young fan, I've read about Jack Nitzsche
Ok, I have to buy this, as a Neil fan. Fresh arrivals.
You can't stay here old man.
Not in the mood.
Why don't you play us a tune, pal.
I don't like music.
Another one of these? Three of these today.
I told you I could spend a long time here. I know your arm's getting tired.
Don Rickles, 'Hello Dummy!' A great album title.
Seven bucks? Done. Here's your seven bucks.
The Cowsills. 'Blood Rock.'
I heard about them, but...
This is the first record I ever bought in my life
And this is the first time I've seen it since that day
This is 'Convoy.'
There's a song on here, on Homestead Records
Just so you know, the song is called 'Rock n Roll All Night.'
You see that? It's not by Kiss.
It doesn't say who it's by.
I bought this record when I was eight
at Sam the Record Man in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
because I loved the song 'Convoy.'
I used to think Kiss were disgusting
I thought they were awful, spitting blood and breathing fire
How can anyone listen to that crazy shit?
and my buddy goes, Why don't you come over my house and listen to it? and I go, 'Whatever'
and I went over there and he put the needle on and, guess what?
It was my favorite song from the Convoy record, 'Rock n Roll All Night.'
$5.99
When I get home I'm gonna crank the shit out of this album
and I can't believe this is here. I can't believe this is here.
I've been coming here for 15 years
I've never seen that until right now
Have you? No.
Fresh stuff arrives daily. You can't top that. That's it.