So I'm David J and very pleased to be here at Amoeba Records in Hollywood
one of the greatest record stores in the world. I'm about to reveal the contents of my bag.
Very pleased to have found this, a DVD of Dr. Feelgood
a very influential band in England in the mid-70s.
Really kind of fueled punk, to a degree. Great guitarist Wilko Johnson.
And I used to follow them around the country and go and see them in little gigs like the Marquee Club
and I've heard very good things about this documentary so
looking forward to having a butchers of that.
Dr. Feelgood were just like a machine.
Wilko really looked psycho.
They were punk before punk.
This is a new one, Sabina, who used to be the vocalist in The Brazilian Girls.
I don't think she is Brazilian, and she was the only girl as far as I can recall.
But this is her solo record and it was compared to a female Serge Gainsbourg.
So I was rather intrigued by that notion.
Talking of Serge Gainsbourg, there's this little beauty.
His work with Jane Birkin.
I've got practically all of these tracks on CD but not on lovely vinyl
and you can't beat vinyl so...
She was gorgeous.
And then this was a very funny TV show in England.
I was surprised to discover this because I don't think it's very well known here.
Ronnie Barker, who was enormous in England and he played all sorts of different roles
but this, I think, was probably his crowning comedic glory.
Actually I met him very briefly
when Love and Rockets were recording in a little village just outside of Oxfordshire
and he used to have an antiques shop and he used to be in there as the proprietor.
He was very nice. Very humble man.
With his brand new keys on his brand new chain
with a face like a ferrett and a pea for a brain
and his hand on his whistle in the morning.
That you, Fletcher?
That me what, sir?
Satirical singing.
Old friends of mine, Thievery Corporation. This is their new record
and apparently it's a return to bossa nova-influenced music.
It just felt right to get it on vinyl.
I think the grooves will suit the grooves, if you know what I mean.
Excellent songwriter, Jackson C. Frank, 'Forest of Eden.'
One of the lost, wounded souls of music, this guy
who very nearly hit the big time but was really kind of too fragile
to suffer that spotlight I think.
And he had a lot of personal problems and just kind of disappeared.
But he was lionized by a lot of big names in the late 60s.
Paul Simon was a fan, I think the Beatles...
and anything that he left, y'know, for posterity is very valuable.
This is a little jewel.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.