Well, what's in here. Got the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab issue of Gram Parsons 'GP.'
Great classic record and, well, you know, Mobile Fidelity touches it, it's going to sound amazing.
And then the reissue of the Buffalo Springfield box set.
I'm sure everybody knows Neil Young's first band but...
Well it's got 'Expecting to Fly,' which is probably one of my top five Neil Young songs.
It's got a bunch of stuff I've never heard but...
New reissue of the first Lords of the New Church.
Stiv Bators from the Dead Boys and Brian James from The Damned
and this is a great album that I haven't heard in probably about 15 years.
George Jones 'Cup of Loneliness.'
This is an old compilation of stuff from when he was on Mercury Records.
I had this years ago and loaned it to a friend and never got it back
and I've been looking for it for a long time.
And I'm very excited to have found it.
Another Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab of Linda Ronstadt 'Don't Cry Now.'
She's one of my favorite singers ever.
I know, audiophile Linda Ronstadt sounds kind of silly
but I'm actually really, really excited about this one.
Do you have a favorite track off that record?
Off of this record, I think probably 'Love Has No Pride' might be my favorite off of this one.
And then this one's got her her version of 'Desperado'
which is, I think, vastly superior to The Eagles.
And then another record that I loaned out and have been looking for for years.
Antiseen 'Eat More Possum.' One of my favorite records of all time.
Think I'm kind of ripping you guys off by only paying five bucks for it.
They were part of this group of bands that was going for awhile, called the Confederacy of Scum.
And I was in a band called Cocknoose, which we were one of those bands.
So these guys were kind of brothers of mine for a while.
And I'm still good friends with all of them but y'know it's been about 20 years.
So we've, y'know...
Your band was called Cocknoose?
We were called Cocknoose, yeah.
Like n-o-o-s-e?
Mm-hmm.
How did you come up with that name?
Actually our singer Devin came up with it.
I guess you hear a lot of bands, like this is the band we wanted to see.
There was no band like this so they started it.
And I mean basically their whole career goal was to open for GG Allin
should he ever play Lawrence, Kansas.
And they just happened to accidentally write a bunch of really good songs
and put out several records and toured Europe.
And, y'know, I was in the band for several years and had just some amazing adventures.
And so we toured a lot with these guys.
And I got a book too, Hunter Thompson.
Some writings from the 80s which I've never read any of his 80 stuff before.
So I'm pretty excited.
Ben Franklin was never able to lock a door again
after the day lightning came down his kite string and fused that key to his thumb.
They called it a great discovery and they called him a great scientist
but in fact he bawled like a baby for the rest of his life every time he smelled rain in the air.
Do you have a story about playing or being with The Flaming Lips, 12 years ago or so, here at Amoeba?
I do, yeah.
It was actually the first time that I set foot in this store.
We were staying right down the street and we were coming in here
and I wanted to come in early so I could do some record shopping.
And I walked in and immediately had a panic attack
at how many... just like oh, my god.
And I think I got here around 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon
and then everybody else got here at 3:00 and by 7:00 or 8:00 the in-store was over.
And I was here until you guys were actually kicking me out to close the doors
because it was just 'my god every record that's ever existed is here, oh my god.'
And any time we're in town now, I have to come here.
And I've brought friends here a couple of times
and they'll walk in and I can just see them kind of deer in headlights for a second
like, yep, felt the same way.
Cool, thank you so much.
Ok, cool.