What a great interview with Phil from Badlands digged every moment ,miss his bro Steve more than words can tell & have met some real awesome people thru Badlands also no way i could have made many dream of life trips without their kindness & help ,thankyou Badlands and long may you run indeed !
I Have known Phil and his Late Brother Steve for Many Many Years They both played a large part in my life organising trips around the world and watching Bruce During the interview Phil said a customer asked if Bruce would be singing in French as he was playing in France I was with Steve one day when a rather short Lady asked if she could have tickets at the front as she was short After I stopped laughing I assembled eight of the tallest blokes I could we all dropped down on our knees shuffled up to Steve and asked if we could also have tickets at the front as we were also short I think his answer was Go Forth and Multiply Great interview Nick C😃
Great interview ! I travelled several times with Badlands to Bruce shows in the States and Europe and it was always a great pleasure to travel with them.
Knew Phil & Steve back in '87, I'd go to Badlands for a day out & they'd take me out to lunch & a few beers, wonderful blokes. RIP Steve. A great trip to see Bruce at Nassau in April '88 with MGP Tours (before Jump Travel started) & Phil & Steve happened to be on the same trip. Great times. From Lee J
Great memories of traveling with Badlands to the Paris Omni Bercy arena to see the Concert for Amnesty International back in the day - Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N’Dour and Tracy Chapman.
Thanks for the great interview with Phil. As a long time customer and participant in Badlands trips, it was great to see you recognising the fantastic service Phil and his late brother, Steven, have provided for music lovers in general and Springsteen fans in particular.
"Space travels in my blood there ain't nothing I can do about it" Pure genius. Excellent interview which I planned to watch in segments but watched the whole shebang in one sitting. Felt sure at one point that you were going to mention a certain trip that took fans to South Africa! Well done matey you look surprisingly good on screen.
First went to Badlands in 1988 when I started working in Cheltenham and kept going back. Miss the days of the second hand vinyl upstairs, managed to get some great finds there in the 90s. Great that it's still going and even won a Pink Floyd box set in a prize draw from them (still have it). Haven't worked in Cheltenham for many years now but still try and go in if I'm in town.
AGAP is one of the best records ever made and I melt every time I hear it; but one evening in Berlin I was at the awesome venue Walbühne having bought some last minute cheap side of stage tickets to see The Stones and was listening happily to the pre-show music with a stage monitor right next to my ear blasting out 'I'm on another planet with you'. Priceless.
A fascinating interview. Really interesting to see how the independent record shop has survived the times. I’ve bought loads of stuff from Badlands over the years. Real music lovers. Thanks for doing this.
Driftin' Records, '76 /'77....was the center of the universe in the new wave era, squated the old Horse And Groom pub opposite what became Badlands, best Punky Reggae Parties in town
Driftin’ was amazing. I used to hang out in there for hours and hours. Roger was a legend and he was really helpful to us when we started up. He moved to Bristol around the time we opened.
Greetings from Radio Tower Records, Berlin. Nice interview Phil with so many points that ring true with me too! Including my own experience with my parents home 'hi-fi' which was a Bush Stereo Radiogram with a Garrard deck - probably worth a bit more now :-)
Greetings from Western Australia. And in the 90's I got a Springsteen bootleg 5CD pack shipped over from Badlands and opened it like I was opening music contraband! And I stopped criticizing women friends about spending so much time browsing clothes when I realised I did exactly the same thing every time I came across a second hand record shop.
Many years since I worked in Cheltenham - charmed to hear Evesham Market mentioned - Evesham's contribution to bands such as Traffic, Mott the Hoople & Satan's Rats/Photos, has long been documented. In 1970s I recall great emphasis was placed on the superiority of Japanese import vinyl pressings. I bought a live concert LP of Deep Purple with Tommy Bolin equipped with only one fully functioning arm I believe? The Japanese import cost approx £1 more than standard UK pressing. Does this element still feature in record trading? Thanks again guys
I am a strong advocate of the record shop experience and the 'buying something because it looks like it might be good' approach to building a record collection. It satisfies my latent hunter/gatherer instincts that I have retained from my mammoth-hunting ancestors. You will never divest me of the notion that (for example) an album containing a song titled 'I Hate The Clicking Man' buried in the track listing can be bad. I used to visit Adrians in Wickford (which I understand will be closing for good in 2023 after the owner retires). When Adrians was at its peak, and covered a tremendous expanse of floorspace, it would stock entire back catalogues. I remember going in there with a list of Can albums I wanted and leaving with all of them. Arguably that 'cover all bases' approach has, out of economic necessity, given way to something a bit more curated. That can be good too. It is unlikely that, when clicking on the shopping cart button on Amazon, you will be taken to a page informing you of a great Phil Manzanera album that you absolutely must hear - words that were actually spoken to me in a record shop. And they were right! They saw something in me - a deficiency that could only be addressed by listening to Phil Manzanera. Ordering online, you deprive yourself of the culture of record shops. You miss out on the physical connection with the records and the human connection with the staff and the other customers. In Fopp, a few years ago, I saw someone purchasing a copy of Aja off the turntable - the store didn't have another copy of the record so they bought that one. With all that being said, recently I have been acquiring a fair amount of music directly from artists. The problem is availability. Any decent record shop will order something they don't have in stock, but I can do that too, more directly. One of my favourite albums of 2022 - Sundowners - Pulling Back the Night - could initially only be purchased from the band. I don't know whether it is more broadly available now. Some artists have formed cottage industries around themselves - Darren Hayman, formerly of Hefner, sells his music and his paintings online. If you have a loyal niche audience then maybe that is the way to go, as opposed to fighting for space in the racks.
I work at Badlands now but when I was at school in Nailsworth at the end of the 70s my friend's Gran worked in Cheltenham Preedys, we got her to get us a copy of Never Mind the Bollocks each, I wonder what she actually thought about that.
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What a great interview with Phil from Badlands digged every moment ,miss his bro Steve more than words can tell & have met some real awesome people thru Badlands also no way i could have made many dream of life trips without their kindness & help ,thankyou Badlands and long may you run indeed !
Great interview, well done Phil. Badlands is the best record shop in the UK. "Long may you run.......".
Very entertaining interview...Phil is a lovely chap and always helpful.
I Have known Phil and his Late Brother Steve for Many Many Years They both played a large part in my life organising trips around the world and watching Bruce During the interview Phil said a customer asked if Bruce would be singing in French as he was playing in France I was with Steve one day when a rather short Lady asked if she could have tickets at the front as she was short After I stopped laughing I assembled eight of the tallest blokes I could we all dropped down on our knees shuffled up to Steve and asked if we could also have tickets at the front as we were also short I think his answer was Go Forth and Multiply Great interview Nick C😃
Great interview ! I travelled several times with Badlands to Bruce shows in the States and Europe and it was always a great pleasure to travel with them.
Wow, as a regular customer of Badlands this is fantastic to see.
Really enjoyed this. Looking forward to more Word in your Record Shop.
Knew Phil & Steve back in '87, I'd go to Badlands for a day out & they'd take me out to lunch & a few beers, wonderful blokes. RIP Steve. A great trip to see Bruce at Nassau in April '88 with MGP Tours (before Jump Travel started) & Phil & Steve happened to be on the same trip. Great times.
From Lee J
Great memories of traveling with Badlands to the Paris Omni Bercy arena to see the Concert for Amnesty International back in the day - Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N’Dour and Tracy Chapman.
Thanks for the great interview with Phil. As a long time customer and participant in Badlands trips, it was great to see you recognising the fantastic service Phil and his late brother, Steven, have provided for music lovers in general and Springsteen fans in particular.
Cheltenham has never supported live music well but has had 2 great record shops in my lifetime .. Driftin' & Badlands. Thank you to both of them
Excellent! Well done Phil and thanks for your tip off about this one.
"Space travels in my blood there ain't nothing I can do about it" Pure genius. Excellent interview which I planned to watch in segments but watched the whole shebang in one sitting. Felt sure at one point that you were going to mention a certain trip that took fans to South Africa! Well done matey you look surprisingly good on screen.
Very entertaining interview.
First went to Badlands in 1988 when I started working in Cheltenham and kept going back. Miss the days of the second hand vinyl upstairs, managed to get some great finds there in the 90s. Great that it's still going and even won a Pink Floyd box set in a prize draw from them (still have it). Haven't worked in Cheltenham for many years now but still try and go in if I'm in town.
Interesting insight into the record business from a perspective we don't often see. Well done!
AGAP is one of the best records ever made and I melt every time I hear it; but one evening in Berlin I was at the awesome venue Walbühne having bought some last minute cheap side of stage tickets to see The Stones and was listening happily to the pre-show music with a stage monitor right next to my ear blasting out 'I'm on another planet with you'. Priceless.
A fascinating interview. Really interesting to see how the independent record shop has survived the times. I’ve bought loads of stuff from Badlands over the years. Real music lovers. Thanks for doing this.
Driftin' Records, '76 /'77....was the center of the universe in the new wave era, squated the old Horse And Groom pub opposite what became Badlands, best Punky Reggae Parties in town
Driftin’ was amazing. I used to hang out in there for hours and hours. Roger was a legend and he was really helpful to us when we started up. He moved to Bristol around the time we opened.
Loved Driftin’ too - good old Roger!
Great show guys.
Love this kind of personal-but-wide-ranging interview - most enjoyable.
Greetings from Radio Tower Records, Berlin. Nice interview Phil with so many points that ring true with me too! Including my own experience with my parents home 'hi-fi' which was a Bush Stereo Radiogram with a Garrard deck - probably worth a bit more now :-)
Greetings from Western Australia. And in the 90's I got a Springsteen bootleg 5CD pack shipped over from Badlands and opened it like I was opening music contraband! And I stopped criticizing women friends about spending so much time browsing clothes when I realised I did exactly the same thing every time I came across a second hand record shop.
Great stuff. An institution. Badlands can always be relied on for great personal service.
Best record shop in the South West bar none remember the days in the upstairs market
Many years since I worked in Cheltenham - charmed to hear Evesham Market mentioned - Evesham's contribution to bands such as Traffic, Mott the Hoople & Satan's Rats/Photos, has long been documented.
In 1970s I recall great emphasis was placed on the superiority of Japanese import vinyl pressings. I bought a live concert LP of Deep Purple with Tommy Bolin equipped with only one fully functioning arm I believe? The Japanese import cost approx £1 more than standard UK pressing.
Does this element still feature in record trading?
Thanks again guys
I am a strong advocate of the record shop experience and the 'buying something because it looks like it might be good' approach to building a record collection. It satisfies my latent hunter/gatherer instincts that I have retained from my mammoth-hunting ancestors. You will never divest me of the notion that (for example) an album containing a song titled 'I Hate The Clicking Man' buried in the track listing can be bad.
I used to visit Adrians in Wickford (which I understand will be closing for good in 2023 after the owner retires). When Adrians was at its peak, and covered a tremendous expanse of floorspace, it would stock entire back catalogues. I remember going in there with a list of Can albums I wanted and leaving with all of them. Arguably that 'cover all bases' approach has, out of economic necessity, given way to something a bit more curated.
That can be good too. It is unlikely that, when clicking on the shopping cart button on Amazon, you will be taken to a page informing you of a great Phil Manzanera album that you absolutely must hear - words that were actually spoken to me in a record shop. And they were right! They saw something in me - a deficiency that could only be addressed by listening to Phil Manzanera.
Ordering online, you deprive yourself of the culture of record shops. You miss out on the physical connection with the records and the human connection with the staff and the other customers. In Fopp, a few years ago, I saw someone purchasing a copy of Aja off the turntable - the store didn't have another copy of the record so they bought that one.
With all that being said, recently I have been acquiring a fair amount of music directly from artists. The problem is availability. Any decent record shop will order something they don't have in stock, but I can do that too, more directly.
One of my favourite albums of 2022 - Sundowners - Pulling Back the Night - could initially only be purchased from the band. I don't know whether it is more broadly available now.
Some artists have formed cottage industries around themselves - Darren Hayman, formerly of Hefner, sells his music and his paintings online. If you have a loyal niche audience then maybe that is the way to go, as opposed to fighting for space in the racks.
Fantastic, loved it.
What a great fella! That was ace.
Great Phil. Your record store is an institution.👍
Phil is the Boss!
I remember Preedys well - there used to be one in Worcester when my family moved down to area in 1978
Ditto Retford!
I work at Badlands now but when I was at school in Nailsworth at the end of the 70s my friend's Gran worked in Cheltenham Preedys, we got her to get us a copy of Never Mind the Bollocks each, I wonder what she actually thought about that.
I remember Cheltenham’s Preedy’s too!
And I definitely remember well buying many records from The Market Square above BHS in the Regent Arcade.
I remember getting my On U Sound releases in the market square…1988?
Great taste, love On U!
Market Square was Feb 86 to Dec 87. Then we had to wait until May 88 to re-open.
@@BadlandsUK and before that was the old market hall opposite the Odeon? Or was that a dream..?
Is there a “charts” any more? It would be Music I wouldn’t know
Back lot of Universal Studios with Dewy Martin and Bill Darnell - Medicine ball 1969
good luck to those who can afford Springsteen tickets. Apparently $5,000 for some tickets in the USA.
Momma's & Poppa's in the theatre in the round in San Bernardio? 1962?
What's a MP3?
33 1/3, 45 R.P.M., 78 R.P.M. Wall of Sound by Phil Specter
Casette tapes
Monopoly by Ticketmaster.
Sear & Robuck so we could steal 45's, stuff down our pants. I had the top 50 until mom threw them out like my comic books.
They did that to me and I got kicked in the gut by Devo.
8 track players
Revolver and backwards.
Is downloading stealing?
There wearing masks to get into Disneyland.