Record Store Day Champion: Anton Newcombe
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Introducing Anton Newcombe, our second Record Store Day UK Champion.
To celebrate our 10th birthday, Brian Jonestown Massacre legend Anton Newcombe has been enlisted as our second official UK champion. As part of his official involvement, the Brian Jonestown Massacre are releasing Pol Pot's Pleasure Penthouse - the first time available on vinyl, the only ever time this album has been officially released was on cassette format on Burger Records (which was limited to 500 cassettes) .
Record Store Day is the one day of the year when over 200 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for the day and many shops and cities host artist performances and events to mark the occasion.
I love how Anton treats music and records. He values them like they are a fine wine. Wish most musicians nowadays had that genuine passion for music that Aton Newcombe has.
I find Anton fascinating.
I could listen to him all day. It's nice to see him calmer these days, though he is wild and interesting in all forms !
Can't believe how mellow and shy he is now compared to the 90s
Aging, as well as getting sober, tends to do that. He still puts out great records!
Mellow and shy? Nope, he’s just sober
@@ck891 He'll never be either one of those first two - ever.
this comforts me.
Love Anton, this was nice to watch
Nice to watch because he enjoys that very personal experience of visiting records stores and thumbing thru the stacks. That incredible feeling of finding a record you've been searching for. That incredible feeling of just digging the great cover art that can only really be enjoyed on a 12X12 album. I met Anton a few years back in a small club in Baltimore and was actually able to get him on cell phone to personally encourage my friend Jason to come down for the show. Can't do that anymore...he now belongs to the world!
He's so passionate. Always has been. Vinyl was my first experience and I'm glad not to have been born any later . I would sit with whatever LP of my Dads and look at the art work and my imagination would be locked in with the music. It's so fast paced now for kids. Like Anton said it's quality not quantity when it comes to really appreciating music.x
Great to hear him praising Astral Weeks. "Put it on." That's all you can say about one of the greatest works of art in the entire 20th century. I love Berlin, too. I was backpacking in Europe in the 70s, went into a record store in Berlin to listen to Goat's Head Soup which had just come out. They were very kind, gave me a chair and let me listen to the whole album.
Oh I love Anton, his music is Fabulous
Nice selection, I'm going to check those one by one.
you know Anton KNOWS music when he can quickly review a Monkees record and know all the good songs are there.
"Tschüss" Anton ;-)
Records go round-a-aound! Yes they do, yes they do.
Spinnin' round like the wheels on a kickstarted funk-cycle. That's the way they go! And where it stops... nobody knows.
Hey Anton.
I was raised in a public library and books got boring so I went to the Music, which was the stuff the early seventies was dumping so as a five year old I was picking up Olivia Newton John, Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel and other confessionalists. Never lost that taste, going sorta into with Joni Mitchell albums up to Hejira. I...listened to a lot of Dan Fogelberg.
Pal O Mine and I would comb record stores...we had th eRed Rolling Stone Record Guide, and I read it cover to cover. Terribe review of Hendrix, but then they published the blue cover version and removed it. The blue cover did more Classical and Jazz review? There was a little bit in the Red cover book too.
I grew up listening to the Pipe Organ at Church. There was a choir too, and a lot of singing. The organist was excellent, and would warm up before the invocation with Bach, loudly. I listened to classical music over all this time as well picking up Glass with the Doc Koyanisquatsi, but nothing like Sate, or Bartok or Stravinsky, I listened to that much later...in my twenties. I had an odd taste for organ music and my teen crowd did not!
Using the RSRGuide, I got into Can, Echo and Bunnymen, The Byrds, The Yardbirds...if your looking for a specific kind of bird, Faust, King Crimson (actually he got me into that but so what?) but then in trying to remember more, instead, I remember my girlfriend.
The three of us were a bit of trio.
The sane girlfriend, one not a predator. We were teens, not really socialized...lol, so its crunchy even talking to her today. They call it baggage and a drag but its really YOUR reality.
Oh they wouldn't call her sane but I would! Mostly the three of us listened to the hippy music of the sixties, with her taste leaning folk, his tastes Creedence Clearwater (I know not really sixties), and mine a specific album...Woodstock.
Then the four of us, yes, a fourth came into the music network who must be mentioned because of the magnitude even though the three of us and the books and used record stores were fermenting enough, he WAS doing formal musical research.
He had been a assistant at a radio station when he was twelve, a funk station, which, when it closed down he snagged the cheapest lot of obscure funk. Must have been one hundred albums lining his bedroom at his Moms house?
He filtered the market, which I was not interested in, and we met over there a lot and he always had his playlist. He would play market stuff, a little before popularity but maybe a few months. Kept tabs on us on paper.
So, like the first time we all got together at his house after school he played "Crosby Stiller and Knasher" the band without Young, and he called it "Corporate Rock".
Over the fifteen years, he played No Goth or Punk or Country or Rock, all the stuff I liked even though I was listening to the market so I didnt hear Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, though he did play "Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again", New Order. He was more Midnight Oil, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, some REM, U2 (October stuff), lotta Micheal Jackson, Yaz, James Brown, Stevie Wonder but not that much Funk.
I had ventured into the market about two years before, buying Saturday Night Fever. I heard a lot of Disco even as I grew up old enough to have a radio and use it. Dr. Demento. American Top Forty. "You, You Light Up My LIfe...". Is that about Lucifer?
There was a Gong Show episode, wherein, everyone who auditioned sang that song!
On occasion as with many other bands, through the market sieve, HE never stuck with that and many others longer than a month so he had moving window.
Wasn't keeping up with me though because I had a classical, movie soundtrack and Musicals approach that no one else had.
He was somehow attached, but not a fan of anything and saying so he played a lot of Michael Jackson and Prince. I got into Prince a bit, but it was his influence.
A fifth friend, very obscure here, was the only one who listened to the Cure and he and I had the most similar tastes yet I bottomed out with the Cocteau Twins. Whom I adored and no one did.
The Fourth, well his mom had a huge collection of sixties music so he would entice us with that, and some weed, and then move us into Funk, Glam, Disco and the Pop music, slowly over time. I would say he made his introduction, the first time I met him, he insisted on listening to Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", and we did all listen to all of Peter Gabriel...long before So. The three of us and not my gf.
But the three us were all researching our own stuff!
However its not my privilege to contact him. PhD now...he is employed as a Librarian. Such as, too much baggage.
I would attend Woodstock the Doc for midnight movies. This got me a take on the Sixties music although my first friend, the fellow RSRGuide reader, did significant research into the more post folk bluesy music, like the Band, the Beatles, King Crimson...
I had one Rolling Stones collection of hits, and I listened to them probably more than anyone else as I listened to a lot of Rock music, including once, Camel? But no one was into Rush.
My first album, officially purchased by me, was Saturday Night Fever. My second album was In Through The Out Door.
The record guide got us into Van..the three and we all listened a lot to that although I probably listened most to Astral Weeks, while the other two listened to Moondance. The third album I bought was "Commen One", by Van. None of this was impressive music that I was buying so I had to turn to the Guide.
I went vastly more electronic than anybody...except Mitch and J. J had me listen to Adrien Belew Lone Rhinoceros, and a horde of us listened to Floyd, and Mitch got me Another Green World, but I was listening a lot to E. Power Biggs Greatest Hits...the one with the Blake Illustration cover?
The god with hair blowing in the wind and deploying a compass from the clouds, to span below?
I was listening to Ennio Morricone at this time and other soundtrack music. More so than anyone.
Also, nobody liked Can so much, or Echo...except one guy...who was trying to keep up. The guy that got me into the Cure. He would take a stab at the guide but the point was you had to read it cover to cover to know what it missed too.
He had made a Columbia record membership run...like, twelve times? Lol.
Nobody except one friend, who didn't listen to music all that much, for Led Zepplin. Me and another guy, the sixth or seventh mentioned...? were both fans of The Doors, but its so weirdly teeny bopper. I got into The Doors, not for Morrison, who sounded a bit like a salesman, but for Manzerak and the Goth keyboards man. I wasn't even into Kriegar slide guitar nor was I into Country slide guitar. It grew on me and I had posters.
The New Wave was hitting at that time and everyone was Gary Numan and Talking Heads and the B52's and My Sharona. Van Halen.
Remember Outlaw Country? Its kinda Western really, but Cash and Marty Robbins mythic landscape Sam Shepard taps into.
I sensed that as it was the music my Dad played and maybe thats why I was fan of Shepard?
That whole Outlaw thing bloomed in a kind of Southern Rock , which is what the Pal O Mine cohort in researching the guide got me into but that and the Who I got into and then out of, as, for a time I blanked out my listening over Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. So Rock in me never got past Van Halen.
Young's "Hey Hey, My My" was a great song but listened to Decade a lot over the years about as much as the Doors.
Earlier, before researching the guide, another friend two years older, and there's the skew, friend number sevenplus, bit of satanist, was into ELO, Boston, The Eagles and of course older brothers and sisters here, there, everywhere, were tapping into the market so there was a tour of stuff NOT INFLUENTIAL, which is worth a list, including Heavy Metal, which I had a college roommate who was a fan. Someone gave me "Paranoid", someone gave me Alice Cooper, who had a hit in the New Wave that summer, "were all clones".
Earlier, a popular guy in High School had parties and played Van Halen. "Dance the Night Away" is a great song.
Before then, just as my early tastes were forming and not after all kinds of sources were hurling themselves into my purview...I was so out of the market I didn't know Cheap Trick existed, but the concert, with Blue Oyster Cult (see satanists list...not that there's anything satanic!) was excellent. I was 14! I think my ears are still ringing.
I never heard the "Hey Mickey" song. Pretty much my approach to music is informal music research.
right on Anton
Strange. He mentions many of the records that I have an intense emotionally attachment to..
wow bitch, you're practically best friends.
Didn't mean to say Anton was "lost to time." He's as relevant and profound a writer as we have. As for Rhodes...hardly anyone remembers him with Merry Go Round or the albums he put out as a solo artist (on his solo debut he reminds me so much of Paul McCartney).
why is he so fucking wholesome the part about the legoman made me tear up
Van Morrison, Simon and Garfunkel,Rolling Stones, Monkees and Fairport Convention....what a Beautiful Handful of the Elixir of Great Music that helped to give us Anton and the JonesTownMassacre....Total Genius Music and Vibe of Love and the Mayhem it makes !
Hah, that's great. I met Joel for the first time in a record store too some time ago.
Maxwell Spaceman As did I... Amoeba Records in SF.
He says he borrowed his sister's records, yet in DIG his mum says that he's a only child.
he actually has two sisters, one older and one younger
very true
Whoah, Anton cut his mutton chops ?
End of an era.
And I really want that Pol Pots Pleasure Penthouse record....
Eh, i dug em, but i don't think that has much to do with where i choose to put my cock.
personally, I love that the chops are gone. they were frightening
the chops were great and I actually own that PPPP record! Sad thing though is that it isnt the same cover artwork as the original casette, but just some communist style eastern block building
PPPP is revolutionary
johnny winter, yeah
It's a funny thing with musos, that a lot of non-musos are surprised that the muso is actually quite normal. Like they expect them to be zonked to the eyelids, crawling the walls, around the clock. But they don't.
It's great the way Anthony talks about that so very important PARALLEL UNIVERSE of music and records available for distinguished collectors as well as curious teenagers in record stores.Glad ,he still found one in BERLIN 3 years ago,as in Los Angeles (I lived there for 30 years and was forced to leave in oct.2019 for an inheritance matter) record stores have disappeared one after the other over the last 10 to 15 years.
Anthony seems to like Berlin a lot.So did other legandary musicians,such as David Bowie,Nico (my friend and big sister) and Iggy Pop.
Nina Hagen still lives there as well (I talk with her on the phone once in a while) and so does my amazing ,currently starving friend MIKO (www.proplanetportal.com) and some remaining members of the legendary COSMIC ROCK movement from Berlin...among them ex Tangerine drummer KLAUS SCHULZE ,with whom I performed in a Munich church in 1975 ,all dressed in white,and with whom I had a physical,emotional and musical relationship for a year.(The Grand Prix winning album TIMEWIND was composed by him during the time of our relationship)
I totally l o v e the music of THE BRIANJONESTOWNMASSACRE BAND and wish ,some psychic or criminal investigation team would start to SHINE A LIGHT on that mysterious connection with the FBI JONESTOWN MASSACRE and the drowning episode of BRIAN JONES.Jon Wiener's book THE FBI FILES ON JOHN LENNON might help...
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What is the name of that record shop plz ?
the record store
Everybody had that Mickey Mouse record player.
Song name at 2:57?
I Love Everybody - Johnny Winter
Anton would have made for a great music critic, rather than making music, and I really miss him interviewing other people.
Please don’t buy a cheap turntable.
Sounds like having a son has helped him mature. And of all the people youd think shouldnt raise children...go figure.
feels almost like a mature version of Tim & Eric lol
...and he digs Emitt Rhodes! Like Anton Rhodes was one of the great young songwriters who is lost to time. "Hey Anton, if you get a chance bring up Merry Go Round on the old Dating Game show on RUclips." Very cool...soooo cool.
Great video, really enjoyable.
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I did get you 🎁
The artist admiring art.
I've got a jumper just like Anton's! He always gives a good interview.
Stilll have my vinyl from the early 70s.
Winner.....Not!.....
fart
The ultimate Boxer
If you had the mp3 your shit wouldnt get lost or scratched.
I used to be a vinyl guy but they are too tender .
Got tired of having to baby fragile things.
Lolol