Record Store Day 2013: Jack White/White Stripes news

    So it looking like on April the 20^th (RSD) is going to be an extra special day if you're a White Stripes fan. Jack White is set to reissue The White Stripes’ Elephant record on that day, and according to COS it will be pulled from the original analog source, the re-mastered album comes pressed on two different colored vinyl's: LP1 is on split-color black and red vinyl, and LP2 is on white vinyl, all housed in a double pocket gatefold, tip on sleeve….that sounds sweet.

     There's a brief video on the Third Man Records’ website teasing us …watch it HERE.

A standard black vinyl reissue will be released later this year.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

My First Record Player

   

      A post with some personal nostalgia from me....this is what comes from digging through old pictures, so here it is.
   Not long ago on a vinyl digging quest I came across what I believe to be was the very first full length record that I ever possessed.  It was 1979 and of course it had to be The Bee Gees 'Greatest Hits' , this double LP, triple Gatefold sleeve of mind-blowing happy had pictures of Barry, Robin and Maurice all gracing the inside which for a kid of 10 back then was pretty cool. I'm pretty sure I still have a picture of me holding it somewhere but so far it's eluded me, but one picture I did come find was me with my very first record player.

    Who here remembers their first record player? I do because it was likely from Sears (back then in Canada I think everything came from the Sears catalogue), the speakers were plastic, it was white and silver, it had a turntable and a tuner…and it was all mine. 

     From speaking with my Mom I've determined that I probably got it as a Christmas present and the Bee Gees record was either included or I got it for my Birthday a few weeks before.

 Just wanted to share a bit of history that helps establish where my love of music started.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM