SDIM AD #6
Coming this summer!
It’s contest time in America!
The first person to name the two songs being covered in the two sections of this video of Mike Adams At His Honest Weight opening up for Damien Jurado last Saturday wins a 5 LP prize package sent right to you door (US only, sorry!).
Email your answer (list both title and original artist for each song) to flannelgraphrecords@gmail.com .
The contest starts NOW.
Here’s an idea for a museum/gallery style art installation that I had last year. Hopefully the drawings and explanations are clear enough, if not feel free to ask me anything about it that you want to.
The basic idea for this came from the thought that there are a handful of records* that have sold millions upon millions of copies. Presumably, most of those LPs were pressed from the same masters. Which means, not only are the songs on the LPs the very same, but the lock-groove at the end of each side should also be the same. We’re all very familiar with songs like “Take It To the Limit” because of their cultural infestation, but 29 million of us also bought the album and presumably played it at home. In my mind, the likelihood that many millions of us at one time or another (or many times) let the album sides play out to the lock groove before we either stopped, or flipped the album, is very high. Which means that, while we shared the collective experience of listening to The Eagles Greatest Hits, we also shared the collective experience of listening to the lock groove at the end of The Eagles Greatest Hits. It also seems unlikely to me that many of us could recall the sound of the groove, or identify the rhythm of the groove if we were to hear it.
With that in mind, I thought it would be fun and interesting to build this installation which focusses on the “throwaway” part of these albums that millions of us are very familiar with. By forcing the user to center in on the rhythm of the groove, allowing the user to interact with those rhythms (or a combination thereof) we experience our own lives and memories in an entirely new way that can neither be precisely remembered or recreated. Much like our current, more visceral, everyday experiences with the music pressed on these same LPs.
*this experiment requires vinyl LPs and the most popular albums that were sold in that format. Assuming that these LPs (and the recent surge in vinyl popularity) will stand the test of time, this experience can go on indefinitely. If the popularity of this format fades (again), or these particular albums wane in popularity, then the people on which this experiment will reach it’s full potential will mostly be dead soon.
This is an unscientific test I ran of the below installation. I didn’t have 12 turntables, so this is the product of 12 different lock grooves overdubbed on top of one another. The experience was not the same as what I have proposed, but the end result is the same.
I also had a list of records used in the above recording, but I’m afraid it was accidentally deleted from my computer. I remember using all 4 sides of The Beatles “The Beatles”, both sides of “The Eagles Greatest Hits”, and both sides of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”. I don’t recall the other four sides, but hopefully you get the drift.
This is Annie Cheek and today is her 28th birthday! If it wasn’t for her, none of us would be here today! None of us!
In honor of her living 28 years, today only (until 3am tonight) all Flannelgraph items are 28% off at our MAILORDER STORE.
SECRET CODE: AnnieBirthdayBlowout
Just heard that Doc Watson passed today. I had the chance to see him play back in 2003 and it was a great night. Here’s him singing “Rovin’ On A Winter’s Night”.
please come over!
police comb over!
Mike Adams from Mike Adams At His Honest Weight is now tumbling. Follow him to the ends of the earth.
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY
Last December my life took a major, traumatic and unexpected left turn. That’s my excuse for not having updated the internet.
However, IRL, the glacier keeps pulsing. There is an entire new Honest Weight record “in the can”. In March, I delivered the can to Adam (pictured) who is having his way with it. Much like the last record. I’m excited to hear what he’s doing to it. I believe he’s a genius. I’ve distanced myself from the album since the recording’s been finished, and I’m starting to forget what it’s like. I guess we’ll all be surprised!
For now, my focus has shifted back to my endeavors with husband&wife. We’re in the midst of recording some demos and writing new songs for a new record. I’m feeling this lately. Our approach has changed a bit, and we’re writing more and more together than before. True collaboration. It’s slow, but rewarding. Go with God.
There’s also a Prayer Breakfast full-length album coming out soon. We recently played our first show in many months and it was a total blast. By that, I mean, we had a very fun time.
All this to say, life goes on. And, even though the internet may not know about it, things are still desperately being made and worked on. After all, the clock is ticking…
A whole new you (me)
There is an archive of moldy old posts and information about my thing that predates this stuff at : dustcollectors.blogspot.com
