Foxhound
retired
Spike:
CKLW was a great station in those days! Did you ever pick up CHYR in Leamington?
CKLW was a great station in those days! Did you ever pick up CHYR in Leamington?
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How did you get into rock music? What's your story?
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Džedaj
Groovy as hell.
Well I'm really jealous on you Foxhound, you could listen to your rock idols knowing that they're alive xD
I started to heavily listen to rock and roll after I watched "Almost Famous" on tv 3 years ago. I got carried away with all that true rock and roll vibe, and start "to love silly little piece of music, so much, that it hurts...". I live in small town in Balkan, and 90 % of youth listen to turbo folk (it doesn't have any familiarities to "folk", like Dylan's or any contemporary folk artist today) , which is most trashiest shitty piece of music, but there's still small population of rock and roll fans, and there's lokal MKC club which is full of events, mostly punk and metal, but rock and roll gigs have their place there, too. So I totally dive in rock and roll world, maybe in different place and time that should be expected for rock and roll fan to be, but I don't wanna miss a thing that 60s and 70s dudes were doing and I'm living as best as I can. I don't mean "sex,drugs and rock and roll" living, just living as fair rocker and enjoying the music as much as I can, doing some doobies here and there, getting know to bands that are playing there and such. What mostly buried me in rock and roll was vinyl records and jamming with friends. So we would take some guitars, drove to the local park and jam, drink and have fun. Also, when I would go to Zagreb I would immidiately go to the records shop and as soon as I would step in, I could feel that good old rock and roll vibe. Posters of Jimi Hendrix, Floyds and Doors would hang on the wall, shop would be overloaded with vinyls of all sort and that hippie owner with long hair and Lennon-like glasses would always smile and you could have good talk about rock with him. I would just slip my finger over records sleeve and I could feel that legendary gigs that I have missed in 60s, trips with bands and all that. Then later, when I would get back home, I would sit on my bad, turn the gramophone and put the new records on it and just enjoy.
I just love rock and roll.
I started to heavily listen to rock and roll after I watched "Almost Famous" on tv 3 years ago. I got carried away with all that true rock and roll vibe, and start "to love silly little piece of music, so much, that it hurts...". I live in small town in Balkan, and 90 % of youth listen to turbo folk (it doesn't have any familiarities to "folk", like Dylan's or any contemporary folk artist today) , which is most trashiest shitty piece of music, but there's still small population of rock and roll fans, and there's lokal MKC club which is full of events, mostly punk and metal, but rock and roll gigs have their place there, too. So I totally dive in rock and roll world, maybe in different place and time that should be expected for rock and roll fan to be, but I don't wanna miss a thing that 60s and 70s dudes were doing and I'm living as best as I can. I don't mean "sex,drugs and rock and roll" living, just living as fair rocker and enjoying the music as much as I can, doing some doobies here and there, getting know to bands that are playing there and such. What mostly buried me in rock and roll was vinyl records and jamming with friends. So we would take some guitars, drove to the local park and jam, drink and have fun. Also, when I would go to Zagreb I would immidiately go to the records shop and as soon as I would step in, I could feel that good old rock and roll vibe. Posters of Jimi Hendrix, Floyds and Doors would hang on the wall, shop would be overloaded with vinyls of all sort and that hippie owner with long hair and Lennon-like glasses would always smile and you could have good talk about rock with him. I would just slip my finger over records sleeve and I could feel that legendary gigs that I have missed in 60s, trips with bands and all that. Then later, when I would get back home, I would sit on my bad, turn the gramophone and put the new records on it and just enjoy.
I just love rock and roll.
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^^That is a great story DZ.
I am glad when so many young people take the time to rediscover the old music we all grew up with and keep it alive. I don't have anything against new bands either, some excellent hard rock/metal bands from Europe have got me excited about that genre again.
It is a pleasure to have someone from Croatia to share their thoughts and stories about music with us.
And a belated hello to Spike, nice to see his name in the threads again.
I am glad when so many young people take the time to rediscover the old music we all grew up with and keep it alive. I don't have anything against new bands either, some excellent hard rock/metal bands from Europe have got me excited about that genre again.
It is a pleasure to have someone from Croatia to share their thoughts and stories about music with us.
And a belated hello to Spike, nice to see his name in the threads again.
Foxhound
retired
Džedaj said:
And in the case of the Stones, they still are (for the most part anyway)!
Gabble Ratchet
Senior Member
This part of your post stuck out to me, I'd love to just spend a day in a record shop like that. Unfortunately for me though, they've all either gone out of business or been commercialised, or have little content in the way of vinyls over here. It's still a dream of mine though, and if I can ever find a shop like the one you described anywhere in the world I'll be doing just that!
Džedaj
Groovy as hell.
This part of your post stuck out to me, I'd love to just spend a day in a record shop like that. Unfortunately for me though, they've all either gone out of business or been commercialised, or have little content in the way of vinyls over here. It's still a dream of mine though, and if I can ever find a shop like the one you described anywhere in the world I'll be doing just that!
Well take a look at this beauty : Freebird - O nama
I'm so grateful that vinyl shop like this even exist and it's in my country. Too bad it's located 200km from my place, but whenever I visit Zagreb, I stop by to Freebird just to walk through that hallways of vinyls. It's awesome you can buy semi-rare vinyls (in not so good condition) for about 2-5 $ if you're lucky. I bought Santana's first LP for 4 $, sleeve was in VG condition, vinyl in EX, and LP was originally from India! There's one more vinyl store full with rare vinyls which is smaller than Freebird, but with expensive ones, so I got my eye on that "Aoxomoxoa" vinly from Dead for 16$ : Karma Second Hand Music Shop (YU PRESSINGS) - rare vinyl lp's, cd's from ex-Yugoslavia, Europe, USA, Asia
I believe that in every vinyl there's small piece of kind spirit trapped in, you just have to find right one and release it.
Gabble Ratchet
Senior Member
My eyes just lit up...If there was a store like that in Adelaide I reckon I'd practically live there. This might be a tricky question, but can anyone identify the artwork on the left for me? I'm intrigued now!
TheFeldster
Mr Kite
This part of your post stuck out to me, I'd love to just spend a day in a record shop like that. Unfortunately for me though, they've all either gone out of business or been commercialised, or have little content in the way of vinyls over here. It's still a dream of mine though, and if I can ever find a shop like the one you described anywhere in the world I'll be doing just that!
Go down Rundle Street. Turn down Bent Street. Turn down York Street. Find Mr V Music. That's a good one.
Also on Rundle Street, there's "Big Star Records" (just before Bent Street). That's probably better than Mr V, but I went in there the other week and it was pretty empty, so not sure if it was closing down or they were renovating or moving or what.
Neither are as good as the record shops of old, as far as I can tell, but they're the best we've got.
To the rest of you not from Adelaide, ignore this post and have a nice day
Sal what artwork to the left are you referring to??
We have numerous stores selling vinyl records here, and pawn shops believe it or not are also a good source of old music of all kinds. It's been a while since I shopped in a 2nd hand record store though.
Still both of those stores look great DZ, I can see why you like shopping in them when you are in Zagreb.
We have numerous stores selling vinyl records here, and pawn shops believe it or not are also a good source of old music of all kinds. It's been a while since I shopped in a 2nd hand record store though.
Still both of those stores look great DZ, I can see why you like shopping in them when you are in Zagreb.
Gabble Ratchet
Senior Member
The big colourful painting/poster up the top left LG. Feldster, thanks for the tip! Next time I'm in the Rundle area I'll give it a butcher's hook
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