To Nashville and To Louisville
Oct. 5th, 2025 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ateolfI hit the road solo for my trip to Louisville Wednesday morning! The drive up was very smooth. I made a few stops in Nashville along the way: record store and hamburger. My first stop was at McKay's and I got some cds:
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly soundtrack, Nina Simone: Original Album Series, Charlie Hayden: Liberation Music Orchestra, Larry Young: Unity, Augustus Pablo: Original Rockers, Jean Michel Jarre: Equinoxe, Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird • 4 Studies Etc., Steve Reich: The Cave, Tom Waits: Bad as Me, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland, and Mogwai: Rave Tapes
One thing I didn't remember from before about this place is that they price some thing by apparent popularity. Whether it's actually rare or not. Like, some AC/DC albums and they're at least twice as much as the regular used cd and it's just because they perceive them as popular (or there's currently a "demand" even though that because they're popular they were mass produced and not hard to find). Anyway, whatever I just didn't get anything overpriced, but still annoying in principle. The next stop was to the Riverside Grillshack (I think really the name is just Grillshack and it's on Riverside Dr., but it's always been fixed in my head as Riverside Grillshack so I think that will just stay!). Then I made a stop at Grimey's and got some more cds (most used but some new ones in there):
Metallica: Master of Puppets, Metallica: Ride the Lightning, Radio Birdman: The Essential (1974 - 1978), James Johnston and Terry Edwards: Dora Suarez, Grachan Moncur III: New Africa, Swell Maps: The John Peel Sessions, Jlin: Akoma, Actress: Ghettoville, Battles: EP C, Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committe Part Two, Cul de Sac: Ecim, The For Carnation: Fight Songs, The Sea and Cake: Runner, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós: Englar Alheimsins, Emahoy Tesge Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret, To Rococo Rot: The Amateur View, Richard Youngs: Festival, and Richard Youngs: Sapphie
The last few were from the super discount shelves and I went through them on the floor and hit super paydirct weeding through as those Richard Youngs were in there and that album of his I got in the Table of the Elements grab bag sale was really incredible, so that was a super-duper for me find! There was a little bit of traffic backup getting out of Nashville but other than that it was very smooth sailing to Louisville and I arrived at night. I felt I should get some food but wasn't super hungry given the heavy hamburger I'd had and I didn't get a chance to really plan in depth (or at all) the food I was going to eat but I found there was a twenty-four hour doughnut place called Jeff's Donuts and I went and picked up six doughnuts to take back to my hotel. They were huge fucking doughnuts. I figured I'd have something leftover for breakfast (well, that was correct! I had something leftover for the next three breakfasts!). They were pretty delicious too! Anyway, got to the hotel and it was very weird. I mean, it was fine but it was weird getting to the room. The hotel was across the river in Indiana. That's fine, it was still not far from everything. I mostly took the old bridge to avoid the toll (I mean, one or a few times isn't significant but I went back-and-forth a good bit and it'd have added up). Going out of the city was always quick 'cuz the road goes right into the highway/interstate ramps and there's no stopping, but coming into the city you hit downtown and a traffic light right away so it could get backed up, but most of the time I had all the time in the word to spare. Anyway, back to the hotel. It was weirdly sprawling and it was like a series of buildings linked together and the one where my room was (I'm sure why it's so cheap) was far away from the desk/entrance so you had to take this winding, labyrinthine series of corridors to get to the elevator to it. Luckily they had plenty of carts to lug one's luggage (and in my case, gear). (I mean, not luckily, of course they did and even moreso than usual due to the layout situation.) Anyway, of course this is what I get the one time I'm hauling music gear and shit. It wasn't too bad though. I was able to get everything onto the cart (just barely, ooh! like how, and I forgot to mention this earlier, I got everything, just barely, into my trunk for the trip! I mean, I still had the backseat, and front seat to spare, but I was making stops and I didn't want my stuff sitting out there, anyway, yeah!). So yeah, it was a bit of an "ordeal" but I made it to my room and talked to Mary Beth on the phone and ate some doughnuts and slept!
The next day (Thursday) was my big Louisville "sight-seeing" (read: cd shopping and some book shopping) day. My first stop was Guestroom Records and I picked up some stuff (probably mostly new but a few used things):
Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux; Clipping: Dead Channel Sky; John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Firestarter soundtrack; Brian Eno: Film Music 1976-2020; Grouper: Grid of Points; Godspeed You Black Emperor!: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead; Rachel Grimes: The Clearing, Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage; Guru Guru: UFO; Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope; Galaxie 500: Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90; Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God; and Thom Yorke: Anima
While there I'd gotten a message from Jason (of The Corrupting Sea fame who put on the Louisville Experimental Music Nights that I was there to play!) that he was at the Woodbine Chamber (formerly called the Chapel of St. Philip Neri, the venue where all the magic was to happen). So I met him up there and dropped off my modular gear as he'd graciously taken on holding it for me while I'm in town since I was nervous about leaving it in the hotel unguarded while I was out and about. So I dropped that off and I also got to see this beautiful venue, just looked around like a tourist and such. So one awesome thing that I may have mentioned before, but this is the venue where Low recorded the live album One More Reason to Forget so it's even more excited I got to play there. And I found this out a little later, maybe on Friday, but it turns out I know the person who put that out! Michael Drekka put that out on Bluesanct! Holy hell! Small world and that's pretty awesome. Anyway, then it's back to my trekking about the city. The next stop was Surface Noise. Brett wasn't working that day. I did pick up a couple of books:
The Colonel's Photograph and Other Stories by Eugène Ionesco and The Hideout by Egon Hostovský
Then I went to the record store that's just a few doors down called Matt Anthony's. It's mostly vinyl-focused (I mean, what isn't) and they didn't have a lot of cds. They had a few. I ended up picking one up:
The Sea and Cake: Oui
My next stop was this place called Book & Music exchange. I started trying to comb through all of their cds but they had a lot and a lot of lots of dreck (that wording was intentional, really want to emphasize how much dreck!) and it was in the kind of shelves that go down to the floor and after a bit I was finding it not at all worth my time. I did try the books but nothing there, but then I stumbled on their small "rarities" section where they had a few things together with prices that were different from the standard price everything else had, higher prices of course, but I found some things that made it worth it:
Zoviet France: Just an Illusion, Edward Ka-Spel: Khataclimici China Doll, and Choice Provisions: Bit.Trip Void Bit.Trip Runner Original Soundtracks
Yes, the Zoviet France is redundant with that huge box set I just recently got BUT this also was originally packaged in a fancy wooden box and it was just too cool to pass up (and while the price was higher than the dreck, it wasn't too badly priced for what it is). They also had another album of theirs but it was just a standard jewel case and that one wasn't worth the extra price since I also already have it in the box set. Okay. More thrilling stuff in another post!
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly soundtrack, Nina Simone: Original Album Series, Charlie Hayden: Liberation Music Orchestra, Larry Young: Unity, Augustus Pablo: Original Rockers, Jean Michel Jarre: Equinoxe, Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird • 4 Studies Etc., Steve Reich: The Cave, Tom Waits: Bad as Me, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland, and Mogwai: Rave Tapes
One thing I didn't remember from before about this place is that they price some thing by apparent popularity. Whether it's actually rare or not. Like, some AC/DC albums and they're at least twice as much as the regular used cd and it's just because they perceive them as popular (or there's currently a "demand" even though that because they're popular they were mass produced and not hard to find). Anyway, whatever I just didn't get anything overpriced, but still annoying in principle. The next stop was to the Riverside Grillshack (I think really the name is just Grillshack and it's on Riverside Dr., but it's always been fixed in my head as Riverside Grillshack so I think that will just stay!). Then I made a stop at Grimey's and got some more cds (most used but some new ones in there):
Metallica: Master of Puppets, Metallica: Ride the Lightning, Radio Birdman: The Essential (1974 - 1978), James Johnston and Terry Edwards: Dora Suarez, Grachan Moncur III: New Africa, Swell Maps: The John Peel Sessions, Jlin: Akoma, Actress: Ghettoville, Battles: EP C, Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committe Part Two, Cul de Sac: Ecim, The For Carnation: Fight Songs, The Sea and Cake: Runner, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós: Englar Alheimsins, Emahoy Tesge Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret, To Rococo Rot: The Amateur View, Richard Youngs: Festival, and Richard Youngs: Sapphie
The last few were from the super discount shelves and I went through them on the floor and hit super paydirct weeding through as those Richard Youngs were in there and that album of his I got in the Table of the Elements grab bag sale was really incredible, so that was a super-duper for me find! There was a little bit of traffic backup getting out of Nashville but other than that it was very smooth sailing to Louisville and I arrived at night. I felt I should get some food but wasn't super hungry given the heavy hamburger I'd had and I didn't get a chance to really plan in depth (or at all) the food I was going to eat but I found there was a twenty-four hour doughnut place called Jeff's Donuts and I went and picked up six doughnuts to take back to my hotel. They were huge fucking doughnuts. I figured I'd have something leftover for breakfast (well, that was correct! I had something leftover for the next three breakfasts!). They were pretty delicious too! Anyway, got to the hotel and it was very weird. I mean, it was fine but it was weird getting to the room. The hotel was across the river in Indiana. That's fine, it was still not far from everything. I mostly took the old bridge to avoid the toll (I mean, one or a few times isn't significant but I went back-and-forth a good bit and it'd have added up). Going out of the city was always quick 'cuz the road goes right into the highway/interstate ramps and there's no stopping, but coming into the city you hit downtown and a traffic light right away so it could get backed up, but most of the time I had all the time in the word to spare. Anyway, back to the hotel. It was weirdly sprawling and it was like a series of buildings linked together and the one where my room was (I'm sure why it's so cheap) was far away from the desk/entrance so you had to take this winding, labyrinthine series of corridors to get to the elevator to it. Luckily they had plenty of carts to lug one's luggage (and in my case, gear). (I mean, not luckily, of course they did and even moreso than usual due to the layout situation.) Anyway, of course this is what I get the one time I'm hauling music gear and shit. It wasn't too bad though. I was able to get everything onto the cart (just barely, ooh! like how, and I forgot to mention this earlier, I got everything, just barely, into my trunk for the trip! I mean, I still had the backseat, and front seat to spare, but I was making stops and I didn't want my stuff sitting out there, anyway, yeah!). So yeah, it was a bit of an "ordeal" but I made it to my room and talked to Mary Beth on the phone and ate some doughnuts and slept!
The next day (Thursday) was my big Louisville "sight-seeing" (read: cd shopping and some book shopping) day. My first stop was Guestroom Records and I picked up some stuff (probably mostly new but a few used things):
Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux; Clipping: Dead Channel Sky; John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Firestarter soundtrack; Brian Eno: Film Music 1976-2020; Grouper: Grid of Points; Godspeed You Black Emperor!: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead; Rachel Grimes: The Clearing, Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage; Guru Guru: UFO; Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope; Galaxie 500: Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90; Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God; and Thom Yorke: Anima
While there I'd gotten a message from Jason (of The Corrupting Sea fame who put on the Louisville Experimental Music Nights that I was there to play!) that he was at the Woodbine Chamber (formerly called the Chapel of St. Philip Neri, the venue where all the magic was to happen). So I met him up there and dropped off my modular gear as he'd graciously taken on holding it for me while I'm in town since I was nervous about leaving it in the hotel unguarded while I was out and about. So I dropped that off and I also got to see this beautiful venue, just looked around like a tourist and such. So one awesome thing that I may have mentioned before, but this is the venue where Low recorded the live album One More Reason to Forget so it's even more excited I got to play there. And I found this out a little later, maybe on Friday, but it turns out I know the person who put that out! Michael Drekka put that out on Bluesanct! Holy hell! Small world and that's pretty awesome. Anyway, then it's back to my trekking about the city. The next stop was Surface Noise. Brett wasn't working that day. I did pick up a couple of books:
The Colonel's Photograph and Other Stories by Eugène Ionesco and The Hideout by Egon Hostovský
Then I went to the record store that's just a few doors down called Matt Anthony's. It's mostly vinyl-focused (I mean, what isn't) and they didn't have a lot of cds. They had a few. I ended up picking one up:
The Sea and Cake: Oui
My next stop was this place called Book & Music exchange. I started trying to comb through all of their cds but they had a lot and a lot of lots of dreck (that wording was intentional, really want to emphasize how much dreck!) and it was in the kind of shelves that go down to the floor and after a bit I was finding it not at all worth my time. I did try the books but nothing there, but then I stumbled on their small "rarities" section where they had a few things together with prices that were different from the standard price everything else had, higher prices of course, but I found some things that made it worth it:
Zoviet France: Just an Illusion, Edward Ka-Spel: Khataclimici China Doll, and Choice Provisions: Bit.Trip Void Bit.Trip Runner Original Soundtracks
Yes, the Zoviet France is redundant with that huge box set I just recently got BUT this also was originally packaged in a fancy wooden box and it was just too cool to pass up (and while the price was higher than the dreck, it wasn't too badly priced for what it is). They also had another album of theirs but it was just a standard jewel case and that one wasn't worth the extra price since I also already have it in the box set. Okay. More thrilling stuff in another post!
