What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[soulpope]

[felser]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[ghost of miles]

[Brad]

9 hours ago, soulpope said:

Stan “the Record Man” Lewis.

Original shop in Shreveport.

Edited March 17, 2020 by Brad

[BFrank]

Johnny Marr - Comet Tripper, Live At The Roundhouse

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, Brad said:

Stan “the Record Man” Lewis.

Original shop in Shreveport.

Yep .... thnx for sharing ....

[Brad]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Yep .... thnx for sharing ....

Honestly, I’d never heard of him until I saw your photo, which intrigued me. Real interesting person. 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Brad said:

Honestly, I’d never heard of him until I saw your photo, which intrigued me. Real interesting person. 

Nice photo nevertheless ..... Shreveport was a Southern Soul nucleus in the late 60`s/early 70`s ....

Edited March 17, 2020 by soulpope

[JSngry]

That downtown Stan's was a hopping place!

[Brad]

35 minutes ago, JSngry said:

That downtown Stan's was a hopping place!

Wish I’d gone there!

[JSngry]

Did you spend time in Shreveport? It was about an hour away from the town where I grew up, actually closer than Dallas. So when the family "went to the city" it was almost always Shreveport. Pluse, we lived there from 1962-1965, my dad worked for Texaco and they had a big office there.

Stan's was one of those record stores that always had records blaring. The Jewel/Paula offices were literally nest door, and there was always a "contingent" of some kind or another around. And it was also, ca. 1971, where I discovered that promo copies were sold in some places for significantly less than list price!

Only saw Stan Lewis in the store a few times, but his brother Ace ran a satellite sore out in the outer city. Ace was a really hip guy, a real jazz fan, and always had good jazz playing in his store on a top-quality system.

I guess Shreveport has been pretty much a broken shadow for several decades now. but between it and the "notorious" Bossier City across the river...there used to be a palpable energy there.

[felser]

Yes, it's as awesome as you could hope in both fidelity and performance.  I think I just found my new go-to Rory Gallager!

[mjazzg]

Great title for the Rory. I listened to him a lot back then, fondly remember a great televised concert, probably on 'Rock Goes To College'. Haven't listened to him in decades now

[felser]

[soulpope]

For Cyril .... R.I.P ....

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[Brad]

On 3/17/2020 at 8:54 AM, JSngry said:

Did you spend time in Shreveport? It was about an hour away from the town where I grew up, actually closer than Dallas. So when the family "went to the city" it was almost always Shreveport. Pluse, we lived there from 1962-1965, my dad worked for Texaco and they had a big office there.

Stan's was one of those record stores that always had records blaring. The Jewel/Paula offices were literally nest door, and there was always a "contingent" of some kind or another around. And it was also, ca. 1971, where I discovered that promo copies were sold in some places for significantly less than list price!

Only saw Stan Lewis in the store a few times, but his brother Ace ran a satellite sore out in the outer city. Ace was a really hip guy, a real jazz fan, and always had good jazz playing in his store on a top-quality system.

I guess Shreveport has been pretty much a broken shadow for several decades now. but between it and the "notorious" Bossier City across the river...there used to be a palpable energy there.

Unfortunately, no. Been to New Orleans a couple of times. Stan’s must have been a heck of a place. I assume it’s no longer around. 

[JSngry]

Ace kept the name alive in a variety of increasingly irrelevant locations for a good while, but the main downtown store closed up sometimes in the late 1970s/early 1980s, if memory serves.

Jazz record trivia - if you wonder about that run of titles by people like James Moody and a few others that got released on Paula, that was part of a deal that Paul Serrano made to distribute sessions he had made on spec. Chuck would know the details better than me (he's who I learned them from, actually), but Prestige was also in the mix, which in retrospect explains why there for a while, the downtown Stan's had promo copies of all the new Prestige albums in their cutout bins. And this was a time when Prestige was crankin' 'em out in good measure, so...I made as many trips to the big city as I could get my parents to make (this was before I was driving).

I get the impression that Stan Lewis was a bit (or more) of a "wheeler-dealer", if you know what I mean. And the whole Jewl/Paula/Ronn thing was still active not TOO terrible long ago. When I went through my period of getting, uh..."certain musics" from truck stops, their product was a big player in that mix. And somewhere, I think I still have a copy of the mail-order catalogue they put out from that same time, which was chock full of musics and videos that I think it's safe to say were not even remotely targeted to any audences other than Southern Black People (And Those Who Knew Them Well).

There's no doubt a story or two (thousand) to be had there, and truthfully, it will most likely never be fully told. It's too regional, too ethnic, and probably too many bodies missing to ever get full sunlight. Which is probably as it should be and was always meant to be.

[Brad]

[ghost of miles]

Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The 80s Underground

[BFrank]

4 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The 80s Underground

THAT looks interesting!

[ghost of miles]

 

7 hours ago, BFrank said:

THAT looks interesting!

It’s a great set! I picked up a near-mint copy on eBay for about $40 last year—very well-curated overview of the era, and a fair amount of material on it that I’d missed as the era was actually happening. (I feel like such a greybeard now! 😄).