Recent content by Portland Sheriff

Combustication is my favorite MMW album. If CDs wore out like vinyl, my original CD would be toast. I’ve been looking for one of the 1998 presses of this for a long while in right condition and price (after shipping) and finally found one. This is the 1998 UK release, and it sounds excellent...

Interesting. I thought rhino’s description was confusing also, but I assumed that if it was AAA , they’d have gone out of their way to make that clear. The varieties of this album from the last 8 years are ridiculous. The KG 33 cut is excellent already, and people like Wilson’s 2018 version...

Despite forthcoming Acoustic Sounds Atlantic 75 AAA 45rpm, this “super deluxe edition” with a ton of CD/DVD extras includes a 33rpm vinyl cut by Bernie Grundman, apparently from a “new” remaster by Steven Wilson from original tapes. So presumably vinyl is not AAA and not the same remaster as...

I’m debating whether to swap Nilsson for credit or Isaac Hayes.

The idea that something sitting in the store for months as being noteworthy is curious to me. That’s the norm for most vinyl releases. Same for something going to swaps being thought of as, seemingly, a negative or an indication that something is wrong w the release or VMP’s biz. Swaps are part...

Exhumed he’d be Old Dirtier Bastard [sorry - I know that’s in bad taste]

They had t-shirts and hoodies, poster, the album in LP format (not sure about CD), and some other accessory stuff I don’t remember.

Just saw this tour in Chicago Wednesday and got to say hello to Kamasi in front of his tour bus. Great show! I assume you know he’ll be in London this fall.

You and my wife were probably at some of the same shows in Minneapolis. She was into Trip Shakespeare and that whole Minneapolis scene in the 90s.

Love for Sale is either my most or 2nd most rare record. And I love the cover photo/art.

I have these three Audio Lab titles on vinyl (and Side by Side on sacd). Get Happy is still cheap. Sound on all of them is fantastic, as you mention, particularly drum-centric “The Dialogue,” which may be the best recorded drums of any album I own. I used to have Side by Side on vinyl, but...

I agree with this. With 20k subscribers, the amount of money mentioned in that Complaint $1.5-2m (loan from VMP to plant; Salstrom’s salary; etc) shouldn’t be significant enough to threaten the company unless there has been uttter mismanagement in other ways. The fire sales give me pause, but...

BREAKING: VMP announces bailout plan is to build “Open Vinyl Me Please” bespoke vinyl-opening-knife manufacturing facility.

Im a lawyer and this is partially what I was getting at in my post above. There are ways this is possible with the most egregious fraud, where even reasonable investigation by the board doesn’t reveal what’s going on. But there’s a part of this suggesting the board was sleeping at the wheel...

This. It’s the reason this news is shocking. But it also raises questions about the board itself given the brazenness some of the things they’re accused of. For example, signing a significant lease in another company’s same? That doesn’t even make sense it’s so brazen and transparently...