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Saving Soul...Vinyl Records For Many Remain Ultimate Music Object

by Myra Mathis-Flynn, Free Press Staff Writers, 6/12/08

You take home more than music when you buy a vinyl record. You purchase a book, an art display, a custom print, a piece of music and a slice of history. When you buy a vinyl record, you walk lightly for fear of skipping the fragile needle, and you stay close by so you can be there when it needs to be flipped. Never has a musical listening experience been approached with such tenderness. When you buy a vinyl record, you are interacting with your music, having a conversation and, to many, a never-ending love affair.

The Collector
Jason Cooley, 34, of Burlington has more than 3,000 love affairs — records, that is. According to Cooley, he was destined to be a collector from the day he was born.

“Want to hear something weird?” Cooley said. “I just got a copy of my birth certificate so I can cross the border on tour, and apparently I was born at 3:33 p.m. You know, records spin at 33 1/3 RPM?”

Cooley’s collection includes rare pieces like the original U.K. mono-pressing Beatles collection, Television’s first self-released single, two sealed copies of the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique” and a Ramones album signed by the entire band. He has been collecting records for 15 years and estimates his collection to be worth about $20,000.

Cooley says the artwork involved in vinyl production was enough to intrigue him as early as the age of 9.

“The artwork was bigger and more extensive, especially in the ‘70s. You’d get posters, lyrics, stickers, etc. ‘School’s Out’ by Alice Cooper opened like a school desk and had a pair of panties inside,” Cooley said. “What’s cooler than that?”

Cooley feels that despite technology’s constant advancements vinyl has persevered. “ I’m pretty amazed (vinyl) survived cassette tapes,” Cooley said. It seems as long as indie rock and hip hop exist, vinyl will be safe.”

Cooley said that indie rock in particular seemed to save vinyl in the early ‘90s. Now, rock labels are including free MP3 downloads with their records, which he says is “pretty smart.”

Beyond that, Cooley said DJs also give vinyl a home. “With DJ culture, records are practically musical instruments. They’ll always find a way to beat whatever behemoth format is threatening it.”

The DJ
Ben Macintyre, 31, is an interactive producer and local DJ who has been working with vinyl on and off for the past 18 years.

“Mostly I started collecting because I wanted to find rare cuts, B-sides and remixes of my favorite bands. At the time, the big ones were Duran Duran and Echo and the Bunnymen, if I recall correctly,” Macintyre said.

“The only way to get your hands on this stuff was to find original pressings at used record shops, flea markets, garage sales, etc. I loved it then because it was fun to get my hands on stuff that no one else I knew had and make mix tapes for my dorky friends who were sometimes impressed and girls I liked who were rarely impressed.” Macintyre said he still loves vinyl for similar reasons, however, some of his vintage rarities are now being re-released on CDs and file sharing programs like iTunes, so the tracks themselves are no longer rare.

“Anyone can get most any track they’re looking for with a few keystrokes on their PC,” he said. “Getting my hands on them on vinyl, however, still holds that same excitement that it did when I was younger. My dorky friends are still sometimes impressed, and the girls still aren’t.”

Macintyre said he feels much more of a connection to music when he spins records as opposed to other digital forms of playing music. “The physical act of removing a record from its sleeve, putting it on the turntable and putting the needle on the record is much more satisfying than pressing a button on an iPod,” Macintyre said. “I don’t think it will ever be extinct. Folks have been saying that since the advent of the cassette tape in the ‘70s, and here we are almost 40 years later, still able to buy records.”

The Store Owner
Jacob Grossi, 35, of Worcester is the proud parent of Riverwalk Records, Vermont’s premier vinyl-only record store located in Montpelier. However, he is not a collector.

“If I collected vinyl, there would be nothing left for our hardcore base of customers. I have a very addictive personality,” Grossi said. “I really enjoy the flow of rarities that organically come through the door, from spoken word records to psychedelic and country. The weirder, the better.”

Grossi said the musical experience with vinyl speaks to him on a deeper level than the digital world.

“Music has always been more than sound: image, style, attitude,” Grossi said. “With downloads, the physicality of music is lost, not to mention the actual quality of the sound reproduction can be exceptionally broader with vinyl.”

Grossi is a self-proclaimed “hardcore collector of music memorabilia,” selling concert posters, flyers and vintage concert advertisements. Some of his oldest pieces (not for sale) include an original 1989 concert flyer for Nirvana with a set list handwritten by Kurt Cobain on the back, and an original 1966 Acid Test newspaper ad, featuring Ken Kesey and His Merry Pranksters with music provided by the Grateful Dead.

Grossi agrees with Cooley and Macintyre: vinyl isn’t going anywhere.

“My prediction: CDs go away due to downloads,” Grossi said. “Vinyl comes back as the main physical form. You wouldn’t download the music and go buy a CD. But you would download the music and go buy the 2LP set with bonus tracks, posters and stickers stuck inside.”

The Musician
Ben Collette, 25, of Burlington is personal assistant and studio engineer to Trey Anastasio. Collette has been heavily involved in Anastasio’s new project, “Original Boardwalk Style,” an archival album of Anastasio’s previously recorded tracks being released in support of “Seven Bellow,” his artist residency program. And guess what? It’s being produced on vinyl.

“In the era when vinyl came about, the listening experience was very much a focused one. You sat down, you put on the record and you listened to it. You weren’t really doing anything else,” Collette said. “From an audio style, the sound is much warmer and I think it’s so funny with MP3 players that music has become the soundtrack of our lives. It’s kind of therapeutic to come home, listen to some vinyl, take the record out and put it on, you know?”

“Original Boardwalk Style” is what’s known as a double gate: when the cover opens and the vinyl slides into either side. Once opened, it reveals a group photo of Anastasio’s 11-piece band.

Anastasio was very hands on in the artistic process, Collette said. “Every project I’ve worked on with him, we don’t get very far before we make a cover, because once you have a cover it feels like a tangible thing.”

But even vinyl, in its most archaic forms, has found ways to advance. “Original Boardwalk Style” is produced on audio file-grade vinyl, which is much heavier than a typical record. The thicker vinyl allows for deeper grooves, Collete said, giving the record more highs and lows in its frequency response. Both of Anastasio’s last two records were produced on 180-gram vinyl, a step up from the typical 100-120 grams.

“I think it will be around forever,” Collette said. “If you think of it from a technology standpoint, you can literally take a piece of paper and put it on the record and turn it. It won’t sound very good but it will play. It’s one of our most fundamental art forms and it hasn’t changed hardly at all.”

Originally Printed in the Burlington Free Press, 6/12/08...view original

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