More Vinyl Abuse - sick stuff!

More Vinyl Abuse - sick stuff!

My friend Jess introduced me to this atrocity. She found it on a photo website. What are people thinking? Stop the madness!!!
If artistes do not stop doing this I will make my next records with covers made by recycled Rembrandts, da Vincis and Picassos. Grrrrrrr!

STATEMENT BY KARL WALTERBACH FROM 1982

STATEMENT BY KARL WALTERBACH FROM 1982

After posting an old interview on this blog before, I today pulled out the "Underground Hits I" compilation and scanned a part of the label bosses' statement for you. So here is more wisdom (you could also say history lesson) by Karl Walterbach, the man behind AGR (Aggressive Rockproduktionen Label). As he did many times he is complaining about hardcore punk being underrated and he is also slagging the arty German bands. Recently I am surprised that there is interest again in arty German wave bands like the ones on the ZICKZACK label. That stuff Walterbach loved to slag the most. Again it is in German and besides working knowledge of the German language you will need Adobe Reader to see it -- enjoy!

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DELICIOUS BEER FROM JAPAN

DELICIOUS BEER FROM JAPAN

This time let us talk about Japanese beer. Out of the corporate beers in Japan YEBISU is my favourite. The golden can is the most common but it is almost always the most expensive in a normal convenience store. The punks might laugh at you for investing more in beer and tell you you come across like a snob. I don't care. Recently I found out that the white can is even better than the silver one but it is also much harder to find. Here you can find the beers peacefully side by side in a great liquor store in Fukuoka, just down the road from the local Onsen I like to visit.

ANIMAL KINGDOM

ANIMAL KINGDOM

This is the cat at Generation Records in New York. Damn, I really wanted to buy that THE RUTS 7"!!!

YOU GOTTA HAVE TO QUIT DOING THAT, YOU KNOW

YOU GOTTA HAVE TO QUIT DOING THAT, YOU KNOW

This is what happens when you have too much "Stimmung vom Fass", as seen below on the cover artwork.



You gotta love that crack in the wall from the head. NICE!

CARNIVAL TIME!!! PAAARTY!

CARNIVAL TIME!!! PAAARTY!

One of my problems is that I am buying too many records. When I was little I had very little pocket money, just like most people, so I could only buy like one LP per month. Now, after 20 years in the music business I am famous and rich, so I can afford to buy whatever I want. So besides buying great punk rock vinyl for myself I also buy dance stuff to play at parties because some people will not learn, they are stupid enough to let me ruin their events by having me as a DJ.


Lately I started buying certain records just so that I can put their covers on this blog. How stupid is that? For example I came across the gem above which gives you a good idea of German drinking culture and our idea of "fun". I doubt the music is half as good as the cover. So a little voice inside my head said to me: "You don't have to buy this thing. You already have too much stuff at home, you could just take a picture of the cover and post it."
The littel voice said it again when I found this one:


I like this one even better because you can clearly see that what is happening there is a nuclear explosion creating some serious Bombenstimmung. The people in the picture are having a ball, yound and old alike. Remember the saying: "One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day."? I guess it's not true after all. You might get a red face like the guy with the hammer and some others, though. Anyway, I did not invest the 50 Cents those records were each and since then I am kicking myself for not doing so. Also my friends told me what a fool I was. They even showed interest in actually listening to the tunes on these records. Aaargh!

HOW MUCH RADNESS CAN YOU TAKE?

HOW MUCH RADNESS CAN YOU TAKE?

I was referred to this blog which is absolutely priceless.
www.lifelounge.com. Check it out now. Then check it out every day! Some of the greatest pictures I have seen in a long time all compiled in one place.

RUHM UND EHRE DER ROTEN ARMEE!

RUHM UND EHRE DER ROTEN ARMEE!

Today, while in Berlin I paid tribute to the liberators of the city. Since there was a lot of snow it added to the somewhat "Russian" atmosphere. By the way, they should serve Vodka there. Too bad the maintenance of that memorial is now in the hands of the German government.


And while we are on the subject, I recently found this on Youtube:



The footage from Madison Square Garden in that video is from a gathering of the German American Bund, an interesting organisation that I was not aware of until recently. Find our more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund.

INTERVIEW WITH KARL WALTERBACH

INTERVIEW WITH KARL WALTERBACH

I scanned this little interview for you. It is from the Berlin Magazine Tip from 1982 and unfortunately all German, oh well. It is with Karl Walterbach, the man behind AGR (Aggressive Rockproduktionen Label, Noise Label and the KZ36-Samplers). It gives you some insight into the German punk rock scene of the early 1980s. Besides working knowledge of the German language you will need Adobe Reader to see it -- enjoy!

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