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(heavy piano)

(melancholy rock music)

* You've been hiding

* for so long.

* With your windows blacked out

* and your curtains
tightly drawn *

* With a sad, endless song

(melancholy rock music)

("If Credit's What Matters I'll
Take Credit" by Hot Snakes)

* Wall, up against

* Got no pull

* No pull with you

* Mine, mine alone

* Yeah, I earned it

* Gonna do it right

* Time, time for posture

* Time for placement

* Gonna spread it around

* I know what matters

* Yeah, I'll take it

* Right now

* Wall, up against it

* Got no pull

* No pull with you

* Mine, mine alone

* Yeah, I earned it

* Gonna spread it around

* Time, time for posture

* Time for placement

* Gonna do it right

* I know what matters

* Yeah, I'll take it

* Right now, right now,
right now, right now

* right now, right now,
right now, right now

* right now, right now

- The closer you
sit to the camera--

- [Voiceover] The first
album that I ever owned

was or is and will always be

Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart's
Club Band by The Beatles.

- It was Kiss
Destroyer, I do believe.

- Revolver by The Beatles.

- Johnny Cash, A Boy Named Sue.

- The first one
that was given to me

is The Jackson Five ABC record.

That was actually the first
concert I went to too.

- Donald, Disco Duck.

- I'm gonna say it was,

I'm sure it was
The Beatles, Help!

- Powerslave by Iron Maiden.

- Walt Disney's A Haunted House.

- The first records I bought

were, like, probably stuff
like The Pretty Things

or something like that.

I still love those guys.

What the Rolling Stones
wanted to sound like.

- The first record I ever bought

I was five years old

and it's Kiss Alive!.

- [Man] My grandmother bought me

the Powerage ACDC album

when it had just come out

and I played the shit
out of that thing.

- The Untitled fourth
Led Zeppelin record.

With, like, Rock
and Roll, Black Dog,

When the Levi Breaks.

And I just thought that
that was so insanely heavy.

I didn't know what I was
getting into at the time.

- Led Zeppelin II on vinyl

with the gape fold.

- We're An American Band,

the Grand Funk record.

It was insane 'cause it was this

gold, gape fold thing.

You open it up and
all these hippies

are naked with American
flags everywhere.

- The first record I bought was

a Village People
record. (laughs)

And the first record I owned
is by the Sugarhill Gang.

* No basis is reality

- [Man] The first
record I bought was

Donovan Sunshine
Superman, a seven inch,

and my mom was
shopping for art stuff

and I had heard that
song a lot on the radio.

- When I was 13 after
years of my badgering them

and threatening to buy records

and play them on the
living room stereo

they finally got me my own.

I think they had morbid fears

of what was going to happen

when they open the Pandora's Box

and they all came true within,

I don't know, an hour or so.

There was a Creedence
Clearwater Revival album

called Pendulum that
had just come out

and then Steppenwolf,
The Second.

We had to start somewhere.

(rock music)

- [Mike] The first
second I bought

was 45 by the Canadian band

Guess Who Called,
American Woman.

I didn't really know
what it was about.

It was, when it came out

I wasn't a teenager yet.

I was still a grade school guy.

I'd play it over
and over and over.

I don't know why
that song got me.

Something about the lick.

(rock music)

- [Keith My friend
found a 50 dollar bill

in the bottom of the fruit jar

or the fruit bowl
on the counter.

I guess his dad's
mentality would be,

"My kids don't eat fruit.

"I'll just hide
the 50 dollar bill

"here in the bottom
of all the fruit

"and it'll be safe."

So, we ended up talking
my grandmother into

driving us to the
(mumbling) mall.

My friend Chuck Underwood
bought two copies.

One for himself and one for me.

And my dad loved this record

because my dad would
smoke pot at midnight

and listen to it
in the headphones.

- [Man] I was a Kiss kid.

I, that's how I learned to
play drums, listening to Kiss.

- A friend of mine
turned me on to ACDC

and I knew it drove my mom crazy

because they were
(mumbling) hippies

and so they listened
to cool music,

Zeppelin and stuff like that,

but ACDC was too much for them.

So, it had definitely
drew the line in the sand

as far as that's your
music, this is my music.

- It was Jackson Five mania.

They had their own cartoon.

It was my favorite cartoon.

I played the record to death.

It's pretty whipped but
I still break it out

every now and again.

- Two Minutes to Midnight
was the first song

that, my mom was
really cool growing up,

but that song like scared
the shit out of her.

Like, she, that was the
first song she was like,

"You do not listen
to that record.

"You do not listen to that song.

"It's satanic."

And of course, I was
hooked from there.

* Now it's signed

* Text classified

* Nations are now
corporate colonies

* Robber barons

* In high castles

* Have the nerve
to call this trade

* DDT

* Gill net kills

* Fought so hard to
stop it all for years

* Sweatshop kids in Nike Town

* Globalize means downsize

* Your rights to theirs

* Tweet tweet tweet
tweedle de-dah

* Tweet tweet tweet
tweedle de-dah

* A hah hah hah

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* We are being farmed

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* Every time we buy

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* We are the serfs

* New feudalism

* Remember the name

* Forced loans
from the world bank

* Soon your country's sank

* No food or medicine

* Just factories,
mines, and dams

* Peasant revolts arise

* Little pesky little fires

* We swat 'em down

* Pull off their legs

* One by one

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* We are being farmed

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* Every time we buy

* NAFTA GATT-cha

* We are the serfs

* New feudalism

* Remember the name

* New feudalism

- Okay, everybody take
three steps back right now

'cause people are
getting squished up here.

Even in the back,
one, two, three.

- As a kid we
("Comm to Space")

listened to AM radio.
("Comm to Space")

You get in the car,
("Comm to Space")

you turn the radio on,
("Comm to Space")

you had either,
("Comm to Space")

here in Los Angeles,
("Comm to Space")

you either had KHJ,
which was the softer,

nicer sounds or
you would have KRLA

which was a little bit grungier,

a little bit dirtier, a
little bit more soulful.

It was kinda like
The Beatles at KHJ

and the Rolling Stones at KRLA

and between the two
every now and then

one of them would
play Summertime Blues

by Blue Cheer.

That was a pretty rocking tune.

That was probably a precursor

to heavy metal and grunge

and punk rock and whatever
you wanna call it.

Granted they had
hair to the floor

but what does hair
have to do with it?

("Wasted Prayers" by Death Eyes)

- [Bryan] As I a kid
I can definitely like,

it sort of like I had
this little yellow,

like a tote thing
that you put 45s on

when there was no sleeves,
you'd just stack 'em,

and it was probably something
my mother had given me.

Like, here's the
records that I have

and the record that I
couldn't stop playing

over and over again,
I have no idea why,

'cause I don't really
love the songs today,

would be Philadelphia
Freedom by Elton John

and Burning Love by Elvis.

And I played, it was just play
it over, just play it over.

It would just, it just,
the needle just kept coming

off and going to the begin.

I'd play it 50 times in a row.

("Black Jet Radio
by Black Jet Radio")

- It's a single by the Honeybus

called I Can't Let Maggie Go

and I think why this is
even more special to me

is that, yeah, it did
come out in America

but it's not an American get

and if you ask
most British people

they know it more as
a bread commercial

'cause that's what it
sorta when on to do

but it was a really
big English hit

and it's very string driven

and it's kinda cool
because Pete Dello,

who wrote the songs,
had this brilliant idea

about doing strings before
the whole yellow thing

and he quit the band
shortly after this was a hit

and the band continued and
made really good records

but he was sort of this genius

that kinda quit early.

- The Beatles with
the B-siders age

there was For You Blue.

But it was kind of a weird song.

I think it was
George Harrison song

and I liked it a lot.

I remember taking
it to show and tell

and nobody in the class
or the teacher liked it.

- Well, it's probably still
my favorite rock and roll song

is You're Gonna Miss Me by

The 13th Floor Elevators

which I bought the
single when it came out

and it's on this record also.

A great record.

- On Top of Spaghetti.

That was one that
I used to listen

to this song all the time.

* On top of spaghetti

* On top of spaghetti
The song itself wasn't like,

* All covered with cheese
I didn't have an

* All covered with cheese
emotional response to the

* I lost my poor meatball
music but there's this

* I lost my poor meatball
just him talking about

* When somebody sneezed
a meatball I thought was

* When somebody sneezed
so funny and there's a part

* Covered in cheese
later on in this song

* All covered

(mixed up "On Top of Spaghetti")

When he gets everyone
to sing along with him

* A bush

* A bush

* Under a bush

Okay, so you...

* In the garden
He gets everyone to--

* Under a bush

* And under a bush
And he has this one line

* And then my poor meatball

* And then my poor meatball
And then my poor meatball.

I just thought that was

* And under a bus
the funniest thing.

* And under a bus
I would just replay that

over and over again.

Just, I mean, I
guess years later

it's not quite as funny

but with the right drugs,

I'm sure it would be
pretty funny still.

- When everybody was
out of the house,

when I had the place to myself,

it was quiet, I would, like,

take out my parent's
classical music records

and play them.

They never played them, at all.

I don't know why they
even had them around

because they never
listened to them.

("Black Jet Radio"
by Black Jet Radio)

- [Lucy] I was actually
really, really obsessed

with the whole anything, like,

mopey in minor chords,

such as, like, The Left Banke.

Ah, look at that picture sleeve.

I loved Walk Away Renee

and Pretty Ballerina.

Those are some of
my favorite things

but anything along those lines

like The Zombies,
anything that was, like,

mopey and kind of twee.

I was, that was where I was at

when I was a kid.

- My family would
to go garage sales

and stuff like that

and I just wanted
monsters, you what I mean?

But if there was also records

I'd look through records.

I'd get sort of, find
all of these monster-y

kind of records,,

and this is in the
60's, early 70's.

So, stuff that I just blindly,

not because I was
hip or anything,

but just blindly bought
because of the monster factor,

you know what I mean?

I'm gonna go with
Boston, Don't Look Back

was the song I remember.

Don't Look Back.

- Mr. Roboto, I guess
this is called Mr. Roboto.

I remember that and thinking,

"God, music's kinda cool,
like, that's weird."

Probably because the
robot connection.

I think I was maybe five.

- Okay, before I really got
("The Red Bedroom")

into rock and roll
("The Red Bedroom")

I'd listen to Dr. Demento
("The Red Bedroom")

on the station called
("The Red Bedroom")

94.7KNT on Sundays
("The Red Bedroom")

and I actually have
the single here

that I was really, really into.

It was a single by a band
called Barnes and Barnes

and it was this single
called Fishheads

backed with High School Gym

And this single for those of you

that know about this record

Billy Mumy from Lost in Space

is one of the main vocalists.

Him and his brother or
his friend Artie Barnes

put this together back in '78

and I think it's
an asinine record.

So, this is really, really rare.

- I was at this show
sitting in between bands

that my friend Scott put on

and it was actually
Articles of Faith, Wait.

The song Wait.

I was like, "What is this?"

Then suddenly it just kinda
has that leading in part,

that intro, and then
I was like, "Oh wow,"

and then it just broke
into the fast part.

I was like, "Oh my god,
this is the greatest song,

"like, I've ever heard."

- Probably Shock Me, Kiss,

because I had Kiss Alive! II
on cassette, double cassette.

- But I remember
Shock Me being one,

and Rocket Ride, those two songs

when I was a kid,

like, little, little kid,

like, Rocket Ride was my
favorite fucking song.

Like, super, to the most,

like anything else
just didn't matter.

It was like, "Rocket
Ride! Play Rocket Ride!"

Like I'd tell my brother, like,

"Play Rocket Ride!
Play Rocket Ride!"

Hence why I wanted
to be Ace. (laughs)

("The Red Bedroom" by No Knife)

- [Greg] That was kinda,
like, the first Rock

that I got into, it was Kiss.

And first concert that I saw
was Kiss on the Dynasty tour.

My mom took me. (laughs)

- There, I got Kiss. (laughs)

And this Rush
Element I think was

the first one I got
super inspired by

and so that kind of
shifted my focus from,

like, so I ended up
on bass from drums,

and then ended up,
like, really getting

into musicians who are pushing
it in some way or another.

- It was like Van Halen.

It was Black Sabbath,
Fairies Wear Boots,

and then I heard
Slayer, Hell Awaits,

and I remember this
guy getting me stoned

and being all, "Slayer tells
fucking demon stories, man."

- Records were
such a huge thing.

But so is those gigs,
those club gigs,

and they were connected.

Some of them like
them England bands

we never saw, we only
knew 'em by records

because they never
toured over there.

Some of the bands in Hollywood

like never heard a record,
only saw them do gigs.

It was trippy that
the punk thing

had all this thing,
all these dimensions.

- No one song changed my life

but right about the time I
was hearing that at parties

and things I remember
almost passing out.

Like, teetering on the edge
at like two in the morning,

three in the morning.

Everyone's leaving the party

and another one of my buddies

who's sister was going to school

up in L.A., it was at his house

and they put this record on.

And I don't know if
you've heard this one

but this is, this is kind
of mind blowing for me

being just a kid
from Chula Vista

and having access to the radio

and not much else.

So, those were definitely
not the only ones

but just this record
with that cover

and then listening to
the lyrics of this album.

It's like, "Oh,
okay, now I can see

"what you can kinda
do with music."

It's not just about--

("Golden Brown" by
Drive like Jehu)

shaking your ass. (laughs)
("Golden Brown")

("Golden Brown" by
Drive like Jehu)

- [Jello] As the main spring

all these years for what I do

would be Space Ritual,

the live Hawkwind album

when Lemmy was still in the band

and this was kinda
my entry to spacier,

most psychedelicized music

because when I was
getting into the MC5

and The Stooges, my
friends were forsaking

The Blue Oyster Cult for Yes
and Emerson, Lake & Palmer,

and we're still friends

but we kinda split at that point

but this led me
to appreciate more

ethereal music and it
didn't have to have

stupid ass elves or
a singer that sounded

like classically trained
Donny Osmond or whatever.

This was good stuff and
the packaging was be

really nice on this thing.

Long before crass we
had the Hawkwind album.

I made these sleeves
out of wrapping paper

when I was in high school 'cause
I liked the record so much

but anyway, there would
be no Holiday in Cambodia

without Hawkwind.

- Fight Back by Discharge

and Nervous Breakdown.

- Melvins Gluey
Porch Treatments.

- It would have to be

the Thrilling, Chilling Sounds

of the Haunted House.

- Brown Reason to Live,
the Butthole Surfers.

- Bl'ast!, Corrosion of
Conformity, Animosity.

- The first Black Sabbath.
("Rhead of the Coos")

- Something line Volume 4
("Rhead of the Coos")

and The Ramones' Road to Ruin.
("Rhead of the Coos")

- So, Black Sabbath records.
("Rhead of the Coos")

Although I confuse the
bass for the guitar a lot

in that kind of music.

- Wire, pop group.

- Billy Holiday and that
was because I'm a woman.

- These two records
you could find 'em

just fucking in my hand
for a solid decade.

- [Man] The first
Drive like Jehu album

is, like, kind of
like the holy grail.

- [Man] I was living
down in Hermosa beach,

we had a jukebox at the
local hamburger stand

and you put a diamond
and you get three songs,

and Purple Haze was
always my first choice.

- [Steve] The Mothers,
Freak Out, okay, yeah.

That was me

and my friends, 1966.

That was something

we listened to a lot.

It just blew us all away.

You can do that and
put it on a record?

It was like, okay.

- These guys, I got this record.

And this blew me away

and this made it.

I still play this record.

I got this one

and this one,

and the first one but it's
down on the end there,

and the other group

I got around the
same or these guys,

bought this record
and these guys

also blew me away.

- Physical Graffiti
("So Serious")

by Led Zeppelin.
("So Serious")

Got this for the record club
("So Serious")

back in the late 70s also.
("So Serious")

And another band
that I really like

which I have a really cool
bootleg of is Cheap Trick.

When I got into them
I Want You to Want Me

was a huge hit back in '79.

Bought this in '80 at a store
called Moby Disk Records

and as you can tell it's signed

and Bun E. Carlos of
Cheap Trick wrote bad mix.

- So, I grew up in
the 70s as a kid.

So, they had, my
siblings had this 45

Angie, The Rolling
Stones, and shit.

So, it was Rolling
Stones then for me

and all of a suddeny
there's Deep Purple

and Black Sabbath,
and Led Zeppelin,

and all these greats,
and I was still like,

"Woah, man."

They've leave 'em them,
they would all leave,

and then I'd be left
alone with these records,

and fucking go listen
to this shit by myself,

and just kinda trip
up on acid with 'em.

- I discovered The
Move really earlier one

'cause my sisters
they liked them sort

of in the latter period

but then I went back and
bought all their other records

and they're one of my
absolute favorites.

Amazing songwriting and lyrics,

and everything, and
little did I know

Jeff Lynne would go
on to be a superstar

but I probably discovered them,

like, '68, '69,

and then that cemented me

being into totally
obscure records

where it just completely
separated me from my parents.

I'd be like, "Do you
guys love The Move?"

And they'd be
like, "I don't know

"what you're talking about."

- The Residents Duck Stab record

and it was the first
night I ever took LSD,

and I heard The Residents
and saw Pink Floyd, The Wall,

the same night for
the first time,

which is two totally
different records

but seeing the movie, Pink
Floyd The Wall on acid

and hearing Duck Stab
all in the same night

was something that really,
honestly changed me into, like,

you can play any kind of music.

("So Serious" by Porcupine)

- [Man] Kiss was,
again, it was kinda like

I said earlier, kinda
like the Jackson Five.

They were...

They were superheros.

It was a comic book.

It wasn't until later that
I got into Alice Cooper

and then I realized, "Oh,
things can be theatrical

"but they can still,
like, totally kick ass."

- Yank Crime by Drive Like Jehu

it was definitely
a huge, huge one.

Like, really changed
how I looked at music

and Clikitat Ikatowi's
Orchestrated and Conducted By,

that was a big one.

- Motley Crue's Shout At
The Devil was a big one.

That one came out and
had the pentagram.

It was black and
my mom hated it.

- Septic Death at as
my kinda being a skater

and seeing, like, in
thrasher, the artwork,

all the puss-head puss-zones.

That pretty much got me going

and seeing, like,
Caballero with a Misfits

crimson skull t-shirt
or whatever it's called.

That made me go,
like, "Oh, I want."

"That's me."

Because I just started and
it's just like a skater kid.

This one definitely was, like,

the most aggressive,
most pissed.

I like the voice and
just I (mumbling)

just like a Septic Death.

They were my favorite band.

- I think I got into a
punk rock show in Austin

and they had been
playing The Buzzcocks

and so I went into the
local record store and said,

"Hey, do you have anything
by The Buzzcocks?"

And the guy got really
excited and he said, "Yeah!"

But they were out and he said,

"Well, if you like The
Buzzcocks, you'll like this."

And he got me The Incredible
Shrinking Dickies.

It threw me out.

- But it was The Ramones
that really, like

more than any of the
English punk stuff,

The Ramones just
totally blew doors,

especially the live record,
the double live Ramones record

was just so intense.

- [Clay] My head was
sort of exploding.

The first record that
really made me think,

"Oh, I can play that,"

was a Government Issue
The Fun Just Never Ends.

It was so slowed
down and so crunchy,

it just, like, spoke to me.

I just knew I could
play like that

and I loved it.

It was like it was made
specifically for me.

("Body Bag Blues" by White Mule)

- For sure I'm gonna
go with this Conflict

Increase the Pressure record.

I mean this just, I mean
it changed my life, man.

The lyrics, I love the vocals,

the guitar sound, the
drumming's amazing.

Anytime I was trying
a new bass player out

for any of my bands

I would always give him this
record going, "I want this.

"I want this bass down."

And I mean the lyrics,
they always put in

just everything
they stood for, man.

They were true anarchists.

They were so militant
with the masks

and just going
against the system.

That just and I'm still
really kinda that way

but they'd always put in
pamphlets and brochures

and all their lyric sheets.

They put in things
promoting animal rights

with addresses of different
animal liberation fronts.

- [Man] Polvo's Today's
Active Lifestyles

that was a big one.

That's when I first
started smoking pot.

Woah, and Unwould
Caterpillar seven inch

and then everything
from Unwound.

Unwound and Carp were the reason

I started playing
guitar in bands

and, like, doing
anything, really.

- I've probably
listened to this album

more than any other
record in my collection.

And The Haunted House,
The Very Long Fuse, Dogs,

Your Pet Cat,
Screams and Groans,

Chinese Water Torture.

Pretty strange and pretty
weird little record

to start out with.

- What really defined
me I think musically

and as far as being
a record collector

was The Sex Pistols
and figuring out,

like, punk, I guess,

and basically I
somehow discovered

Nevermind The Bollocks
and there was this guy

in my elementary school.

This guy in my school is like,

"Ah, I really wanna hear
that Sex Pistols album.

"I kept hearing how good it was.

"I also have this
Suicidal Tendencies album.

"We should swap
for, like, a week."

And we both swapped
and we both were like,

"I don't really wanna
give this back,"

and like, so two
records really were,

like, the start of it.

I was like, "Dude,
I'm, here it is.

"Like, the rest of
my life's ruined.

"I love this, like,
insane music."

* Cowboy lawman found a cell

* Tore into it as night fell

* Bankers kids are

* Getting bingo'd

* Smells like midnight's

* Cooked up a storm in here

* Leave loose those lips

* At home or at the

* Rubble that's left

* When you return

* Have an armed guard
posted at your flag

* Stroll through town with

* A gun stuffed in your pants

* Bankers kids are

* Getting bingo'd

* Smells like midnight's

* Cooked up a storm in here

* Leave those loose lips

* At home or at the

* Rubble that's left

* When you return

* Criminal lawman found a cell

* Tore into it, made life hell

* Bombs bursting, houses burning

* Diplomacy's tyrant treats

- I'm not a record collector.

I think that you can tell that.

I'm not a record collector.

I am not a listener.

And it possibly is
because I've been a player

all along that
there's a more direct

musical connection
in terms of who I am

with myself as player.

People often ask me who my
influences are in playing

and I say "The people
I play with." (laughs)

The guitar players,
the other bass players,

the people because my whole life

that's been my
musical connection,

more than this.

("Heart Attack
American" by The Bronx)

- [Man] Thrifty which is now CVS

would carry cutouts

but the amazing
thing would be, like,

you'd go in there
and find, like,

mind-benders records
on British Fontana

for, or the first
Idle Race album.

All these records
for, like, $1.99.

So, they were record
stores in their own way

because you knew
every once in a while

they did this weird stock in.

- [Mike] Thrify's, there wasn't

that many pure record stores.

In fact, record stores
is also where you

could get, like
guitars and stuff.

Yeah, it was really
trippy in those days.

- [Voiceover] Sears and Roebucks

next to the hardware section

sandwiched in somewhere
between the washers and dryers.

- Back then there
wasn't really chains.

Yeah, there wasn't.

There was Wallich's Music
City that I used to go to

and incredibly I'd find weird,
strange, psychedelic records

I wanted like Red Crayola

and the Thirteenth
Floor Elevators.

And actually, in
a Tower Records,

I still can't quite
figure this out,

Tower Records in West Covina

I got a copy of the
original Manson Lie record.

That's a repo one there.

The other one's in the box

but it's like I find out of
those at a Tower Records.

It's like, "How the hell
this can end up here?"

- First record I tried to buy

was I wanted to buy The
Partridge Family first record

because they were my,

it was, like, my favorite
TV show in fourth grade,

and so I was gonna go buy it.

This kid brought
it in to school,

the record in fourth grade,

and I was like, "Wow.

"Where'd you get that?"

He, like, looked at
me like an idiot,

like, "At a record store."

- [Lucy] So, when I was a kid

my parents used to
shop at White Front

which was sort of like,

it was like a early
version of Target,

and you'd get your
prescriptions there

and your stereo stuff.

So, they had just a
few bins of records

but they were all incredible,

and they had cutouts.

I found this on red vinyl.

I don't know how old, I don't
know what year this came out

but I was probably 12 or 13.

I found the New
York Dolls there,

Jobriath records.

I mean, I don't know who
was buying their records

or their cutouts but at least,

and my parents would be like.

I remember when I showed
them the Dolls record.

Like, "This," (sighs)

"No more, we're gonna take
you shopping somewhere else,"

and then I actually
started goin'--

And then you started
buying your records

at head shops like
Led Zeppelin stuff

then there was,
like, the smoke store

where you got your records where
my mom wouldn't be judging.

Boys wearing make
up, and lipstick, and
stuff like that, so.

- I remember The Last, right?
("The Warfaring Stranger")

I seem them play.
("The Warfaring Stranger")

The guy's gotta tune
("The Warfaring Stranger")

his brother's bass, right?
("The Warfaring Stranger")

Runs up the stairs
his brother's bass, right?

without unpluggin' the amp,

pulls it up the stairs,

and then I go across the street

and there's the
little 45 on bump.

She Don't Know Why I'm Here.

And that was really a mindblow.

* Stranger traveling

- There was a store
called Maze Music Mart

in Panorama City and I
have a lot of records

that just have, I don't
have it, but let's pretend,

MMM posted in the
corner on the back.

And you go in there the
guy was willing to order,

like, a Yardbirds single that
wasn't selling kind of thing.

So, I know I would go in there
and look through his stuff

and I would find things.

- They had no good record
stores in San Pedro.

And I went to a big major
record store, Wherehouse,

that was near wher I
used to race my slot cars

and that's where I bought
the Black Sabbath record

and it's like, I didn't know
anything about Black Sabbath

but there it was on sale

and I mean, "Oh,
that looks crazy,"

and then I just bought it,

and took it home.

And it's funny how you just
take a dive with a record.

The same thing with the
Led Zeppelin record.

It was in a stereo store

and my dad was shopping
for stereo equipment

and I bought that
Led Zeppelin II

and you take it
home and it's like,

"Woah!"

Both of those bands
were so different

than what came before.

- [Man] Eventually we would
have little indie record stores

and I lived in Hermosa
beach so we had,

I grew up on Pier Avenue

and my dad had a fishing
tackle store on Pier Avenue

and two shops east
of my dad's store

was a big indie record store
called Rock and Gravel,

and that would be the first time

that I heard Black Sabbath.

The first time I
heard Deep Purple.

The first time I
heard Grand Funk.

(plane flying overhead)

- My dad was an Air Force pilot

when we were
stationed in England

and so the record store there,

I lived on base, it was just
the Air Force record store.

That's where I bought revolver.

- I don't go to record stores.
("Single Car Accident")

I don't like record stores.
("Single Car Accident")

I never did,
("Single Car Accident")

never liked record stores.
("Single Car Accident")

It's a funny thing.
("Single Car Accident")

We would go on tour

and they would always want
to go to fucking record store

in some fucking
town and I'm like.

I mean, five minutes in a
record store and I'm done.

Because I'm, but I'm like that
about shopping in general.

I mean, they act like girls
shopping in record stores

is kinda stupid.

It's like, if you
know what you want,

it's like you go, you
get what you want,

and you leave, right?

- I was lucky.

I worked in a record store

but I would also go
to record swap meets

of the, it used to
be in Capital records

but I was too young
to go to there

so I'd go to Pasadena's
city swap meet,

the city college
swap meet in Pasadena

every first Sunday and
buy amazing bootlegs,

vinyl bootlegs at the time

because back then CDs
didn't really exist.

- [Steve] Well, there was,
like, Rather Ripped in Berkley

which was an old record store.

Fairly famous, long gone now.

- Well, when I was young
there was this store

and it was not near
my parents house

and I had to ride
my bike, oh god,

like, probably, like 45 minutes

or at least all the
way out in Queens

and it was owned by someone
who I became friends with,

actually, and there was a band
called The Brats in the 70s,

and they played with Kiss
and The New York Dolls

and in the very, very
early glitter-rock days

and the singer of The Brats

had a store called
The Music Box.

- [Steve] Towards
the end of the 70s

there was the flea
market in Alameda.

I would get together
with a couple of friends,

Tin Yohannan, who started
Maximum Rocknroll,

and Al Ennis, and we would
go to these flea markets

and look for cool stuff.

- And then right around the
corner three blocks north

was another little record
store called The Record Hole

and that became one
of my favorite places

to hang out because
all they played

was either heavy
rock or prog rock.

I learned about Manfred
Mann's Earth Band

and King Crimson,
Genesis, Gentle Giant,

a bunch of Italian
bands, Le Orme, PFM, Yes,

of course, Yes.

All of these bands
are great bands

for what they do.

Now, maybe they're
not your cup of tea

but that's neither
here nor here.

- [Man] Local to me
was a licorice pizza

which had a punk rock section.

Like, The Cars, and Devo,

and all the punk
stuff of the day,

and then Tower Records
had a punk section

about this big and they
also had an Import section.

So, that's where
you could start,

you get, pick up
stuff from England,

and what, most of the stuff
I didn't really even like,

but they just had kinda--

It was literally judging
records by their cover.

This looked cool, so I buy it.

That looks cool,
I'll try this out.

- There was a place in
("Dark Brown and Gold")

Chula Vista called
("Dark Brown and Gold")

Licorice Pizza
("Dark Brown and Gold")

and that, they used
("Dark Brown and Gold")

to have Licorice Pizza, vinyl,

so, they had all kinds of vinyl

and we get those there

but mostly it was Off The
Record when I was growing up.

And that was in San
Diego at a record shop

out on Holcomb Boulevard,
the old Off The Record,

and I used to buy a
lot of stuff there.

Like I bought this
exact record there,

Celtic Frost, Into
The Pandemonium.

Went through a
little metal phase

where I still
appreciate some metal

and some slayer or
some this or that.

Dinosaur Jr. is great.

This is a great record.

I bought this there
at Off The Record

or Lou's Records.

I went to a lot of Lou's.

- [Man] Lou's Records
is pretty far away

and that wasn't until
I was a bit older

and was driving where
I could cruise up there

with regularity that, yeah,

so it's those places,

and there was a
couple of weird places

in PB that were kinda--

Werewolf Records,
like they were around

for many two or three years

and I bought a bunch of
really cool records there.

- Off The Record when they
were on Holcomb Boulevard

right near San Diego state.

That was just mind-blowing.

Cliff Cunningham was there.

It was a weird experience.

I just remember, one
thing I remember being,

I remember being there,

and I was a young
kid at that time,

and this skinhead guy comes in

and he had that Dead
Kennedys Nazi fucks,

Nazi punks fuck off,
with the arm band.

I don't know if
you remember that

and the skinhead
guy comes in there

and breaks it right in
front of Cliff's face

and pays him for it, "I don't
want that shit in this store."

- Off The Record out by college.

That was a great place

because the people who worked
there were really cool.

You would go in there and they
obviously know you're a kid

and didn't have a lot of money,

and they would watch you
probably out of the corner

of their eye, just kind of lost,

and they go, "Hey,
what do you like?"

And you tell them and,
"Get this record."

A couple times I got
steered the wrong way

but more times than not, though,

they did their best to kinda
connect people with good music.

- [Mario] I grew up
in Vista, California,

so it's about, maybe, 40
minutes north of here,

a little inland.

Nothing great about
that city at all.

My family's from there,

grew up skateboarding
there and stuff

but there was a
record store there

obscurely titled Vista
Records and Tapes. (laughs)

And it was a great
record store actually

and it was in the
same shopping center

that my grandparents would
go grocery shopping at.

So, everyday after school
or whenever I was over there

which was a lot, I'd
finagle my grandpa

to give me a ride to
Vista Records and Tapes

and I think he wanted to
just get out of the house

for, like, an hour or so,

and not have, he could
just hang in his truck,

but the guy would just hang
in his truck for, like,

two hours while I would
just scour through records

and look at
magazines just for me

to come out of the record store

and, like, knock on
his window and be like,

"You think you could loan
me, like, five dollars

"to, like, get this album
or buy this magazine?"

Like, and so sure
enough he'd, like,

"Okay, are you gonna make it up

"doing this or doing
some chores and stuff?"

And just the best thing ever.

It was always,
like, once a week.

I was good for, like,
a new LP or something.

So, thanks grandpa. (laughs)

So awesome.

("Monster Capitol"
by Molly McGuire)

- [Bryan] Yeah, Vinyl Fetish was

a very influential record store.

It was owned by
hardcore music guys.

Like, Henry and Joseph
owned it originally

and they went on to
become very infuential

L.A. DJs and then
they sold the store

to Michael Stewart
who was the owner

of the Scream Club which
was a very influential club.

So, they were all
connected with, like,

with older Hollywood
nightclub DJs

and promoters and so they came
at it from huge music fans.

You'd walk into Vinyl Fetish

and there would be a piece
of glass over the counter

and underneath the
glass was Polaroids

of The Misfits, and Susie,
and all just in the shot.

Take a Polaroid and
stick it under the glass.

So, when you walk in you
immediately are like,

"I'm in someplace special,"

and there was no filler records.

It was truly indie
rock, and instrumental,

pivotal, vinyl only.

Like, they weren't even
selling CDs at the time,

and even if they were available.

They'd be catching me listening
to the Cult or something

and go, "Okay, listen to this,"

and then turn me onto stuff
that I missed when I was a kid

like Stooges.

They introduced me to that stuff

'cause my parents were a
little lighter than that.

So, it was like, "Come
on, kid, get with it."

("Monster Capitol"
by Molly McGuire)

- And yeah, there's
actually a real,

there's a store in
Seattle where I grew up

that if it wasn't for that store

I would not be here because
they were instrumental

in turning me on to
underground music,

regardless of what
kind of style of music,

well, punk, hardcore,
post-punk, metal.

I mean, everything.

It's this store and it was
called Fallout Records.

And it was Seattle and
I remember the first

time I went there
I had been reading

Maximum Rocknroll a lot

but I didn't have
any real records.

I could, like, name just a few.

I had like a handful of things,

but I went in this
store and I was like,

"Oh my gosh, all the stuff
that I'd been hearing about."

Like 7 Seconds, Commited
For Lie seven inch,

Septic Death twelve inch,

and DRI Violent
Pacification seven inch.

Things like that.

It's just like, "Oh my gosh."

And I'm just freaking out

and I just kept on going

and I was just addicted.

I kept on going all day.

It's, probably once a week,

and just doing chores,
getting my allowance,

and going to the stores,

and spending it on music,

and after a while
they got to know me

and as soon as I
walk in the door

they'd be like, "Oh hey, we
got this, this, this, and this.

"Check it out."

And it followed
me through, like,

different phases
musically that I was.

When, 'cause first I was,
first the '85 to '88 or so

everything was I wanted
things as fast as possible

and the faster the better

and then I got kinda
got more into, like,

Discord, and Touch and
Go, and things like that

as I got older, things,
I checked out these
different things

and they were right there
like feeding me along the way.

Like, "Oh, you're into this now?

"Check this out."

And really, like, kinda
nurturing my taste

in music, in underground music.

- No doubt whatsoever it was
Moby Discs in Sherman Oaks

which is famous
because it's where

they filmed in the
scene in Spinal Tap

where Artie Fufkin
has it in store

and asked everybody
to kick his ass.

- [Man] There was a
record store in Whittier,

where I grew up which
is 30 minutes from here,

called Lovells, L-O-V-E-L-L-S,

and I got a job there
when I was a kid.

Like, I just, so I
shopped there all the time

then I got a job there

and then I was, like,
immediately promoted

to the import indie buyer.

So, I was ordering,
like, all of my,

like, everything 'cause I
was just getting into music.

Like, I was always into
music but this was when

I was starting to nerd
out about it really bad

so then I was just
ordering all these import

and indie and, like, that's,

I started, like, ordering
direct from labels and shit too,

and that's, a lot
of that stuff's

still in my record collection

except for like I said,

all the real good stuff
ex-girlfriends have stolen.

(record rips)

- [Voiceover] We
interrupt to bring you

- [Voiceover] Black Power
Records with Pat Thomas.

- I moved to Oakland around 2000

and I've always had
an interest in, like,

counter culture when
I was a teenager.

I traded letters
with Alan Ginsberg,

and Abbie Hoffman
of the Chicago Wait.

So, I moved to Oakland,

I thought, "I wanna check
out some Black Panthers,"

and I just started meeting
some of these guys.

Bobby Seale, David
Hillard, and Elaine Brown,

and I realized that
there were records

that went along
with the movement

and after about five years

and about 10,000 dollars on Ebay

I had, like, 200 albums,

and then I turned
it into a book.

Reverend Franklin is
Aretha Franklin's dad

and he was a very
famous preacher

and he put out about 75 albums.

Mostly very religious

but here's one called the
Meaning of Black Power.

Melvin Van Peebles got into it

and he was saying Free
Huey, free Huey Newton.

This album, this is Kail
and The Blue Guerrilla

and there's some great stuff
on the back of this thing.

"The irony is that
a true black artist

"must first be a
true black christian

"and then he realized what
Christ meant when he said

"And no one come on to me

"but Father but me."

"Kain saw the Blue Guerrilla
in foothills of Missouri"

and he talks about
how this might be God.

God is the Blue Guerrilla.

This also has Nile
Rodgers of Chic

when he was about 17 years old

and he was a Black Panther.

This is probably my favorite.

This is Elaine Brown of
the Black Panther party

and she's doing sort a
Edith Piaf, John Cale,

sort of European
classical piano thing.

Very, very interesting.

This is a record that was put
out by Motown of all people

and this is interviews with
black soldiers in Vietnam,

and they're kinda talking about

and wondering why
are they in Vietnam

fighting against the yellow man

when nobody respects the black
man in the United States.

Angela Davis, Free Angela.

The Rolling Stones
wrote a song about her

called Sweet Black Angel.

Huey Newton of the
Black Panther party,

Listen Whitey.

This is an album
that some people say

got Martin Luther
King assassinated

because he started
opposing the Vietnam war

and supposedly J.
Edgar Hoover and LBJ

thought now that
he's battling the war

we're gonna have
some bigger issues.

This is another
Motown recording.

Motown started a label
called Black Forum

and basically they released
eight militant black records

under this forum label
between 1970 and '73.

This is another Motown one
on the Black Forum label.

It's Nation Time by
poet Amiri Baraka.

Bobby Seale, Black Panther,

also in the Chicago eight trial,

Gagged and Chained.

This is an album called

Ain't No Ambulances
For No Nigguhs Tonight

and supposedly during
the Watts Riots

in 1965 a black guy
called up an ambulance

and said, "I need an
ambulance service,"

and this is what he was
told on the other line.

("Trower" by Goatsnake)

- [Jello] Why on
Earth would I want an

Up with People
record about the most

white bread, obnoxiously,
middle of the road

phenomenon of the 60s or 70s?

And that wicked music teacher

I had in elementary school

forced us to sing the
uplift people thing.

* Up, up with people

* You need 'em wherever you go

Yeah, that's taking a big
stand in the 60s, ain't it?

Well, the reason is because
this super squeaky clean

looking woman on the
cover singing along
with Up with People

is none other than Glenn Close,

the future fatal attraction

got her start in show biz
with Up with fucking People.

I never woulda guessed.

- [Man] The last record I
purchased was The Seeds record

that I was talking about.

Which is very unmemorable

and went into the
stack of records

to be traded in for credit.

- I think the last
record I purchased

was the Find Your Flow.

- Actually, you're
probably gonna laugh.

The last record that I bought

was Kendrick Lamar,
m.A.A.d city.

- One of the last
records I purchased

that is really rare

is the soundtrack
to Lucifer Rising

that Jimmy Page, he
was working on this

with that filmmaker.

I'm trying to remember
his name right now

and in the 70s and
it never came out,

and so what happened was
he put this on his website

last year and he limited it

to 418 copies signed.

I have copy 59 with
Jimmy Page's autograph.

So, this is one
of the last things

I purchased on the internet.

- [Mike] A lady called Sawako

and her album called Nu. It.

N-U period I-T and it's trippy.

It's like...

She just turned
on the microphone

and recorded what was
going down. (laughs)

That plane going over,
yeah, it's trippy.

- The last record I
purchased was actually

a special edition Masters
of Reality, Black Sabbath.

- It was an old
Tuxedomoon record.

It was, I wanted the song Jinx

and I got that at Amoeba.

- I only bought the
new Lana Del Ray

and people are like, "You
bought Lana Del Ray?"

Yes, I did.

- The Singers, Born to Lose,

and Midnight Prowl.

- I know what it was,

it wa the soundtrack
for Lawless.

It was a Nick Cave.

Nick Cave wrote the movie

and he did the soundtrack

and was the last
record I bought.

- Trash Talk's new record

and I bought I Hate
Guys' new record.

- An Echo in the
Bunnymen single on Ebay.

(laughs)

- Cheap Trick, Dream
Police. (laughs) Used.

- The newest Caravel's
record and Hartley Art.

- Mott the Hoople.

- I purchased two live
Bob Seger records.

- A live David Allen Coe record.

That is just super rad.

I mean, it's actually
a lot heavier

than a lot of his
other records are

and it's just insane.

Like, that's guy's gnarly.

- I was really
excited about this

one particular record I got

and it's by this
band called Gloom.

It's like this
really obscure, rare,

hard to find, like,
super chaotic,

noisy, punk, hardcore record.

- Lost band from
friends called Soggy

and it's, like, very
proto-punk, metal stuff.

Perfect hybrid of
chugga chugga metal

but, like, very Stooges.

- It might have been,

as I did think about this,

it might's been
Fugazi, The Argument.

Because I was enjoying
Repeater so much

because everybody's like
Repeater's the classic

when I went to go
buy, which I love,

but then I looked
and I actually,

I Googled, and I actually saw

best Fugazi records in order

and they had The
Argument up high

so I went for that

and I totally dig it.

- Like, I think I
bought this last

and it was just a
Sex Pistols reissue

of some of their,
like, weird tapes,

and outtakes, and stuff,

and I kinda just reverted
back to something in me

where I was like, "Oh
yeah, a Sex Pistols record

"would be to have,"

because I haven't ever
owned a Sex Pistols record,

which is odd.

* Bunker to Bunker

* Have all the rations you need?

* What's the judge say?

* Armed to the teeth

* Get a good sleep on the eve

* Of your doomsday

* Hunt all your days

* Gather your nights

* Swallow the pill

* Oh, it tastes so bad!

* Won't be at all
like the life you had

* Wonder the sky

* Where will it fall?

* Shouting it out til
your face turns blue

* You better know
where you're running to

* Bunker to Bunker

* Have all the rations you need?

* What's the judge say?

* Armed to the teeth

* Get a good night
sleep on the eve

* Of your doomsday

* Hunt all your days

* Gather your nights

* Swallow the pill

* Oh, it tastes so bad!

* Won't be at all
like the life you had

* Wonder the sky

* Where will it fall?

* Shouting it out til
your face turns blue

* You better know
here you're running to

- I think part of the magic

that vinyl records and
blundering into cool music

you never know
existed holds for me

is that I'm still a fan

and keep in mind, fan comes
from the world fanatic.

I love to keep exploring

and even though I've got
way too many records,

I never buy one unless I intend

to listen to it when I get home.

Well, I don't always have time
to listen to them all, now,

but that's the idea.

I don't buy it to
scam or speculate.

I buy it to listen.

Listen to it and
there, that way I never

run out of cool
music to listen to.

I have no patience for
these people who say,

"Oh, well, Olson died
with Darby Crash died."

Or "Yeah, there's no
good bands anymore."

Wrong.

Good sounds are
where you find it.

So, start looking, okay?

Don't be afraid to blunder
("Tomorrow" by Bl'ast!)

into something cool.
("Tomorrow" by Bl'ast!)

You never know what it might
("Tomorrow" by Bl'ast!)

do to your life
("Tomorrow" by Bl'ast!)

or even your own music
("Tomorrow" by Bl'ast!)

where your band may finally
start sounding different

from all the other bands.

- This one, this is,
like, the absolute worst

question you can ask
a record collector.

This is, oh my god, honestly
if I had to pick five records

only, there was
a gun to my head?

- Oh man, I don't know.

The gun's to my
head, it's so tough.

I don't know.

I could just pick five
and it would make--

I don't have an answer
because you know what?

Put the gun, pull the
trigger, pull the trigger.

I can't pick five!

- Man, if only people
with guns putting them

to other people's heads
only wanted just that,

the world would be a
better place, wouldn't it?

I don't know.

I couldn't tell you
even one favorite

let alone five.

- I don't know, man.

I don't know if I
can answer this.

- I don't know.

- That's a, yeah,
that's a good question.

That's a hard question.

I'd probably lie to that person

and give him ten of my
least favorite records.

- Shit, you're a dick, dude.

Totally, someone should kick
you in the balls for that.

- Oh, what I would
say is "Shoot me."

(laughs) Just go ahead
and pull the trigger.

- There you go.

- 'Cause, yeah, no. (laughs)

- I don't know, I'm sure
I'm forgetting (mumbling)

I'm drawing a blank.

- That's the thing.

It's, that's what's
great about music

is that you don't have to
define it in those terms.

We don't live on
a dessert island.

We don't have to just
have five. (laughs)

- I didn't set out
to possess piles

and piles of records.

I just wanted to access
to a whole fallout shelter

of good songs that I liked

to protect me from crappy radio.

("American Heart
Attack" by The Bronx)

* I'm done telling
you that I'm in love

* What I have will
never be enough

* Come on baby go
live life on your own

* Everything inside
is breaking down

* And you don't want
to be hanging around

* I don't think I wanna
leave myself alone

* I'm done having to apologize

* I'm done living
inside your eyes

* When the lights go
out what's left to know

* Nothing ever makes sense to me

* A broken branch
of the family tree

* Kill the lights now
baby watch me explode

* There is no revolution

* And I'm done doing
things I don't want to do

* There is no restitution

* And I'm done, yeah

* I'm done living
in this decline

* I'm done watching you redesign

* Come on baby let's
go walk out the door

* I'm done showing
up to fucking work

* Taking orders
rom a fucking bitch

* I'm in the chair now go
ahead and flip the switch

* Hey