Dusty Groove, C or D?

so, for me, its a case of well done for what they do, and i dont fault them for what they dont (and i forgive them their little grand royalisms!)

hey, whatever happend to Easy Listener magazine anyway? anyone?

Anyhow, their selection is too focused for me to do all my online music shopping there, but at there are times I'll buy a hell of alot from them (those Peter Brown comps most recently). I'd buy more if I still did vinyl, but alas.

Their prices on some rare vinyl can be outta hand, but then sometimes it's not so bad. I dunno. Kinda have a like/hate relationship with the Dusty.

But everybody keep shopping there so Rick can put his girl through college.

My only problems with them are: the way in which they describe titles in their catalogue, where a humdrum mid-1980s LP by a somewhat burned-out soul star gets the same blur of superlatives as something truly amazing like Fela Kuti; the fact that they only keep a few titles in all the time, and their stock rotates very frequently. Often you have to buy something the same week they stock it, or it will disappear forever. That said they are very good about letting you know if/when a desired title comes back into stock.

Their vinyl doesn't seem terribly overpriced to me. Compared to some place like *ahem* Vintage Vinyl, it's very democratic. Maybe "democratic" is the best way to describe Dusty Groove, for better and for worse.

I wish they had longer hours on weekdays, though.

It has the unintended effect, too, of making everything sound really boring.

"why cut down something you're trying to sell?"

Do you remember what disc they were cutting down? They generally seem positive about the few free jazz and "out sound" titles they carry, but it's clear they don't know much about either genre.

On various things, I've seen them refer to out stuff as either "hippy dippy" or "blowing their heads off." I'd disagree about genre knowledge, though: most every good record in either genre I've bought from there has Rick's personal collection stamp on it (a hand holding dollar bills, funnily enough).

I'm sure glad they're carrying those Maximum Pressure CDs, though.

I think they do champion a lot of dubious stuff, throwing the word "genius" around much too liberally. How many Lee Hazlewood CDs do you have to buy before you get the point anyways?

but their overzealous descriptions have tricked me more times than i'd like to remember

Oh, and I got this Jorge Ben 4-CD thing from them that I couldn't find anywhere else. It was about forty bucks and the whole thing is incredible.

Describe, and maybe I will! haha.

i'm still glad they're carrying those maximum pressure cds.

Thx Gear! This Japanese group have certainly grown up a lot -- and this beautiful album is their most mature in years! The combo is fronted by singer Ann Sally -- whose English language vocals add a tremendous amount of sophistication to the record -- snaking forth in a cool jazzy style that goes way past the easy bossa remake mode of earlier albums. Sally's voice is incredible, and it's mixed with a well-constructed set of backings by the group, music that is especially heavy in its use of Fender Rhodes! The track list is great, too -- with wonderful remakes of Fred Neil's "The Dolphins", Flora Purim's "Light As A Feather", Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance", and Coltrane's "Naima". Sweet, mellow, jazzy, and wonderfully rich -- the group's best album in years! Italian version of the album features 2 tracks not on the Japanese one -- "Butterfly (Incognito rmx)" and "Sky (Soul Bossa Trio blue rmx)".