The Best Comps on the Planet - Warner Brothers Loss Leaders

Nobody did it better! The birth of the freeform vinyl compilation. There have been imitators but Warner Brothers are the inventors. If you were savvy enough to check out the inner sleeves of your old Neil Young, Jethro Tull and Mothers LPs (to name only a few) and send in the couple of bucks your reward would arrive in a couple of weeks. The "Joy of a Toy" as your treasure arrives! hours of exploration, cool cover art, incredible linner note (Dr. Denento) and a fantastic compilation of sonic treats. Some very familiar and some to discovery. Sometime a familiar song in a different mix or two.

I don't think we will ever see these compilations remastered and released. With all the mergers and aqusitions in the music industry and the slow death of the CD format these records will remain just that - "records." They are an indellable peek into the history of an incredibly creative time. A movement as brilliant as the Renaissance. A catalog of incredible versitility at that moment in time. Although Columbia tried with their Music People 3 LP set and the Different Strokes (single LP) Comps they couldn't compete with Warner Brothers sheer volume of artists.

Believe it or not there are some 36 plus Warner Brothers Compilations. If you were lucky enough to collect these at the time you paid just a few dollars for each of these national treasure. Collection them nowadays can be a hefty price to pay as they become rediscovered. I have 22 of the 36 plus. there are several that I have just become fimiliar with and still looking. If you are an old dust bin & dumpster diver like me you enjoy the hunt likewise.

The fun of these comps are digitizing them each side at a time and NOT tracking them. Listening to each side as if they were a radio show, loading them into the iPod and listening to them in the car on a long drive. A great way to pass the time on a road trip. If you bought them for $1.00, $2.00 or the $3.00 price tag at the time it can surely offset the price of your gas tank on that road trip. Definitely worth the $85.00 to fill your gas tank!

More on the Warner Bros loss Leaders later, just think about what you have lost with your leaders NOW!

Check out this link for more info on Loss Leaders:
http://home.clara.net/fil/rocksamplers/warner.htm

G Train is My Vacation from Civilization

While listening to the G Train the other night on RandoRadio.com I was diggin' the groove that Giacomo was in. I always felt Giaco is a man in a time signature of his own. Walking and talking with Giaco is kind of like having a loop of Burbeck's "Take Five" proudly whirling around in the background of your head. That's what I love about listening to his show, there are no predictions of where it will end up, an adventure everytime. Listening and dreaming sure is a cheap alternative to the rising cost of a full-fledged vacation! HA!

The Madness Returns!

So here we are? Is this it? Is that what all the fuss was about?

Random Madness is back! After broadcasting for seven-and-a-half year run on WDFH 90.3 FM, Ossining, NY we have moved on to the Internet. As the dust settles on Monday evenings again it looks like I'll be coming at you live every Monday night at 7pm. Thats right, 7pm - 9pm every Monday! I'm looking forward to a regular ritual of random madness. This time its a bit more unique, at RandoRadio.com because there is so much talent to bounce off of. the entire station is based on radio the way it used to be. That is what its all about for each and everyone of the dedicated DJs and their shows. I'm amazed how different we are yet the same. We all grew up on great radio and it is so sad to cruise the FM dial to find nothing even remotely similar to what we grew up on. I don't know about you, but I needed music during my waking hours to survive, let-alone function. I was always at my most creative when a good groove is moving in the background. As I write these words, I'm having an earful of Christine's show. At this moment, life is good!