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THE ROAMIN’ TATTLER !~*~ A Guide to the Happening Local Events and the Eventful Local Happenings ~*~! ________________________
Joel Peterson Editor-in-Chief
——————————————— A Villa Roma Publication Always Free
Peter Max: Early Paintings
Issue 7
November 2018
R.I.P. Marty Balin 1942-2018
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The Museum at Bethel Woods October 9 - December
23, Thursday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm. The Max exhibit
is included with general museum admission ($15
adults, $13 seniors, $11 youth 8 - 17, $6 Children 3-7,
children under 3 free). Special exhibition only: $5
You need music, I don't
know why. It's probably
one of those Joe Camp-
bell questions, why we
need ritual. We need
magic, and bliss, and
power, myth, and cele-
bration and religion in
our lives, and music is a
good way to encapsulate
a lot of it....anyway, man,
if they ask you where you
heard it, tell ‘em “I read
it in Th’ Tattler!”
WJFF is Sullivan County’s public radio station. Broadcasting out
of Jeffersonville New York, they offer a wide span of music, news and
public affairs. In addition to airing National Public Radio shows, they
also broadcast Pacifica Radio, shows from the BBC and a very eclectic
mix of locally produced shows that cover all manner of music and dis-
cussion. WJFF has been on the air since February of 1990, and may be
the only completely hydropowered radio station in the United States.
The station maintains a rich relationship with the local commu-
nity. They host many happenings throughout the year. Barbeques,
dances, yard sales, auctions and live music weekends among other
events are greatly enjoyed by everyone who attends them.
Perhaps their most anticipated fundraising event is the annual
WJFF Music Sale. Held at the White Sulphur Springs Fire Hall on the
Saturday of each Thanksgiving weekend, the sale features a silent auc-
tion for a wide variety of donated audio components and musical instru-
ments. There are music books and DVDs for sale as well, but it’s the
vinyl records that really draw the crowds. Hundreds of used 45 rpm sin-
gles, and thousands of used long playing records can be purchased for
less than a dollar apiece, though some cherry-picked premium albums
will sell for more. Due to entire collections being donated, often times a
wide variety of titles by any given artist can be found. Come early, and
bring a box or bag to haul away your newfound treasures!
WJFF MUSIC SALE
STONES, DYLAN, BEATLES REISSUES DUE THIS MONTH The Rolling Stones will be releasing a 50th anniversary edition of their classic Beggar’s Banquet
LP on November 16th in all formats.The vinyl edition will be newly remastered by Bob Ludwig at Abby
Road studios. It will be pressed on 180 gram vinyl, and presented in a gatefold cover, along with a 45 rpm
single of Sympathy for the Devil, newly mastered in mono and a replica flexidisc from 1968 (Japanese), of
a phone conversation with Mick Jagger.
The Dylan project, More Blood, More Tracks is not so much a reissue as an astounding amount of alternate recordings (every surviving track: more than 70 of them) from the sessions
for his 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks. The release will be available as a 6 CD
set, a 2 LP vinyl edition, and a single CD of highlights. Release date: November 2nd.
In similar fashion, the Beatles White Album will be getting the 50th anniversary
treatment with a myriad of differing releases from a standard 2 LP reproduction to
multiple CD, album & blu ray individually numbered packages with deluxe hard
bound books and glossy photographs. The highlight of the sets will be the official re-
lease of the oft bootlegged Esher Sessions, which is comprised of acoustic versions of
most of the songs, essentially recreating the White Album “unplugged.”
THE annual
White Sulphur Springs Fire Hall, Sat. Nov. 24, 11:00am, $2 admission
In December of 1971, hav-
ing just passed the milestone of my
ninth birthday, I decided to celebrate
by purchasing the latest Rolling
Stones release, the double best-of
LP, Hot Rocks.
I forked over the five or six
bucks such a slab of vinyl cost in
those days at the Ben Franklin store
in New City NY, and off I ran with
my prize. Oh, how I loved that al-
bum: Sympathy for the Devil,
Honky Tonk Woman, Jumpin’ Jack
Flash and, of course, Brown Sugar!
I played the heck out of
that album all through my teenage
years. During my freshman year of
college I was cranking Brown Sugar
in my dorm room. A friend walked
in and said it “didn’t sound like it
was supposed to.” I told him he was
nuts, and continued to give the al-
bum heavy play well into my thir-
ties.
It was only then (with the
advent of the internet), that I discov-
ered that for one day (11/18/71) the
Shelley record pressing plant on
Long Island pressed an acetate con-
taining alternate versions of both
Brown Sugar and Wild Horses.
It is easily one of the rarest
of Rolling Stones collectibles, and
fetches $1000 in it’s finest condition
as opposed to my well played copy,
which I still continue to play the
heck out of, and treasure to this day.
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE
SHELLEY HOT ROCKS or
YOU CAN’T ALWAYS TELL WHAT YOU GOT
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Events Calendar
Local
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NOVEMBER 3, BETHEL WOODS EVENTS CENTER 8:00 PM
Come see and hear the man who wrote the songs you
know and love!
UP, UP AND AWAY
MacARTHUR PARK
GALVESTON
BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR
November
23 & 24
9:00am-
4:00pm
DELAWARE
CENTER
YOUTH
CALLICOON, NY
VETERANS THANK
YOU DINNER Sunday, November 11 – 6:00 p.m
St. George’s Church, 97 Schoolhouse Hill Rd., Jeffersonville NY
For reservations, contact Maria 845 482 -4640. Monday – Thursday (9-2)
Thanks, pal!
Jazz Trumpeter & Composer
FREDDIE JACOBS With Keyboardist Peter Tomlinson
Mr. Jacobs has toured with jazz legends:
Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Eddie Palmieri and Jimmy McGriff In addition to the performance, Mr. Jacobs will discuss his experiences playing in the legendary Catskills Hotels
Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY, Sunday, November 4th, 2 – 3pm
Free! Jazz!
Hosted by Little Sparrow
THE JAMES DWORESTSKY MEMORIAL HOLIDAY PARADE Friday, November 23rd, Main Street Jeffersonville NY, 7:00pm
****Come out and see Dozens and Dozens of Firetrucks!****
The Catskill Mountains have attracted artists of all sorts for many decades. The town of Woodstock in
Ulster County New York has been considered an artist colony for well over a hundred years, when it was
home to many Hudson River School painters as well as the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. Of course, Woodstock and
the surrounding hamlets also became an attractive rural place to live for a number of well known musicians in
the decades that followed. Dave Van Ronk, Jorma Kaukonen, Van Morrison, John Sebastian, Paul Butterfield,
Bob Dylan, Donald Fagan of Steely Dan and The Band have all called the region home at one point or another.
While the Catskill mountains would never become well known as a recording center in the way that
towns like Nashville and Los Angeles did, they did attract recording artists, largely thanks to the Efforts of Al-
bert Grossman. Grossman was the manager of, among others, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, and The Band. It was
he who brought Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” to Peter, Paul, and Mary, whom he also represented, giving the
song, and Dylan’s fledgling career, an immediate world-wide jump-start. Grossman went on to found Bears-
ville Records in 1970. The record label was home to a wide spectrum of musical artists, including Foghat,
Sparks, NRBQ, and Paul Butterfield & Todd Rundgren. Rundgren’s own Utopia Studios & his production of
other people’s LPs was a huge part of the success of the region as a recording destination during the 1970’s,
and continues on today as Utopia Sound, a video and music recording studio near the Town of Woodstock NY.
The label’s recording facility, Bearsville Sound Studios, located near Woodstock NY, attracted a larger
clientele of other label’s artists. Musicians who wanted to get back to the countryside, and record in the laid-
back environment that the small town in Ulster County provided, began to spread the word about Bearsville.
Before long, the studio hosted recording sessions by such diverse acts as Cheap Trick, Boz Scaggs, Alice Coo-
per, The Isley Brothers, New York Dolls, Foreigner, The Pretenders, Phish, Patti Smith, Joe Cocker, The Band
and the Replacements. In 1978, the Rolling Stones rented the facility for a number of weeks for rehearsal and
pre-production for their Some Girls tour. Though the studio’s doors have closed, The Bearsville Theater still
continues to represent Grossman’s vision, with world class musicians continuing to grace it’s stage to this day.
Recording studios and rehearsal spaces in the Catskill region continue to attract top drawer acts from
the late, great David Bowie and the Black Crowes (Allaire Studios, Shokan, NY), to Bob Dylan who has twice
rented out the famous and historic Bardavon Theater in Poughkeepsie NY, to rehearse for a tour and to work
up material before recording a new album (Modern Times 2006). Other recording studios in the region include
Sonart, in Mount Tremper NY, Dreamland in Hurley NY, Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studio, Outlier Inn in the
Southern Catskills, not to mention Sullivan County’s own Yonderbarn and Big Twig Studios.
It may have taken decades, but these days many of the small towns in the Catskills have taken on the
feeling of art colonies, as painters, musicians, writers, sculptors, filmmakers and artists of all stripes continue
to succumb to the allure of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, and the region is all the richer for it.
Great Albums by Great Artists, Recorded in Our Own Back Yard! Music From Big Pink - The Band
Stage Fright - The Band
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan
Heathen - David Bowie
Reality - David Bowie
Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
Wave - Patti Smith Group
Cosmic Thing - B52’s
War Paint - The Black Crowes
Raw Power Live - Iggy & the Stooges
Snakes and Arrows - Rush
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Before the Frost - Black Crowes
Woodstock Film Soundtrack - Various Artists
Billy Breathes - Phish
Tigerlily - Natalie Merchant
Skylarking - XTC
Woodstock Album - Muddy Waters
Moondog Matinee - The Band
Blue Mountain - Bob Weir
Live From The Bardavon - Various Artists
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The Catskills Greatest Hits
The VINYL HUNTER: Central New York/N.E. Pennsylvania
Gallery of Sound - Dickson City PA 237 Scranton Carbondale Hwy, Scranton, PA 18508
Sat - Thurs 10am - 9pm, Fri 9:30am - 10pm
(570) 969-0778
Embassy Vinyl - Scranton PA 352 Adams Ave, Scranton, PA 18503
Mon - Sat 11am - 7pm, Sun Closed
(570) 341-9350
Music City - Vestal NY 3104 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850
Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 10 am- 6pm
(607) 723-2615
Sound Go Round - Vestal NY 305 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850
Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 10 am- 6pm
(607) 785-0002
The Vinyl Music Vault - Oneonta NY 300 Main St, Oneonta, NY 13820
Mon - Sat 12pm - 6:30pm, Sun 1pm– 5pm
(607) 441-3121
Sugar Loaf Records - Chester NY 1385 Kings Hwy, Chester, NY 10918
Thurs - Sun 12pm - 6pm, Mon, Tues, Weds - Closed
(845) 545-9183
Darkside Records - Poughkeepsie NY 611 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 11am- 6pm
(845) 452-8010
Jack’s Rhythms - New Paltz NY 54 Main St, New Paltz, NY 12561
Mon - Sat 11am - 7pm, Sun 11am - 6pm
(845) 255-1082
Rhino Records - New Paltz NY 10 Main St. Ste. 202, Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY 12561
Sun - Thurs 11am - 7pm, Fri - Sat 11am - 9pm
(845) 255-0230
Rock Fantasy - Middletown NY 75 W Main St, Middletown, NY 10940
Mon - Sat 12pm - 7pm, Sun 12pm– 6pm
(845) 343-7300
Hudson Valley Vinyl - Beacon NY 267 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
Thurs 12 - 6, Fri, Sat 12 - 7, Sun, Mon 12 - 6, Tues, Weds Closed
(845) 765-1411
The Vinyl Room - Wappingers Falls NY 2656 E Main St, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Sun - Weds 5 - 10, Thurs 5 - 11, Fri 5 - 12, Sat 3 - 12, Sun 3 - 9
(845) 297-3344
A REALIST’S GUIDE TO GRADING VINYL RECORDS Mint (M) - This refers to a record that has never been played, even once. It has probably remained sealed, and
stored under optimum temperature and atmospheric conditions. Even under these circumstances, a record
probably isn’t truly in mint condition, as surface abrasions during the pressing process can and do occur.
Newer, high end pressings currently being manufactured are more likely to actually be in mint condition.
Avoid paying mint prices for an unsealed record, and be wary of anyone selling unsealed records as mint.
Excellent (E) (Note: sometimes Near Mint (NM) is used in this instance) - A record that has ideally been
played only once or twice, with very minor surface marks. Realistically, this is as good as it gets. In many a
collector’s estimation, finding a truly mint record is like finding a unicorn. One can’t rule out the possibility,
but good luck finding one under most circumstances.
Very Good Plus (VG+) A record that plays fine, and looks good. It maintains a shiny surface, and scuffs are
few and far between. A lightly played record in a well maintained collection, with only a bit (if any) surface
noise.
Very Good (VG) The lion’s share of well cared for vinyl albums out there fall into this category. Perfectly
acceptable, but with a bit of surface noise, and some surface wear and tear. This is really as low as you want to
go on the scale in terms of quality when buying vinyl.
Good (G) This is not the description you want to see when purchasing a record (or selling one, for that mat-
ter). It’s a wide open category that rarely lives up to it’s name. Albums designated as “good” can often be
completely undesirable in terms of quality, and should only be purchased as “space fillers” for rare LPs should
you find a copy in better condition in the future.
Poor (P) (Note: sometimes Fair (F) is used in this instance) An utter piece of crap. Unfortunately, oftentimes
entire collections can be found in this condition. Warped, badly scratched, dirty, covers torn, filthy, doodled
upon, this is essentially a catch all category for useless garbage. Avoid at all costs, unless it’s a first state
Beatles “butcher” cover for a buck and a quarter….and even then, buyer beware.
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