Final Vinyl

JE - 3:26 pm

As a kid growing up with dreams of being a rock star you’d spend countless hours poring over liner notes and LP artwork. How did this magic happen? What is that sound? What do these people look like? How can I inhabit this sound that has inhabited me?

In the digital world that luxury is gone. You download invisible music and play it on a piece of plastic with ear buds. As you multi-task through your day songs can come and go like the screen crawl on cable news networks. What holds the attention? We listen to music on our phones for Gods’ sake!
While texting!!

Don’t get me wrong; I love the new world in many ways. How else can I carry 3000 songs at a time onto an airplane? I’m not one to suffer from “Good Old Day Syndrome”. Often hindsight can be 20/20, but more often it’s seen through rose colored glasses.

Still, there was a magic to listening to vinyl. To sit and listen to “Side A” and have to be involved enough to get your butt up and flip the record for “Side B.” All the while absorbing the visual, tactile, and olfactory representation of what was spinning on the platter.

Well, I got a package in the mail yesterday. 4 black discs. Vinyl; it’s not just for cheap Chinese jackets anymore!

“Red Revelations” will be shipping in just a few weeks (June 23rd) and we are offering two slices of analogue heaven for all you old-timers (like me) and hipsters (like everybody else!). The first will be a gorgeous black vinyl rendition of “Red Revelations.” This includes full liner notes with who made what noises on each song and of course the lyrics, credits, and other arcana nerds like me are into.

The second offering will be a little more special. A gorgeous blood red vinyl slab of “Red Revelations” including all the above liner notes and my own personal John Hancock on the cover. Each order will be hand signed and shipped to you in a gold chariot. Okay, the gold chariot bit may not happen.

Of course, the CD version will be available as well and will include two tracks not available on the LP due to time restrictions. Stay tuned in the next week or so for pricing info, track listings and the like.

Peace,

JE

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8 responses so far, want to say something?

  1. 1. Carla June 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Indeed! I feel like an old timer now as I still buy CD’s … I don’t download music. Yes, the delicious ‘tangibility’ of vinyl and artwork. The smell and the vastness of it – all 12 inches of it! I even have a crocheted cushion on my couch that has been fashioned to look like a 12″ Ramones album. I still have all my old picture discs from when I was a youngster. (“When you could buy a car for a shilling” said in a nana voice). A spoken word Madonna, an A-ha single free from No.1 Magazine. Sigh. So irreplaceable and sadly not even worth anything now days. Your big fat slab of red licorice deliciousness sounds intriguing. Have you thought of issuing a plastic vinyl jacket (made in China of course) with a big ‘Red Revelations’ emblazoned across the back (in Chinese script) in celebration? Maybe a gold chariot on the pocket embroidery?

  2. 2. holly June 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    Ah, now you’re making me wanna go out and buy a record player again.

  3. 3. Barbara June 4th, 2009 at 6:51 am

    “BLOOD RED VINYL” – this is great!!!! I want!!!!!! ;)

  4. 4. Tanya June 4th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Oh sweet mother of mercy! I’m drooling just thinking about this album.

  5. 5. Rose-Anne June 5th, 2009 at 9:00 am

    There’s nothing more exciting than the moment when you see the finished product of something you’ve worked so hard to make. I’m not a musician, just a music lover, but I can’t help but feel thrilled for you–all those hours, distilled into a couple of wide vinyl platters. What a kick! Hurray!

  6. 6. linda June 6th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Red Revelations huh. The songs are darker, more urgent, raw. Burn for You is amazing. Elvis on drugs who really learned to play the guitar. I like them. I buy CD’s because I want people to stay in the music world, some incentive. Yeah, solid mass is great and comes in handy when the computer crashes, the MP3 player decides it can only hold 1 song now. Good work, 6-23-09.

  7. 7. Ken R June 11th, 2009 at 8:51 am

    Hey JE,

    Did you re-record “Bad Things” for your new album or did you just grab it from the original release?

    I’m looking forward to “Red Revelations” either way.

    kr

  8. 8. JE June 11th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Ken,

    Due to a re-record restriction in my Sony contract I was unable to re-record the song. However, Sony was very gracious to let me include it on the CD. It will NOT be available on the vinyl versions, sadly, due to the issue of run time restrictions on vinyl. So if you’re really wanting “Bad Things” you need to order the CD!

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