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T_H__E__R_O__A__M__IN__'_T_A__T_T_L__E_R_ !~*~ A Guide to the Happening Local Events and the Eventful Local Happenings ~*~!

Issue 7

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A Villa Roma Publication

R.I.P. Marty Balin 1942-2018

Joel Peterson Editor-in-Chief

November 2018

Always Free

THE annual THE STRANGE CASE OF THE SHELLEY HOT ROCKS or

WMUSJICFSFAL E 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

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS TELL WHAT YOU GOT

In December of 1971, having 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 album: Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Woman, Jumpin' Jack

mix of locally produced shows that cover all manner of music and discussion. WJFF has been on the air since February of 1990, and may be the only completely hydropowered radio station in the United States.

Flash and, of course, Brown Sugar! I played the heck out of

that album all through my teenage years. During my freshman year of

The station maintains a rich relationship with the local commu- college I was cranking Brown Sugar

nity. They host many happenings throughout the year. Barbeques, in my dorm room. A friend walked

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

in and said it "didn't sound like it was supposed to." I told him he was nuts, and continued to give the album heavy play well into my thir-

WJFF Music Sale. Held at the White Sulphur Springs Fire Hall on the ties.

Saturday of each Thanksgiving weekend, the sale features a silent auc-

It was only then (with the

tion for a wide variety of donated audio components and musical instruments. 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-

advent of the internet), that I discovered that for one day (11/18/71) the Shelley record pressing plant on Long Island pressed an acetate con-

gles, and thousands of used long playing records can be purchased for taining alternate versions of both

less than a dollar apiece, though some cherry-picked premium albums Brown Sugar and Wild Horses.

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!

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,

White Sulphur Springs Fire Hall, Sat. Nov. 24, 11:00am, $2 admission

which I still continue to play the heck out of, and treasure to this day.

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 You need music, I don't

set, a 2 LP vinyl edition, and a single CD of highlights. Release date: November 2nd. know why. It's probably

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-

one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and cele-

lease of the oft bootlegged Esher Sessions, which is comprised of acoustic versions of bration and religion in

most of the songs, essentially recreating the White Album "unplugged."

our lives, and music is a

good way to encapsulate

Peter Max: Early Paintings

a lot of it....anyway, man, if they ask you where you

The Museum at Bethel Woods October 9 - December 23, Thursday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm. The Max exhibit

heard it, tell `em "I read it in Th' Tattler!"

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

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Local

Events Calendar

UP, UP AND AWAY

MacARTHUR PARK

GALVESTON

Come see and hear the man who wrote the songs you

BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX

know and love!

NOVEMBER 3, BETHEL WOODS EVENTS CENTER 8:00 PM

November

DELAWARE

HOLIDAY 23 & 24

9:00am-

YOUTH CENTER

CRAFT FAIR 4:00pm

CALLICOON, NY

VETERANS THANK Thanks,pal!

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)

FRJEazzDTrDumIpeEter &JCAomCpoOserBS

Free!

Jazz! 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

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!****

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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 Albert 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 Bearsville 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 laidback 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 Cooper, 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 3

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

Darkside Records - Poughkeepsie NY

611 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 11am- 6pm

(845) 452-8010

Embassy Vinyl - Scranton PA

352 Adams Ave, Scranton, PA 18503 Mon - Sat 11am - 7pm, Sun Closed

(570) 341-9350

Jack's Rhythms - New Paltz NY

54 Main St, New Paltz, NY 12561 Mon - Sat 11am - 7pm, Sun 11am - 6pm

(845) 255-1082

Music City - Vestal NY

3104 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850 Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 10 am- 6pm

(607) 723-2615

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

Sound Go Round - Vestal NY

305 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850 Mon - Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 10 am- 6pm

(607) 785-0002

Rock Fantasy - Middletown NY

75 W Main St, Middletown, NY 10940 Mon - Sat 12pm - 7pm, Sun 12pm? 6pm

(845) 343-7300

The Vinyl Music Vault - Oneonta NY

300 Main St, Oneonta, NY 13820 Mon - Sat 12pm - 6:30pm, Sun 1pm? 5pm

(607) 441-3121

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

Sugar Loaf Records - Chester NY

1385 Kings Hwy, Chester, NY 10918 Thurs - Sun 12pm - 6pm, Mon, Tues, Weds - Closed

(845) 545-9183

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 matter). 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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