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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