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...Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (Sugarhill) Three turntables, two mixers and 15 takes to get it right. The first time hip-hop had been captured on vinyl rather than just approximated...
...Mahal started right at home in the roadhouse with his 1967 debut, recently reissued by Columbia. A straight-ahead, unadorned production precludes any embarrassingly groovy anachronisms and lets the band get down to business, namely about 30 minutes of some of the best rocking blues ever committed to vinyl. The grooves are deep, and the band simply smokes: That's Ry Cooder on guitar, and he's not even playing lead; meanwhile, Taj sounds like he's trying to blow his entire six-foot-four frame through the reeds of his harmonica and sings like he means it, eschewing...
...someone offers to pay you cash money to get into your car every day and drive to and from the office, the same as you usually do, with just one catch. A vinyl wrapper will be stretched over the car so that it looks like you're driving a pint of ice cream...
Welcome to the NASCAR Nation, where a trip to the market may soon seem like two laps in the Cracker Barrel 500. Shifrin says he's done $1 million in sales this year and has 160 cars on the road draped in the same clear-vinyl ads you see on buses. Most of the cars are in the San Francisco area, where drivers get as much as $400 a month, but Shifrin has business in 11 cities and an online registry of 23,000 people who want in on the deal...
...Jefferson, the local main street, Weird Harold's Records survives because Dan Bessine, 52, has found a niche the chains can't match. He sells vinyl records on the Internet (find him at Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...