You got Guestroom. We ended up having a liquidation sale. There’s just a whole laundry list of talent that ear X-tacy kind of helped harvest. She protected us. Mercer: As silly as it sounds, we wanted it to look very much like the other store as much as we could. Carney: Covered with music and posters, all these crazy bands I’d never heard of, stuff plastered everywhere. Pell: I remember thinking: This place is so cool. They never really rubbed it in my face if I didn’t know what something was. Since the resurgence of vinyl, people ask me all the time, “Now’s a good time?” It’s not a good time. Read more. After a couple of years of having people come over to my apartment at all hours of the day and night, I decided that I was going to move all my records out of my living room and put ’em in a store somewhere. To see that much product in one space just doesn’t happen anymore. So, it was vinyl and cassettes. Anthony: No one anticipated the draw for Tenacious D. Timmons: Two fat guys sitting at a table signing autographs and being smartasses. Kaelin: You got a free bumper sticker when you bought a CD. There were just so many people lined around the block to get in there. He was constantly talking you up when he was at conventions. If I could do the overhead and have a storefront? People are going to do what they’re going to do. Anthony: I really championed the CD to other staff members and put it in the listening station. When the news was released that that place was closing, I had to go try to make my peace to it. I remember when Fugazi played (I was) standing on a chair and the feeling of sweat dripping down my body. Carney: I didn’t get in the building because it was like mayhem trying to get a foot in the door. 29th September - White River Park, Indianapolis, IN . Now Now - 12/5/2021 December ⦠Like whoa, seeing a real record store. I just remember it feeling like a vigil of sorts. He was so good to local bands. Getting graphic novels, comics. And she was tough. Music from my Angel. She was super smart. Rodan’s Rusty — I saw how extreme volume and power could be wrapped up with delicate beauty and sadness in this new abstract way. Couldn’t get the staff that we had. Pell: We had people who were jazz experts or classical music experts or hip-hop experts. Previous Next. McKnight: ear X-tacy was the gateway drug to so much culture and so much music. They would sell them — because they wanted to bring you into the store — for $7.99 or whatever the price would be, and our cost on the album was like $10 or $11. Johnson: It was the smokiest bar that Louisville has ever had. I said, “What’s the cheapest thing you got?” and he goes, “We got these bumper stickers.” So we did a small run of bumper stickers just to get him off my back. It was so hot in there and disgusting but awesome. It was like a pop quiz. A misdemeanor conspiracy conviction in 2015 led to a one-year prison sentence for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who led the company during the worst American mining disaster since the 1970s. Amazingly enough, I don’t think we ever got cited. So, on some level, I think that did breed a type of family and community that creative people found each other and were able to make some really cool stuff. Buy it, so I don’t have to. A lot of especially independent record labels saw that record stores were hurting, so they would make limited-edition records like picture discs or colored vinyl that would exclusively be available at indie stores. Timmons: But three times the size of what I had before. And so we did that. We were considered what they called at the time a weighted store. It was just magical. He always had a local-band section that he’d sign on consignment. But it could only happen with the world stopped. Hallahan: I look back on that stuff and just think about how important places like ear X-tacy were for human interaction. And you can quote me on that. 741 E. Oak St., Louisville, KY 40203 ⢠(502) 290-5721 Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 5 to 10 p.m.; closed Monday and Tuesday Open for indoor dining and carryout. Shadwick Wilde (songwriter, lead singer of Quiet Hollers): It gave the sense of being a place that was inviting the music community to come and be in that space. It was just a proud moment for both entities. You got a free bumper sticker when you bought a CD. I remember vividly my dad taking me to midnight releases, which was super exciting. The rise of the biggest rock band to come out of Louisville in recent decades paralleled and, to some extent, was interconnected with the peak of ear X-tacy. समà¥à¤¹ बà¥à¤°à¤¾à¤à¤à¤¼ à¤à¤°à¥à¤. Between that and iTunes, it was just this vicious cycle we couldn’t get ahead of. I mean, there’s a bunch of shops. “How are we going to pay our staff?” That was a. issue all the time. We weren’t trying to make statements with our hair or clothes. We were always on the guest list, which was very cool. Records): I had a couple of small under-the-table jobs for a bit. Wilde: It’s one of those things — you never know when the last time you’re gonna be somewhere or see someone is. Melanie Pell (employee from 1993 to 1998; indie music buyer): Tiny location. The Big Four Arts Festival has been the most attended (40,000+) two-day Event ever held at Waterfront Park on the Big Four Bridge Lawn. Mercer: It was just a weird few days. Ben Jones (owner of Better Days Records): “Thank God I found a place — fair, beautiful, and I can show my wares again. We had a vigil in the parking lot with just the diehards, just to have something kind of symbolic. Colorado Brazil Fest. I miss shopping in a place like that. To me that’s a huge deal. I would spend all my babysitting money there. Upstairs in the garden room at Phoenix Hill — it was not the best room. If you were a record-collector geek, that’d be the place to go. Pell: It was run by this little old woman named Lois Deddens. She’d had polio as a child; it was hard for her to walk, and she probably weighed 75 pounds. One of those subordinates, Ron Ivy, who was a safety director at the Kronos mine, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in 2019. Tara Jane were like gods to me at that time. Like there was stuff everywhere you looked. Found inside â Page 458CLYDE 458 COALITION Clyde Park Community Scholarship Fund , C. M. Wells School of Music and Fine Arts Inc. , Coaches Care of New Mexico ... A. C. H. Foundation , Until December 1998 , Coal Creek Community Theater , Louisville , Co. I’ve got the very first Black Keys CD signed by the Black Keys at ear X-tacy. Physically, I could not be there. Boat launch on site, bring your canoe or kayak and take a stroll along this beautiful cypress tree lined piece of North Florida. Timmons: I never really, truly saw it. . Kaelin: “Looking for a bass player” ads. I’m really sorry.”. For a couple of years, I was selling records out of my apartment and started a mail-order catalog. We were probably a little exclusive. These like 80-minute CDs [laughs]. Hallahan: That was a nationally acclaimed store. They had all this cool new music that was coming out at the time, with the Seattle grunge movement. Pell: It wasn’t a particularly punk-rock-looking group. And I remember just standing in the middle of Bardstown Road trying to direct traffic to get this bus somewhere where it wouldn’t get hit. “Looking for a bass player” ads. Hallahan: The power of that place — it had a purpose at the beginning, and it ended up being just so much more. And you can’t really ask for help again, you know? It felt like in those two weeks our name was getting tarnished a little bit. So in their little handmade Weezer fanzine it would say: “Call Melanie from ear X-tacy if you’re looking for this import single.”. I feel so lucky to have been the age I was at the time I was. I had to go inside and cry, and pull myself together, then go back out and give out more candy. If two people were trying to, it was impossible. We were happy to be touring and getting positive reinforcement from our fans. I think with the way that a lot of bands broke out of Louisville, I think ear X-tacy had a. part. It was like 95-cent draft beer. Please consider donating, volunteering, or becoming a corporate sponsor. It’s just a decline of the value of music in our culture, in our society. We would bring in a bunch of used CDs and Lois would put them on the jukebox. I didn’t think they were very good. Chautauqua Park is a portion of an iconic historic landmark dating back to when the City of Boulder began preserving wild lands over 100 years ago. There’s some guy in here who wants to talk about Smog.” I’m like, “Yeah, I love Smog.” It’s this British guy, and I said, “Here’s the Smog album.” And then we started talking and I got him to buy Slint and I got him to buy Built to Spill — he was one of those great customers. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Bucayu: Outlook Inn would close at 4. I mean, everybody that could come to buy anything, they would. Probably far back as sophomore year, he was playing, and he had his bands up and running. You could see it on John. Anthony: White Stripes coming to shop there. Timmons: The original name of the store was going to be “ear XTC,” but I was afraid the band was going to sue me. She eventually replaced it with a CD jukebox. Incredible, encyclopedic knowledge of music. Mercer: We also specifically had a stage built, which was really nice. The first time I saw ’em it was upstairs at Phoenix Hill, and I didn’t get it. Panera was actually looking at that spot well before we left and I think had approached John to have some sort of hybrid bagel/music shop, which had its benefits because we’d have corporate backing, and they didn’t have anything like that. But at the time I was hopeful that it could still work out. What comes out of (Louisville) is built on a kind of community where everybody knows each other. And just like stuff all over the walls. Louisville is just about the most eventful city in the state. But we looked and looked to see if we could find that red tile, the speckled red tile on the floor. at ear X-tacy and then taking it back to my parents’ house and just cranking up this massive subwoofer that my dad had — this huge surround sound. Mercer: There weren’t, quite frankly, a lot of women. It was massive. I think there were maybe four or five total the entire time I worked there. That really helped kind of keep ear X-tacy afloat for a while. It was very much a jeans-and-T-shirt kind of crew. I really appreciate the fact that people have so many great memories. (Timmons sent out a weekly email called Gaba Gaba Hey — a Ramones reference — to record-industry insiders. He had a tiny shop there. Anthony: I remember people getting pictures of John Mayer. I hope it’s a girl.”. John gave that to me, every single year, for not just a month but two months. You got Guestroom. There’s something about the smell, and it pleases all the senses. GAMES FOR SALE. Tell me more about Party Options. Bailey: There was a part of me that was just happy to not only still have a job but for ear X-tacy, more importantly, to still have a chance at surviving. Benton Cruise In to the Park: HH Lovett Park in Benton, KY ⢠June 5 ⢠4- 8PM. There’s a reason why people still sneak in and paint “ear X-tacy.” I’m telling you, if that’s not a measure of love for that institution, I don’t know what is. There’s always that party aspect of it too — kind of a last hurrah. At the time we had no money, no resources, no anything. As a result, Forecastle is about much more than just the music. Anthony: There’s no mega-shops anymore because you can’t. He was just excited to be able to put records in a record store, and he was just like, “The owner is super nice.”. That’s what you get later on that night. Organizers for South by Southwest (SXSW) have announced the initial lineup for the music festival component of its 2022 event.After a cancellation ⦠The best-selling record in ear X-tacy’s history, Timmons says, is either one by MMJ or, believe it or not, the O Brother Where Art Thou? Especially catering to Louisville's music scene is 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville, a local public radio station funded, in part, from local listeners. It wasn’t like faux-hawks or green hair. Kaelin: I was always a little nervous and felt a little uncool going to the checkout and getting my jazz CDs. love Spotify. So, on some level, I think that did breed a type of family and community that creative people found each other and were able to make some really cool stuff. It totally sucked. The Red Rocks Amphitheatre is located about 10 miles outside of Denver, Colorado. That’s the only way to do it. I still start sobbing when that song comes on. Like Hanson was there. Plus, he had records that weren’t readily available to most people. That space was 10,000 square feet. It literally sounded like Jim was singing in a silo out in the country, which I guess he was. But at some point, they totally blew my mind. Anthony: Before Twitter, Instagram, Facebook — before any of that, your flyer got people to your party. And if we wanted to grab any memorabilia or anything, we could do that. James: I took copies of our first record, The Tennessee Fire, (to ear X-tacy) in person. (Carney’s) band Maggie’s Wart did a killer version of “18 and Life” by Skid Row. 2nd October - Saint Louis Music Park, St Louis, MO . Bailey: We tried to get into the digital music game with a platform that several of the other independent record stores in the nation were also trying to get a part of. We took votive candles and made a music note. It certainly didn’t have that curb appeal, because it was a strip mall, for lack of a better term. (now manufacturing worker, guitarist for the band Jaxon Lee Swain, frontman of the band Graffiti). But every once in a while, you’ve got Jim James coming to you — some kid, early 20s. Wilde: One of the more exciting things to me about it was the bulletin board where all the local shows would be listed. Nov 17, 2021 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM. So, you want to insult them? James: We would do a little consignment trade — they hand me a little note that I gave them 20 copies to sell, and they would call me when they sold and pay me, and I would bring them more copies to sell. She was just this tiny, frail woman. Nov 28 2021 7:00 pm Doug Elmore Group: The Music of Billy Strayhorn. And I was a new kid on the block. Pell: John gave me a little bit of artistic license to make the bins look cool. In grade school, he began buying 45s and 12-inch vinyl records, starting with the Monkees’ first album. I worked on Preston Highway for, oh, it was at least three years until they went out of business. Rudyard Kipling. A wall of cassettes. Mercer: (John) had to step away for a little bit because he couldn’t deal with it. Records). Kaelin: There was media and Jim James was there and a ton of other local musicians showed up to it. It was still kind of tongue-in-cheek; we knew it was silly. I can remember wrapping up some bins — putting shrink wrap on whole bins of CDs and LPs. She asked me who some of my favorite bands were, and I said, “The Band, Bob Dylan, Stax, Galaxie 500, the Clash, Elvis Costello, Pavement, Guided By Voices, Flaming Lips, Stereolab …”. You can’t keep wanting things that are not around. It was like a runaway train. I remember buying Nirvana’s. And I took personal offense to that, too. I feel like we have pretty much played everywhere you can play in Louisville. I remember sitting on my couch and going through the numbers one-by-one to call and be like, “Hey. There’s always that party aspect of it too — kind of a last hurrah. I didn’t get in the building because it was like mayhem trying to get a foot in the door. Swain: I think he maybe even took some of us over to the Douglass Loop store to look at it one time before he pulled the trigger. There would be weeks where I would get like a $5 paycheck because I had spent it all on records. Now The Monarchs are more than just a great dance band. If I had overhead, I’d either break even or I’d be losing money. I have people ask me all the time, “Are you going to open up a store?” It’s like, “Um, hell no?”. That’s where that came from. He had an album called. Records and founder of the blog LouisvilleMusicCulture): I ended up going back to college and finishing my degree (in anthropology). Pell: I think it closed at 2, and then on the extra-crazy nights we would end up at the Back Door, which closed at 4. He said, “What do you want to do?” And I said, “I want to build up your hip-hop, and I want to build up your funk and soul selections.” And he allowed me to do that. (John) was pumped and happy to be in that location and doing well. “For over sixty years, NASA and other space agencies have developed orbital space flight and space habitation, setting us up for commercial business to take off in this decade,” Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of Advanced Development Programs for Blue Origin, said in a statement. Swain: We weren’t even closed very long, I don’t think. Found inside â Page 118... p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. taste of louisville Louisville's shopping districts (303) 666-5747 www.ci.louisville.co.us ... tHe coloRado Music festival 1525 Spruce Street, Boulder (303)449-1397 www.coloradomusicfest.org The festival ... I feel like we have pretty much played everywhere you can play in Louisville. That really helped kind of keep ear X-tacy afloat for a while. Couldn’t get the staff that we had. And we got things more or less at cost, maybe cost plus 10 percent — whatever it was. The good thing is, look, Matt started his own thing. Frances Zopp (employee from 1992 to 1995): I would spend all my babysitting money there. For, I don’t know, a month or two the sales started pouring in. She said something like, “I know you’re going to love this, and you strike me as someone who will want to give someone a copy and you may not find it in New York when you get home.”. Mercer: A lot of the staff had that problem. I always loved that some of the members from my favorite bands were often the ones working the registers at the store. And just like stuff all over the walls. Found inside â Page 171Studied , New Orleans , La . , under Mrs. A. E. Gribble ; Louisville , Ky . , under Karl Schmidt ; Mexico , under Sylvester Rodriquez . ... W. E. Sielaff's Studio , 30 E. Park St. Fisher Thompson Music Publishing Co. As silly as it sounds, we wanted it to look very much like the other store as much as we could. Itâs a celebration of unrivaled local eats, drinks, and Kentucky flair! On weekends I was traveling around the Midwest doing record-collector shows every weekend. Bucayu: I still needed to kind of try to pay my rent. Great for those who want to cleanse and recharge. He was more than — way more than — a record store owner. $43,500: $8,580: 407%: Program services: $12,997: $0: 999%: Investment income and dividends I think I went in to buy a Ramones End of the Century cassette. Anthony: Black Keys on their first record. Mike Martinovich (My Morning Jacket’s first big-label manager): My first-ever trip to Louisville. (Carney’s) band Maggie’s Wart did a killer version of “18 and Life” by Skid Row. There were two pinball machines. This week-long series of events is hosted in Louisville with daily events occurring at the distilleries all over the state. And we. Hallahan: He was just excited to be able to put records in a record store, and he was just like, “The owner is super nice.”. We took votive candles and made a music note. He was constantly talking you up when he was at conventions. We were selling a fuck-ton of music, which was a blast. That’s a dream. There’s ear X-tacy in everybody for the past 30-some-odd years. (now frontman of the band Jaxon Lee Swain, vice president of SonaBLAST! Hallahan: There’s something about the tangible connection to those albums — to be able to touch them, to be able to flip through like it’s a library. I’d signed multiple five-year leases (at 1534 Bardstown) with a graduated increase in rent. Timmons: He was selling records out of his car in indie stores before he got signed to Columbia. I mean, we had a world music buyer back then, and that’s just unheard of anymore. To see that much product in one space just doesn’t happen anymore. ear X-tacy was the only place in town where I could find picture discs. I’d never heard power like that in music ever. Benny Clark (musician, including lead singer of Graffiti and guitarist of Elliott; ear X-tacy employee from 1996 to 2011): I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Phoenix Records. For an entire generation of Louisvillians, a record store called ear X-tacy, founded by John Timmons in 1985, was more than a record store. As of October 2021, there are five stores that sell records along the same Bardstown Road corridor where ear X-tacy used to be — Matt Anthony’s Record Shop, Surface Noise, Book & Music Exchange, the Great Escape and Cardinal Record Co. Another called Highland Records closed at the end of 2019, and Funhouse Records closed in 2020. It sucked. PCH offers fun quizzes on a wide range of topics. Sierra Space, with Large Integrated Flexible Environment module, node module, and runway-landing Dream Chaser spaceplane for crew and cargo transportation. (Timmons sent out a weekly email called Gaba Gaba Hey — a Ramones reference — to record-industry insiders. One of the other employees and I would look for cute boys, and we would call this “The Runway.”. 303 - 997 - ⦠Or is that just some dude with dirty hair and a jean jacket that looks like Ryan Adams? It has nothing to do with price wars or who was cool and who was not. There weren’t, quite frankly, a lot of women. There were just so many people lined around the block to get in there. They would sell them — because they wanted to bring you into the store — for $7.99 or whatever the price would be, and our. I put it on and was just floored. Clark: (Rock journalist) David Fricke — that was pretty awesome. It was a built-in stage, rather than having to move the record bins every time. Hallahan: He just did so many good things for people. I could even hear the music through the front door. It didn’t feel like the old store or the store before that. Bailey: When I walked in to ask if they were hiring and to get an application, they happened to be playing one of my brother’s bands at the time — Second Story Man. I will never get that chance again, so I had to pounce on it.”. There was a warehouse in the rear and a display room up front. McKnight: Such a big piece of real estate, Bardstown Road being the main cultural artery. We weren’t even closed very long, I don’t think. He kept coming in, would not take no for an answer. I definitely could sense that there was a shift happening in his approach. It just looked like a place you’d want to hang out. Swain: At that point, also, I was the local music person. I was going to buy comic books (at the Great Escape) ’cause I was a huge comic-book collector in elementary school, and then I wandered in next door and was just kind of blown away. That’s kind of a touchstone for folks of my generation. When Travel + Leisure named Boulder one of five of âAmericaâs Best Towns for July 4thâ two years in a row, we could only nod in agreement. My poster rack, my vinyl rack, my book racks. We were forever getting one-off import pieces or just super-hard-to-find titles. And so whoever was standing there browsing was right in the line of sight of the people in the back room. I must have been around five and my grandmother had just died. They’re going to do it acoustic. You don’t see them a whole lot anymore, but it’s basically a record that has a photo-quality image as sort of the — well, as the record itself; you actually play the record as you’re watching the band members spin around on the turntable. The first day I ever worked at ear X-tacy, (then-manager) Billy Sims — I’ll never forget this. Mercer: People stopped buying music. 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