Back in time with Counter Clock Records

As we all enjoy the resurgence of vinyl, there is another aspect of this phenomenon that is sometimes overlooked with 45 laps forgotten in recent years. Sure, there are few artists general public, punk rockers and indie musicians who have found the sound to their liking, it's a wonderful way to not give the fans what they want (music), but also create a collector's item as well.

Another way in which the past has undergone significant changes in recent years. I remember when AM radio dominated the air waves? And then another format in the '70s added more options for music lovers of FM radio. Now we have satellite radio and other means of invention, the Internet radio station.

An Internet radio station, in particular, was able to unite the 45 rpm records listed above and the Internet to form Counter Clock Radio (http://www.live365.com/stations/counter_clock?play) and Counter Records ( Clock http:// stores.ebay.com / Counter-Clock-Records). The company is the brainchild of the wife and the team of Jane and her husband Norm Geddis, Mission Viejo, Calif., who developed a game "that are" a style of programming is unique and allows their listeners an eclectic array of genres to listen to. I had the opportunity to talk with the developers of this new concept, we will learn more about Counter Clock Records and Counter Clock Radio:

Obviously, you have a love for vinyl is that the records that make them so attractive to you?

Norm: "They are round like wheels. This is by far the best use of the first invention of man. CD has never felt quite the same thing. Downloads are Radio Plus Labor. I am a decade, to be impressed with me same to get the software to work after an evening playing with my computer. "

Jane: "I like the built-in nostalgia value of vinyl - if a 1964 Top 40 one-hit wonder or a super rare LP Private Press Psych. It 'was like a part of me was dead and buried when the CD is becoming the norm. With the download, is like the foam has risen over the tombstones. "

How long have you been online and selling on eBay and what are your thoughts on the evolution of costs and transactions on-line global giant?

Standard: "We started Counter-Clock Records in July of '07. Or rather, I started selling on eBay at the moment, only 45, I was made to love, and so we created both the store and locked the other parties (the blog and the radio station) for her. "

"As long as everyone is talking about these changes, I came in the midst of this, and, speaking only for myself, I am part of Counter-Clock Records. EBay is the place, the mall where our shop is located. No matter where one of their shops, there's a seller on this planet, or maybe another, who did not complain about the rents. This is not a complaint I will send to my clients. "

When he decided to go "on line" with the Live365 radio?

Norm: "The station is in operation since March of '07 that was several months before the store opens."

What kind of fan base you have, what kind of documents / music games?

Jane: "Our base is our customers who have found our station. The station is very close to exactly what we want, with short segments and information on music, and now we have something unique and something we are proud. It is the time to let everyone know. We play what we find. I call programming style nostalgia accidental.

My readers love the "Top 5 Sales of vinyl records" function of each week. How long have you done this? Have you noticed the specific models of what sells best (and whom) and what is the record for most expensive ever documented on the list?

Norm: "I started the blog at the same time I started the radio station.'s Archive" as it started when I put a little 'file on my eBay account in July last year. "

"The record for the most expensive that I documented is the White Album, which sold last week for $ 30K, which means a lot for this collection of vinyl to the economy. Unfortunately, I ruined one by one and left the list this week. The seller has been included in "Entertainment Memorabilia" and I keep my eyes on the "Record" class. I also do not keep an eye on my blog this week, I would take Robert - the problem of record sales and write during the holiday season. So I have a voice of "mea culpa" to one that if he does it to Record Store Day a year-end list.

I like to listen to the station, the size and type of music are very eclectic. Where to find the music and how do you decide what you want to play?

Jane: "We buy private collections, shops closing on eBay as well. Usually, I'm talking 45. I mean, when I look with a stack of records I feel, what is interesting, unusual, bizarre ... just nice . Norma is an encyclopedia of the history of music in his head, but if we just had the sound we had just tons of other stations. So the vision is fulfilling its role. "

Are you planning to add the composition of DJ's?

Jane: "A podcast is in preparation. But it can not happen unless the earth starts to spin more slowly.

What are the future plans for the station and Counter Clock Records?

Norm: "Next year will be more of everything. We have many stock and love to go there for the world. The backbone of vinyl records is the community Record Store. The Internet can not do it again. Counter Clock Records is something return home, but not to replace the cold to the smell of the spine for your store tile dirty record. "

What do you think about the resurgence of vinyl and vinyl where you think the next ten years?

Jane: "I think the resurgence of vinyl is very good and I think also that it was inevitable. Tens of millions of us who love vinyl retired or have more time on our hands, and if you have a lot or a little 'money, There is something for everyone. Furthermore, it seems that even though it contains "our music", young adults and teens discover that there is something more to vinyl as a download. And get squeezed in the middle are the CDs. It seems a matter of time before these two groups have converged and the music market open to us to go back inside "

Norm: "I am not a guru of money and not investment advice. However, as my grandmother used to say in difficult times, there will always be someone with money." And, as in the seventies and early eighties book, Investment are not traditionally attractive. Comic values have soared in the seventies, like with sports cards in the early nineties. I think is going to be days of vinyl under the sun. "

You have a list of top ten favorite 45's and / or recording artist favorite?

Jane: "I make the artists Etta James, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Bill Monroe, Renaissance, Mazzy Star, Opal, Joan Armatrading, CSNY.

Norma: "I-45 mixed feelings" Sha La La "/" Love Will Find A Way ", The Moody Blues' Go Now" / "Lose Your Money," Small Faces "Itchycoo Park" / "I'm Only Dreaming "Sandi Sheldon" You're Gonna Make Me Love You "/" Baby You're Mine, "Pink Floyd" Point Me At The Sky "/" Careful With That Ax Eugene ", Olivia Tremor Control California Demise" EP Hedgehoppers Anonymous "It's Good News Week" / "Afraid of Love," Barbara Lewis "Baby I'm Yours" / "I Say Love," Denny Laine "It's So Easy" / Listen To Me "/" I'm Looking For Someone To Love, "The Intruders" Every day is a "Holiday /" Old Love "and probably a hundred others."

So if you're looking for some great old rock and roll, dark, One-Hit Wonders soul and R & B, drop by Counter Clock Radio and Records Counter Clock and give them a ride. Your ears will love what you hear.