Edward Rogers plays Bowery Electric this Friday, 2/3!
“My first vinyl experience—wow—I traded comic books for the “I Wanna Be Your Man” single by the Rolling Stones. I didn’t even have a record player to play it.”
“To me, if was a celebration, a rite of passage…from kid to teenager. I got it home and hid it, as I didn’t want my parents to know that I bought into that whole “long hair” stuff. When they found out about the record, they totally surprised me by buying me my own record player from a place called Korvettes. The name of the place alone should tell you what it looked like—Mad Men!
They also bought me an LP…I had never really seen one before…Peter and Gordon’s A World Without Love.
I was such a retard, I didn’t even know how you changed the speed on the record player to 33 1/3. I can still remember scotch-taping a penny to the player arm to make it sound louder. Didn’t have a clue that the needle was digging into the vinyl…where did that hiss come from? Actually, I liked the hiss on my Rolling Stones’ single.
Today, I own about 7,000 LPs and 2,000 7″ singles, and partly because I’m a singer-songwriter and being at the right time and place, many are autographed.
When I’m not performing, I work at East Village Radio. I co-host Atlantic Tunnel every Sunday afternoon from 12 – 2 p.m. playing a lot of vinyl singles from the sixties as well as current music.
Vinyl is a groove and will never be replaced.”
—Edward Rogers
