“One of my first memories, or experiences of vinyl was around 20 years ago—I was only 8 years old.”
“My dad was (and still is a little bit) an “old skool” DJ. He’d take in his homemade double deck from the shed along with a dozen boxes of vinyl. It was mostly 7″ singles. He once told me that he bought everything in the Top 40 every week for years. I found this quite fascinating. I can’t be distinct about which songs I heard first but I remember hearing songs like “Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter” and ZZ Top’s version of “Viva Las Vegas.”
Then about 5 years ago I asked my old man, “Hey, where are all those records you used to have?” He was storing them in an old leaking shed out the back! I think most people will be aware that records are not happy in cold damp spaces. So, I made a day of it and sieved through all the vinyl—some good, some bad, and some fucking awful. I took all the stuff I was into at the time, every Gun, Metallica, and a Maiden 7″ I could find.
The whole point in the story is that it’s encouraged me to start my own collection. I’m not buying everything in the charts, because most of it sucks, but albums. Good, classic albums. My most recent purchase was Led Zep 4 that I got for a great price.
But what is a great price? Because good music is priceless.”
—James Mackenzie
“Winter,” the new EP from James Mackenzie is released 14th August 2015 via Tornface Music.
