At today’s media conference in Sydney promoting this weekend’s mammoth Stone Music Festival, we had the opportunity to ask some of the event’s biggest names about their favourite vinyl records, in anticipation for this Saturday’s conveniently placed Record Store Day. Be sure to get out there and support your local record store – and if you’re heading to Stone Music Festival then you’ll have even more of a reason to get up early and go!
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith
It’s a Village Fugs record from 1960… something… and on the back it says a song was written by “a lunatic vagina”. No one ever said that back then! So to see it on the back of a record was worth buying it anyway.
Tuli Kupferberg (from the band)… This guy stood on stage with a stick, you know didn’t say anything. He was a presence. That’s what we built our recording career on… this kind of thing.
David Lee Roth, Van Halen
I opened up an old copy from 1968 of Electric Ladyland, and a little tiny bit of beach sand fell out because I took the record with me on a trip to Balboa Island.
Steven Tyler: Are you sure that was beach sand? You didn’t crush it up and see what you could do with it?
It was beach sand… it was on the inside of the double part… Man, when you opened up those double albums they had a smell. Like when you get a new comic and you smell that ink for the first time. Fellas who are geeks for that… I’ll tell ya, that’s just porno when you smell that. I miss that about vinyl.
Joe Perry, Aerosmith
I bought a new turntable and was going through an old stash of vinyl, and I found my original Are You Experienced? sleeve, and I sat back, was ready to go and open it up, and looked inside and The Lovin’ Spoonful was inside. I was a little disappointed. Not that I don’t like them, but… you know… it wasn’t quite Hendix.
Find out more about Record Store Day here: http://www.recordstoreday.com.au/
Find out more about Stone Music Festival here: http://www.stonemusicfest.com/
