From the Basement of Bop Street Records

This is Garrett with a special report on the Bop Street Records shows on Hollow Earth Radio.

Amber, Jake, Sasha and I have already started putting together programs and they are actually pulling together much better than I would have thought. Okay, so maybe we forgot a power supply for the mixer last time. And RCA cables. And a mic chord. But we still managed to figure out how to pump out some great jams on a shoestring (thatis $0.00) budget. The best part was stealing a mic cable from the band the Pop Machine that practices on the other side of the basement ( only to have to give it back midway through our set when they all showed up for practice!!!!!) Oh well. That just means more Joni Mitchell and Christian Rock, less talk! We’ll promise to get our shit together next time.

In case you don’t know about the Bop Street shows here’s a little insider tip. We are going to start doing weekly recorded “live” shows down in the bottom of Bop Street Records in Ballard where there are reportedly over 400,000 records for us to root around in. We’ll be airing these shows on a regular basis, and we’re hoping to have theme nights. For intance, last weekend we had a scavenger hunt based on a point system; since it’s a crapshoot with most of the records (we can only base what to play on the cover) we decided to have a point system and seek out records based on the album art depicting things like:

1. Tom Selleck mustache.
2. Unicorn
3. Goths
4. Someone standing on someone else’s shoulders
5. Brick Wall
etc.

I mean, c’mon! Aren’t you dying to find out what this record sounds like? I scored 2 points for my team because of this guy’s “Bad Haircut”.

We’ll be posting a schedule for when we actually air these shows! Thanks to Hilary for being our special guest!
If you want to come down next time and spin records with us, drop us a line.

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