--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Career Records <eldeluxe@m...> wrote:

> Another great shop I remember would be Rather Ripped  in Berkeley. I used
to go
> there in the mid 70's and you could find some real gems cheap. Nice folks
> working there. I think Greg Kihn did some time behind the counter. Village
> Music in Mill Valley would be another, but I only got there a few times.

Yeah, Village Music was very cool.  Your anecdote about Greg Kihn makes me
want to start a new thread: "Well-known musicians who we saw work behind a
counter at a record store".  I'll go first (well, second, since you started
with Mr. Kihn at Rather Ripped):

1. Syd Griffin worked at Rhino Records in LA for a time during the '80s.

2. R. Stevie Moore worked for many years (and maybe still does) at a record
shop in Northern New Jersey-Stewart, please forgive me for forgetting the
name.  :-)

Anyone else?

David