auds:

Speaking of rude asses, and also semi-famous rekkid
store workers, Steve (of Dolly Varden fame, 'round
these parts) works at Jazz Record Mart and has for
1000 years - he relates a story about Robert Plant
coming into the store and Steve introducing RP to his
boss/ the owner of JRM, who was abusive and basically
said something along the lines of "Come in here to
find more old blues masters to rip off, did you?" 
Apparently Robert Plant just burst out laughing, and
walked off...but came back a year or so later when he
was back in town, remembered Steve, and asked him if
his asshole boss was still around. Steve said he
wasn't in that day, and RP said, "Good, then I can buy
some records" and proceeded to go shopping.

For anyone who's seen Dolly Varden in recent years,
Steve also tells a story about how there's no air
conditioning in JRM, and how when the staff complains
about it, the owner guy tells them to "blow on your
arm."  Steve wrote a song about it, called, sensibly,
"Blow on Your Arm," that I think his old band Stump
the Host used to perform.

I never worked at a record store, but I did go the
bookstore route: Kroch's and Brentano's, a late
lamented chicago area chain, from 1988 - 1990 on and
off.  Sort of like a nicer waldenbooks, before Borders
and B&N ran em out of a niche....thus (insert
hackneyed comment about Sale of Two Titties or Tequila
Mockingbird here.)

--kelly


--- bob_hutton@standardlife.com wrote:
> Downside was the guy who ran the place (can't
> remember his name but I think
> he wrote a book about some UK indie record label)
> was the rudest man you
> could ever imagine.  

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arma non servant modum


	
		
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