I wish I had more time on Sunday.. Oh well, I did pretty good. All good records in all good time ! Haha. Such a cool store.. the one in Berkeley was the 1st Amoeba ! Thank you.😏.
Hey Man ! massive store huh ! I wanted to spend more time.. but the family was more important.. we had a blast ! Tons of European traveler's at our hotel, Robbie.. mostly French and from Spain, and perfect weather.. nice trip, for sure ! Thanks..🤤
JD !!! Man, I love City Lights as well.. Next time, I guess.. And we were staying very close to Columbus as we were on Mason and Beach in North Beach ! Thanks for looking in on this fun trip. I need to make it to the Hollywood store sometime. ✌️
Agreed, Harry ! I wouldn't get overwhelmed if I allowed myself more time in the store ! LoL !! I was just getting the hang of it, then... We had to go. That's OK.. such a fun time in SF with my family ! Thank you..
It was a blast ! At first I was nervous, seriously, in the store.. Well, I had been driving for a few hours, so I was a little rung out. We had fun in "The City" !!
Awesome ! If you can, take a good 2 to 2 and a half hours to get warmed up and find what you want in Amoeba ! I used to hang out in Mill Valley, a lot .. way back in the 80's ! My girlfriend lived up Cascade.. Thanks, Ralph.
What wonderful views of SF... I live in the Bay Area and love it. I haven't been to Amoeba in a few years...like you, I do prefer the SF store....what a fantastic video JT....from the Streets of SF to the warf.....I need to take a BART ride to The City and enjoy all it has to offer.
Wow ! Thanks so much.. I had to tear myself away from Originals Vinyl on Fillmore and Hayes for once and have wanted to take a road trip to Ameoba and the city for some time now ! We're still in Thailand, and Tokyo was a blast, including Tower Records in Shibuya.. Go Giants ! 🤙
The City..It looks the same. and the seafood was amazingly fresh.. It better be, right ! Haha. Amoeba is a very awesome store, Art ! The prices were high on a lot of those rare and different pressings that I was flipping through..Thank you !
Hey Jt..I love San Francisco..On my one and only visit there a few years ago, I must have gone to amoeba about a dozen times..what a great store..thanks for the tour..love the Joe Strummer!!! Loved this video..thank you❤❤glen
Hey Glen ! Glad to hear that you are very familiar with Amoeba and one trip to SF has got to be memorable, for sure ! I love "The City".. and get emotional when I am there. The homeless thing is way over exaggerated.. but that's what the news tends to do, and social media. We have made 5 trips in the last two years.. Food, and for me, record shops ! Stellar trips each time ! I wish I would have made it to Dead & Company's last show at Oracle ( where The Giants play ) A big time homecoming and the end of an era.. Oh well.. I will watch it on Nugs.Net.. or full length on UA-cam ! PS John Mayer says he is up for more shows ! ✌
They get me going.. before, I just liked staying home. Now , I'm ready to go ! I want to see Greece, and a year from Fall break ( Sean's school ).. England and Ireland ! Or.. that's the plan, anyway ! Thanks Aaron, this was a fun one to film and put together.
Amoeba " What's In My Bag" is a favorite show of mine ! It's like us... Except well-known musicians are showing records and Cd's that they bought. Not us ! Haha ✌️
In the month of August, we have an event called " Hot August Nights".. it takes place here in Reno. Tons of classic cars come over the summit to show off their decked out cars.. The Mustang you saw probably just got back to SF from the big event here ! I did get lucky filming it at the tail end of windy Lombard St. That should have been a 1968 almost stock Mustang, Mike.. Thanks for having a look !
Thanks for sharing your visit to Amoeba. I travel with my family to visit MLB parks. I always take some time to visit local record stores. Besides the great opportunity to buy new records, I discover neighborhoods that are not part of the tourist areas. We have California on our list for next year. I want to Amoeba in Hollywood and San Francisco. Nice pickups! Look forward to the next video.
Hey Mike ! Hope you make it to either store, and try to allow 2 hrs at least in any of the 3 Amoeba stores. I'm a Giants fan.. so I would love to make a game at Oracle, an outstanding ball park, and very sad that Oakland is losing the A's !! We go to triple A here in town, The Reno Aces, farm team for the D Backs ! Thanks for watching .🤚
Thanks, Michael... I try to have an eye for shooting video. I do appreciate the acknowledgement. How can I go wrong in " My City By The Bay".. in the words of the great Tony B. San Francisco is.. inspiring !
Thank you for this positive message ! We go to " The City" twice a year, for food and for me.. record shops ! We always have fun,and it still looks the same. Amoeba is cool, my favorite store besides Originals up on Fillmore and Hayes. Appreciated 🎄
Hi JT!!! so glad to see you had a great time at Amoeba in the City (super jealous here, lol) and with great weather too...... Killer TYA and Peter Murphy. I would love to visit San Francisco again... cheers and be well
Glad to hear you like Peter Murphy ! His Holy Smoke album will be his next that I want.. Amoeba was amazing, wish I had just one more hour in there to do some major damage.. to my wallet ! Haha.. 🤚 What a store. and s fun time in " The City" ! Thanks, Cristian.
What a store! I live in Massachusetts and found a Pat Metheny Group album at Goodwill with an Amoeba price sticker that I grabbed half because of the sticker! Having not visited SF for about a decade I’ve been concerned the city is overrun with homeless issues, drugs and crime as that’s the images seen on social media and the news. It’s nice to see images that show the city I remember.
First of all.. The homeless situation is greatly exaggerated. That was my 5th trip in 2 years.. no problem. They are mostly down by City Center.. I think it is called..a mall, actually. Glad you liked the video ! ✌️
Cool find on Pat Metheny ! I find records thrifting with Korvettes stickers from back east ! We're they department stores ? Amazing what we find out in the real wild ! ( That's what I call thrift stores, garages, and 2nd hand shops ).😊
Thanks so much.. It was an eventful day and a half. We left Reno at 7am.. Got into The City" around 11:30 and went straight to Amoeba ! Appreciate it, Greg ✌️
I think I could get lost in that store. Wow!!! Sssshhh by Ten Years After is my fav by them. I think that record is so underrated. My dad used to play that record constantly. Great to see you! Cheers☘️
Thanks for mentioning " Ssssh" .. that one and "Watt" are awesome ! Heck, all of the Ten Years After records are cool ! I guess you are back, at least a little bit, and I am glad for that ! See you soon.. 🥲
Great video! I enjoyed the driving perspective of the streets at the start 👍 Interesting seeing the Lime Spiders in there, a rare Aussie release. I think I saw them live back in the day.
I wish I remembered about the Lime Spiders, I might have bought that one ! I'm looking for quality Aussie bands/ records. here and there.. I am very pleased to get 2 Saints records ! I'm looking for the 1st and 3rd LP ! Go- Betweens would be nice, as well. Cool, Andrew.. Thanks, mate !
I just bought " The Cave Comes Alive" from '87.. Can't wait ! It was 15.00. Too bad I missed that rare Austrailian LP by them.. I went back in the vid and looked ! 🤚
@@jtsrecordroom3963 That's great JT! You scored some classics there. I loved the Saints, especially the early releases, those 1st few albums are good. That's cool about your interest in Aussie bands, many wouldn't have heard of bands like the Go Betweens, let alone the Lime Spiders, including many Aussies. They had a minor hit in the charts but were an alternative band with independent releases mostly. It was a good era for original Australian music, just a shame it didn't get appreciated or more success at the time. Commercial radio here just wouldn't back local acts much unless you were INXS or something! Do you have any of Yhe Triffids?
only been to that Amoeba once in 2013 (been to Hollywood one a million times). but i remember starting in the Zs of the used CDs and by the time I got to the Ss I had so many I just stopped cause if I kept going thru rest of alphabet I would’ve walked out with 1000 CDs. I just got into The Saints too. I picked up their debut on CD. It’s great. Not sure how I never heard of them until this year. Great trip JT.
Yeah.. good to discover The Saints ! We didn't hear about them much because THEY didn't allow us ! We would have either had to have worked in a record store or really be on top of it to discover some of these terrific UK, Aussie, and New Zealand bands ! It was overwhelming, but I did s power dig, and it came out alright . Cheers, Steve.. See you on yours !
I really struggle with those big stores JT, they are so overwhelming. You need a specific list which I suck at having. I always like to find something unexpected but I just never know where to go! Always hit world music and then the walls looking for cool stuff. Nice Los Lobos playing than Cynics album. You must have got the YT warning on music so you had to revert to YT music. Happens all the time on my store tours. Enjoyed the visit JT. Saints for $10, I got that one, good album but for that price I would buy and send it to someone else.
I tried to upload with Prince playing in the background during a 3 min. stretch ! ( I figured that would not fly ) Had to go back and edit it out ! I enjoy smaller stores as well, and usually visit those. Amoeba was a blast.. just need more time, next time.. See you , Steve ! I'm not good at lists either. I like being surprised and discovering as in all of my thrift scores.
I needed more time, Tony ! The fam was waiting.. I don't mind. I spend tons of time on this stuff, and glad to have made it to Amoeba ! Do you watch.. "What's In My Bag" ? Excellent UA-cam viewing from Amoeba stores !
Hi JT and thank you very much for another What’s in My Bag video. Thank you also for the almost Bullitt Mustang ;) I understood very well your somehow long hesitation over the Saints second LP. You did very well! Amicalement Marc
I uploaded the video with Prince music in the background ! UA-cam didn't allow it, so I had to silence that 3 min. section with background music, which cut out my audio freaking out about that Saints record that I had been looking for ! LoL !!! 😊 I love.. " Whats In My Bag" ! Merci, Marc ✌️
Its getting really steep folks! You could also brag that you actually witnessed Steve (BULLIT)McQueen pass by in his green mustang. WOW!!! LOL!!! Thanks again for sharing great stuff JT.
Hey Jt. Jan and I were in SF around ten years ago, and I spent a couple of hours in Amoeba. Amazing store. I bought Patterson Hood’s I Murdered Oscar there, and that title is impossible to find right now. I bought the first Saints album when it was first released many years ago. It’s a gem. I need to get back to SF soon, and then head over to Reno. Nice buys my friend. Cheers.
That would be fun to have you pass through .. and "All The Way To Reno" ! LoL !! Amazing that you have the debut Saints record, very cool, indeed ! Patterson I realize.. is David Hood's son ! It is in his DNA ! Thanks, Jack..
Maybe they will re issue " I'm Stranded" soon.. And I am going to Japan in March, will look, then. Thank you for watching, and glad you are alright with The Dead ! LoL !! ✌️
Very nice Bay Area footage! I walked my way from Union Square to Haight to visit Amoeba while staying in Berkeley. Yes, I got to visit both stores and then on my last day in San Francisco I drove to LA but only passed by their third store (before the relocation). Too much to see while there and not much money left from that trip. I think I brought back to Brazil around 120 titles among vinyl, cds and cassette tapes. Cheers!
Wow, Guz ! Over a hundred titles, it makes sense.. stuff that you can get here in the U.S. easier ! It's awesome that you know your way around, and walking is a good thing, we get to see more and stop in to little shops for a beverage or food ! We had a wonderful visit, and the food was terrific ! ( Dungeness Crab ).✌️
I have always wanted to visit Amoeba. Excellent Peter Murphy 12" and, of course, Deep is awesome. Happy you got a copy! I forgot that the Tenants were Canadian. Very cool Saints finds 🙂
Hey Brian..You prompted me to get a copy of "Deep" from your video. "Holy Smoke" will hopefully be next. That was our 5th or so trip down to SF.. The news greatly exaggerates the homeless situation, I love going to "The City" ! The Saints were on my list, and I pronounced Ed Kuepper's name wrong. They are new to me as the last time I heard them a lot was.. 40 years ago ! LoL !!
Cool video. It's been quite some time since I was in San Francisco. I don't think I visited any record stores when I was there. You don't see The Saints very often at least in my neck of the woods as I spotted one in your flipping and then you found another and you bought both. I have All Fools Day but only on CD, Bruce Springsteen covered their song "Just Like Fire Would." Cool Joe Strummer. Looks like a great trip.
I had to snuff out my dialogue for 3 minutes.. Prince was playing in the background.. I was doing a play by play while flipping through the bins. I took a chance in uploading it and UA-cam would not allow my vid to fly ! So I chopped 3 minutes out of the record flipping and added a music backing track ! I freaked when I saw the 2nd The Saints record ! I t all worked out, anyway. I am getting used to maneuvering around UA-cam.. kind of ! I want to go back again, soon.. maybe when The Giants are in the play offs ! ⚾ Thanks, Randy.
Yeah, Steve.. I prefer the Bay Area as well. Different vibe.. I do like LA, though.. Hermosa Beach, and other cool.pockets of the great expanse of Los Angeles !
One cool city and one cool Record Store is Amoeba.Traveled there many moons ago and walked the Golden Gate Bridge!. Happy Trails.Rog.Pacific Sunset Records( LA)
Thank you, and this was my first time back at Amoeba SF in years ! We are going out to San Francisco again this weekend.. For me, I want to hit Tunnel Records out in the Sunset District to buy some good records and document the store and surroundings a bit. I sure appreciate you looking in on this one, Rog.. JT
Hi JT, As you know we lived in southern California a few years ago. Unfortunately I never made it up to NorCal. Someday when we're moved back I will be going to San Francisco. Patty's been there several times with work, but not me yet. Amoeba looks massive! Sadly, it looks like massive prices too! I got a clean copy of that Joe South album sometime last winter for $3! It's very good. Ssssh is one of the only Ten Years After albums I don't have. I remember the song "Sheriff" by The Tenants on the radio in the 80s as they were Canadian. I have a copy of Peter Murphy's "Deep" on compact disc from when it was first released. I enjoyed a virtual walk by Fisherman's Wharf at the end of the video. ✌
Many of the prices were good... Joe South was 3.00 , like yours. The Tenants were 3.00. Peter Murphy 20.00 same as online. Ten Years After was 9.00 on a 2nd mint press. The Saints were actually 30.00 under Discogs prices.. A lot of the tags you saw are very pricy records , anyway.. And again, some are overpriced. My thing is thrifting, always ! I like to support the stores once in awhile. You will love "The City" when you do make it up this way ! Cheers, Mike ✌
It looks like you had a great time. I miss Amoeba! I used to visit the Hollywood store far too often when I lived in Ca. I scored so many great albums. It sounds like their prices have gone up. I always found them to be reasonable. I definitely have to visit Northern California. Very nice Joe Strummer pickup. Bonafide grail, indeed!! I really enjoyed all of the footage. I can't say I wouldn't be a little anxious driving over the GG Bridge! We'll talk soon.
How about going over the Golden Gate while filming with your young son in the back seat, and Jum Too ! I asked her to drive, she didn't want to ! Prices have clearly gone up, but I did alright ! What a nice trip. Mark. Talk soon ! 😉
I did not ! I should have.. "Strap It On" is on the list. It was pretty pricy, I think that's why I passed.. I will check the price on the flip vid, I am curious. See you Shaun ! Thank you..
Strap It On was marked 50.00 . I checked around. It seems that is a pretty good price, possibly even for a re press. I do have my Cd, along with Meantime too !
Great video, great place. I thought I was watching Bullitt for a minute at the start there! I had a holiday to California booked in 2020 that got cancelled due to Covid, sadly. I was looking forward to doing some record shopping in SF I’ll have to get it re-booked - maybe next year!
In August .. We have an event "Hot August Nights" held in my town of Reno, Nv. All of the classic cars are out on the streets all the way from SF to Reno
Hope you make it up this way.. I might suggest Lake Tahoe.. The tail end of my last vid shows the beautiful East Shore on the Nevada side. Also a drive up PCH 1 (Highway 1 ) Hugging the California coast from Mendocino to san Diego would be recommended ! Thanks for watching..😚
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Sounds great! Funnily enough my original holiday was similar I was flying to LA, taking in San Diego and driving up to San Francisco! I’m hoping to get booked onto a swim from Alcatraz Island back to shore as well. If I don’t get eaten by a great white I’ll see you there 😎
It really is Recs.. All of my picks were a decent price, some records were pricy. but some were rare , different pressings justifying the higher price of certain records. Lots of 3.00 records, as well ! Thanks for looking in ! ✌️
Hello 👋 I visited San Francisco way back in 1987 from New Zealand where i live. Good seeing some of the sights , like Fisherman's Wharf. I remember the cable cars would stop there. I also remember seeing singer Chris Isaak in the Haight Ashbury district in a venue named I - Beam. The city has good character, the old houses etc. I liked Bauhaus when Peter Murphy fronted the group. I noticed the British Punk band Eater as you were flicking through the records in the,store. I liked them. The Saints were popular in the UK.
I wish I would have had a look at that copy of " Eater" ! I was just getting started flipping through the bins.. Thanks so much for watching my journey through San Francisco. Terrific that you got to see Chris Isaak in the Haight back then ! Cheers. JT
Hi Jt - heard so much about Amoeba music, so to have a bit of a look inside - amazing. Love your videos of San Francisco and Fishermans Wharf - amazing. I would have loved to go to America say back in the 60's, 70's but work and life got in the way. To late for me know, and tbh I really dont want to go to America any more, what with all the issues you have. All the best and stay safe. Cheers Doug (from Down Under)
Hey Doug ! Thanks for looking in . We always have nice trips to SF.. It looks the same as always. The news exaggerates the homeless issue greatly, and whatever other issues ,I'm sure world news makes things look scary ! You would have a brilliant time coming to Reno, then Lake Tahoe.. then a drive up PCH 1 ( Coast Highway ) from San Diego to possibly Mendocino , just stunning ! If you ever did come over , please message me to have a chat or meet ! Cheers. JT
Great video JT! I visited a friend in Marin in the late 90s and visited both Amoebas and a few other stores. Brought back some memories of my trip seeing you drive around the neighborhoods and record shopping at Amoeba. Shame that the famous record store in Mill Valley closed long ago. That would have made a nice scene for this video. - the Other JT :)
Hey JT !! And.. I do remember that record store in Mill Valley. Back then, my girlfriend was from there, up Cascade, although I never went in the shop ! Hope all is well with the both of you and thanks for looking in...A good title for a Savoy Brown LP ! Haha. See you on yours..☺
Great pulls. Your music taste is much like my own. I would have pulled that Saints "Eternally Yours." You know your product! I enjoyed this video as a Bay Area native who hasn't been to the San Francisco Amoeba location in about two years.
Nice to know ours taste is similar.. I do like classics, and to fill holes in my vinyl collection. 2 years isn't too long for not popping into Amoeba. It had been since the late 90's for me ! I watch "What's In My Bag" often, and have been wanting to visit and film Amoeba SF for awhile, now ! Thank you for checking this one out..✌
I love and grew up with Bay Area bands !! Not many of us in the vinyl community know where I am coming from musically with TOP, Cold Blood, Azteca.. Sons Of Champlin, Early Steve Miller, early Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks.. on and on !
Hi JT. New to your channel. I grew up in bay area. During the nineties i spent a lot of time at the SF and Berkeley Amoeba stores. Nobody should pass on tne opportunity to visit there. Thanks for doing the video.
Thank you ! It really meant a lot to me to film and go to Ameoba in SF vs. LA. It is our " City" .. even here in Reno. I love the history of the building being Park Bowl until Ameoba went in ( 1996 ). I take my viewers on a journey of thrifting, record stores, coffee houses, that stock records, of course ! 😁 and abroad to Japan and Thailand. Hope you like anything else that I have done ! Appreciated..
Wow Jt San Fran looks great. Beautiful day while I’m here in the couch under a blanket 🥶One day I’ll get to SF Amoeba. My head will probably explode with the sheer quantity of stuff to look at. Nice start..Bowie, PIL & My Dad Is Dead. I saw Venom P Stinger in there. Great Aus punks that featured a pre-Dirty Three Jim White & Mick Turner. The Saints!!!!!! All Fools Day is a really great post Ed Kuepper Saints record, but Eternally Yours…oh yeah!! Enjoy mate. Eater is a great punk record too. Pentangle a first couple are brilliant as are Bert’s early solo records too. I’ve been buying the Kinks reissues because I only had the 60’s & some early 70’s stuff. What a band! That was cool Jt. You got some top shelf stuff. Cheers…Ben PS thanks for the shout out too mate 👍
First off.. I blew it on pronouncing Ed's last name wrong ! Blahhhh . LoL !! ( Cooper).. right ? I just ordered a Lime Spiders "The Cave Comes Alive". I am soo stoked to get two Saints titles.. you have really got me going thinking about great Aussie bands, for sure. And I WILL find The Saints debut.. and the 3rd one ! ☺The Laughing Clowns will be good to get, as well. Thanks Ben, for your advise on these killer bands !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Yeah I picked that up with Ed's surname, but I didn't want to be "that" guy & spoil your Saints enthusiasm. That Lime Spiders record is great. I would say that the easier to get Laughing Clowns would be the comp from last year called "Golden Days - When Giants Walked The Earth". It's got a good range of their stuff. Cheers...Ben
@@benrankins4446 Thanks, Ben.. I knew from your comment, and knowing you, that you were being kind. I even looked up Ed's name, I had a feeling I was off, and couldn't remember the pronunciation from you speaking on him.. No biggie.. I do know now, and it is a learning experience most all of the time with the music that we love ! "Golden Days".. Alright, it's on my list !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 In conjunction with that Laughing Clowns comp they also put out two other Ed releases. One of Ed's solo stuff titled Singles '86 - '96 which is a really great period and a killer reformed Aints live record called Live At Marrickville Bowlo. They're all on Prince Melon/Fatal records. If you see Ed's name on something you can't go wrong in my opinion. Next I'll get you into Rowland S Howard who along with Ed are probably my two favourite guitarists & Australian songwriters. Ed has a huge catalogue and Rowland's is rather slim, but they're both incredibly important figures in Aus music. Cheers...Ben
@@benrankins4446 I think I told you.. I watched Rowlands short doc that was excellent, last month. Really gave me an idea what him and Nick Cave were up to in the early days. A guy just commented that his friend ( His boss back in the late 90's ) here in Reno.. an Australian gentleman was married to Chris Masuak's sister. I turned him on to your channel. He told me to listen to The Stems ! His handle is Madmanman.. if he comments. After The Saints.. I'm feeling a need for some Laughing Clowns.
Excellent tour of Amoeba Music and maybe I need to put that one on my "Record Stores to Visit" list when we do our California coast tour. Great Joe Strummer find there! Everything you picked up is quite amazing, your trip was definitely worthwhile and you went to a lot of places I've been wanting to visit. We were talking about going out there maybe in September after the tourist season dies down, but quite honestly, we are very tired of so much driving lately. I just got back from helping my son in law move which required that I pick him up in Unity, Saskatchewan (3.5 hours from where I live) and taking him up to Grand Prairie (7.5 hours from Unity) so he could load up a U-Haul, drive all the way back to Unity, help unload the truck, then I had to drive the truck 40 minutes south to drop it off and then drive all the way back home. So, I say all that to mention that we've decided not to go anywhere else that is a long distance until next spring since we just moved here and then went down and seen the family in Utah. I think we've put about 10,000 kilometers on the car since we moved the first of July. It's time to take a stay-cation I think.
I do recommend Amoeba SF or Berkeley, Mike. Just got off work, September, October is very very nice to visit "The City" !!! My Mom lived in Regina.. I'm pretty sure I mentioned that before. I bet once you hit Cache Valley, you didn't want to go any further ! Thanks again for watching.. This one was fun to put together ! Cheers..😊
i listened to a few of the ten years after albums you talked about and while i enjoyed tracks off of all of them, i concluded afterwards, this: i dig joe south!!!!...i know the area of san fransisco you were in from a thousand motion pictures. i can only imagine what it's like to roam around there. i adore the kinks but only vaguely remember peter murphy....
Joe South was one of nany fine southern songwriters.. For some reason, Mark James, who wrote " Suspicious Minds," seems a little similar. " Games People Play" is another cool song I'm sure you checked out. Yeah.. Ten Years after has a bunch of good ones, especially off of " A Space In Time" !! It is a blast hanging out in San Francisco, and the record shops are all excellent. and the food ! ☺️ Thanks for the nice comment..
I was actually at Amoeba when it was still a bowling establishment. I was in that business. Worked at the Bowling Stadium in Reno 1995-2002. In a strange bowling/Aussie related coincidence, my boss at the Bowling Stadium was married to the sister of Chris Masuak (Radio Birdman) back then. Love the Aussie bands. Check out the Stems, or any band with Dom Mariani involved. Great power-poppish type stuff.
I played competitive pool out of Keystone Cue & Cushion back then, and I work on 4th street to this day ! I wrote Don Mariani's name down, and The Stems.. and check out Ben Rankins on UA-cam. He is the maestro of everything good about great Aussie bands. ( He lives in Melbourne ) I'm getting a Radio Birdman LP in the mail, soon ! Thanks for watching..✌
I think so as well ! I had a few folks say Amoeba is too expensive. Those were rare pressings that I was flipping through. The 3.00 bin is terrific ! Wish I had another hour in there last Sunday.. Thank you for your comment and for watching, I appreciate it ! ✌️
I spotted Carole King debut, Writer, @ Amoeba. You probably don't need it. I always enjoy visiting and seeing San Francisco! It seems like the center of the world. 🌎 The Saints were a score! Peter John Joseph-Deep Ocean Vast Sea. Sad update that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez passed away yesterday. My absolute favorite artist from the Searching For Sugarman award winning documentary. He lost his job two weeks before Christmas. 🎄 🦓
Oh Man ! Rodriguez was amazing ! He must have been up there in years. I will look at the news, later. I don't have Carole King's debut.. "Writer" It must be good. and yes.. The Saints were a total score ! Thanks, Alan..🤓
@@jtsrecordroom3963 RODRIGUEZ ELTON JOHN THE BEATLES Carole King's debut album shows she can do more than be a writer. RODRIGUEZ - 81 ROBBIE ROBERTSON - 80 🦓
I loved this video JT. San Fran is one of my favourite places. Karen and I went there several years ago and we also stayed at Fisherman’s. Amoeba looks spectacular! Is that the Amoeba were McCartney cut his live album or is there one in LA? Brilliant pick ups….Joe Strummer perfect! I love those two Saints. I’ve only got The Saints on cd and need some on vinyl. Just like you JT, Ben has turned me on to get the first three. Great video….. loved it! Mike
Thank you, Mike.. I enjoyed filming and putting this together. I am not sure where Sir Paul cut the album.. My guess would be the Hollywood store, I would think ? I'm getting the re issue of "Streetcore" soon. Merchbar over here has good prices. Mr. Rankins has been a wealth of info, for sure, and it took awhile to sink in actually.. He kept pounding these killer bands home to us, and it worked ! I wish the A&R men here in the U.S. would have done a better job of exposing great UK and Aussie bands back in the day ! Gang Of Four, The Stranglers, Go-Betweens and such. Over here, you pretty much had to work in a record store to know what's what !
I remember the excitement when Amoeba came to Los Angeles in 2001 .. they knocked out legendary stores Moby Disc , Aaron's & Rhino all of which had plenty of space. What you wanted , you found there.
So cool, huh ? Well.. not that they knocked out those classic stores.. I just like Amoeba. I would like to make it to the Hollywood store, although next time, I will revert to smaller stores. Thrifting is my main thing anyway.. I do very well and should stick to it. Thanks for watching ! ✌️
Very nice video, nice to tag along with you and the fam on your SF adventure. Some great pickups. How does the Peter Murphy Deep reissue sound? Awesome score on the 12 inch also. You have a delightful stack of wax to spin. Happy spinning.
I have been too busy to spin it yet.. I will let you know ! The Embryonic Robot .. Brian just showed one and spoke about it on a very recent vid of his. Nice to hear from you, again and I will get to "Deep".. Holy Smoke" will be my next Peter Murphy on vinyl.. I hope !
@@stevebender4546 I'm sure that some busker is doing something like him.. although it scares certain people. there are so many good buskers in San Francisco. Evidently, there were two Bushmen, the other passing away in 2019.. just read a bit more about it just now.
I kind of blew by it.. and wanted it. I think 35.00 or so.. I think ? I went in a different direction, and didn't have a lot of time.. I'm going back ! I really like Amoeba.. Thanks for checking this one out !
Nice finds JT! I enjoyed your trip video. I went to San Francisco a few years back. Enjoyed certain aspects of it, some not as much. I like some of pubs and beaches. I have to say I enjoyed San Diego more. I’ve been to Amoeba in Hollywood. I was disappointed in their used section. Bad selection and overpriced. But that’s just my personal experience at that store. Can’t speak for the others. Love the Kinks albums! (Oh and I did like Fisherman’s Warf 😊)
Hey Gary.. it has been a blast going to various record stores in the past two years.. I have hit quite a few, and I would have to say.. thrift stores are my favs !!! Hehe.😄 No, seriously, as far as brick and mortar stores go.. Originals Vinyl up on Fillmore is awesome, and Amoeba SF .. very good. The Japan stores and Bangkok are the best, so far We had the best dinner Sunday night at Francisco's on the wharf overlooking Alcatraz. San Diego is the best of the 3 cities.. I agree ! Man, I loved living down there.. What a life !
179.00 ? Wow ! serendipitous .. Sounds good, Greg. I bought "Meet The Beatles" online very recently.. I had to have it because, that was the one back in 1964 !!! ( My older sister had a copy ).🙂 Enjoy those titles.. Which ones did you get ?
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Japanese label of Sgt Peppers and German Odeon label of A Hard Days Night. The Kiss was Blue Casablanca label of Hotter Than Hell. Bob Dylan original press of Blonde on Blonde. Meddle by Pink Floyd on Harvest
@greghawkins229 Wow !! Terrific. all of them ! German "Hard Days Night" .. I bet, sounds very good, and Meddle on Harvest. I think I have one.. I do. I just checked. Enjoy those, need I say !
OK.. Good to know.. November 1997. I went off of an article interviewing the owners.. Former Rasputin Record Shop folks. I knew for sure about Amoeba on Telegraph in Berkeley.. 1990. Thanks for getting this right.. and I'm going back, hopefully soon ! There are a bunch of gems in those bins, next time I will take 2 to 3 hours to dig. Thanks so much ! 😉
I heard all about the "Rock & Bowl Nights".. That must have been a blast.. And My Friend from Marin told me about Robin Williams having cast parties there ! Thanks for being cool about my error ! Appreciated..✌
I actually travel to stores in Japan and Thailand, as well. I have those video's from not long ago on my channel.. please check some out !. I mostly film and buy at stores in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Los Angeles.. I did some thrifting which is my main thing, anyway.. Thank you ! 🤓
I agree.. I love the City ! The news is bashing the homeless issue.. I rarely see it in 5 trips in 3 years ! They hang out in certain pockets, Down on Market and City Center. Thank you, Richard, this was fun filming and putting together !
So big ! Pretty sure it's larger than the LA store. Amoeba SF on Haight was Park Bowl until 1996 with a billiard room on the side. Thanks for checking this out !
Wow! Those prices are insane - are they that high at all left coast record stores? - couldn't afford those hefty prices! Here on the East coast records are about half those prices. Yikes!
Those were all rare and import records I flipped through.. Their 3 dollar bins are huge with good records throughout. Everything I bought was under Discogs median prices. and The Saints record was 30.00 under any other prices, anywhere ! I get such good deals on records all week, all month long here in town, it's almost criminal LoL !!! If you are new to my channel, check out my other finds.. in the " real wild" Haha.. Thanks, anyway, for watching our vacation 2-day getaway ! 🤣
Hi JT. I've seen a few videos showing Amoeba, and the size of it still makes my mind boggle. A record shop that size would never survive here in the UK now, as energy costs have made it impossible. It's also sad to see old department stores that have survived over a century now closing ... The nearest we have to Amoeba is the HMV chain. I think they are really struggling. Thankfully small record shops selling a mix of new and secondhand records are thriving, and new shops keep popping up ... I've not seen that Joe Strummer Black Friday release. Maybe a few copies made it over to the UK, but Black Friday isn't a thing here like Record Store Day in April ... Early Saints are wonderful. Good luck with finding 'I'm Stranded'. It's probably been reissued, if you can't find an original. I saw Ed Kuepper live - probably back in the 90s - and sadly there were only a handful of people there. His bands the Aints and the Laughing Clowns are worth checking out too.
HMV is in Japan as well, If I am not mistaken. I don't go to RSD very much at all, as i get good deals all over the place, generally. Yeah... "I'm Stranded" is gonna be a tough one.. maybe ! I have my ways.. LoL !! Thanks, Carl. Just got off work, wanted to message you earlier.
Is Kuepper pronounced .. Cooper ? I think I messed up. I'm learning, and I love .. The Saints ! Laughing Clowns plus the Aint's will be on my want list for now on !
@@carltweed942 Right ! I messed up.. and I chopped it out of the vid ( 4 seconds or so.). Now I know ! Thanks, Carl. I'm going back to thrifting .. Haha ! For 179.00 US I can get as many, or 90 good records for that much money here in town. At Bill's garage.. maybe 35 records, or so. I do like to support brick and mortar stores, though. And I don't consider them..."The Wild" Standing up, everything is organized and curated, music playing.. tasty beverage in hand. The wild, to me is on your knees to get at the good stuff, digging under shelves.. in the heat, or cold.. dusty dusty places ! LoL !! 🤥
@@jtsrecordroom3963 "The wild" sounds more romantic. I like to mix it up too. Sometimes crawling on your hands and knees loses its appeal. There's definitely a place for a well-curated pleasant store.
Had one of my favorite days here. I had a good job and had just met a girl I really liked. We spent every weekend together for a month unplanned.. then she had commited to a friends wedding in SF.. we live in Sacramento. She didn’t wanna drive by herself but was staying on a couch.. i said F it, let’s get a nice hotel and spend the weekend there. It was SO FUN. we had no plan that Saturday.. just wonder and find food. We got some burgers and then I noticed Amoeba! I start telling her all the stories of times i went as a kid and she’s just staring at me. She’s never been here.. woah. She was so into listening to me blab. We each picked a CD. I got AiC jar of flies cause it was $3 and she got devil wears Prada. That CD never left her cars cd player the three years we dated. We never listened to it.. AUX-Life, but it was still there. That memory means a lot to me cause I remember so much detail. I remember her hanging on my arm walking around. I remember thumbing through stuff stupid quick and she was like how?? Thanks Amoeba!! Me cousin just ordered me a t shirt for the Hollywood store where he lives.
Thank you for that great memory. It reminds me of a few of mine ! Tower was the store that brings back vivid memories, and more recently.. 2004. I met my wife right next to the Tower Reno store, then later in the year.. It closed ! I was there almost every day for the heavily discounted CDs.. And Vinyl !
Incredible ! This was my first trip back to Amoeba in a long time.. What a great thing to see Faith No More there at the store.. I will be traveling to the Sunset this Sunday, going to Tunnel Records and other fun spots to visit with family. I will film the store this weekend. Thanks for watching 🎵
Probably.. Sometimes I slip, I do everything in one take, usually.. it sounds real good ! I'll find an OG, someday soon, I just needed one and thoroughly enjoyed spinning this clean copy ! I want " Watt" as well..🫡 Thank you.
I used to shop in the Haight long ago but the parking got too much for me. Oh, and I used to drive stick shift on those hills! I started going to the Berkeley store and the parking is much easier since no sane person wants to park by People's Park, but I eventually got ripped off trying to sell stuff. These days I go to the LA store more than any other. I have family in Southern CA so I sometimes make it. My stepsis keeps claiming she's moving back to the Bay so maybe....
I get lucky with parking.. I pulled right into Whole Foods, the fam got some beverages and stuff while I went directly across the street to Amoeba ! We have had 5 or do stellar trips to SF in the past 3 years.. Amoeba Hollywood must be nuts ! ✌️ Thanks, Ed
Example is that Beatles White Album priced at a whooping $40 USD. That's $52 or more for me, I see it here in Vancouver for at most $25 Canadian. Too much man, way too expensive.
Right.. I wouldn't have touched that. I have one, anyway. All of the records I bought were a good price. Heck.. I get beautiful records for 25 cents to 5.00 per all day, every week, every month here in Reno ! Different pressings are way different prices, though..And I had no interest to look what that White Album pressing was. Thanks for watching, anyhow ! ✌️
Great video. Ed Kuepper’s surname is pronounced Cooper, btw, and Bert Jansch‘s name is pronounced Jansh, not Yansh. Though of German heritage, he was Scottish and his family dropped the Y pronunciation of their surname. Kuepper was born in Germany, as I’m sure you know, and his Saints bandmate Chris Bailey was born in Kenya to Irish parents and grew up in Belfast before his family moved to Brisbane.
Thanks for the correction, I knew about Bert Jansch.. how to say it, last week I heard Peter Framton on " What's In My Bag" pronounce his name with a Y ! Thought I was wrong.. What does he know anyway ! LoL !! I blew it on Ed Keupper's name.. now I know.. appreciated. 😊
Holy crap!! The prices of those albums you flipped through at the beginning are outrageous 😲😭. I literally saw at least six of those just today at my local record store and those you filmed were twice the price and to make it worse that's in USD. I'm in Canada so I would be paying 33% more. WoW. I feel very fortunate.
To your comment.. I am a thrifter, and I just scored 115 mint records for .25 cents each ! ( My 2nd to last video ). I buy records everywhere, and glad you are getting good prices. We were on vacation, having fun. The Saints record was about 30.00 US lower than online or other stores. Thanks for watching ! Overall, Amoeba was pricy, here and there. ✌️
Do you know that theres a thread NOT a contest but a thread going around of the top 10 records that I listen to the most? as a suggestion not a demand but a suggestion it would be cool to see your top 10 records you listen to the most? I think Noble started the thread a couple weeks ago.
Yeah.. I watch a virtual ton of people's videos every week, and I have watched at least 10 to 15 responses from different folks for this thread. Funny that you say this, I uploaded my weekly vid for early tomorrow morning, and I announced that my next one ( a week from today ) will be " My 10 Most Listened To Records". Thanks, Mark ! 😙
Do I see the Golden gate Bridge gotta Love 1971? how far is that bridge from the Rock(Alcatraz ) how far is that bridge from the Almeida Colleseum go Raiders , of course how far is it from Candlestick where the G.O.A.T played number 16? if my eyes aren't deceiving me weren't there a great tv show made there and a great movie ? 38 seconds of the video? some cd's how cool ? 1. so were you down at Fishermen's wharf or were you at Mason and the beach street? Mark is confused ? discogs might be selling it for 5.00 less but if the record was shipped to the wrong adresse or if the record is used then 5.00 isn't the same ? very sweet ten years after , you said that's a repress from 1975 is the original year 1967 or 1968? I see your answer at 10:16 of the video!!! I was in SF a few times for Fisherman's wharf probably 1978 how far is that from the Fairmount hotel? some other important questions 2. who has better music Americans or the British? 3. who has better music San Francisco or La? San Fran , Jefferson Airplane, Santana , Grateful dead was janis from san fran ? Jimi was from Seattle ten years after from the bay? from La was Van Halen, Motley crue some other bands whose better La or San Fran?
Hey JT awesome video my friend.. On the 19th the family ands I are heading down to LA to see Le Miserables and I plan on stopping by Amoeba Records after the show… I have never been before and I have a short window of time and a short amount of cash but I’m going any way🤗 Wish me luck.. I hope all is well. Hey I did a cool thread for Steve at All The World’s a Stage’ you might enjoy doing a thread on go check it out and do a response your self🤘🏻🤘🏻
Hey Craig ! I think you can do some major damage in the clearance bins at Amoeba Hollywood, and maybe another record or two on a budget. I would have dug all day in the clearance.. and the whole store in SF if I had more time. I will look at Steve's thread, I generally only do one vid a week, anymore. I will be doing a "10 Most Listened To Records" though.. which will be two vids in one week. I don't really have time, and I like to stretch my video's out instead of too many. Thanks.. Let's see which video you are speaking of from Steve, checking it out, now !
The Haight isn't like it was -60's - mid-seventies. When I moved there in '81 it was already a greedy cesspool. High leases mean high prices for everyone. Only the affluent can afford their prices. Shame on Aomeba. And I love Amoeba. Share your records with people who make minimum wage. Peace on earth.
Right.. I am aware of all of that. We had Crab at Franciscan's.. Same architect that built the downtown Reno Library, and in the same style. I am from Nevada.. Reno / Lake Tahoe to be exact. My wife, son and I always have a good time in SF. If you are new to my channel, I get records here in town for 50 cents to 2.00 dollars , so I don't mind going to a proper record store on occasion. The records I bought, were all under Discogs and E Bay prices. That 40.00 dollar Australian record I bought is 30.00 under what other sellers want.. and I have been looking for it as well. I understand what you are saying, and thanks for looking in on my video ! Regards JT
That's why I thrift.. I have been getting beautiful records for 20 years solid, here in Reno, Carson City and Sparks for cheap ! Again, I appricate what you are saying. ✌
Thanks, Norman ! I thought about you, and glad you saw this one.. The City looks as good as it always does. We as a family have the best trips to SF ! The news, and certain people are way over the top with criticism about our beloved city. Cheers, Mazzy ✌️
I left it in this video purposely ! UA-cam almost did not allow me to upload this one.. I'm glad they did ! Cool trip to Amoeba and San Francisco ! Thanks for watching.
Yes it was a bowling alley up until 1996 ? Also a Pool Hall on the west side ( towards the park ). I lived at North Lake Tahoe, so.I never made it down to that building until.it became Ameoba 🎵 Thanks for your comment !
Awesome record store I would spend all day looking at records.
I wish I had more time on Sunday.. Oh well, I did pretty good. All good records in all good time ! Haha. Such a cool store.. the one in Berkeley was the 1st Amoeba ! Thank you.😏.
One of my favorites in the country. Looks like nothing has changed there!
Still the same, a massive amount of inventory ! Could have spent one more hour in store.. next time, Chance ! Thanks so much for watching. 🤚
Awesome Records Wow Enjoy!!!
Hey Man ! massive store huh ! I wanted to spend more time.. but the family was more important.. we had a blast ! Tons of European traveler's at our hotel, Robbie.. mostly French and from Spain, and perfect weather.. nice trip, for sure ! Thanks..🤤
@@jtsrecordroom3963 I'm so happy for you. Great to hear My Friend!!!!
Cool vid ! San Francisco is awesome ! Love North Beach and City Lights bookstore, The Beats ! Kerouac my fav , that Peter Murphy looks awesome
JD !!! Man, I love City Lights as well.. Next time, I guess.. And we were staying very close to Columbus as we were on Mason and Beach in North Beach ! Thanks for looking in on this fun trip. I need to make it to the Hollywood store sometime. ✌️
Nice pick ups. Amoeba stores are my favorites
Agreed, Harry ! I wouldn't get overwhelmed if I allowed myself more time in the store ! LoL !! I was just getting the hang of it, then... We had to go. That's OK.. such a fun time in SF with my family ! Thank you..
Nice!!!! Good score of albums from Amoeba!
It was a blast ! At first I was nervous, seriously, in the store.. Well, I had been driving for a few hours, so I was a little rung out. We had fun in "The City" !!
Hi JT, Another great video! We will be stopping by Amoeba the first part of September on our way to Mill Valley. Thanks!
Awesome ! If you can, take a good 2 to 2 and a half hours to get warmed up and find what you want in Amoeba ! I used to hang out in Mill Valley, a lot .. way back in the 80's ! My girlfriend lived up Cascade.. Thanks, Ralph.
What wonderful views of SF... I live in the Bay Area and love it. I haven't been to Amoeba in a few years...like you, I do prefer the SF store....what a fantastic video JT....from the Streets of SF to the warf.....I need to take a BART ride to The City and enjoy all it has to offer.
Wow ! Thanks so much.. I had to tear myself away from Originals Vinyl on Fillmore and Hayes for once and have wanted to take a road trip to Ameoba and the city for some time now ! We're still in Thailand, and Tokyo was a blast, including Tower Records in Shibuya.. Go Giants ! 🤙
Some great albums JT. I haven’t been to San Fran since 87 . Take care art
The City..It looks the same. and the seafood was amazingly fresh.. It better be, right ! Haha. Amoeba is a very awesome store, Art ! The prices were high on a lot of those rare and different pressings that I was flipping through..Thank you !
Great stuff! I have been to Amobea in Hollywood, the best record store I have been to in my life.
I should get down there, eventually.. ( L.A, ) From all of the "What's In My Bag" episodes.. it looks totally amazing ! Thanks for watching..✌
Hey Jt..I love San Francisco..On my one and only visit there a few years ago, I must have gone to amoeba about a dozen times..what a great store..thanks for the tour..love the Joe Strummer!!! Loved this video..thank you❤❤glen
Hey Glen ! Glad to hear that you are very familiar with Amoeba and one trip to SF has got to be memorable, for sure ! I love "The City".. and get emotional when I am there. The homeless thing is way over exaggerated.. but that's what the news tends to do, and social media. We have made 5 trips in the last two years.. Food, and for me, record shops ! Stellar trips each time ! I wish I would have made it to Dead & Company's last show at Oracle ( where The Giants play ) A big time homecoming and the end of an era.. Oh well.. I will watch it on Nugs.Net.. or full length on UA-cam ! PS John Mayer says he is up for more shows ! ✌
Awesome video JT ! Wow what a store! I think you travel more in a year than i have my whole life!🤣 cheers to you my friend 👍🤘🤘
They get me going.. before, I just liked staying home. Now , I'm ready to go ! I want to see Greece, and a year from Fall break ( Sean's school ).. England and Ireland ! Or.. that's the plan, anyway ! Thanks Aaron, this was a fun one to film and put together.
Amoeba " What's In My Bag" is a favorite show of mine ! It's like us... Except well-known musicians are showing records and Cd's that they bought. Not us ! Haha ✌️
Wow JT, thought l was watching 'Bullitt'! Great video and then records. Lovely picks. Thanks again for your sharing your time with us.
In the month of August, we have an event called " Hot August Nights".. it takes place here in Reno. Tons of classic cars come over the summit to show off their decked out cars.. The Mustang you saw probably just got back to SF from the big event here ! I did get lucky filming it at the tail end of windy Lombard St. That should have been a 1968 almost stock Mustang, Mike.. Thanks for having a look !
I've been there before. Great shop.
It really is.. Only wish I had another hour.. actually, that would have equaled another 100 .00 ! Hehe✌️ Thanks !
Thanks for sharing your visit to Amoeba. I travel with my family to visit MLB parks. I always take some time to visit local record stores. Besides the great opportunity to buy new records, I discover neighborhoods that are not part of the tourist areas. We have California on our list for next year. I want to Amoeba in Hollywood and San Francisco. Nice pickups! Look forward to the next video.
Hey Mike ! Hope you make it to either store, and try to allow 2 hrs at least in any of the 3 Amoeba stores. I'm a Giants fan.. so I would love to make a game at Oracle, an outstanding ball park, and very sad that Oakland is losing the A's !! We go to triple A here in town, The Reno Aces, farm team for the D Backs ! Thanks for watching .🤚
Excellent streetscapes and approach to the store and great inside shop footage. Brings the viewer right there. Kudos!
Thanks, Michael... I try to have an eye for shooting video. I do appreciate the acknowledgement. How can I go wrong in " My City By The Bay".. in the words of the great Tony B. San Francisco is.. inspiring !
san francisco is the first city i ever went to in america and remains my favourite. a crazy place with so much cultural history.
Thank you for this positive message ! We go to " The City" twice a year, for food and for me.. record shops ! We always have fun,and it still looks the same. Amoeba is cool, my favorite store besides Originals up on Fillmore and Hayes. Appreciated 🎄
Fun trip. I've never been there. Parking is such a problem.
I get lucky with parking.. I'm a good city driver. We sure had a good time, Richard.. Thanks again !
Hi JT!!! so glad to see you had a great time at Amoeba in the City (super jealous here, lol) and with great weather too...... Killer TYA and Peter Murphy. I would love to visit San Francisco again... cheers and be well
Glad to hear you like Peter Murphy ! His Holy Smoke album will be his next that I want.. Amoeba was amazing, wish I had just one more hour in there to do some major damage.. to my wallet ! Haha.. 🤚 What a store. and s fun time in " The City" ! Thanks, Cristian.
What a store!
I live in Massachusetts and found a Pat Metheny Group album at Goodwill with an Amoeba price sticker that I grabbed half because of the sticker!
Having not visited SF for about a decade I’ve been concerned the city is overrun with homeless issues, drugs and crime as that’s the images seen on social media and the news. It’s nice to see images that show the city I remember.
First of all.. The homeless situation is greatly exaggerated. That was my 5th trip in 2 years.. no problem. They are mostly down by City Center.. I think it is called..a mall, actually. Glad you liked the video ! ✌️
Cool find on Pat Metheny ! I find records thrifting with Korvettes stickers from back east ! We're they department stores ? Amazing what we find out in the real wild ! ( That's what I call thrift stores, garages, and 2nd hand shops ).😊
Thanks for the invite JT. It was neat to see SF and the Ameoba store. Happy listening 🎶. Greg
Thanks so much.. It was an eventful day and a half. We left Reno at 7am.. Got into The City" around 11:30 and went straight to Amoeba ! Appreciate it, Greg ✌️
I think I could get lost in that store. Wow!!!
Sssshhh by Ten Years After is my fav by them. I think that record is so underrated. My dad used to play that record constantly.
Great to see you!
Cheers☘️
Thanks for mentioning " Ssssh" .. that one and "Watt" are awesome ! Heck, all of the Ten Years After records are cool ! I guess you are back, at least a little bit, and I am glad for that ! See you soon.. 🥲
Great video! I enjoyed the driving perspective of the streets at the start 👍 Interesting seeing the Lime Spiders in there, a rare Aussie release. I think I saw them live back in the day.
I wish I remembered about the Lime Spiders, I might have bought that one ! I'm looking for quality Aussie bands/ records. here and there.. I am very pleased to get 2 Saints records ! I'm looking for the 1st and 3rd LP ! Go- Betweens would be nice, as well. Cool, Andrew.. Thanks, mate !
I just bought " The Cave Comes Alive" from '87.. Can't wait ! It was 15.00. Too bad I missed that rare Austrailian LP by them.. I went back in the vid and looked ! 🤚
@@jtsrecordroom3963 That's great JT! You scored some classics there. I loved the Saints, especially the early releases, those 1st few albums are good. That's cool about your interest in Aussie bands, many wouldn't have heard of bands like the Go Betweens, let alone the Lime Spiders, including many Aussies. They had a minor hit in the charts but were an alternative band with independent releases mostly. It was a good era for original Australian music, just a shame it didn't get appreciated or more success at the time. Commercial radio here just wouldn't back local acts much unless you were INXS or something! Do you have any of Yhe Triffids?
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Well done! Enjoy. A great catch.
only been to that Amoeba once in 2013 (been to Hollywood one a million times). but i remember starting in the Zs of the used CDs and by the time I got to the Ss I had so many I just stopped cause if I kept going thru rest of alphabet I would’ve walked out with 1000 CDs. I just got into The Saints too. I picked up their debut on CD. It’s great. Not sure how I never heard of them until this year. Great trip JT.
Yeah.. good to discover The Saints ! We didn't hear about them much because THEY didn't allow us ! We would have either had to have worked in a record store or really be on top of it to discover some of these terrific UK, Aussie, and New Zealand bands ! It was overwhelming, but I did s power dig, and it came out alright . Cheers, Steve.. See you on yours !
I really struggle with those big stores JT, they are so overwhelming. You need a specific list which I suck at having. I always like to find something unexpected but I just never know where to go! Always hit world music and then the walls looking for cool stuff. Nice Los Lobos playing than Cynics album. You must have got the YT warning on music so you had to revert to YT music. Happens all the time on my store tours. Enjoyed the visit JT. Saints for $10, I got that one, good album but for that price I would buy and send it to someone else.
I tried to upload with Prince playing in the background during a 3 min. stretch ! ( I figured that would not fly ) Had to go back and edit it out ! I enjoy smaller stores as well, and usually visit those. Amoeba was a blast.. just need more time, next time.. See you , Steve ! I'm not good at lists either. I like being surprised and discovering as in all of my thrift scores.
I think I would have spent more if I had been there. Enjoyed the video
I needed more time, Tony ! The fam was waiting.. I don't mind. I spend tons of time on this stuff, and glad to have made it to Amoeba ! Do you watch.. "What's In My Bag" ? Excellent UA-cam viewing from Amoeba stores !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 no. No I meant more money!!! I apologize.
Hi JT and thank you very much for another What’s in My Bag video.
Thank you also for the almost Bullitt Mustang ;)
I understood very well your somehow long hesitation over the Saints second LP. You did very well!
Amicalement
Marc
I uploaded the video with Prince music in the background ! UA-cam didn't allow it, so I had to silence that 3 min. section with background music, which cut out my audio freaking out about that Saints record that I had been looking for ! LoL !!! 😊 I love.. " Whats In My Bag" ! Merci, Marc ✌️
Its getting really steep folks! You could also brag that you actually witnessed Steve (BULLIT)McQueen pass by in his green mustang. WOW!!! LOL!!! Thanks again for sharing great stuff JT.
Yeah.. That film was shot in Pacific Heights nearby.. mostly. I got lucky to film a Bullit" era Mustang coming down windy Lombard St. Thanks, Walter !
Hey Jt. Jan and I were in SF around ten years ago, and I spent a couple of hours in Amoeba. Amazing store. I bought Patterson Hood’s I Murdered Oscar there, and that title is impossible to find right now. I bought the first Saints album when it was first released many years ago. It’s a gem. I need to get back to SF soon, and then head over to Reno. Nice buys my friend. Cheers.
That would be fun to have you pass through .. and "All The Way To Reno" ! LoL !! Amazing that you have the debut Saints record, very cool, indeed ! Patterson I realize.. is David Hood's son ! It is in his DNA ! Thanks, Jack..
Thanks JT . The Saints great Aussie band ! I’m Stranded usually costs a pretty penny these days. Love your Dead cap too 😎👍
Maybe they will re issue " I'm Stranded" soon.. And I am going to Japan in March, will look, then. Thank you for watching, and glad you are alright with The Dead ! LoL !! ✌️
Very nice Bay Area footage! I walked my way from Union Square to Haight to visit Amoeba while staying in Berkeley. Yes, I got to visit both stores and then on my last day in San Francisco I drove to LA but only passed by their third store (before the relocation). Too much to see while there and not much money left from that trip. I think I brought back to Brazil around 120 titles among vinyl, cds and cassette tapes. Cheers!
Wow, Guz ! Over a hundred titles, it makes sense.. stuff that you can get here in the U.S. easier ! It's awesome that you know your way around, and walking is a good thing, we get to see more and stop in to little shops for a beverage or food ! We had a wonderful visit, and the food was terrific ! ( Dungeness Crab ).✌️
I have always wanted to visit Amoeba. Excellent Peter Murphy 12" and, of course, Deep is awesome. Happy you got a copy! I forgot that the Tenants were Canadian. Very cool Saints finds 🙂
Hey Brian..You prompted me to get a copy of "Deep" from your video. "Holy Smoke" will hopefully be next. That was our 5th or so trip down to SF.. The news greatly exaggerates the homeless situation, I love going to "The City" ! The Saints were on my list, and I pronounced Ed Kuepper's name wrong. They are new to me as the last time I heard them a lot was.. 40 years ago ! LoL !!
Cool video. It's been quite some time since I was in San Francisco. I don't think I visited any record stores when I was there. You don't see The Saints very often at least in my neck of the woods as I spotted one in your flipping and then you found another and you bought both. I have All Fools Day but only on CD, Bruce Springsteen covered their song "Just Like Fire Would." Cool Joe Strummer. Looks like a great trip.
I had to snuff out my dialogue for 3 minutes.. Prince was playing in the background.. I was doing a play by play while flipping through the bins. I took a chance in uploading it and UA-cam would not allow my vid to fly ! So I chopped 3 minutes out of the record flipping and added a music backing track ! I freaked when I saw the 2nd The Saints record ! I t all worked out, anyway. I am getting used to maneuvering around UA-cam.. kind of ! I want to go back again, soon.. maybe when The Giants are in the play offs ! ⚾ Thanks, Randy.
JT, cool San Fran trip. Great haul. When I lived in Cali I always preferred traveling to San Fran over LA. Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman
Yeah, Steve.. I prefer the Bay Area as well. Different vibe.. I do like LA, though.. Hermosa Beach, and other cool.pockets of the great expanse of Los Angeles !
One cool city and one cool Record Store is Amoeba.Traveled there many moons ago and walked the Golden Gate Bridge!. Happy Trails.Rog.Pacific Sunset Records( LA)
Thank you, and this was my first time back at Amoeba SF in years ! We are going out to San Francisco again this weekend.. For me, I want to hit Tunnel Records out in the Sunset District to buy some good records and document the store and surroundings a bit. I sure appreciate you looking in on this one, Rog.. JT
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Hi.Happy record hunting and much appreciated your video.Rog.Pacific Sunset( LA).
Hi JT, As you know we lived in southern California a few years ago. Unfortunately I never made it up to NorCal. Someday when we're moved back I will be going to San Francisco. Patty's been there several times with work, but not me yet. Amoeba looks massive! Sadly, it looks like massive prices too! I got a clean copy of that Joe South album sometime last winter for $3! It's very good. Ssssh is one of the only Ten Years After albums I don't have. I remember the song "Sheriff" by The Tenants on the radio in the 80s as they were Canadian. I have a copy of Peter Murphy's "Deep" on compact disc from when it was first released. I enjoyed a virtual walk by Fisherman's Wharf at the end of the video. ✌
Many of the prices were good... Joe South was 3.00 , like yours. The Tenants were 3.00. Peter Murphy 20.00 same as online. Ten Years After was 9.00 on a 2nd mint press. The Saints were actually 30.00 under Discogs prices.. A lot of the tags you saw are very pricy records , anyway.. And again, some are overpriced. My thing is thrifting, always ! I like to support the stores once in awhile. You will love "The City" when you do make it up this way ! Cheers, Mike ✌
It looks like you had a great time. I miss Amoeba! I used to visit the Hollywood store far too often when I lived in Ca. I scored so many great albums. It sounds like their prices have gone up. I always found them to be reasonable. I definitely have to visit Northern California. Very nice Joe Strummer pickup. Bonafide grail, indeed!! I really enjoyed all of the footage. I can't say I wouldn't be a little anxious driving over the GG Bridge! We'll talk soon.
How about going over the Golden Gate while filming with your young son in the back seat, and Jum Too ! I asked her to drive, she didn't want to ! Prices have clearly gone up, but I did alright ! What a nice trip. Mark. Talk soon ! 😉
thanks for tour, thought about Steve McQueen when i saw and heard car. ¿ did you get the helmet record?
I did not ! I should have.. "Strap It On" is on the list. It was pretty pricy, I think that's why I passed.. I will check the price on the flip vid, I am curious. See you Shaun ! Thank you..
Strap It On was marked 50.00 . I checked around. It seems that is a pretty good price, possibly even for a re press. I do have my Cd, along with Meantime too !
Great video, great place. I thought I was watching Bullitt for a minute at the start there! I had a holiday to California booked in 2020 that got cancelled due to Covid, sadly. I was looking forward to doing some record shopping in SF I’ll have to get it re-booked - maybe next year!
In August .. We have an event "Hot August Nights" held in my town of Reno, Nv. All of the classic cars are out on the streets all the way from SF to Reno
Hope you make it up this way.. I might suggest Lake Tahoe.. The tail end of my last vid shows the beautiful East Shore on the Nevada side. Also a drive up PCH 1 (Highway 1 ) Hugging the California coast from Mendocino to san Diego would be recommended ! Thanks for watching..😚
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Sounds great! Funnily enough my original holiday was similar I was flying to LA, taking in San Diego and driving up to San Francisco! I’m hoping to get booked onto a swim from Alcatraz Island back to shore as well. If I don’t get eaten by a great white I’ll see you there 😎
Hopefully you get to visit , soon ! We always have nice trips to "The City" I Would love to catch a SF Giants game, sometime as well !
That record store would be interesting to visit.
It really is Recs.. All of my picks were a decent price, some records were pricy. but some were rare , different pressings justifying the higher price of certain records. Lots of 3.00 records, as well ! Thanks for looking in ! ✌️
Hello 👋 I visited San Francisco way back in 1987 from New Zealand where i live. Good seeing some of the sights , like Fisherman's Wharf. I remember the cable cars would stop there. I also remember seeing singer Chris Isaak in the Haight Ashbury district in a venue named I - Beam. The city has good character, the old houses etc. I liked Bauhaus when Peter Murphy fronted the group. I noticed the British Punk band Eater as you were flicking through the records in the,store. I liked them. The Saints were popular in the UK.
I wish I would have had a look at that copy of " Eater" ! I was just getting started flipping through the bins.. Thanks so much for watching my journey through San Francisco. Terrific that you got to see Chris Isaak in the Haight back then ! Cheers. JT
Hi Jt - heard so much about Amoeba music, so to have a bit of a look inside - amazing. Love your videos of San Francisco and Fishermans Wharf - amazing. I would have loved to go to America say back in the 60's, 70's but work and life got in the way. To late for me know, and tbh I really dont want to go to America any more, what with all the issues you have. All the best and stay safe. Cheers Doug (from Down Under)
Hey Doug ! Thanks for looking in . We always have nice trips to SF.. It looks the same as always. The news exaggerates the homeless issue greatly, and whatever other issues ,I'm sure world news makes things look scary ! You would have a brilliant time coming to Reno, then Lake Tahoe.. then a drive up PCH 1 ( Coast Highway ) from San Diego to possibly Mendocino , just stunning ! If you ever did come over , please message me to have a chat or meet ! Cheers. JT
Amoeba is really something.. The Haight looks great, as real estate is high and all of the neighborhoods are remodeled to historical standards.
Great video JT! I visited a friend in Marin in the late 90s and visited both Amoebas and a few other stores. Brought back some memories of my trip seeing you drive around the neighborhoods and record shopping at Amoeba. Shame that the famous record store in Mill Valley closed long ago. That would have made a nice scene for this video. - the Other JT :)
Hey JT !! And.. I do remember that record store in Mill Valley. Back then, my girlfriend was from there, up Cascade, although I never went in the shop ! Hope all is well with the both of you and thanks for looking in...A good title for a Savoy Brown LP ! Haha. See you on yours..☺
Great pulls. Your music taste is much like my own. I would have pulled that Saints "Eternally Yours." You know your product! I enjoyed this video as a Bay Area native who hasn't been to the San Francisco Amoeba location in about two years.
Nice to know ours taste is similar.. I do like classics, and to fill holes in my vinyl collection. 2 years isn't too long for not popping into Amoeba. It had been since the late 90's for me ! I watch "What's In My Bag" often, and have been wanting to visit and film Amoeba SF for awhile, now ! Thank you for checking this one out..✌
I love and grew up with Bay Area bands !! Not many of us in the vinyl community know where I am coming from musically with TOP, Cold Blood, Azteca.. Sons Of Champlin, Early Steve Miller, early Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks.. on and on !
Hi JT. New to your channel. I grew up in bay area. During the nineties i spent a lot of time at the SF and Berkeley Amoeba stores. Nobody should pass on tne opportunity to visit there. Thanks for doing the video.
Thank you ! It really meant a lot to me to film and go to Ameoba in SF vs. LA. It is our " City" .. even here in Reno. I love the history of the building being Park Bowl until Ameoba went in
( 1996 ). I take my viewers on a journey of thrifting, record stores, coffee houses, that stock records, of course ! 😁 and abroad to Japan and Thailand. Hope you like anything else that I have done ! Appreciated..
Looks like a great trip!
Good trip, good food and good records ! Jum and Sean had fun, too !
Wow Jt San Fran looks great. Beautiful day while I’m here in the couch under a blanket 🥶One day I’ll get to SF Amoeba. My head will probably explode with the sheer quantity of stuff to look at. Nice start..Bowie, PIL & My Dad Is Dead. I saw Venom P Stinger in there. Great Aus punks that featured a pre-Dirty Three Jim White & Mick Turner. The Saints!!!!!! All Fools Day is a really great post Ed Kuepper Saints record, but Eternally Yours…oh yeah!! Enjoy mate. Eater is a great punk record too. Pentangle a first couple are brilliant as are Bert’s early solo records too. I’ve been buying the Kinks reissues because I only had the 60’s & some early 70’s stuff. What a band! That was cool Jt. You got some top shelf stuff. Cheers…Ben PS thanks for the shout out too mate 👍
First off.. I blew it on pronouncing Ed's last name wrong ! Blahhhh . LoL !! ( Cooper).. right ? I just ordered a Lime Spiders "The Cave Comes Alive". I am soo stoked to get two Saints titles.. you have really got me going thinking about great Aussie bands, for sure. And I WILL find The Saints debut.. and the 3rd one ! ☺The Laughing Clowns will be good to get, as well. Thanks Ben, for your advise on these killer bands !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Yeah I picked that up with Ed's surname, but I didn't want to be "that" guy & spoil your Saints enthusiasm. That Lime Spiders record is great. I would say that the easier to get Laughing Clowns would be the comp from last year called "Golden Days - When Giants Walked The Earth". It's got a good range of their stuff. Cheers...Ben
@@benrankins4446 Thanks, Ben.. I knew from your comment, and knowing you, that you were being kind. I even looked up Ed's name, I had a feeling I was off, and couldn't remember the pronunciation from you speaking on him.. No biggie.. I do know now, and it is a learning experience most all of the time with the music that we love ! "Golden Days".. Alright, it's on my list !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 In conjunction with that Laughing Clowns comp they also put out two other Ed releases. One of Ed's solo stuff titled Singles '86 - '96 which is a really great period and a killer reformed Aints live record called Live At Marrickville Bowlo. They're all on Prince Melon/Fatal records. If you see Ed's name on something you can't go wrong in my opinion. Next I'll get you into Rowland S Howard who along with Ed are probably my two favourite guitarists & Australian songwriters. Ed has a huge catalogue and Rowland's is rather slim, but they're both incredibly important figures in Aus music. Cheers...Ben
@@benrankins4446 I think I told you.. I watched Rowlands short doc that was excellent, last month. Really gave me an idea what him and Nick Cave were up to in the early days. A guy just commented that his friend ( His boss back in the late 90's ) here in Reno.. an Australian gentleman was married to Chris Masuak's sister. I turned him on to your channel. He told me to listen to The Stems ! His handle is Madmanman.. if he comments. After The Saints.. I'm feeling a need for some Laughing Clowns.
Excellent tour of Amoeba Music and maybe I need to put that one on my "Record Stores to Visit" list when we do our California coast tour. Great Joe Strummer find there! Everything you picked up is quite amazing, your trip was definitely worthwhile and you went to a lot of places I've been wanting to visit. We were talking about going out there maybe in September after the tourist season dies down, but quite honestly, we are very tired of so much driving lately. I just got back from helping my son in law move which required that I pick him up in Unity, Saskatchewan (3.5 hours from where I live) and taking him up to Grand Prairie (7.5 hours from Unity) so he could load up a U-Haul, drive all the way back to Unity, help unload the truck, then I had to drive the truck 40 minutes south to drop it off and then drive all the way back home. So, I say all that to mention that we've decided not to go anywhere else that is a long distance until next spring since we just moved here and then went down and seen the family in Utah. I think we've put about 10,000 kilometers on the car since we moved the first of July. It's time to take a stay-cation I think.
I do recommend Amoeba SF or Berkeley, Mike. Just got off work, September, October is very very nice to visit "The City" !!! My Mom lived in Regina.. I'm pretty sure I mentioned that before. I bet once you hit Cache Valley, you didn't want to go any further ! Thanks again for watching.. This one was fun to put together ! Cheers..😊
Bay Area’s Best 🙌🏾
Absolutely ! I Can't wait to get back to Haight Street and spend a few hours in Amoeba ! Happy holidays.. Thanks
i listened to a few of the ten years after albums you talked about and while i enjoyed tracks off of all of them, i concluded afterwards, this: i dig joe south!!!!...i know the area of san fransisco you were in from a thousand motion pictures. i can only imagine what it's like to roam around there. i adore the kinks but only vaguely remember peter murphy....
Joe South was one of nany fine southern songwriters.. For some reason, Mark James, who wrote " Suspicious Minds," seems a little similar. " Games People Play" is another cool song I'm sure you checked out. Yeah.. Ten Years after has a bunch of good ones, especially off of " A Space In Time" !! It is a blast hanging out in San Francisco, and the record shops are all excellent. and the food ! ☺️ Thanks for the nice comment..
i recall peter murphy now. thanks for reminding me.@@jtsrecordroom3963
I was actually at Amoeba when it was still a bowling establishment. I was in that business. Worked at the Bowling Stadium in Reno 1995-2002. In a strange bowling/Aussie related coincidence, my boss at the Bowling Stadium was married to the sister of Chris Masuak (Radio Birdman) back then. Love the Aussie bands. Check out the Stems, or any band with Dom Mariani involved. Great power-poppish type stuff.
I played competitive pool out of Keystone Cue & Cushion back then, and I work on 4th street to this day ! I wrote Don Mariani's name down, and The Stems.. and check out Ben Rankins on UA-cam. He is the maestro of everything good about great Aussie bands. ( He lives in Melbourne ) I'm getting a Radio Birdman LP in the mail, soon ! Thanks for watching..✌
Best Independent Record Store in the USA!!!!
I think so as well ! I had a few folks say Amoeba is too expensive. Those were rare pressings that I was flipping through. The 3.00 bin is terrific ! Wish I had another hour in there last Sunday.. Thank you for your comment and for watching, I appreciate it ! ✌️
I spotted Carole King debut, Writer, @ Amoeba. You probably don't need it. I always enjoy visiting and seeing San Francisco! It seems like the center of the world. 🌎
The Saints were a score!
Peter John Joseph-Deep Ocean Vast Sea.
Sad update that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez passed away yesterday.
My absolute favorite artist from the Searching For Sugarman award winning documentary. He lost his job two weeks before Christmas.
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Oh Man ! Rodriguez was amazing ! He must have been up there in years. I will look at the news, later. I don't have Carole King's debut.. "Writer" It must be good. and yes.. The Saints were a total score ! Thanks, Alan..🤓
@@jtsrecordroom3963
RODRIGUEZ
ELTON JOHN
THE BEATLES
Carole King's debut album shows she can do more than be a writer.
RODRIGUEZ - 81
ROBBIE ROBERTSON - 80
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I loved this video JT. San Fran is one of my favourite places. Karen and I went there several years ago and we also stayed at Fisherman’s. Amoeba looks spectacular! Is that the Amoeba were McCartney cut his live album or is there one in LA? Brilliant pick ups….Joe Strummer perfect! I love those two Saints. I’ve only got The Saints on cd and need some on vinyl. Just like you JT, Ben has turned me on to get the first three. Great video….. loved it! Mike
Thank you, Mike.. I enjoyed filming and putting this together. I am not sure where Sir Paul cut the album.. My guess would be the Hollywood store, I would think ? I'm getting the re issue of "Streetcore" soon. Merchbar over here has good prices. Mr. Rankins has been a wealth of info, for sure, and it took awhile to sink in actually.. He kept pounding these killer bands home to us, and it worked ! I wish the A&R men here in the U.S. would have done a better job of exposing great UK and Aussie bands back in the day ! Gang Of Four, The Stranglers, Go-Betweens and such. Over here, you pretty much had to work in a record store to know what's what !
I remember the excitement when Amoeba came to Los Angeles in 2001 .. they knocked out legendary stores Moby Disc , Aaron's & Rhino all of which had plenty of space. What you wanted , you found there.
So cool, huh ? Well.. not that they knocked out those classic stores.. I just like Amoeba. I would like to make it to the Hollywood store, although next time, I will revert to smaller stores. Thrifting is my main thing anyway.. I do very well and should stick to it. Thanks for watching ! ✌️
Very nice video, nice to tag along with you and the fam on your SF adventure. Some great pickups. How does the Peter Murphy Deep reissue sound? Awesome score on the 12 inch also. You have a delightful stack of wax to spin. Happy spinning.
I have been too busy to spin it yet.. I will let you know ! The Embryonic Robot .. Brian just showed one and spoke about it on a very recent vid of his. Nice to hear from you, again and I will get to "Deep".. Holy Smoke" will be my next Peter Murphy on vinyl.. I hope !
What about the bushman? Is he still down by Fisherman Wharf?
I'm not sure.. I don't think so Steve. I'll look into it and let you know.
He's on Wiki.. You might check it out. He passed away in 2014.. I remember him now !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 when I was there in the 90’s it was hilarious. Sad that he has passed on now and no one continued the tradition
@@stevebender4546 I'm sure that some busker is doing something like him.. although it scares certain people. there are so many good buskers in San Francisco. Evidently, there were two Bushmen, the other passing away in 2019.. just read a bit more about it just now.
Hey JT, great Video. How much was the Helmet record?
I kind of blew by it.. and wanted it. I think 35.00 or so.. I think ? I went in a different direction, and didn't have a lot of time.. I'm going back ! I really like Amoeba.. Thanks for checking this one out !
Nice finds JT! I enjoyed your trip video. I went to San Francisco a few years back. Enjoyed certain aspects of it, some not as much. I like some of pubs and beaches. I have to say I enjoyed San Diego more. I’ve been to Amoeba in Hollywood. I was disappointed in their used section. Bad selection and overpriced. But that’s just my personal experience at that store. Can’t speak for the others. Love the Kinks albums! (Oh and I did like Fisherman’s Warf 😊)
Hey Gary.. it has been a blast going to various record stores in the past two years.. I have hit quite a few, and I would have to say.. thrift stores are my favs !!! Hehe.😄 No, seriously, as far as brick and mortar stores go.. Originals Vinyl up on Fillmore is awesome, and Amoeba SF .. very good. The Japan stores and Bangkok are the best, so far We had the best dinner Sunday night at Francisco's on the wharf overlooking Alcatraz. San Diego is the best of the 3 cities.. I agree ! Man, I loved living down there.. What a life !
Spent almost identical yesterday at a local store for 5 records. Two Beatles, a Bob Dylan, Kiss and Pink Floyd
179.00 ? Wow ! serendipitous .. Sounds good, Greg. I bought "Meet The Beatles" online very recently.. I had to have it because, that was the one back in 1964 !!! ( My older sister had a copy ).🙂 Enjoy those titles.. Which ones did you get ?
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Japanese label of Sgt Peppers and German Odeon label of A Hard Days Night. The Kiss was Blue
Casablanca label of Hotter Than Hell. Bob Dylan original press of Blonde on Blonde. Meddle by Pink Floyd on Harvest
@greghawkins229 Wow !! Terrific. all of them ! German "Hard Days Night" .. I bet, sounds very good, and Meddle on Harvest. I think I have one.. I do. I just checked. Enjoy those, need I say !
@@greghawkins229 OG Blonde On Blonde is worth it. Should be a 2 Eye Columbia, if I am not mistaken. Cool !!!
@@jtsrecordroom3963 it is. Gatefold and has pictures with two girls on the inside making it the original press if
I am correct
3:31 The Amoeba on Haight Street actually opened around 1996 or 1997. I bowled there in 1995.
OK.. Good to know.. November 1997. I went off of an article interviewing the owners.. Former Rasputin Record Shop folks. I knew for sure about Amoeba on Telegraph in Berkeley.. 1990. Thanks for getting this right.. and I'm going back, hopefully soon ! There are a bunch of gems in those bins, next time I will take 2 to 3 hours to dig. Thanks so much ! 😉
I heard all about the "Rock & Bowl Nights".. That must have been a blast.. And My Friend from Marin told me about Robin Williams having cast parties there ! Thanks for being cool about my error ! Appreciated..✌
What a glorious space and quality stock. Do you travel to record stores all around the country ?
I actually travel to stores in Japan and Thailand, as well. I have those video's from not long ago on my channel.. please check some out !. I mostly film and buy at stores in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Los Angeles.. I did some thrifting which is my main thing, anyway.. Thank you ! 🤓
Heaven exists. And it's in San Francisco.
I agree.. I love the City ! The news is bashing the homeless issue.. I rarely see it in 5 trips in 3 years ! They hang out in certain pockets, Down on Market and City Center. Thank you, Richard, this was fun filming and putting together !
That store looks massive.
So big ! Pretty sure it's larger than the LA store. Amoeba SF on Haight was Park Bowl until 1996 with a billiard room on the side. Thanks for checking this out !
Wow! Those prices are insane - are they that high at all left coast record stores? - couldn't afford those hefty prices! Here on the East coast records are about half those prices. Yikes!
Those were all rare and import records I flipped through.. Their 3 dollar bins are huge with good records throughout. Everything I bought was under Discogs median prices. and The Saints record was 30.00 under any other prices, anywhere ! I get such good deals on records all week, all month long here in town, it's almost criminal LoL !!! If you are new to my channel, check out my other finds.. in the " real wild" Haha.. Thanks, anyway, for watching our vacation 2-day getaway ! 🤣
Hi JT. I've seen a few videos showing Amoeba, and the size of it still makes my mind boggle. A record shop that size would never survive here in the UK now, as energy costs have made it impossible. It's also sad to see old department stores that have survived over a century now closing ... The nearest we have to Amoeba is the HMV chain. I think they are really struggling. Thankfully small record shops selling a mix of new and secondhand records are thriving, and new shops keep popping up ... I've not seen that Joe Strummer Black Friday release. Maybe a few copies made it over to the UK, but Black Friday isn't a thing here like Record Store Day in April ... Early Saints are wonderful. Good luck with finding 'I'm Stranded'. It's probably been reissued, if you can't find an original. I saw Ed Kuepper live - probably back in the 90s - and sadly there were only a handful of people there. His bands the Aints and the Laughing Clowns are worth checking out too.
HMV is in Japan as well, If I am not mistaken. I don't go to RSD very much at all, as i get good deals all over the place, generally. Yeah... "I'm Stranded" is gonna be a tough one.. maybe ! I have my ways.. LoL !! Thanks, Carl. Just got off work, wanted to message you earlier.
Is Kuepper pronounced .. Cooper ? I think I messed up. I'm learning, and I love .. The Saints ! Laughing Clowns plus the Aint's will be on my want list for now on !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Kuepper is pronounced Cooper; or at least I've always pronounced his name that way. That must be a big want list you've got!
@@carltweed942 Right ! I messed up.. and I chopped it out of the vid ( 4 seconds or so.). Now I know ! Thanks, Carl. I'm going back to thrifting .. Haha ! For 179.00 US I can get as many, or 90 good records for that much money here in town. At Bill's garage.. maybe 35 records, or so. I do like to support brick and mortar stores, though. And I don't consider them..."The Wild" Standing up, everything is organized and curated, music playing.. tasty beverage in hand. The wild, to me is on your knees to get at the good stuff, digging under shelves.. in the heat, or cold.. dusty dusty places ! LoL !! 🤥
@@jtsrecordroom3963 "The wild" sounds more romantic. I like to mix it up too. Sometimes crawling on your hands and knees loses its appeal. There's definitely a place for a well-curated pleasant store.
Had one of my favorite days here.
I had a good job and had just met a girl I really liked. We spent every weekend together for a month unplanned.. then she had commited to a friends wedding in SF.. we live in Sacramento. She didn’t wanna drive by herself but was staying on a couch.. i said F it, let’s get a nice hotel and spend the weekend there.
It was SO FUN. we had no plan that Saturday.. just wonder and find food. We got some burgers and then I noticed Amoeba! I start telling her all the stories of times i went as a kid and she’s just staring at me. She’s never been here.. woah.
She was so into listening to me blab. We each picked a CD. I got AiC jar of flies cause it was $3 and she got devil wears Prada.
That CD never left her cars cd player the three years we dated. We never listened to it.. AUX-Life, but it was still there.
That memory means a lot to me cause I remember so much detail. I remember her hanging on my arm walking around. I remember thumbing through stuff stupid quick and she was like how??
Thanks Amoeba!! Me cousin just ordered me a t shirt for the Hollywood store where he lives.
Thank you for that great memory. It reminds me of a few of mine ! Tower was the store that brings back vivid memories, and more recently.. 2004. I met my wife right next to the Tower Reno store, then later in the year.. It closed ! I was there almost every day for the heavily discounted CDs.. And Vinyl !
It was so good re visiting the Ameoba store on Haight ! My next shop in " The City" will be Tunnel Records ! Thank you 🎵
I saw faith no more there fun show
Incredible ! This was my first trip back to Amoeba in a long time.. What a great thing to see Faith No More there at the store.. I will be traveling to the Sunset this Sunday, going to Tunnel Records and other fun spots to visit with family. I will film the store this weekend. Thanks for watching 🎵
Wow David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin, fantastic.
Great store ! I have both of those LP's..That's why I didn't stop to jnvestigate... Thanks for looking in on this one..🤚
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Fantastic stuff, my pleasure, great channel, thank you.
I saw a upc code on the Ten Years After album ...so it must have reissued after 1975
Probably.. Sometimes I slip, I do everything in one take, usually.. it sounds real good ! I'll find an OG, someday soon, I just needed one and thoroughly enjoyed spinning this clean copy ! I want " Watt" as well..🫡 Thank you.
I used to shop in the Haight long ago but the parking got too much for me. Oh, and I used to drive stick shift on those hills! I started going to the Berkeley store and the parking is much easier since no sane person wants to park by People's Park, but I eventually got ripped off trying to sell stuff. These days I go to the LA store more than any other. I have family in Southern CA so I sometimes make it. My stepsis keeps claiming she's moving back to the Bay so maybe....
I get lucky with parking.. I pulled right into Whole Foods, the fam got some beverages and stuff while I went directly across the street to Amoeba ! We have had 5 or do stellar trips to SF in the past 3 years.. Amoeba Hollywood must be nuts ! ✌️ Thanks, Ed
Is it bigger than the Hollywood location.
Really ! I hear Amoeba Hollywood is a newer location, I've never been to either. Thanks, Tim.
@@jtsrecordroom3963 Me too just the smaller one in Hollywood. I use to shop at the Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. The good old days.
@@timmorin2304 We had Tower here in Reno , up until 2004. Ted the Mgr. is still a friend, here in town ! ✌️
That Tower Records was awesome@@timmorin2304
Example is that Beatles White Album priced at a whooping $40 USD. That's $52 or more for me, I see it here in Vancouver for at most $25 Canadian. Too much man, way too expensive.
Right.. I wouldn't have touched that. I have one, anyway. All of the records I bought were a good price. Heck.. I get beautiful records for 25 cents to 5.00 per all day, every week, every month here in Reno ! Different pressings are way different prices, though..And I had no interest to look what that White Album pressing was. Thanks for watching, anyhow ! ✌️
Great video. Ed Kuepper’s surname is pronounced Cooper, btw, and Bert Jansch‘s name is pronounced Jansh, not Yansh. Though of German heritage, he was Scottish and his family dropped the Y pronunciation of their surname. Kuepper was born in Germany, as I’m sure you know, and his Saints bandmate Chris Bailey was born in Kenya to Irish parents and grew up in Belfast before his family moved to Brisbane.
Thanks for the correction, I knew about Bert Jansch.. how to say it, last week I heard Peter Framton on " What's In My Bag" pronounce his name with a Y ! Thought I was wrong.. What does he know anyway ! LoL !! I blew it on Ed Keupper's name.. now I know.. appreciated. 😊
Holy crap!! The prices of those albums you flipped through at the beginning are outrageous 😲😭. I literally saw at least six of those just today at my local record store and those you filmed were twice the price and to make it worse that's in USD. I'm in Canada so I would be paying 33% more. WoW. I feel very fortunate.
To your comment.. I am a thrifter, and I just scored 115 mint records for .25 cents each ! ( My 2nd to last video ). I buy records everywhere, and glad you are getting good prices. We were on vacation, having fun. The Saints record was about 30.00 US lower than online or other stores. Thanks for watching ! Overall, Amoeba was pricy, here and there. ✌️
Yea, the Amoeba here in Los Angeles is the same with the prices. It's the price we pay for having almost anything we can think of in one store lol.
Do you know that theres a thread NOT a contest but a thread going around of the top 10 records that I listen to the most? as a suggestion not a demand but a suggestion it would be cool to see your top 10 records you listen to the most? I think Noble started the thread a couple weeks ago.
Yeah.. I watch a virtual ton of people's videos every week, and I have watched at least 10 to 15 responses from different folks for this thread. Funny that you say this, I uploaded my weekly vid for early tomorrow morning, and I announced that my next one ( a week from today ) will be " My 10 Most Listened To Records". Thanks, Mark ! 😙
This thread was started by a channel called The Long Cut. 😄
the good will down the street must get some good lps.
Good one.. I bet they do ! Thank you for checking this one out.
Do I see the Golden gate Bridge gotta Love 1971?
how far is that bridge from the Rock(Alcatraz ) how far is that bridge from the Almeida Colleseum go Raiders , of course how far is it from Candlestick
where the G.O.A.T played number 16?
if my eyes aren't deceiving me weren't there a great tv show made there and a great movie ? 38 seconds of the video?
some cd's how cool ?
1. so were you down at Fishermen's wharf or were you at Mason and the beach street? Mark is confused ?
discogs might be selling it for 5.00 less but if the record was shipped to the wrong adresse or if the record is used then 5.00 isn't the same ?
very sweet ten years after ,
you said that's a repress from 1975 is the original year 1967 or 1968? I see your answer at 10:16 of the video!!!
I was in SF a few times for Fisherman's wharf probably 1978 how far is that from the Fairmount hotel?
some other important questions
2. who has better music Americans or the British?
3. who has better music San Francisco or La?
San Fran , Jefferson Airplane, Santana , Grateful dead was janis from san fran ? Jimi was from Seattle ten years after from the bay? from La was Van Halen, Motley crue some other bands whose better La or San Fran?
Both cities have great music.. I grew up much closer to San Francisco, so I am partial to it.
" Bullit" with Steve McQueen is the film you are thinking of. Number 16.. Joe Montana !
Who has better music ? Both countries pump out amazing music !
Fisherman's Wharf is about a mile to Knob Hill ( Fairmont Hotel )
I stayed at Mason and Beach.
Hey JT awesome video my friend.. On the 19th the family ands I are heading down to LA to see Le Miserables and I plan on stopping by Amoeba Records after the show… I have never been before and I have a short window of time and a short amount of cash but I’m going any way🤗 Wish me luck.. I hope all is well. Hey I did a cool thread for Steve at All The World’s a Stage’ you might enjoy doing a thread on go check it out and do a response your self🤘🏻🤘🏻
Hey Craig ! I think you can do some major damage in the clearance bins at Amoeba Hollywood, and maybe another record or two on a budget. I would have dug all day in the clearance.. and the whole store in SF if I had more time. I will look at Steve's thread, I generally only do one vid a week, anymore. I will be doing a "10 Most Listened To Records" though.. which will be two vids in one week. I don't really have time, and I like to stretch my video's out instead of too many. Thanks.. Let's see which video you are speaking of from Steve, checking it out, now !
The Haight isn't like it was -60's - mid-seventies.
When I moved there in '81 it was already a greedy cesspool.
High leases mean high prices for everyone.
Only the affluent can afford their prices.
Shame on Aomeba. And I love Amoeba.
Share your records with people who make minimum wage.
Peace on earth.
Right.. I am aware of all of that. We had Crab at Franciscan's.. Same architect that built the downtown Reno Library, and in the same style. I am from Nevada.. Reno / Lake Tahoe to be exact. My wife, son and I always have a good time in SF. If you are new to my channel, I get records here in town for 50 cents to 2.00 dollars , so I don't mind going to a proper record store on occasion. The records I bought, were all under Discogs and E Bay prices. That 40.00 dollar Australian record I bought is 30.00 under what other sellers want.. and I have been looking for it as well. I understand what you are saying, and thanks for looking in on my video ! Regards JT
That's why I thrift.. I have been getting beautiful records for 20 years solid, here in Reno, Carson City and Sparks for cheap ! Again, I appricate what you are saying. ✌
Homesick a bit !!
Thanks, Norman ! I thought about you, and glad you saw this one.. The City looks as good as it always does. We as a family have the best trips to SF ! The news, and certain people are way over the top with criticism about our beloved city. Cheers, Mazzy ✌️
I hear Los Lobos
I left it in this video purposely ! UA-cam almost did not allow me to upload this one.. I'm glad they did ! Cool trip to Amoeba and San Francisco ! Thanks for watching.
Wasn't this a bowling alley at one time? You explained that. I also believe it was a club with bands playing. I think I saw the Sea Hags there once.
Yes it was a bowling alley up until 1996 ? Also a Pool Hall on the west side ( towards the park ). I lived at North Lake Tahoe, so.I never made it down to that building until.it became Ameoba 🎵 Thanks for your comment !