Poetry in Portland : Record Store Crawl

With Poetry on Plastic : / @poetryonplastic
Portland Stores visited:
Crossroads Records
Little Axe Records
Tomorrow Records
Too Many Records

[@TooManyRecords]

Hey Mazzy! Really appreciate all of the kind words you guys said about the store after getting a chance to dig. I wish I could have been there to meet you both, but I was out of town snagging some pretty excellent titles for the shop. Hope to show you some of them next time you’re in town. ✌🏼

[@SDsailor7]

You have a really nice store! now you need a bar like they have in that record store that Mazzy likes to go to. Cheers

[@hank8499]

I will have to stop in sometime.

[@robwalkerletthemusicplay]

Great video .. I like seeing these kind of videos 👍

[@davidellis5141]

A definite congratulations to Matt & Matt from Too Many Records & hope they are successful .. they are certainly putting out a good effort. Can't wait to check the place out .. looks fantastic 👌

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

Mazzy with a little poetry, and poetry on plastic to boot! What a great combo! Loved this one!❤

[@andrewodonnell5058]

Great video guys .very enjoyable thank you👏

[@davidtaylor6663]

too Many Records. Great stop.

[@BarakaPDub]

Love that you documented this hook up in Portland! It looked like it was a fun day of digging for records. Glad you finally made it to Too Many Records. BTW - Hope you will be home in Seattle around 7/31 to 8/3 as I would love to meet up with you in the evening.

[@mazzysmusic]

It was great to meet and hang out w Michael. I added your dates to my calendar. Reach out directly when you have more details. ✌🏼

[@fairhurst889]

Nice video Mazzy love your road trips series.

[@DrOz-007]

Liking Michael's Fred Perry jacket, makes him look like an English mod!

[@soniaxv]

Can I just say REALLY envy a friendship like this!

[@Venus_Isle]

Whisky 'n' records...now that's what I call a proper lads tour...🙂

[@Davidicus-m8c]

fun going along with you guys to different record stores.

[@MonieMuse]

10:41 😂 so funny, guess we can all be a little bit of a “record pusher” . What a fun trip and so cool to see the too many records store 🥰

[@mazzysmusic]

It was a fun time Monie 🕺

[@BOBBRADLEYCHANNEL]

Great video, definitely getting in some quality digging !

[@jamesattenborough2597]

Absolutely love a road trip. Unexpected treat for a post work Thursday evening ❤

[@pauldenby878]

I loved this, great to see you out and about and diving in!

[@djsoulfilter]

The Shape of Punk to Come is such an amazing album!

[@neilcooper1028]

Great video Mazzy, a lot of well known whisky on the shelves in that bar. Where I stay in Scotland is where they distil most of them. Aberlour, Macallan etc etc all within 30mins of where I live. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

[@gratefultom4210]

Great. You are two excellent guys… Enjoy your meeting

[@Markymarkvinylnut]

Great video Mazzy. Enjoyed that!

[@michaeltrochalakis6526]

Thanks for the recommendations. I live in Seattle, and about two weeks ago I visited Portland and shopped at a couple of the stores you visited in the December Portland video. I went to Too Many Records and Tomorrow Records, among others. I really, really enjoyed the selection at Tomorrow. I was there for about 1.5-2 hours going through everything they had. I also really enjoyed their selection of audio gear.

[@mazzysmusic]

Cool you enjoyed the tour there ✌🏼

[@Max-rc1gl]

Ciao Mazzy .The best KZbin vinyl pair !! 👍👏🇮🇹

[@Jackgrahamphotograph]

was at Crossroads last Monday! got some really good stuff---fair prices--JG

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

Great places to crate dig. Nice to see the hook up with Vinyl Crush and Poetry in Plastic. Enjoyed the music ride along.

[@DorianPaige00]

Poor Mazzy! Can't even go record shopping in private in a remote city without someone knowing him. (LOL) I must say your videos always put me in a good mood.

[@SDsailor7]

That last record store dare i say, It looked elegant compared to the others and yes very clean. Now all they are missing is the coffee and the bar like the store in Seattle. and they would be set.

[@christopherkibler511]

Good to see you and Michael, and Mark get together. Thanks, Chris

[@rocky-o]

what a great time...cool to see michael hanging out with you....very interesting selections you guys picked out as well..although...i love lou reed...but you may need some excedrin after listening to that one...just sayin'....peace to the both of you...rocky

[@SDsailor7]

I remember that my local tower records and licorice pizza used to have the speakers hanging from the ceiling. Brings back good memories of digging there.

[@Davidicus-m8c]

great video!

[@ConcertBuddie]

Hot damn! Little Axe was one of the shops Alex Rodriguez shopped in his “Record Safari” doc. Always wondered the name of that place. That, the Poetry Mike meetup, and the TMR drop-by make this a terrific video. Cheers 🍸

[@ConcertBuddie]

I hope @TooManyRecords chooses to build off the positive experience from Mazzy’s video here to reach other parts of the vinyl community. Talking with others is much better than talking at them. I feel the community (at large) would love to support creators and efforts like the shop, but it takes engagement outside of the TMR bubble to invite others inside that bubble. That’s not meant as snark, but a commonly held perception - right or wrong.

[@bradleykay]

Alex Rodriguez as in A-rod?

[@bradleykay]

@@ConcertBuddie if the guy just wants to make videos and run a record store, why is that such a huge problem? I don’t get the bitchy contempt from the so called vinyl community. Did the guy wrong anyone?

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@bradleykay No. He’s a record owner in CA that featured in a vinyl documentary a few years ago -“Record Safari” - worth a watch.

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@bradleykay I never said his store or making videos was a problem. Please re-read my comment.

[@plan9fromthenw]

I think you did the Portland stores right. 2nd Ave downtown would be good for metal and punk. Landfill Rescue Unit on Belmont always finds a way of making me happy as well.

[@SDsailor7]

I like the road trip videos, specially the ones to San Fran.

[@DanSPsych67]

Nice Voyage Mazzy!!! Sure Would Have Loved To Have Been Tagging Along!!

[@franksmusic2880]

Wow Mazzy, you bought an album by Parliament, very cool. 👍

[@mazzysmusic]

I have about five of their records. Chocolate City is one I no longer had. Big George Clinton fan.

[@saltzine]

:: wata!

[@mlblue5355]

Cool road trip video! I liked the scotch bar and seeing Mark in the video! When’s that cat going to make more videos? Also nice to see inside the “Too Many Records” shop.

[@Andy-rc9db]

Not sure if it was deliberate, but that camera crawl along the aisle in the first store, with that weird unsettling music, had the touch of Kubrick’s The Shining. In the best possible way, of course.

[@mazzysmusic]

😏😏

[@djvinylvertigo]

My favorite novelist, Mishima. Would love to have that record!! I have all of his books.

[@mazzysmusic]

It’s probably still at Little Axe Records in Portland 🤠😎

[@djvinylvertigo]

@@mazzysmusic I will check. Thanks!

[@TLA1014]

I hope you two got to meet Matt Kessler, the owner of Too Many Records. He has a large following on KZbin as well. Super guy! I'm going to Portland in May and will meet him in person!

[@mazzysmusic]

That Matt was out of town ✌🏼🕊️

[@cezarvasile1635]

👌👌

[@markh.9822]

Good to see you still going out on dates Mazzy

[@djjoeykmusic]

Great Video, Cool meet up. We're have to do the same one day. Good Shabbos

[@jamdealer]

I'm so glad some of these Japanese records are getting repressed. Some of the OG Tatsuro Yamashia, Taeko Ohnuki, Casiopea, etc are just out of budget.

[@davidhenly804]

Great to see a few stores in Portland. I'll be heading there this summer and will check them out. What is the name of the "Scotch Bar"? Cheers!

[@mazzysmusic]

Scotch Lodge 🥃

[@greghawkins229]

Want you to know I finally got those Wacker records. So far I love what I’m listening to

[@mazzysmusic]

Enjoy them

[@mattsrecordcollection]

Cool video! I only live two hours south of PDX but I can't with the traffic though.

[@catherine6653]

The road trips are fun.

[@markspooner1224]

On the road and record stores, that's the ticket!

[@ediblehorse]

It's cool for you to hang with Michael. The In Groove guy... not so much.

[@Labor_Jones]

Nice! - m.

[@mondoenterprises6710]

Down these dark streets we go in search of records...and scotch.

[@mazzysmusic]

What else is there ?

[@robertocarlos_v]

Great video. You guys didn’t talk about Japanese Whiskey, maybe for the next hangout?

[@poetryonplastic]

It's gotten too overhyped and overpriced. Most of the stuff labeled "Japanese Whisky" nowadays is just scotch shipped over and bottled in Japan. Suntory and Hakushu are the only "real" Japanese whiskies we get over here, and they are priced to oblivion because of the hype.

[@therevrockinrollin]

Will Waxed get mad at me if I thumbs up Too Many Records vid? I kid. Team City Pop.

[@brads4606]

Can't believe that guy was playing Jobim Matita Pere! I'm living in the wrong town.

[@charlieanderson8497]

i got a good yuk out of your Rachels Ghost Shit show video. So true.

[@hugovermeulen9596]

single malt in portland !!!

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

The first 3 seconds of your video made me think of Monty Python's "How not to be seen" skit. Glad you didn't explode.

[@mazzysmusic]

And a big Influence for this one. Or The Larch The Larch. Even though these are probably firs 🌲🪵🌳🐾

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

@@mazzysmusic Oddly enough, The Larch was the first episode Monty Python I ever watched. Saw it on our local PBS station on a tiny B&W TV at a friend's house when I was probably 11 years old. Things were never the same after that.

[@chefinstructortom]

Love the road-trip videos Mazzy. I can’t wait to visit the northwest again. Its beautiful. Had a question; what was the music playing when you guys were in Too Many Records? Keep the videos coming. It is the music!

[@pennze]

@9:05 - 9:22 I swear I know this track... Can anyone inform me ??

[@johnmoreno96]

Start with Buying Records then Drinking Scotch =BARFLYS!! 🥃

[@MortenAastad]

Awww… Matt wasn’t at Too Many Records? Hope you two meet up next time and at least you got inside this time. Looking forward to seeing my two favorite VC youtubers meet and talk music. Mazzy? Did you ever see the drawing I made for you? …of you. Take care guys, Morten

[@bautistarafa70]

Asen bonita pareja saludos 🖖

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Don't drink and shop if you have too many records. Holey Dizzy Gillespie, I have a version of that Debussy. Despite the F1 camera work, I managed to spot the Divinyls and Laura Nyro at a pit stop.

[@tcr02]

Did you guys know what happened to Michael from Noted&Archived?

[@mazzysmusic]

He’s well and living in LA. Working on n his musical projects 🎶

[@Bootradr]

I definitely enjoy the road trips! I've been dying to go on one myself for quite a while and check out some vinyl stores in other cities. Maybe one day... Brian in Fort Worth 🎶

[@darkspar72]

At what point does a little axe become a hatchet?

[@mazzysmusic]

After a couple of scotches 🥃🥃

[@JCW-jx6ld]

Hey Mazzy your last few videos have been super bright dare I say overexposed

[@miketomlin6040]

Little Axe looked the best option, at least none of this .99 on the price stickers-always a very very bad sign.

[@miketomlin6040]

A bad hat day?

[@chrishughes5049]

they filmed The Birds in Oregon didn't they...sea gulls....damn, thought I saw a Yellow Magic Orchestra...in Small Axe, oh well too far to drive to. Nice Record Porn

[@mazzysmusic]

Maybe sone but the majority was in Bodega Bay north of San Francisco on the coast.

[@mazzysmusic]

I bought the YMO

[@chrishughes5049]

@@mazzysmusic good grab, gulls at the beginning of video made me think of The Birds, I think it was Stand By Me not Birds, envious, love west coast vicariously

[@HighDefTV]

Sending early condolences for that Refused record... the only hardcore record more overrated is Converge's Jane Doe... I will die on this hill haha. In all seriousness though, looks like you had fun, did you actually buy that Boris, because Michael wasn't steering you wrong there.

[@poetryonplastic]

Jane Doe is great but You Fail Me is the Converge record I turn to the most.

[@HighDefTV]

@@poetryonplastic I fully acknowledge that I am in the minority when it comes to my opinion on both of those records ha, I'm just glad you didn't tell him to buy David Comes to Life.

[@mazzysmusic]

Ha. Yeah I pretty much bought Michaels suggestions w a couple of omissions. He always gave me a couple ✌🏼

[@MrTeesabrat]

@@poetryonplastic I'm surprised you didn't go to Landfill Rescue Unit when you were in town; I guess you'll have to come back to Portland and let me take you around :)

[@Chicago_Podcast_Authority]

Crossroads is terrible. No organization and moldy old stock

[@ScottTice1971]

I guess you don’t go that often. There are a few sellers there that have a great selection and always new stuff. No mold either.

[@ScottTice1971]

And regarding the organization… I guess you don’t understand that Crossroads has dozens of individual sellers like an antique mall. Each has their own organization. A little confusing at first I agree, but I really like it now.