VCLT in Berkeley / San Fransisco!

[@TonySchmiesing]

Hey James, welcome to Berkeley -my hometown. Hope you enjoyed our city and found some nice records while you were here. I've been digging your videos for years now. Always love the stuff. Between you, Fred and Anthony you've represented the southern hemisphere well! Have a great trip! Peace.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Hi James, you wanna check out the FLK album because it features plenty of your home Yorkshire/English road trip similar to the US chill out road trip. I think clear vinyl was a reissue but many black vinyl sold in shops back in the day were bootleg anyway I'm still unsure about my one. Very thoughtful VCLT - even more thoughtful was you take a swiss army knife on holiday to the US with you, must've been expecting trouble?! Martin.

[@miketomlin6040]

Speed. Sending 2 vinyls in the USA Costs about 5$ media mail, but takes about a week.

[@johnbellamy3406]

VCLT on the go. Nice. Enjoy a glass of old vine Zinfandel for me while you are there James. Cheers

[@diamond_marimba]

looking good in the CA sun, we've actually had the san francisco weather here all weekend, lots of rain. can't wait to see what you picked up on your trip. don't know that jazz record, looks interesting.

[@highrantdistrict]

Very nice VCLT - I don't know either of those records but artwork-wise they seem in your wheelhouse. Shipping cost for two records within the US is roughly $5. $17 is what someone would pay for Priority Mail which arrives in 1-2 days; I'm sure the sender wanted to be positive it would arrive exactly while you're there. Hope the coast is treating you well! Cheers, Tom

[@hardfiled]

That’s exactly right

[@bazedjunkiii_tv]

priority US to germany is 24.95 or sth around that. at least it was the last time i ordered vinyl from the states which seemed to be ridiculous from a 17.95 USD record. great to hear you guys caught up and met. hope the dogs treated mr. buttery well ;)

[@highrantdistrict]

@@bazedjunkiii_tv We all met at a record shop then a few bars. No dogs. 😁

[@bazedjunkiii_tv]

@@highrantdistrict ah, okay.

[@vinylfury]

😎 😎 looking forward to the full report!

[@hardfiled]

I knew you’d dig on the KLF! Yes, it is a bootleg, but I figured a free bootleg would be better than trying to source any vintage pressing of it and get it shipped to NZ. It’s such a trippy and surreal listen. The Heath Allen record seemed like it would be in your wheelhouse as well. It’s a pretty deep pull and it’s got some really cool compositions on it. Plus, how could you go wrong with a name like “Mikro Kosmik Unit?” Thank you for the kind words! I hope to start my KZbin channel back up some day, cos you know I’ve got lots to share and say. Every time I hear you talk about the state of things in the VC and wanting to hear more people talk about the music, I take it as a sign that I need to get back to making videos. Until then, I hope you keep making videos and feeling inspired enough by the music to keep sharing!

[@bazedjunkiii_tv]

working a dayjob at a vinyl distributors warehouse over here in germany i've seen many of these floating around recently again. one white to translucent milky repress came from the same source probably two years ago or so, now they've gone for clear but have supposedly bootleg repressed that album in smaller batches over the course of probably ten years or so now. evidence sourced and conclusions drawn from behind the scenes information and databases.

[@Localbandography]

Hit up Groove Merchant if you can while there.