Hurrah! I know now what I can do with my old LPs... Turn them into menus ;-) I found this original "thing" next to my home, rue Cadet, in a sort of "Diner" (well, a restaurant that remotely looks like a Diner!) called Jour après Jour (Day after Day). I have two boxes of old LP's that I thought I would put on ebay, but now I'm wondering: would the owner of Jour après Jour buy them for more?!
Are you kidding? Don't you play them? LPs sound better than anything else! Spin them!
ReplyDeletewalked past there a couple of weeks ago! That was the first time I noticed the LPs
ReplyDeleteTry this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTpxJC4AAJ0
ooh, well i got a girl with a record machine
when it comes to rockin' she's the queen
we love to dance on a saturday night
all alone where i can hold her tight
but she lives on the twentieth floor uptown
the elevator's broken down
so i walked one, two flight, three flight, four
five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
up on the twelfth i started to drag
fifteenth floor i'm a-ready to sag
get to the top, i'm too tired to rock
when she calls me up on the telephone
say, come on over honey, i'm all alone
i said, baby you're mighty sweet
but i'm in bed with the achin' feet
this went on for a couple of days
but i couldn't stay away
so i walked one, two flight, three flight, four
five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
up on the twelfth i started to drag
fifteenth floor i'm a-ready to sag
get to the top, i'm too tired to rock
well they sent to chicago for repairs
till it's a-fixed i'm a-usin' the stairs
hope they hurry up before it's too late
want my baby too much to wait
all this climbin' is a-gettin' me down
they'll find my corpse draped over a rail
but i climbed one, two flight, three flight four
five, six, seven flight, eight flight, more
up on the twelfth i started to drag
fifteenth floor i'm a-ready to sag
get to the top, i'm too tired to rock
Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran
What a sunny happy photo! The blue and white tablecloth and red ketchup bottle really give it an "American Diner" feel. Great use for the records; who still has a record player? I can't decide between the Cow Boy Burger or the Cesar Salade Poulet.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's pretty clever! I wonder how much money they spend on blank vinyl, especially if they change le menu jour après jour.
ReplyDeleteQuelle collection, Eric! :)
ReplyDeleteCool look, but I'll stick with my Ipod. Lol.
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Makes a great shot, too! I keep my LP's for sentimental reasons. I once bought a turn-table as a b'day present. It wasn't a very fancy one, but it did work and produced decent sound, while hooked up to a stereo system (rember these things?)
ReplyDeleteYou know MP3 is a compressed format. We believe we hear fantastic sound, but we don't hear all the sound we're supposed to hear. I'm not bashing the iPod, by the way, far from it, since I never leave home without it :)
I love the bright blue and white table clothes. A clever use of the records, except they look like real albums. I would hate for any of my 500 lps (or 300 45s) to end up like that, although I would now be willing to give them to a good home. Your record collection is interesting, Eric, very electic.
ReplyDeleteJeff - 20 Flight Rock was a favorite of the Beatles back in their beginning days.
Boy, my typing is bad today. I meant "cloths" and "eclectic."
ReplyDeleteYou sure now how to spin PDP don't you Eric! Very clever post and idea!
ReplyDeleteChalk one up to Gallic cleverness!
ReplyDeleteI was going to ask, "How is the food", but when I blew up the photo, it is....AMERICAN...eeuuuwww. OK, it is never truly American food in Paris. It is arranged differently on a plate, the portions are all wrong for the USA and wine is not the beverage du jour. Picking up the poulet wings with your fingers would ,create stares?
ReplyDeleteI have a vast vinyl collection and have been offered thousands of dollars for it but I refuse to part with even one of them!! I always took care of my "records"[as we say in America]and they still sound great!
ReplyDeleteI love the squeeze bottles of ketchup on the table, but...What??? NO Heinz??? LOL!!!
That's a clever idea -- good use for LPs that skip.
ReplyDeleteI've been offered interesting prices for my LP collection, but I'm not interested in selling. I LOVE to play them,listen to the music and remember the times.
ReplyDeleteI've been offered interesting prices for my LP collection, but I'm not interested in selling. I LOVE to play them,listen to the music and remember the times.
ReplyDeleteThis table looks a lot like an American picnic. Checked table cloth, salt and pepper, paper napkin. But a placemat? Too formal.
ReplyDeleteBut I love the menu! Chicken Ceasar salad! MMM.
But for the Pennsylvania raised girl, the ketchup must be Heinz! lol
(I've started a CDP for my small town. Please check it out.)
You gotta love a record collection that ranges from Jacques Brel to Patti Smith.
ReplyDeleteI recorded all my old LPs to my computer's hard disk and now play them with Windows Media Player (and left the heavy boxes of LPs in the States). I recorded them the hard way, but now you can buy turntables that record directly to CD or other media in MP3 and other formats. They're not cheap unfortunately.
In any case, Eric, you have a good collection that one day you'll miss if you let it go! Some day the price of recording devices will go down.
(Having said that, talk to me before you get rid of your ELO collection!)
I've been thinking about investing in one of those machines that play vinyl and also copy them onto CDs. But I'm not sure I can get rid of my records (including original London recordings of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix). What to do? Meanwhile, I'll go for the Cowboy Burger.
ReplyDeleteEric, "Paris by Night" of Patrick Juvet is still "sous cellophane" !? Do you mean you never played it?
ReplyDeleteI thought you were listening to it every evening, while loading your daily photo :-))
Joke apart, we have quite a lot of LP's in common...
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteOld LPs ? What are they ? We could make an exchange : my old Têtus for your old LPs !
ReplyDeleteGroovy idea, though a bit warped. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see Earth, Wind & Fire, ELO and the inimitable Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass in your collection, Eric. {Surely you'd have to keep the Whipped Cream & Other Delights cover, at least?}
Alexa, I'm a devout de-clutterer from way back but even I would suggest hanging onto your collection!
I sold all mine a long time ago - under pressure from my ex husband - I didn't get enough money for them and some I regret going. If I were you, Eric, I'd sift through them for valuable ones, then the others I'd offer to this chap.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I have to say I thought the same as Katie. Very American diner style. What possessed them to keep a BOTTLE of KETCHUP on the table? Eek. Ok. Call me a snob. ;)
I still have all my old LPs AND I listen to them too when I'm being nostalgic lol...
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was; oh I have to go to this place. But If it's American food - NO way. Nothing's wrong with the Amarican way, but NOT when I'm in Paris, then I want French food.
There's a Danish restaurant "La Petite Sirene" 47 rue de Notre-Dame de Lorette and it should be really good, but I just can't make myself go there to eat Danish food in Paris ;-)
Well I guess that's a way to save your business some money.
ReplyDeleteKeep your records, Eric!!! Records are waaaay cooler than any other form of music storage!
I keep thinking my old 33's will be worth something someday. Unfortunately, not today.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to come across the strangest things in Paris. Very cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm not up to date with the posts so don't know whether this program shown on PBS has been discussed. It has sterling b+w photos and films. Just ordered the book from Amazon.
ReplyDeleteHarlem in Montmartre tells the story of the jazz age in Paris between the First and Second World Wars, exploring a fascinating yet often neglected era in African-American cultural history. After peace was signed at Versailles, many black Americans remained in Europe rather than return to the brutal segregation and racism of America; over the next two decades, they created an expatriate community of musicians, entertainers and entrepreneurs, primarily congregating in Paris’ hilly Montmartre neighborhood. Some achieved enduring fame, while others faded into history. Inspired by William A. Shack’s book and using rare archival material from both France and America, this remarkable documentary features footage of such key figures as James Reese Europe, Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet, Bricktop, Eugene Bullard, Django Reinhardt and many more.
I took a History of Rock music class 4 years ago and the Professor passed around a a record so the class, that consisted mostly of teens and early ternties, could see what one reallylooked and felt like. I officially became a dinosaur that day.
ReplyDeleteHe might buy your old LP's Eric, but judging by his low 10.50eu prix fix menu, it may not gain you too many euro's!
ReplyDeleteSean
Funny, PHX!
ReplyDeleteVinyl LP records ?
ReplyDeleteI have family and friends {True Belivers} that swear by the LP {version} sound and no other when it comes to playing music.
Well Eric... you could turn your old LP's into {Cool} coasters. Lol
But I'll stick with my Ipod.
I love the photo but a diner in Paris? I prefer the image of a cafe on a rainy night when I think of romantic Paree! Oh and of course... an intelligent, artistic, sexy and romantic frenchmen at my side. Or is that french man? Actually he does not have to be french... just the rest. LOL
Men {irregular plural: men}. They both sound nice. Lol
A girl can dream. If your going to dream, I say dream BIG! Lol
Where is this place?
ReplyDelete