January 10, 2006
Five Questions With: Limbeck
Patrick Limbeck's responses
1. WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORD YOU BOUGHT?
Embarrassingly enough, I think it was a cassette copy of Vanilla Ice’s debut record.
You could say that I was going through a confused phase of jr. high, or you can admit that you owned a copy of Vanilla Ice’s album at the time it came out, too.
2. WHAT IS THE MOST RECENT (GREAT) RECORD YOU’VE HEARD?
I’m a sucker for pretty much everything Ryan Adams does… so his new record with the Cardinals called “Jacksonville City Nights” hit the spot. It’s definitely a trip back closer to his more country-ish days with Whiskeytown, but it’s got a great live and loose feel. Kinda like Neil Young’s “Harvest”. And there a some huge harmonies on there that’ll kick your ass.
3. WHO OR WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START MAKING MUSIC?
I can easily say that Lookout Records of the 90’s got me stuck on making music. They had this really solid identity going with a group of bands and employees that seemed like they were all good friends, hangin’ out, making music, and getting it out there. It was a very exciting thing. The music was definitely a big part of it cuz it was very basic, Ramones-y, melodic punk music that was ridiculously catchy…. But receiving those cool colorful fold-out posters and reading about what all those bands were up to was addictive.
I wanted to be apart of it.
4. DO YOU HAVE AN INDIE RECORD SHOP STORY/MEMORY?
There was a point when I was counting the days til the new Get Up Kids “Red Letter Day” EP was gonna be released. On the day it came out, I got outta school, picked up my girlfriend, and we drove about half an hour down to Vinyl Solution in Huntington Beach to get it. We listened to it probably about 3 times straight through in a row on the way back home.
5. IF YOU WEREN’T A MUSICIAN, WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT RUNNER UP?
That’s always a difficult question. It’d be hard to do anything not involved with music.. so I think I’d dig being a publicist. I feel like if I could be involved with something that I loved like my own (which is easy when you think about it… remember how possessive you are of really good records that you “discovered”, right?), I could promote it like no other. I like spreading the word about good music.
Robb MacLean’s responses
1. WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORD YOU BOUGHT?
I can’t remember the first record I actually paid for, but the first one I ever received was the first New Kids On The Block record on cassette. I was pretty excited to have a tape of my own, but the music didn’t speak to me, and at that point I guess I thought I just didn’t really care for music. It may have been one of the biggest setbacks for my life in music because after that I didn’t really get into music until high school. Of course I got into a couple bands here and there, but I never really devoured music until high school.
2. WHAT IS THE MOST RECENT (GREAT) RECORD YOU’VE HEARD?
I really like Rocky Votolato’s new one called “Makers” that comes out in January. I think it’s a really huge step since his last record, which was great too.
3. WHO OR WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START MAKING MUSIC?
It was my friend who played guitar.
4. DO YOU HAVE AN INDIE RECORD SHOP STORY/MEMORY?
Yep. For $20 I bought a box of 200 clearance cds from a store called “Noise Noise Noise” in Costa Mesa, CA. It was really big and heavy. I didn’t get any good cds, but about 20 hilarious ones that I listened to a lot until they weren’t funny anymore. I also got 3 copies of a cd by an annoying local band that I didn’t like. It made me happy to see that they didn’t sell their cds and that they were the only ones that had made it 3 times into my clearance box.
5. IF YOU WEREN’T A MUSICIAN, WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT RUNNER UP?
There’s a lot of things that I like to do but I don’t know that I would want to make a career out of any of them. I would be afraid that by depending on those things for a living would make me start to dislike them. Like when you want to kiss your friend but you’re afraid that things will get weird. But I usually just say photography.