Not much to say here other than an all time album. Will live the rest of my life on my shelf that’s for sure. First pressing as well. Sounds amazing, great vibe as I continue my super late night listening binge.
This Sunday May 3rd marks my third year back @theshacksva and my 6th year and some change overall. I’m going to run a 5 course pasta tasting Sunday night similar to what I did last year to celebrate what I feel has been my largest impact creatively and in terms of any in house programs we’ve had over it’s 12 years.
What’s that look like? It will consist of our standard pasta trio offered from our weekly menu and will than feature two off menu pastas that will only be available through the 5 course. Those pastas are TBD and may not know until Sunday morning.
Wine pairings will be available with this as well.
This will only be available on Sunday May 3rd. 5-9pm.
Our regular menu will be available as well. Reservations and walk ins welcome.
Thanks
📸: @serapetras
Go back to 2013 and I’m living in my first apartment, I just became a cook at a restaurant I respected and was proud to be apart of. I just found direction and decided that I was going to work and work to be a great cook. Living in Central PA where my only friends were my peers in the kitchen I’d come home and pirate every movie possible and dive deep into live Phish recordings.
Go back a few years earlier I was playing music anywhere between 8-13 hours a day with no job. I learned to improvise just wanting to play in the moment and no boundaries. Nights after getting home from the kitchen I would download and search new musicians to find that through others since I no longer played. One night I’m on YouTube and I stumble across Bill Evan’s videos live at the BBC in 1965. This shit hit, I watched Chuck Israels play that bass and wished I was him. I just imagined myself in another life where I was a jazz bassist just doing it. In kindergarten I wanted to play trumpet, never happened.
To have those recordings added to my record collection means a ton, laid on the floor listening to this first disk tonight staying up way later than I expected but within re-listening to these recordings I was able to look back and remember what it was to find direction in terms of a career and life, being on my own for the first time and the insane amount of fulfillment and dreams of music as a musician now channeling all that energy and creativity to becoming a very young cook at 24 years old. Circling back at 37 and tapping into that night has a story and deeper meaning now.
This is an amazing grab for me and will live with this record forever.
To finally have this record land a home on my personal shelf means so much. It was a goal to acquire this and today we achieved that, hands down one of the most fulfilling listens of my life and so fulfilling that it sounds so well on my stereo, soft bass drum, warm bass and a piercing trumpet. Feeling every note.
Food to the side for a minute to appreciate and be proud of the listening room I’ve built over the years. I have a memory of looking through a crate of my mother’s records when I was a young t child and can remember wanting that for myself. Years later developed my own connection to music from playing, live recordings, rare takes, buying my first complete Allman Brothers collection in South Carolina, finding Donny Hathaways “Live” for $1 in Reading. Slowly building and upgrading has been fun, repairing my own speakers this past winter, rare finds, random grabs. Beauty sleeps in the corner while we listen, it’s a good space to have at my convenience, a good distraction and a good place to think about it all.
