Ep034: Jay Millar's Adventures w Unique Pressings & United Record Pressing in Nashville
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Jay Millar, record dude for Sundazed Music & Modern Harmonic, shares his stories, opinions and experiences working in United Record Pressing plant, the largest vinyl pressing plant in the United States. He also shares his stories of special projects including putting together the blood-filled records from "The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends", a charity project led by Wayne Coyne.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, hello again, everybody. |
| 0:05.0 | I am here to announce the arrival of and the sale of these just-in blood, |
| 0:15.0 | human blood versions of Hetty Fuenz. |
| 0:19.0 | It's two, two records. We love you, Flaming Nups fans. We love you. We love you. |
| 0:25.0 | We love you. We love you. Well, hello everyone. Welcome to yet another episode of the |
| 0:30.0 | Vinyl Guide. On this week's episode, we are going to have the second half of my interview with |
| 0:35.2 | Jay Malar. Now, right now, Jay is the record dude over at Sunday's |
| 0:39.1 | music and modern harmonic record labels. But at one point in his checkered past, he worked over |
| 0:44.1 | at the United Record Pressing plant in Nashville. Now today he's going to give us a little bit of |
| 0:49.0 | insider information on record pressing. His information and stories may shock you. Get ready to set aside all your |
| 0:56.6 | assumptions on what makes a good sounding record. And he's also going to talk about some of the |
| 1:01.1 | custom jobs he did for record nerd celebrities like Wayne Coyne and Jack White. If you're a record |
| 1:06.9 | collector, you are not going to want to miss this discussion. And this week's episode is |
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| 1:35.3 | As the Record Turns is a killer record shop in the heart of Hollywood and they deal with all original |
| 1:41.0 | pressings, no reissues. And if you're investing in records, |
| 1:44.5 | you might as well get the original pressings |
| 1:46.3 | because those are the ones that become the collector's items. |
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