Ep152: The Fall & Rise of Vinyl with Billy Fields
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Vinyl records are currently a desirable audio format however this is after a serious decline in popularity and near death experience from the mid 80s to early 2000s. WEA VP Billy Fields discusses what this time period was like for the vinyl record manufacturing industry.
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.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Testing 1-2, testing 1-2. Yes, I can tell this thing is on. Hi, everyone, it's Nate, host of the Vinyl Guide podcast. Welcome to 2019. Hope you all had a great holiday, a great break. Whatever you did, hope you enjoyed your time with family and friends and spun plenty of records. You know, we had a couple of weeks off. |
| 0:21.8 | You could tell them very mellow right now. |
| 0:24.3 | But during the holiday break, it was a great time to reflect on the year 2018. |
| 0:28.5 | We had a big year, a lot of fantastic guests over the last 12 months, |
| 0:32.9 | talking records and vinyl record history. |
| 0:35.4 | People who came on the show included folks like Joe Satriani, |
| 0:40.2 | Klaus Vorman, Moon Unit Zappa, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Miles Kennedy, Wolfgang Fleur of |
| 0:47.3 | craftwork, heaps, heaps more. And just so you know, all those episodes and conversations |
| 0:52.1 | and interviews can be enjoyed at any time through |
| 0:55.5 | the Vinyl Guide mobile apps available at Apple or Android or just by going to thevinylguide.com. |
| 1:02.3 | And over the holiday break, we had our first patron-only episode of the Vinyl Guide, |
| 1:08.2 | featuring a conversation with Six-Tow Sugarman Rodriguez. Yes, the guy at |
| 1:13.5 | the center of the movie, the documentary, Searching for Sugarman, a fantastic movie. I'm sure most |
| 1:18.8 | of you have seen it or at least heard of it. Check out searching for Sugarman if you haven't. |
| 1:23.1 | And the guy at the center of the movie, Six-Tow Sugarman Rodriguez, came on our show, Final Guide episode number 151. |
| 1:30.2 | However, this episode is only available to patrons of our podcast, which, of course, you can go sign up at patria.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:39.3 | So go to patreon.com slash vinyl guide, help support our show, and you'll have access to this conversation |
| 1:45.4 | with Rodriguez and heaps, heaps, heaps more. That's patreon.com slash vinyl guide. So I'll keep today's |
| 1:51.9 | upfronts brief. Today's episode number 152 is a great way to kick off 2019. With the vinyl now |
| 1:59.5 | clearly gaining momentum and attracting new fans every day, I had a |
| 2:03.7 | conversation about the nadir of vinyl with Billy Fields, the vinyl guide from the Warner |
| 2:08.8 | Music Group. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nate Goyer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nate Goyer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.