Ep401: The Residents pREServed with Homer Flynn

The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

Nate Goyer

Music, Music History, Music Interviews

4.7 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Homer Flynn, President of The Cryptic Corporation, discusses the rare records of The Residents, the archive of Ralph Records, limited vinyl pressings, boxsets, the latest pREServed editions and much more!

Topics include:

Interview intro
Comparing pREServed editions to original boxset ideas
Third Reich and Roll boxset
What's in the Ralph Records archive
Spare boxes of Residents releases
Anything missing from the recorded works?
"Santa Dog" original recordings and tapes
The story of the WB Album –status of original package
Early tapes that were stolen from the Cryptic Corporation
Hardy Fox's 'concentrates'
The concept and story of Santa Dog
The challenge of the Santa Dog package
Mailing records and Nixon refused
100 records lost and recovered
Handmade boxes for remaining "Santa Dog"s
Recognizing the collectability of Residents records
How the Residents benefitted from Punk and New Wave
Creating The Beatles parody for "Meet The Residents"
Dick Clark's response to "Third Reich and Roll"
Different pressings of "Third Reich and Roll"
The power of limiting production units
"Eskimo" vinyl with white fur on label
Will we see anything else from Vileness Fats?
Digitizing and right securing for older recordings
The Residents UBS – Ultimate Box Set & Mystery Box
Artists dropping by Grove Street, contributing to recordings
Touring challenges
New music is on its way – working title revealed
Interview wrap up

Order The Residents pREServed editions of Eskimo, Commercial Album and more here.

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0:00.0	This is Homer Flynn, president of the Crypto Corporation, talking about the residents.
0:05.7	Own the Vinyl Guide.
0:06.8	This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection.
0:12.4	Ask for the Groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com.
0:16.5	Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10.
0:19.2	And now, on with the show oh well hey everyone it's
0:24.8	Nate welcome to episode 4.01 of the vinyl guide the podcast for record collectors and
0:30.3	music nerds and today people today we've got an incredible guest discussing the rare
0:35.8	records of their career mr. Homer Flynn of the Cryptic Corporation,
0:40.4	the organization that manages the work of the residents and Ralph Records. Now, there are
0:46.0	extremely few people in this world as close as Homer Flynn is to the work of the residents. So we
0:53.4	jumped at this opportunity to discuss the
0:55.7	rare records, the recordings, the box sets, Santa Dog, the Beatles, vileness fats, and more with
1:03.6	Mr. Flynn today. Now, I should let you know the residents and Crypto Corporation have been on a
1:10.0	mission over the last few years to preserve the works of the residents in what may be their ultimate form, the preserved editions.
1:19.0	These are available at Cherry Red Records, Cherryred.co.uk.
1:23.9	These are deep dive box sets for albums like Meet the Residents, Third Reich and Roll,
1:30.4	fingerprints, duck stab, and not available. And those are all available from Cherry Red Records
1:35.4	or from ordering from your local record shop. However, on July 7th, two more preserved releases
1:42.7	will be available.
1:50.1	A 2 LP set for Eskimo and a 2LP set for the Residence commercial album.
1:55.9	These are some of the preeminent works of the band The Residents, and they're available July 7th.
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