Ep420: Daniel Hall of Riding Easy Records
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Hall of Riding Easy Records celebrates episode 420 with some amazing stories of rare records, starting the "Brown Acid" series, seeking and reissuing private press collectibles and a lot more.
- Happy Episode 420
- How did Riding Easy make it through the pandemic?
- Depleted stock, 2year+ vinyl wait times
- Getting his start at "American Recordings"
- Labels dumping vinyl in the 90s
- Grabbing vinyl records in the 90s
- Daniel's rare record collection
- Value of rare records going up through Brown Acid exposure
- Origin Story of the Brown Acid series
- 70s reissues by Riding Easy
- Fraction – Moon Blood Reissue
- Transferring audio via Needle-drop
- Sneak-peek of private press Southern Rock releases
- The Max Creek Band, Mammoth, Southern Steel
- Putting out records from bands that aren't active
- Stonewall, Master Danse, Maximillion
- Dillon at Noble Records
- Release schedules for 2024 and beyond
- Vinyl pressing wait times are way down
- What is Riding Easy's biggest selling record to date?
- Monolord releases / Managing the band
- Riding Easy Records started as "Easy Rider Records"
- What is the most collectible Riding Easy Records release?
- How will Riding Easy evolve over coming years?
- Have we hit peak vinyl revival?
- Current music/releases – Mondo Drag, Psychic Trash
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's episode 420. |
| 0:02.6 | And we have a special treat for listeners of the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | For the next week or so, Writing Easy Records is offering 15% off all stuff at RidingEasyRex.com. |
| 0:14.5 | Vinyl, t-shirts, accessories, record weights, the whole shebang. |
| 0:18.1 | 15% off everything that's not already discounted. |
| 0:20.5 | So now's your chance to save big on the latest Brown Acid Comp number 16. |
| 0:24.7 | Records by Mono Lord, Death Chant, Mondo Drag, the Death Wheelers, and lots more. |
| 0:30.0 | 15% off when you enter discount code Vinyl Guide at checkout. |
| 0:34.8 | That's just a special way of saying thank you to the listeners of the vinyl guide. |
| 0:38.7 | 15% off at riding easy rex.com when you enter Vinyl Guide, just for episode 420 of the Vinyl Guide podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:57.6 | Hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:59.6 | Welcome to episode 420 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 1:05.5 | And today, episode 420, we have Daniel Hall of Writing Easy Records, the quintessential stoner rock label. |
| 1:14.2 | Now, I must admit, I'm not very good with the Ganja. I'm a super lightweight and a very |
| 1:18.6 | cheap date, but Daniel and the Writing Easy crew live by the code, Southern California to the bone. |
| 1:25.4 | And man, what great music writing easy records provides. |
| 1:30.7 | Today we talked to Daniel all about the label, his history, starting his career at Rick Rubin's |
| 1:36.4 | American Records label, grabbing vinyl from the product's storerooms in the 90s, his rare |
| 1:42.1 | records, the origin story of the Brown Acid series, reissues, |
| 1:46.8 | super rarities like Fraction, Moonblood, what's next for Writing Easy Records, and a lot more. |
| 1:54.4 | Plus, Daniel has been good enough to give the Vinyl Guide listeners a special 15% discount on a bunch of stuff at writingeasyrex.com. |
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