Ep448: Preserving Punk with Trust Records
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Joe Nelson is co-founder of Trust Records, which specializes in preserving and extending classic punk and hardcore records for future generations including Circle Jerks, 7 Seconds, DFL, SSD and more.
Topic Include:
- Interview kick off
- Origin & Mission of Trust Records
- Creating a legacy, giving back to community
- Adding materials to allow new listeners to understand the history
- Engaging Circle Jerks securing "Group Sex" and "Wild In The Streets"
- Building the trust for a new model of managing punk legacy
- Keith Morris is punk rock Yoda
- Gathering materials, tapes, pictures, artwork for reissues
- Brokering deals for various stakeholders
- Initial pressings often aren't the best the music can sound
- Using stems for remixing, listener participation
- Difficult projects to pull together
- Upcoming releases: SSD "Get It Away", Stalag 13 "In Control", SNFU "... And No One Else Wanted To Play", Royal Crown Review
- Hepcat – Greg Lee's special request, Aggression, 7 Seconds "New Wind" and extras
- The story of Descendents / Circle Jerks split – 1st non-reissue
- Trust Records sell out quick – any upcoming repressings?
- SSD "The Kids Will Have Their Say" reissue is true to the original – cover variations
- Pressing records during the pandemic
- Is Trust mainly vinyl? Any CDs or Cassettes, etc?
- 7" singles within some of the Trust releases – 7 Seconds, Agression
- Youth Brigade – Sound and Fury Deluxe Edition – original album
- Negotiating with multiple band members
- What does he think will happen with SST Records?
- The recent sale of Dead Kennedys catalogue
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:25.1 | And now, on with the show. Welcome to the vinyl guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. Here's your host, the biggest record |
| 0:30.6 | nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Ah, well, hey everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 4-48 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for and by and two collectors of vinyl records and you music nerds. |
| 0:45.4 | And I got to tell you, rough week, Mr. Steve Albini passed. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm sure you all know that. |
| 0:51.7 | We threw up a replay of our interview with Steve, and it was good to hear that |
| 0:56.5 | again. We also, unfortunately, recently uploaded a Wayne Kramer interview. Same situation. A friend of |
| 1:03.6 | the show passed too early. I'm very proud of those. I got a lot out of those conversations, |
| 1:08.7 | so hope you do as well. But despite what's happened with Steve and everyone, we got a lot out of those conversations, so hope you do as well. But despite what's happened |
| 1:12.7 | with Steve and everyone, we got a great episode today. We really do. Joe Nelson, who's a familiar |
| 1:18.5 | face in the music community, is co-founder of Trust Records. Trust Records is a reissue label |
| 1:24.9 | for many classic punk albums, including Circle Jerks, Group Sex, |
| 1:30.0 | and Wild in the Streets, Seven Seconds the Crew, DFL's My Crazy Life, and recently SSD, |
| 1:36.6 | the kids will have their say. However, Trust isn't like other reissue labels. They develop a |
| 1:42.9 | partnership with the bands to preserve the music, |
| 1:45.2 | and they represent each release with extended booklets, containing pictures, essays, and highlighting |
| 1:51.8 | the importance of these releases with perspective of their times. They really look to bring an air |
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