Vinyl Experience

The recent re-issue of the Cry Wilf! album by Howlin' Wilf & the Vee-Jays pulled the old Vinyl Experience shop on Buck Street out of my memory banks (The cover shot of the band was taken in front of the side-wall of the shop). Always a good stop for rare wax back in the day. The building had previously housed Sea Of Tunes owned by Rock On co-founder Barry Appleby, and the mural even got a mention in Hi-Fidelity. Round the back and down the stairs was the Psychotronic video shop ran by former Sting-Rays singer Bal Croce, where you could get (then) hard to find copies of Rat Fink A Boo Boo or The Incredible Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies . And yep, that's a younger me tryin' to look cool at the exact same spot in the shot below...