Mingering Mike - an IMAGINARY record collection?!

[hcrink]

james said:hcrink said:





Yeah, I don't know exactly, but I'm sure there were no barcodes before late 70's





This is starting to remind me of the golden ticket part in the beginning of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory




The first commercial UPC code ever scanned was on a pack of gum in 1974. I saw something about it on Food Network this past weekend. Word to Wrigley.




Damn! I didn't know they went back that far. Mingering Mike was clearly one cutting edge mofo!

 

[KARLITO]

jinx74 said:ummm maybe im reading the post wrong but what do those 45s sound like?





buy any paper stuff too like pictures, letters, anything that deals with this stuff. envelopes, or anything that is associated with this. as cool as this is i love paper stuff and that is sometimes cooler than the actual music itself.





tip: never leave anything. take it all. tapes, reels, photos, 1 sheets, stationary, music, everything.




When you say "tapes" do you mean cassette tapes. 'Cause if I bought all the unlabeled cassette tapes I see out in the field I'd have no room or money left. Acetates and reels, sure. But cassette tapes? Any way, the frontier of digging is in the discount VHS & DVD bins at drug stores, Big Lots etc. Just like w/ records in the past, all the good shit ends up in the "cutout" bin

 

[jinx74]

okay im jealous. its just envy i think. but seriously ive stopped working and bored all my coworkers about this shit.


someone has to take pictures of all these things (including the tapes and 45s) and put them online. were there more pieces that other people bought besides secret chimp and fatback? if so track those people down to! need money....HOLLER.








with all these people hitting the site can soulstrut handle all the traffic?








once again this is one of the illest cops in a long time. what would be equally as hot, yet incredibly annoying, is if raj and dcas made this shit up just to get traffic on the site. hahaha...good job guys!

 

[kingmost]

I thought it about being a hoax....naw dude. There's a little big of Mingering Mike in all of us....What would be hilarious if dude finds a bunch of his later stuff and it's wack disco shit or some "throwback" drawing, then in classic Soulstrut fashion everyone debates how he already said it best 10 years ago.





Call "Raw Vision" EVENTUALLY! Have Mingering Mike get the fame all these young white people have been taking away from him.





BTW: IT IS CALLED "DIGGING" NO MORE. It's called "MINGERING".

 

[deepstank]

jinx74 said:


once again this is one of the illest cops in a long time. what would be equally as hot, yet incredibly annoying, is if raj and dcas made this shit up just to get traffic on the site. hahaha...good job guys!




nah, Raj & Sketch woulda left off the barcodes, and said they found 'em in Iowa or something.





I left my work duties behind, but I haven't bored anyone else at work today. Too much backstory, plus my boss'd be like, "you have a lot of posts for a guy who doesn't have internet @ home..."

 

[kingmost]

Not sure if everyone thinks this, but it looks like Mingering Mike was trying to really get a career going. The photo looks like a publicity shot. Maybe he was a regular on the local scene......Anyone fear his recordings are wack?

 

[DocBeezy]

kingmost said:Not sure if everyone thinks this, but it looks like Mingering Mike was trying to really get a career going. The photo looks like a publicity shot. Maybe he was a regular on the local scene......Anyone fear his recordings are wack?




Yes I am very afraid of that!

 

[deepstank]

if mingering is related to slaughering, has it crossed anybody's mind that "Mingering Mike" might be someone with homocidal tendencies?

 

[pj4533]

kingmost said:Not sure if everyone thinks this, but it looks like Mingering Mike was trying to really get a career going. The photo looks like a publicity shot. Maybe he was a regular on the local scene......Anyone fear his recordings are wack?




FEAR? Shit, I _HOPE_ the recordings are wack! I hope for a dude hittin' a bucket singin gong-show style into a tape recorder.





-pj

 

[Fatback]

Chimps filling his trunk with all things Mingering right now. Last reports included additional finds such as some 8 tracks hand painted with "Mike's Mix", some "personal items" and some 8mm film reels. Turns out this storage space had everything MM ever owned. Chimp even bought Mingering Mike's 25 year old garlic powder.





If MM's around--God, I hope--me and Chimp are gonna find him and run him against Bush and Dean on The Dragon Brother Ticket.





Mingering Mike, 2004!





(Of course, Big Dynamic "D" will be VP.)

 

[indiana45s]

I just ran through all my underwear.


I'm just sitting in these soiled kickers waiting for more Mingering Mike!





GOTTA HAVE MORE.


RAJ OPEN A SECTION OF SOULSTRUT TO HOST IMAGES OF THIS STUFF!

 

[Raystar]

Understatement of the year... please don't be mad at me Chimp for doing a little snooping... wait till yall see the ones Chimp is not showing yet... Mingering illness... Sickle Cell gold vinyl pressing... The USA Puppet Force like whoa!... The Two Sides Of Mingering Mike... wait yall, watch...

 

[indiana45s]

USA Puppet Force


I just peeped that one on the mingermikerareishlink!





Oh my goodness.





Art score of the year.


Period

 

[pj4533]

Ain't No Sunshine cover on the Sickle Cell LP!





Like WHOA!

 

[JRoot]

And with the mingering mike love getting blogged all over the world, we've just made our sequel: Nerds in Paradise.

 

[Fatback]

pj4533 said:kingmost said:Not sure if everyone thinks this, but it looks like Mingering Mike was trying to really get a career going. The photo looks like a publicity shot. Maybe he was a regular on the local scene......Anyone fear his recordings are wack?




FEAR? Shit, I _HOPE_ the recordings are wack! I hope for a dude hittin' a bucket singin gong-show style into a tape recorder.





-pj




This is all straight serious, my man. We have no idea what's on these tapes. Like all ya'll, we hope for something good.





It's all just starting to sink in. I mean, I was going through the dude's 45s earlier today and I come across several copies of "Funky Nassau" right next to several copies of "Careless Whisper" then like, 50 Sussex titles and then 50 Bete Midler titles. It's all over the place! Then there's the tapes, the videos, the reel to reels, the 8mm films, the towels...FUCK!





I need a drink.

 

[Cosmo]

damn, see how many views? see how many people on RIGHT NOW?








damn... "everytime i try to get out, they pull me back in".








IT IS OFFICIAL








Mingering Mike has brought AlienIVERSON back from the dead.








good to be back, gang. i don't know how long it will last, but you know i have to be here to witness this shit. best drama since sonny VS alcazar on general hospital.








challah!

 

[coldsweat]

I just gotta get up on this and echo once again


OH MAH GAAAAAHHHDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





Wait til you dudes start going through that storage stash...

 

[landon]

Mingering Mike...the real patron saint of crate digging!





This story has inspired me to put an end to my petty feud with Jawnny Cash. What do you say Jawn? Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?

 

[MeasureUp]

In reply to an earlier post:


I think "mingering" means mixing, judging by the way it was used in the meatpacking article and on dictionary.com "minge" means to mix.


Maybe Mike was a DJ.