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Hood River News, Saturday, April 25, 2015
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
Hidden truths at 33-and1/3: listening to one LP record a day
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
LP: I think it’s my favorite
acronym.
For you digital-agers, it
stands for Long Playing, as in
album, vinyl, record. More on
that later.
Last Saturday was “record
store day” around the coun-
try. As much as I wanted to, I
didn’t make it to one. The last
ones I visited were a few
months back in Eugene:
House of Records, and Skip’s,
where I found a Long John
Baldry (“Play That Boogie
Woogie Man”) album I had
long sought.
Four bucks and it goes a lot
farther than a pint of craft
ale.
The closest we come in
Hood River is Good Karma
and Adult Center Thrift
Store. I have found some
gems at both places, though I
am in not so much a record-
buying as record-playing
mode these days.
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In a town I lived in in the
early 1980s, you could actual-
ly buy vinyl in Safeway. I got
hooked on record stores in
college by going into Music
Millennium and Crystalship
in Portland.
In the 1990s at Quimper
Sound in Port Townsend,
Wash. I spent a lot of time pe-
rusing the used stacks,
thumbing through the jackets
finding that rarity or title to
complete my collection of a
favorite band. Circa 1990, CDs
took over. Remember the ob-
long packaging designed to
hold up the six-inch CD in the
12-inch-deep LP racks? I re-
member when Quimper, like
all record stores, retooled
with bins just a few inches
deep to accommodate the CD
jewelcases.
But who even buys CDs
anymore, and here I am talk-
ing about vinyl?
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In 2015 I am on a daily regi-
men I call “LP365”: listening
to one LP a day from my col-
lection, starting with the
dozens of records I haven’t
listened to in years. Nearly
four months into it, I have
barely tapped that part of the
list. My wife, Lorre, and I
own on the order of 500 disks,
including some multiple-disk
sets of Dixieland, Big Band,
and Classical we picked up
from our parents. Between
the two of us, upon marrying
28 years ago, we melded hun-
dreds of records.
By “record” I do mean LP.
Call them discs or albums,
fine, but the best term for
vinyl is LP. (An LP is an
album and a CD is an album,
as in a gathering of songs,
photos, drawings, whatever.)
LP365 does not include CDs.
Funny, CDs are encroaching
obsolescence, but of course
not to the extent that LPs al-
ready have. Except that for
now, at least, “vinyl is cool”
and many indie, alt-whatever,
and heavy metal acts have
gone back to vinyl, but I re-
gard that as either marketing
or making a statement, or a
little of both, and musicians
should just let their music do
the talking.
No, my LP365 is an exer-
cise in re-exploring my musi-
cal roots. It gives light to
records long-unlistened by
me, yet the disks are cargo I
have schlepped from Dallas to
Port Townsend to Vancouver
to Hood River over the course
of my adult life.
The house we moved into
14 years ago has a built-in LP
cabinet and, kismet, our col-
lection exactly filled the
spaces.
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So it is one LP a day. I also
won’t bore you with the list,
other than to say I started
with the quintessential LP,
“Sgt. Pepper,” and do look for
coinciding events or other
ways a specific album res-
onates on a certain day.
However, when I went to
play “Revolver” on April 15 –
“Cos he’s the Taxman …” I re-
alized that’s one we have on
CD.
Full disclosure: CDs, al-
bums and even some cas-
settes are the full extent of
my musical formats. I have
never downloaded a digital
file. MP3s and even CDs lack
a vital dynamic you can only
find in LPs and cassettes,
which are organized by two
distinct sides.
I’ve long believed that most
albums’ B side is the more in-
teresting and challenging of
the two, a dynamic that in
our digital age is depriving
music of something special.
It was not just your “concept
album” (confession: I love
those things) that could have
a kind of theme or a cohe-
sion. I love the fact that some
LPs were designed, as music
and as physical objects, with
two distinct sides: REM’s
Dead Letter Office has a Post
side and Script side, and the
cover lists the songs in alpha-
betical order.
Joe Jackson’s “Night and
Day” is labeled Day Side and
Night Side; his “Big World” is
a double album but with only
three sides of recorded
music, a quirk I have always
loved.
(On that album is the song
“Hometown,” with the line
“We never leave the past be-
hind/we just accumulate,”
words that define my adher-
ence to vinyl.)
NEIGHBORS
Sweet Pea, Helping Hands
Cameron Teems, RNC-
OB, Family Birth Center,
P r ov i d e n c e H o o d R ive r
Memorial Hospital, reports
that 27 new baby blankets
were collected during the
center’s Sweet Pea Project
blanket drive. The blankets
will be given to parents who
have lost a baby through
miscarriage, stillbirth or
neonatal death as a memor-
ial keepsake.
“Thank you so much for
all of you who brought
blankets for this special
project,” said Teems. “Your
gifts will be so special and
meaningful to the families
who receive them. Thank
you so much!”
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Helping Hands Honors
community event: Helping
Hands Against Violence
will celebrate the honorary
commitment of its commu-
nity partners on May 14, 6
p.m. at Springhouse Cellar
Winery.
Free admission; all ages
welcome. More info at 541-
386-4808.
The other joy of LPs was
the album covers – a lost art
in the new age. Gerry Raffer-
ty’s albums contained a dif-
ferent painting by the artist
John Patrick Byrne and you
can peruse the images for the
42 minutes it takes the album
to play and see more new
things. Bruce Springsteen
goes with and without coat on
the front and back of “Tunnel
of Love” and Jethro Tull’s
“Songs of the Wood” shows
Ian Anderson seated in a
clearing, next to a stump that
is a turntable playing a
record, a fact that might not
be as obvious on a CD cover,
though I have only seen the
LP covers.
And it is the covers of cer-
tain albums that stand as
artistic icons and symbols of
our age: Rolling Stones’
Sticky Fingers, with the jean-
s’ zipper built in, (a nice an-
swer to) Springsteen’s back-
side on “Born in the USA”,
W ORSHIP
D IRECTORY
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
RIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY
Pastor Terry Abbott
979 Tucker Rd.
Hood River, OR 97031
541-386-3656
www.river-of-life-assembly.org
For details check the current
bulletin on our website
riveroflifeassembly@gmail.com
Service Schedule
Sunday
8:30 a.m. Early Worship
Celebration
10:00 a.m. Coffee, Conversation
& Refreshments
10:30 a.m. Worship Celebration
& KidzChurch, K-6th*
6:00 p.m. Discipleship Classes
(choose from three topics)*
Wednesday
6:30 p.m. Royal Rangers &
Mpact Girls Club (K-6th)*
Connect Groups for Adults
(several groups to choose from)
Thursday
6:30 p.m. Youth Group 7-12th
7:00 p.m. Connect Group
Upper Valley
*Childcare provided at the
church for those attending
VALLEY WORSHIP CENTER
5780 Hwy 35, Mt. Hood/Prkdl
Rev. Don & LaRonna Howell
Sundays
Bible Classes
9:45 am
Coffee & Fellowship 10:30 am
Worship Celebration 10:45 am
Dinner & Service
6:00 pm
www.valleyworshipcenter.org
valleyworshipcenter.pastor@
gmail.com or (541) 352-7269
BAPTIST
1st BAPTIST CHURCH
of ODELL
3081 Odell Hwy
Pastor Rick Plank
541-354-1863
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Service 11 a.m.
Evening Service 6 p.m.
Wednesday Service 6 p.m.
GRACE
BAPTIST CHURCH
1280 W. Jewett • White Salmon
Worship Service 9:00 a.m.
Sunday School 10:45 a.m.
Jr/Sr. High Youth • Small Groups
(call for times & location)
Pastor Mark Hoeffner
(509) 493-2597
www.gracews.org
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Peter Gabriel’s minimalist
“So”, the man-on-fire “Wish
You Were Here” by Pink
Floyd, Dave Brubeck’s “Take
Five” cool-jazz abstract,
“Who’s Next” and the band
having peed on a monolith,
and, of course, the richly de-
tailed “Sgt. Pepper,” the like
of which shall never be bet-
tered or repeated as “album
art”.
Not sure where the rest of
LP365 will take me, but it is a
comment on Sgt. Pepper, my
Jan. 1 LP, that defines my
purpose: David Michaelis
wrote in “American Specta-
tor” in 1997, on the album’s
20th anniversary: “This
album as different, more
complicated. It was no
longer just a release of
youthful energy: there
was an elegiac tone in
both the words and
music, and that was
what made me feel I was en-
titled to their hidden truths.”
BELMONT DRIVE
MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
4200 Belmont Road
541-386-4201
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Sunday evening Bible study
6:00 p.m.
Wednesday evening Bible study
6:00 p.m.
PARKDALE BAPTIST
6310 Dee Hwy., 541-352-6515
Bobby Joe Beauchamp, Pastor
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship, 11 a.m.
Evening Worship, 6 p.m.
Wednesday Study, 6 p.m.
TUCKER ROAD BAPTIST
Pastor Dean E. Kelly, Jr.
1455 Tucker Road
Hood River, OR 97031
541-386-1049
– Sundays –
Bible Study, All Ages, 9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
– Wednesdays –
Prayer Meeting 6 p.m.
CATHOLIC
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
CHURCH
1501 Belmont, Hood River
Saturday Sacrament of
Reconciliation in
English/Spanish 4-5 p.m.
Saturday
Mass in English 5:30 p.m.
Mass in Spanish 7 p.m.
Sunday
Mass in Spanish 8 a.m.
Mass in English 10 a.m.
Mass in Spanish 1 p.m.
Holiday Masses
7 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 7 p.m.
Daily Mass 7:30 a.m.
Father Ronald M. Maag,
Pastor, 541-386-3373
CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY
ALLIANCE
HOOD RIVER ALLIANCE
“You’re Always Welcome!”
2650 W. Montello St.
541-386-2812
www.hoodriveralliance.org
Steve Grace, Senior Pastor
John Blosser, Associate Pastor
Tina Graves, Youth Pastor
Emily Blosser, Worship Pastor
Sunday Morning
2 Worship Services
9 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.
Monday Night
Senior Youth Group
Tuesday Night
Celebrate Recovery Group,
6:15 p.m. (Contact Person:
John Blosser 507-820-0871)
Wednesday Night
Junior Youth Group
Nightly Activities
Small group Bible studies
through the week.
La Iglesia Esperanza Y Vida
Sabado 6 p.m.
Spanish Service Saturday at 6 p.m.
Tony Estey, Pastor
Llame para un orario completo
541-806-2691
CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY
701 Washington St.
The Dalles, OR 97058
Sunday Service 10 a.m.
Wednesday Service 7 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
HOOD RIVER CHURCH OF CHRIST
1512 Tucker Road
Cody Singleton - Minister
9:45 Bible Classes
10:45 Services
541-386-2782
Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.
ODELL CHURCH OF CHRIST
3784 Summit Drive
Worship 10:30 a.m.
541-354-3127
COVENANT CHRISTIAN
COVENANT HOOD RIVER
Pastor Fritz Stranz
455 Frankton Rd.
Hood River, OR 97031
Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday Youth & KIDZ
6:30 p.m.
541.386.8805
covenanthr.org
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
HOOD RIVER VALLEY
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Interim Pastor Myrna Phillips
975 Indian Creek Road
541-386-2608
hoodrivervalleychristianchurch.com
– Sunday –
9:30 a.m. Classes for all ages
10:30 a.m. Worship
& Children Worship & Wonder
5:00 p.m. Youth meetings
Call for information on other pro-
grams for children, youth and adults
Childcare provided for all activities
EPISCOPAL
ST. MARK THE EVANGELIST
11th & Eugene
Rev. Anna Carmichael
Sunday Holy Eucharist
at 8 and 10 a.m.
Child Care at 10 a.m.
Wednesday Holy Eucharist
at 11:30 a.m
Everyone is welcome.
For more information, call:
St. Mark’s Office
541-386-2077
HOUSE OF RECORDS, Eugene, and a Richard Thompson favorite.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
LDS
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
18th & May, Hood River
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Hood River Ward
Sacrament Meeting 10 a.m.
Sunday School 11:20 a.m.
Priesthood/Relief Society 12:10 p.m.
Grupo en Español
Hora Sacramental (Traducida) 10 a.m.
Escuela Dominical
(Clase en Español) 11:20 a.m.
Sacerdocio y Sociedad de Socorro
(En Ingles) 12:10 p.m.
LUTHERAN
CONCORDIA EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELS
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
11th & Pine • Hood River
541-386-4004 or 541-298-8385
Pastor Jesse Jacobsen
Sunday School & Bible Class
8:00 a.m.
Divine Service 9:00 a.m.
Office Hours: Wednesday
www.concordiahoodriver.org
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
305 9th St. 386-3046
Pastor Jeff Mueller
www.ImmanuelHR.org
Sunday Morning Schedule
Adult Bible Class 8:45 a.m.
Worship Service 10:00 a.m.
Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.
Nursery Care 9:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Small Groups All Week
Check our web page above
for all the details
Sr. High Youth Group
Saturdays @ 6:30 p.m.
Middle School Youth Group
Fridays @ 3:30 p.m.
“It’s all about
RELATIONSHIPS!”
Please join us!
METHODIST/LUTHERAN
ASBURY OUR REDEEMER
PARTNERSHIP
Pastor David King
1140 Tucker Road
541-386-3993
9:00 a.m. Traditional Worship
10-10:30 a.m. Fellowship
Time 10:30 a.m. Celebration
Worship
10:30 a.m. Christian
Education
Everyone is welcome!
NAZARENE
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Joel & Mindy Alsworth, pastors
2168 Belmont Drive
Church Office: 541-386-2604
Fax: 541-386-2064
9 a.m.-Noon
Church Web site: www.hrnaz.org
Sunday
Worship Service – 9:30 a.m.
Christian Education/Sunday School
(for all ages) – 11 a.m.
Monday-Thursday
Home Group Studies
Tuesday: 6:30 a.m.
Men’s Prayer Time
8 a.m. Ladies Breakfast
Downtown
6:30 p.m. Youth Group
PARKDALE CHURCH OF
THE NAZARENE
4th & Van Nuys
(by grade school)
Services
Carl Casey, Pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Ladies’ Bible Study, Mon. 9:30 a.m.
Call 541-352-6913
or 541-490-6673
for further details.
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
Senior Center
2010 Sterling Place
Sundays 10 a.m.
“Love Jesus, Love People”
For more information contact
John: 541-354-2495
or Don: 541-231-3482
www.hoodriver-biblefellowship.org
FAITH BIBLE CHURCH
1889 Belmont, 541-386-3557
www.fbchoodriver.org
Pastor Bruce Parker
– Sunday –
Sunday School (all ages) 9:15 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.-12:00
Expository preaching
Childcare provided 10:30 a.m.
We offer youth and small groups.
Call for times and locations.
SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY
BIBLE CHURCH
8th & Pacific, Hood River
Tommy Moon, Pastor
Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
svbchr.org
PRESBYTERIAN
PARKDALE
COMMUNITY CHURCH
4910 Baseline Drive
541-352-7747
Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship, 10:45 a.m.
Rev. Mark N. Willems, Pastor
QUAKER
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS
Mountain View Worship Group
meets First and Third Sundays
of the month
at 10 a.m. at 700 Union St.
(the old Episcopal Church)
Everyone is welcome.
Contact Jeff Hunter,
541-490-6006
JeffHunter1859@gmail.com
for directions and information.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
13th & Oak, 541-386-3220
Ron Hart, Pastor
9:30 a.m. Bible Study
11 a.m. Worship Service
Spanish Services meet at
1100 22nd St.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
MID-COLUMBIA UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP
Sunday Worship and
Children’s Program
10 a.m. at the Rockford Grange
4262 Barrett Drive, Hood River
Classes, Groups &
Community Service
Rev. Judy Zimmerman
Info: (541) 241-6771 or
www.mcuuf.org
We Are A Welcoming
Congregation.
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
RIVERSIDE
COMMUNITY CHURCH UCC
Heart of Downtown at 4th & State
Worship at 10:30 a.m.
riversideucc.com
Doubters welcome
An “Open & Affirming”
congregation
Rev. Vicky A. Stifter,
541-386-1412
BETHEL
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Inclusive - Welcoming -
Peace & Justice
Rev. Kelly Ryan
480 East Jewett Blvd.
(509) 493-1747
White Salmon
Morning Family Worship &
Sunday School 10 a.m.
www.bethelwhitesalmon.org
UNITED METHODIST
PINE GROVE/ODELL
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
3422 Odell Hwy., Odell;
541-354-1063
Christy Matson, Lay Preacher
2415 Eastside Road, Pine Grove
Sunday Worship Schedule
Adult Sunday 8:45 a.m.
Worship 10 a.m.
Sunday School 10:15 a.m.
Sept.-June at Odell Building
July & Aug. at Pine Grove Building
Everyone is Welcome
THE VINEYARD “A COMMUNITY OF CHURCHES”
VINEYARD CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP
OF HOOD RIVER
“Come as you are!”
Pastor Denny & Sue Anderson
Assoc. Pastor Dave Turner
Youth Pastor Carrie Turner
Sunday Worship Celebration
Coffee & Fellowship 9:30 a.m.
Worship 9:45
Youth Group - Wednesdays 6:15
Grades 6-12
AWANAS - Thursdays 6:30
Ages 3 through 6th grade
Home Groups - Thursdays 6:30
www.vcfhr.org.
508 9th St. (Across from
Children’s Park)
541-386-7070