Pacific Northwest Record Hunt, Part 1: Los Angeles to Portland

I just got back from a drive from Los Angeles up to Seattle to see my mother. Four of those days turned into a record hunt: eleven stores, 47 records, and a pretty specific goal: Northwest rock, Northwest psych, and whatever psych I could find along the way. Part 2 of this series is up: https://youtu.be/9oykGRt7RlE There are too many records for one video, so this is part one of four. The real stops here are House of Records in Eugene and Tomorrow Records in Portland, plus Epic Records in Portland, which was a complete bust. The big one is the Australian Highway To Hell on Albert Productions, light blue label first pressing. That was the last Bon Scott-era Australian AC/DC pressing I needed. I also picked up the last Golden Earring I was missing from the sixties, a white label promo of Captain Beyond with the lenticular cover, and Lacewing, one of the last Mainstream titles on my list, whose members came out of a Kent, Ohio garage band with Joe Walsh in it. Two of these I bought completely blind. Gary Paul was recorded in Bellingham and had almost nothing written about it anywhere. The Topics turned out to be engineered by Kearney Barton, the man behind the Sonics and the Wailers, and recorded in Bremerton, Washington. That is exactly the kind of thing I drove up there hoping to find. 00:00 Back from the Northwest, 11 stores and 47 records 00:48 Why this is four videos 01:20 Fresno, and a store that had nothing for me 01:45 Eugene and House of Records 03:48 Golden Earring, the Wall of Dolls album 04:58 Epic Records, Portland, and walking out empty 05:29 Tomorrow Records, my favorite store in Portland 06:12 AC/DC - Highway To Hell, Australian pressing 07:13 AC/DC - For Those About To Rock, New Zealand 07:38 Captain Beyond, lenticular cover white label promo 08:20 Lacewing, and the Joe Walsh connection 10:46 Gary Paul - Just A Word, recorded in Bellingham 12:35 Rainbow - After The Storm, bought for the cover 14:24 The Topics - Living Evidence, engineered by Kearney Barton 16:53 Yahowa - Songs From The Source 18:14 Wrap up, and a warehouse with a million records House of Records: 258 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR Tomorrow Records: 700 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 🎧 Vinyl Finds Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9oSXuMGglp1N8SlbZUEtCJ7 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #ACDC #TomorrowRecords #NorthwestRock #VinylFinds #RareVinyl