Sunday October 22nd

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Meet Vince Mallardi. the co-author of "Deadwax From The Vinyl House: Uncovering the Musical Hoard of an Era" and hear the incredible story about a hoard of record and tape masters found in a house abandoned by its owner.

Deadwax from the Vinyl House is a slice of the 1960s recording business as discovered through a hoard of record and tape masters found in a house abandoned by its owner, a sound engineer from that decade. The purchaser who was not alive in the 60s seeks out the hundreds of performers, producers, labels and memorabilia only to learn that only a handful are not dead. Co-author Vincent Mallardi is chief among them as he founded and owned the record company that represeted the largest portion of the extraordinary collection. From Neil Diamond to Renata Tibaldi, the Shirelles to Martin Luther King, and from Thomas Edison's cylinder to the silicone chip, this book is history, mystery, sociopolitics, engineering and a rare first-person insight into the lives and times of the most trannsformational decade of the 20th Century. The good artists, the bad gangsters and everything groovy in between begins and ends in the deadwax!

This book travels back to the 1960’s Music scene, and the one decade of pure vinyl analog records. The story of the science, the studios, labels, performers and nightclubs from coast-to-coast are covered. Meet co-author, Vince Mallardi who recorded in DC and New York during these times, and Jeff Swanson, a local celebrity in DEADWAX, who will be there in-person.

Pre-purchase the book here; copies available at the event also.