This year’s Record Store Day will have an ambassador, as Dave Grohl has been appointed to a newly-created position that is mainly designed to bring enthusiasm and livelihood to the vinyl market industry. Grohl is quite the music historian, having recently proven himself on the HBO series Sonic Highways, and his passion for the vinyl medium was recently discussed at length in a post on the Record Store Day website by Grohl:
I found my calling in the back bin of a dark, dusty record store.
1975’s K-Tel’s Blockbuster 20 Original Hits by the Original Stars featuring Alice Cooper, War, Kool and the Gang, Average White Band and many more, bought at a small record shop in my suburban Virginia neighborhood, it was this record that changed my life and made me want to become a musician. The second that I heard Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” kick in, I was hooked. My life had been changed forever. This was the first day of the rest of my life.
The post goes on for a few paragraphs in the same vein, and even includes a video of Grohl talking about his appreciation for records:
Record Store Day is set for April 18th, 2015.