Episode 007: Kiss The Sky with Steve Warrenfeltz

Enjoy Episode 007 (01h45m44s) wherein I have breakfast with Steve Warrenfeltz of Kiss The Sky Records in Geneva. You'll learn: about his humble beginning as a corporate bean counter/racquetball champion; our embarrassing guilty pleasure songs; who gets it and who doesn't. (Yes, he names names)

Warning: Salty language ahead.

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Links from this episode
Kiss The Sky
The Beatles Take America
Hegewisch Records
Jake Shimabukuro makes his ukulele gently weep
Juggalos
Hix Bros. Music
Blues On The Fox
Record Store Day
The Spice House
State Street Dance Studio (Linda Cunningham)
Backthird Audio
Made In Aurora
Paul Ruby Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Bistro Thai



Music by Jeremy Keen and the False Starts

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(00:04:26) Coffee?
(00:04:52) Humble Beginning
(00:18:09) Bowling with the Beatles
(00:24:26) Old School Record Stores
(00:27:03) Finding Hidden Treasure
(00:30:01) The Batavia Store
(00:32:42) Enter The Juggalos
(00:36:34) Lost Our Lease
(00:37:42) Mayor Kevin Burns
(00:39:18) Batavia has a lot of potential, but... (On the record)
(00:41:54) Ukulele
(00:45:02) Blues On The Fox
(00:49:02) Customers – Who Are They?
(00:52:35) Coke or Pepsi?
(00:53:26) Demographics
(00:55:13) The Resurgence of Vinyl
(00:57:29) Records vs. CDs
(00:59:06) Record Store Day
(01:04:45) Downtown Geneva Shops
(01:07:54) Contact Info, or, “The website got hacked”
(01:09:04) Made In Aurora: The Album
(01:16:46) The Paul Ruby Foundation
(01:18:00) Waterloo Sunset
(01:19:23) Sky Club Stage
(01:20:15) Made In Aurora: The Musical?
(01:20:50) Adding Positive Ions to the City of Lights
(01:25:55) The Death of CDs
(01:28:24) Microchip Brain Implants
(01:29:31) Guilty Pleasure Songs
(01:33:07) Old-time Country
(01:34:25) Bubblegum Music
(01:35:05) Why should we buy at Kiss The Sky?
(01:40:33) One record we should all own