Paul Major in Conversation with Ron House

Hear the front man of Brooklyn-based rock band Endless Boogie read from his righteous tome Feel the Music and discuss his storied career with Columbus-based vocalist/record collector Ron House.

Featuring recollections from his decades as a purveyor of music’s weirdest recordings—and excerpts from his legendary mail-order catalogue—Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major (Anthology Editions) captures a magic era of rock music and album collecting spanning the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Major signs copies of the book after his reading at this Wexner Center Store event featuring a cash bar. Don’t miss Major and Endless Boogie as they open for Swedish progg legends Träd, Gräs och Stenar in the Performance Space at 8 PM.

About the author

Paul Major was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1954, placing him squarely in the path of rock ‘n’ roll’s early waves: fuzz guitar first blew his mind at age 12, and he hasn’t looked back since. After playing in bands in St. Louis and Los Angeles, Major moved to New York in 1978, enjoying the city’s explosive punk scene and playing in the proto speed-metal band the Sorcerers. All the while, he cultivated a now-legendary trove of rare and bizarre LPs that he turned into a mail-order business. Starting in 1997, Major put his decades of experience to work as the singer and guitarist of the band Endless Boogie, whose scruffed up take on rock has renewed his status as a preeminent voice on the margins of popular music.

About the book

Brought to life with unseen photographs and excerpts from Major’s must-read mail-order catalogues—beloved for their mixture of hard-won crate-digging knowledge and witty, one-of-a-kind music writing—Feel the Music is a fanatical mystery tour through the outer reaches of rock. Alongside Major’s recollections from his nearly five decades in music, the book features essays by Michael P. Daley, Jesper Eklow, Rich Haupt, Stefan Kéry, Johan Kugelberg, Patrick Lundborg, Jack Streitman, Glenn Terry, and Geoffrey Weiss and comes with a special Sorcerers/Endless Boogie split 7 in. vinyl record.

About Ron House

A vocalist with notable Columbus bands Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Counter Intuits, and Psandwich (playing September 28 at Ace of Cups), Ron House also worked behind the counter at Used Kids Records and like Major is a collector and seller of rare records—look for him as Moses Carryout at Columbus Flea.