Podcast appearances and mentions of terry currier

I've got good news today. After a few years of bad news in the music industry, there have been many musicians who have lately told me that they're gigging more than ever. Now here comes Terry Currier who runs Music Millennium with similar good news. He'll tell us all about it. It's always good to sit down and talk with Terry. He's been an immensely valuable member of the Oregon music industry for decades. Coming up on Thursday, March 16 Music Millennium will celebrate it's fifty-fourth anniversary. There's nothing quite like browsing in a record store. Welcome back Terry Currier.

Terry Currier grew up in Seattle and took a liking to music in school, playing the flute-o-phone in 4th Grade. The following summer he took up the violin with the Suzuki method. Three months into the 5th grade his father Lando, noticed a slide in the enthusiasm about the instrument while he did his daily practicing. “Are you not happy with the violin?' Terry said “the sound the other violins make hurt my ears. They screech.” After a serious conversation, his father found out Terry would rather play the clarinet and woke him up a month later and presented him with a new clarinet. To make up for being 4 months behind on the instrument, he took private lessons to catch up. By junior high it was apparent that Terry would go to college after high school and pursue music. Between music and his participation in Boy Scouts, that pretty much took up most of his free time as a youth. When he was 16 he decided to get a motorcycle versus a car and he learned to drive in the yard. At 16 ½, he realized a motorcycle was not the best mode of transportation in the Northwest, where it rained and snowed in the winter, so he bought a ‘66 Mustang. It had a radio in it and he discovered recorded music for the first time. A week after he turned 17, he went to his first concert. He saw Nitzinger opening up for Leon Russell and the Shelter People. 2 weeks later he applied for a job in a record store (DJ's Sound City). He was hired solely on his enthusiasm and not for his musical knowledge, which was close to nil. HISTORIC MOMENTS IN CARRER. - Pioneered live music in a Record Store. In 1989, while deciding what to do for Music Millennium's 20th Anniversary, he turned to his then partner, Don MacLeod and stated “Let's have 20 straight days of live music in the store,” After looking at renting a system, they decided to buy a system and put a permanent stage in the store. Since then Music Millennium has hosted over 4000 live performances including Soundgarden, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper with the only ever instore performances of Randy Newman, Joe Strummer and Keith Emerson. - Currier and Music Millennium dubbed “modern day folk heroes” for their role in the brilliantly effective crusade against used CD policies. Discontent with policies instituted by 4 of the 6 major distribution companies, Terry fought to overturn the policies. After Garth Brooks announced his new album would not be available in stores that sold used product, Currier immediately responded with a “West Coast Bar-B-Q For Retail Freedom” tour – actually roasting Brooks CDs, VHS, Posters and cassettes to dramatize the retailer' plight. The tour started in Bellingham, WA and hit 9 stores between there and San Diego, CA. The protest captured the attention of TNN, CNN, Forbes and People magazine, and resulted in a repeal of the restrictive polices. - In the aftermath of the Bar-B-Q For Retail Freedom, Terry realized the common concerns and interests in the 9 stores on the tour as well as stores that reached out about the issue from around the country. He presented a proposal to Mark Cope, Retail Editor of Album Network and arranged for a meeting at the NARM convention in Florida. The idea was to create a group of retailers who could work records together and make a difference as well as act as a support team. This germinated into a meeting in San Francisco at the NAIRD convention in May 1995, with 25 retailers from across the country meeting in a room for a day to see if they could find commonality to work together. CIMS was born. - After a several year germination of an idea to support local unique businesses and talking multiple times to John Kunz of Waterloo Records about a new slogan in his city, “Keep Austin Weird”, Currier created “Keep Portland Weird.' at the suggestion of Kunz. It has organically become the city of Portland's motto and most used phase. All production by Cody Maxwell. Artwork by Cody Maxwell. Opening graphic assets by UlyanaStudio and Grandphic.sharkfyn.com maxwellskitchenpodcast.com

Part one of our two-part celebration of RSD Black Friday (November 25) focuses on the late Joe Strummer (1952-2002) and his world. Joe's surviving life partner Lucinda Tait remembers life with Joe during the time of his last band The Mescaleros, and discusses the expansive Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years recently released on the Dark Horse Records label. Joe's friend, filmmaker Don Letts talks about Joe, forming Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.) with Mick Jones, and the new documentary about Letts' life, Rebel Dread.  Terry Currier from Music Millennium in Portland, Oregon, returns to the show to remember the 1999 instore concert that is at the heart of this year's RSD Black Friday limited edition vinyl release, Joe Strummer - Live At Music Millennium. Comedian and drummer Fred Armisen pops in to tell us about the time he met Joe and The Clash. Plus our regular check-in with RSD's Carrie Colliton remembers Public Image Ltd's Keith Levene (also a founding member of The Clash!) For the most up-to-date information about Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow host Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram @pulmyears.

If you want to be happy in life, find yourself someone who loves you like Terry Currier loves music. He joins the show from his office at Portland's iconic record store, Music Millennium, to talk to Emily about vinyl, first concerts, and feuding with Garth Brooks.

Unless there’s a change of some kind…always a possibility…this will be the last in the series of Skype-recorded Coffeeshop Conversations (Not) @ Artichoke Music. Next week we’ll be back in the Café at Artichoke and I can be in the same room with the person I’m talking to. Thanks to Storm Large, Terry Currier, Jim Brunberg, Jeremy Wilson, Lloyd Jones, Andrew Woodworth and the others who have been guests. Therefore, we end this Skype series with the one, the only, your friend and mine, the inimitable, the sensational, the Tony Starlight. Applause goes here. We pick it up shortly after we fixed our respective audios.

We’ve been checking in on folks to see how they’re doing during the current tribulations. We checked on Jim Brunberg, Jeremy Wilson, Storm Large and others and today we’ve got Music Millennium’s Terry Currier on Skype. They’re still open, doing curbside delivery but everything is tenuous. Life itself. They’re still getting new product in every week at Music Millenium so let’s find out how their doing, what they’re doing and what are some good new albums. Here’s Terry Currier

Robert Parish talks with Terry Currier about the impact of COVID-19 on Music Millennium, the Waterfront Blues Festival, live music, and how the virus is hurting the Portland music community. He also shares his "number 1 record of the year."

On Episode 13 we get on the phone with Susanna Hoffs from L.A. and talk about records, plus her work with David Roback, The Bangles, Emitt Rhodes, and Matthew Sweet. We also check in with Carrie Colliton at RSD HQ and touch base with Terry Currier at Music Millenium in Portland, and Scott Farrell at Down In The Valley in Minneapolis. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Tito's Handmade Vodka. Go to Record Store Day for more information. #StayHome #StaySafe

Today: Greg had a dream that may or may not be a repressed memory from a childhood Bigfoot sighting (ha), and the Portland (and music) Legend himself, Mr. Terry Currier (of Music Millenium), joined us along with Master Brewer Ryan Pappe from Portland Brewing, to talk about the newest beer in the "Keep Portland Weird" Beer Series: Portland Brewing's In The Groove Black Vinyl Lager - we also hear some great stories of Terry's adventures, try some delicious beer, and have an all-around great time. Thanks for listening and have a great afternoon! 

OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations has traveled today. Next week we begin making these at Catfish Lou’s in Northwest Portland. But today we’re at Music Millennium for our annual conversation with Terry Currier on all things record store and lots of other things. They have their fiftieth anniversary coming up in March, and Terry has been there almost that long. They have lots of cool things happening to celebrate it, in-store and out, including a special concert at the Aladdin theater on March 15th. What’s he been listening to lately?

This week's episode features the second part of our conversation with Terry Currier of Music Millennium. In this podcast, Terry talks about the synergy between KINK and Music Millennium, and the formation of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.

art 1 of our conversation with Terry Currier from Music Millennium an independent record store founded in 1969. It might be the oldest continually-existing record store in the Pacific Northwest.

. Instead of sitting in the cupping room at World Cup, we are in an office located somewhere inside the Music Millennium building on East Burnside where I’m going to talk to Terry Currier who owns the joint. It’s comforting to come to Music Millennium, not only because you can find any kind of music there is, but because it’s still HERE…unlike so much of Portland. It’s here and Terry’s here…It’s coming up on their forty-ninth anniversary…Thursday, March 15th. Terry and I did one of these a little while back and we both enjoyed it. Just catching up on what’s going on…but mostly two guys sitting around bullshitting about music.

Music Biz 101 & More is the only radio show in America that focuses on the business side of the music & entertainment worlds. Hosted by William Paterson University's Dr. Stephen Marcone & Professor David Philp, the show airs live each Wednesday at 8pm on WPSC-FM, Brave New Radio. In this episode, Terry Currier, owner of Portland, Oregon's music retailer store called Music Millennium, talks about how he stays in business, the battle against Napster, the strength (and origins) or Record Store Day, and much more. Click and listen to get some music retail 101. Enjoy the talk, listener tweets, and see what you can get out of this. Like what you hear? Tweet us anytime: @MusicBiz101wp Engage and Adore us on The Facebook, The Twitter & Instagram: www.facebook.com/MusicBiz101wp twitter.com/MusicBiz101WP instagram.com/musicbiz101wp/

May 5, 2016 We’re not at our usual stand, World Cup Coffee and Tea for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Because he’s so busy, we came to the temple of records to meet the Grand Vizier of music in Portland, Music Millennium’s owner Terry Currier. If there’s a more central figure in the music industry around here, I’ve never met him. Most of the time, when he’s interviewed, everybody always asks him how the store is doing and will the record store business survive. I don’t want to do that. If you’ve ever sat with Terry, the most fun is to talk about music. Thing is, his taste is so broad, he can be talking about the Kinks one minute and thrash metal the next. Let’s talk to the person who has done more for music and musicians in Oregon than anybody else.

Terry reflects on years running an independent music store with Larry Ullman.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/pdxpod)

Terry Currier, owner of the famous record store Music Millennium in Portland, sits in as guest c0-host to spin cuts from Brandee Younger (from her Wax & Wane CD) and Rene Marie (from her upcoming The Sound of Red CD).  Terry and Lee then riff on the state of the record store and on the vinyl revival,including Record Store Day, which Terry founded many years ago to promote record-buying. This episode sponsored by ECM Records.