Goodbye 9711886
by lunnderclap
I would like to take a moment to eulogize a YouTube channel that has meant a lot to me over the past couple of years. The mysteriously titled, Channel 9711886 was taken down a couple of weeks ago due to, “multiple third party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including: Mick Lail.” Thanks for a big void of nothing Mick, and your apparently multiple killjoy cousins too. If you ever have a legit copyright concern, you can contact the video publisher directly and they will almost always take down the offending items immediately. There is seldom any need to go crying to the cops and have thousands of babes in the wash basin tossed into oblivion with your own exclusive claim of the bath water.
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I stumbled on this channel while searching for videos of a private press psych-pop artist by the name of Eddie Callahan. After watching/listening to a few of his songs, I thought I’d click the channel name to see what else this video poster was up to. I was completely floored when I found over five thousand individually uploaded songs, painstakingly ripped from the original records. Given that the music of this YouTube archivist’s obsession is private press psych and oddball folk music, this undertaking is all the more remarkable. Many, if not close to all of theses records were originally pressed in batches of around a few hundred or less. This makes them highly collectible, and hence highly expensive on the open market. There is no way that I would ever be able to find, or much less afford the vast majority of these strange and beautiful recordings in any other media format. Though this collector likely had very deep pockets to focus on his interests, he didn’t only squirrel away his stash in a cellophane sealed vault somewhere like many collectors often do. He sat down, and rerecorded these tracks one by one, (at least one new album a week) and shared them with whomever cared to search for them. By the time of the channel’s banishment, 9711886’s track count had climbed to almost ten thousand songs. For this generous devotion, I am immensely grateful. Thanks 9711886 wherever you are. Hopefully you are not gone for too long.
ROTTING YELLOW PAGES ON THE LAWN 
I still can’t believe youtube closed it.
I’ll never stop to try to search for it somewhere out there.
Thanks to 9711886 I discovered tons of good music I wasn’t aware of.
Hello,
I’m the person who was behind the 9711886 Youtube channel. I wanted to thank you for your comments and I’m glad that you enjoyed it. By uploading the music my only intention was to share with other people some of the records that I had collected through the years and that nowadays are difficult to find or have been reissued with significant alterations. The channel was intended to be, as to say, an archive of original, mostly private pressings, non mainstream records of the 60s and 70s.
The account was cancelled because I had these three copyright infringement warnings: The Dimensions “From All Dimensions” High Heel Sneakers 1966 (DEPAG, LLP), Arzachel Clean Innocent Fun 1969 (Egg Archive) and Zaharas “Blackbird” Blackbird 1979 (Mick Lail). In a few other occasions I had received e-mails asking me to please remove a record, which I did inmediately after apologizing to the concerned person; had Lail done that the channel would still be alive, but he chose to do otherwise.
But these bad trips are exceptions, because along these years I have received some very nice mails by artists who were delighted to see their records uploaded with care and, also, words like yours that make me think that, after all, it was worth trying.
Wishing you all the best,
Juan.
Juan, your channel was one of the most eye opening musical experiences I’ve ever had and I learned so much because of your amazing dedication to it. I am grateful that I got to hear most of it before the ax fell. It was a beautiful archive and I hope that you find other ways to share these wonderful records in the future. Thanks for reaching out to a fan. You should know that there are many of us still out there. This post is easily the most popular I’ve ever made on this blog.
All the best to you as well.
-Corey
Thanks Corey for posting this, and thanks Juan for access to all the great music. There were a lot of times where I felt like the channel was one of the last few places where people could actually go to experience something new. These records are mostly not very popular in the mainstream, and they really can not be found or accessed by a person like me. I’ve searched online for some of these records, like “Holiday” with Silk and Silver, the song “Leaf” by Arcesia, or some of these old family Christian bands. Many of them are simply not available, but on rare occasions by chance. To have access to them was to have access to a richer world. I also hope that they are not lost forever.
Hi Corey,
Just to let you know that I’m giving it a second try; the channel is called 9711886n this time.
Best wishes,
Juan
Hello Juan. I am a Brazilian fan of your channel and I thank you deeply and eternally their dedication to make available works such fantastic and wonderfully mysterious and fascinating. For the second time I tried to download track by track of your collection, carefully making a folder for each of your treasures, so carefully uploaded by you. Again I failed pitifully to complete this journey to download in mp4 his incredible collection. Is there any possibility that you provide your collection again someday?
CHEERS
Mauricio
Looks like it is gone again. The new channel has apparently been closed because of copyright infringement claims. It is really a shame, and I wish a solution could be worked out. This channel has introduced me to so many wonderful and life-changing songs that I never would have been able to hear otherwise!
Hi Dylan,
Unfortunately the channel is gone once again and my Youtube account has been terminated due, this time, to the following three copyright strikes:
-The Ultimate Spinach *The Unicorn* “At The Coffeehouse Lounge” 1967 Takedown issued by: Iris Properties, Inc.
-Kevin Aprill “Sunset Upon An Imaginary Beach Of Latent Energy” 1971 Takedown issued by: kevin aprill
-Kenneth Higney “Attic Demonstration” 1976 Takedown issued by: Kenneth B. Higney
Why did they prefer to report me to Youtube and bring down the channel instead of just asking me to remove their music, I don’t know.
Thank you for your comments, I am glad that you enjoyed it while it lasted.
Best wishes,
Juan
Thanks Juan. I haven’t been updating this blog for a while, but I’m glad that it can still serve as a place for people to talk about your channel. I’m so sorry that this has happened again. The Kenneth Higney claim is the most depressing to me, as your channel is the place that many of us heard that album for the first time. I doubt that there would have been the interest in reissuing it (and many other records) if it wasn’t for people like you who take the time to bring such things out of obscurity. Thanks again for all the amazing discoveries and best of luck in all your future endeavors.
Peace to you and yours,
-Corey
Juan, thanks for your response. If you don’t mind, I’d like to express a few things from my heart about all of this!
Your channel was not only a fantastic resource for music, but it helped me to find information that I never dreamed I would find! In particular, I was able to find out more about the “Thinkings” album by Robin (one of my favorites) thanks to your responses to my questions about its back cover. Furthermore, thanks to your high quality recordings and lyric sheet scans, I was able to learn some of the songs. I learned to play “Barbarous” by Vos Cantu Monemus on my 12 string guitar, and I was able to begin learning Rin Eric’s “Death is Only Skin-Deep.” I fell in love with songs like “My Friends” by Ron Joseph and “Of Sun and Rain” by Kusudo and Worth. In other words, I wouldn’t be where I am as a musician or a music lover if you had not done what you did.
However, more than all of that, I loved your channel because, as others have said, it was always a place to find something new. To be able to hear some of these impossibly rare albums was a wonderful privilege. I can’t thank you enough for taking the time and exerting the effort to do all of this. While I would completely understand if you decided to never mess with YouTube again, I would certainly be one of your subscribers if you ever decided to share recordings again on any website. Regardless, thanks again for the experience, and best wishes to you as well.
You are very kind, Corey; thank you. All the best, Juan.
Thank you Dylan, but, believe me, you guys have given me much more than I could possibly have given you. Best wishes, Juan.
Hello again Juan,
I don’t mean to be a bother, but I would like to ask you something. Through your channel, I was able to hear two very special albums: “Rainbow Rings” by Ron Joseph and “Thinkings” by Robin. The songs on these albums meant a lot to me. However, I have only been able to find a few of the songs on the Internet since YouTube closed your channel. Since I have next to no chance of finding physical copies for myself, do you know of an alternative way that I could hear either of them again? I’ve been asking around, but I haven’t had any success so far.
Sure Dylan, no worries. Just let me know an e-mail address and I’ll send you the mp3s via WeTransfer. Cheers, Juan.
Hi Juan,
Really sad to see your site go down for a second time. I can speak for a lot us that we wouldn’t have had a chance to listen to such great music in it’s entirely if it weren’t for you. You are a great collector and you are much admired for turning may on to great stuff. Like that St. Cardinals school more recently was great. I hope you stay in touch with us. I you can reach me at this email if you’d like at gmail its arknight1969 in front.
Cheers,
arky
Hello Juan,
That is so kind of you! That means a lot to me.
Just add @gmail.com to the end of what I typed below.
dw1778262
Cheers, Dylan