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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: GROOVIES "Boys Ride Bike" b/w "Boogie Tonight" 45

« on: April 16, 2013, 07:16:42 AM »

I'm also going back to Utrecht in November. With the above mentality, I CANNOT go home disappointed.

There's always ONE table with the good stuff, and if you're in the right place at the right time you're golden. But if you're not then, for the rest of the fair, you're condemned to constantly run into people who were, and who want to tell you what they 'picked up' and how great a table it was. It's all luck, really.

Unless you're Robin. Cos if you're Robin then you know which godawful-looking records, that every other mutherfucker just flicks past, are actually uber-rare 'bonehead' grail. I swear that when we meet for a time-out coffee and frikandellen and he shows me his prizes I'm lucky if I've ever actually heard of any of them. And I swear 99% of them look fucking dreadful. Basically, you gotta have knowledge that no-one else has, or be interested in stuff that no-one else is.

I'm gonna develop a jones for Christian reggae before November. There'll be no competition for that, so I'm gonna take lots of spare bags. Maybe something on wheels.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WTB - Durutti Column "The Return of.." LP orig w/ sandpaper sleeve

« on: October 11, 2012, 08:06:09 AM »

Sold the copy you're looking for on Discogs for $25, last June. It sat for a few months before some dude in Europe bought it.

On the other hand, someone at Discogs listed one at only $ (not $$$) the other week and it was sold within one minute, tops.

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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: September 10, 2012, 07:39:42 AM »

British band tracker name difficulty.

Taylor - Difficult
Towey- Easy
Drennan- Easy
Gradowski- Easy

Full names now in youtube comments.  Get crackin'!

I knew it was NEIL Drennan and GED Towey, somehow, last year. But I couldn't find contact info. Used to be a lot easier when I still had a CD program running the Electoral Roll, but that died some years ago. Kinda dropped the ball since then.

Anyway, as of last evening, Dizzy's in touch with two band members. Don't know which ones. So it looks like this is one mystery that will be fully put to bed in the next day or so and lined up for the next 'Bored Teenagers', I hope.

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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: September 04, 2012, 05:52:19 AM »

Sure always a little skeptical, figure that their scene had hundreds of bands by 1978 so it's understandable that something 'new' turns up. Of course a UK punk record called Hitler, makes me think, god damn how did no one know about this?

It has been quietly 'known about' (by me, anyway) for nearly a year, since the first copy showed up. I have no reason whatsoever to doubt its authenticity. I wish I did, cos then maybe my head wouldn't have exploded.

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Music Shit / Re: Jobriath

« on: August 17, 2012, 12:10:00 AM »

Ah, another opportunity to mention how I once visited Jobriath in his pyramid-apartment at The Chelsea. Seemed like a top bloke.

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Music Shit / Re: Clueless eBay Sellers

« on: July 12, 2012, 02:15:58 AM »

As far as I know, this SRT-press version with the pink booklets (or booklet-singular: this was also presented as one, thicker, booklet) is the first edition. I received mine as a promo (who from???!?) at the time of release.

Note:
>2nd has SRTS (Southern) on the labels
'SRTS' is nothing to do with Southern, so that's a red herring.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP MC5's Michael Davis

« on: February 19, 2012, 02:51:54 AM »

Bummer. Spent some Destroy All Monsters time with him once - thoroughly nice guy.

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Music Shit / Re: Thrift Score

« on: February 05, 2012, 11:19:58 AM »

... Most were biker-related, but this takes the cake for me:

Once (1979?), a Stiff/Island promo rep showed up at the radio station I was working at with half a dozen of these. Obviously I had one (still got it... kept all my Ts...), but I was extra-pleased when the vicar who presented some religious shows was also really excited and snagged one for himself: turned out he'd been a bit of a head back in the day (still rated Hendrix only slightly below Our Lord) and now was a big Stiff fan. Who'da thunk?

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Wanted: PHATES "Modacom" 7"... wp $500

« on: July 16, 2011, 05:37:31 AM »

bump!

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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: June 09, 2011, 10:34:15 AM »

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=250806919488

...while mine still languishes on GEMM for about a third of that. Obviously the buzzwords I'm missing are 'Andy Warhol', I know...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Velvets "Black Banana" LP test pressing

« on: June 09, 2011, 07:32:30 AM »

I'm just about to add this to my sale list if anyone needs a head-up:
Velvet Underground   Black Banana -test pressing   LP   no label   -/ex   70.00 Euros   white label test-pressing of the 'Black Banana' LP (Z1 in matrix)

Cheers,
Steve
www.lowdownkids.com

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Music Shit / Re: Geek-Out, Round 1: Bowie vs. Roxy

« on: April 21, 2011, 10:42:36 PM »

I actually had this conversation with Jobriath once! Yer actual Jobriath!

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: April 09, 2011, 09:41:26 AM »

Holland is getting more City these days, you know: we had a multiple-death random-shooting in a shopping mall this afternoon.

Sorry about that, but Mall Shootings are strictly a suburban affair. Maybe American but Not City.

See, I've just confirmed that we Brit/Euro types just don't understand City!

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Music Shit / Re: CITY ROCK

« on: April 09, 2011, 09:11:41 AM »

I got a spare of the Park Lane "City Rock" single at the fair in Utrecht yesterday. I s'pose it'll hit my weblist soonish.

Holland is getting more City these days, you know: we had a multiple-death random-shooting in a shopping mall this afternoon.

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Music Shit / Thundertrain

« on: March 18, 2011, 11:00:31 AM »

Anyone here got the skinny on the various "Hot For Teacher" pressings? I have two:
(1) - white/red label, with thin-paper p/s which says '3rd pressing'
(2) - black/silver label, with card p/s which adds a UK 'Bizzarre Record Distribution' credit

Both are US pressings (JELLY003, mastered at Sterling).

So: is (2) the first or second pressing? Or is it in fact a FOURTH pressing (just for the UK?)?

Cheers,
Steve