recent vinyl finds
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bits and bobs from the boots
The first release on the mighty On-U Sounds label.
I've never come across one of these Virgin 7" promo's before
(one of my rarer Virgin singles by Captain Beefheart has a special hand stamped sleeve)
Old actor Vernon Greeves wanders around even older
English castles chatting away, as he does.
A pair of budget label issues featuring Duffy Power, Al Saxon
and some really twangy guitars and 15 tracks between the two
of them!
With a US issue in a gate-fold sleeve (the UK one is only
in a rubbish single sleeve) and a Dutch version on yellow
vinyl and now this slightly s p a c e y sounding Quad version,
no doubt I probably also have the CD and 8-track of it somewhere in the cellar...
The most unusual finds this week were a couple of mysterious
albums on the EMI Central Research Laboratories label that
was completely new to me and with the words Experimental
Record on them an absolute bargain at 50p a pop,
even if they were gonna be rubbish.
The best way, other than playing it, was to check the matrix
numbers in the run out but even these proved pointless as this
one with the number CWK 3001 on one side had never surfaced
before. It turned out one side was half of the record Holiday
Album by late 70's new wavers Radio Stars, and for some
'experimental reason' the other side was bizarrely a
Best of The Mamas & The Papas.
After a bit of research on this imprint I discovered only a couple
of these discs seem to have been released before, one featured
tracks by Wings from Band On The Run and the other (probably
very collectible) had tracks from the first Queen album on it.
Well unfortunately for me this one happened to feature the whole
of this very common album by good old Manuel and His Music
of The Mountains, damn.
- Stellar haul. Looks like Diggin in the Boots pays dividends.garbage