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- Gardener1
I discovered this 10" spoken word disc in a collection of Jazz. It has a religious feeling to it but I think it may be Masonic related, any advice on wtf it all means appreciated.
- Gardener2
I just found a copy has a run off that isn't mentioned in the Discogs listings for the 1st release by The Police. Is there a Sting in the tale?
Incidentally I have a true Sting story, I went to see The Police at Aylesbury Friars in 78/79 can't quite remember but I do remember The Cramps were the support and they were fucking AMAZING, anyway, I am standing around near the back of the hall and I spots this guy with bleach blonde hair hanging around smoking - as we did in them days. So I approach him thinking he's in The Police as he just looked like a pop star, so I approach with caution and say "hey Sting, can I have you autograph please?" to which the guy spits back "fuck off, I'm not Sting, I'm Stewart the drummer" oh, sorry can I have it anyway I ask, "sure, have you got a pen?" says the foulmouthed popstar, erm I didn't so I told him to wait there, scuttled off to the foyer to borrow a pen and came back to him and he kindly signed my Friars membership card 'Stewart' no Copeland or Police drummer, just Stewart.
What always tickled me about this meeting was his utter contempt for even being mistaken for Sting but when they were still on the way up it was an easy mistake to make, The Cramps blew them away that night though - they were truly magnificent.
- That's amazing and hilarious. Seeing both those bands back then would have been amazing. I can see Stewart saying that especially knowin their relationship now.fooler
- Gardener2
I've had some lovely 7" finds recently, thankfully my local car boot carries on all year round so there's always something popping up, though I dunno what I'm missing as I often get there when the sun is up and I know there are diggers there with torches scrambling about in the dark when it opens at 6am. But I had incredible fortune when a guy rang me up out of the blue asking if I was interested in his 7" punk collection. I went round to his house and in all honesty this was the 2nd best punk collection I've ever bought. The first one was in the early 90's when I went round a guys house and said he wanted £100 for everything and there was everything punk related imaginable, including Blitzkrieg Bop in UK pic sleeve, entire runs of The Damned including promos and Stretcher Case, the Pistols, bootlegs etc, it was just nuts and I still have most of that collection in my own 30 years later.
So a few weeks ago this fella rings me up from my shop ad and I go round to his garage and even with a quick flick through I could see there was amazing stuff in 4 big boxes. I asked what he wanted and he said £300 which he said would pay off some bill or other and so I offered him £320 if I could keep the boxes and we were both delighted with the transaction. He said he had even boxes more in his attic and would ring me when he was sorted, but all the stuff I bought from him will keep me sweet for months. I will flip a few as am not really a fan of Sham, Jam or other bands ending in am, but there were so many keepers which I have never come across in so many years of collecting including entire runs of Wire, Swell Maps, The Undertones on Good Vibrations as well as all The Clash/Pistols/Damned etc. I have posted a few below and when I dig deeper will post more.BOOM!
red label 1st issue
first Island logo flip-back
monster rare Japanese debut
UK demo
pre-Clashcar boot bits
folky acetate
When is a record not a record? when it's a party invitation!
I had a lovely present over Xmas (thanks mum) to a 6 month subscription of releases on Library of The Occult Records, and this single arrived as a free taster which was kind of them.
- Gardener1
I picked up an unusual 10" white flexi today in a recycling depot, I've never seen one of these discs pressed on Rhodoïd before. It's also known as guitard paper which is a plastic acetate often used for baking. Production started in 1928 but was halted in 1929 as a result of a government order restricting their sale due to the danger caused by the flammable nature of the celluloid content, this one dates from 1930 and is most definitely non-flammable!
- Gardener2
more punky goodness
Pinky Poly.
Immaculate Remote Control.
Photocopied black square sleeve, one of several variants.
Original press with B side miscredit, sadly no black sleeve.
3 x early Wire including debut.
3 x Wire in pic sleeves including white vinyl.
All 3 x SW releases including album freebie.
White photocopied poster fold-out debut.
- Gardener1
fantastic charity shop find this morning
- Have you ever seen/heard
https://en.wikipedia…microkorg - Prob the most disturbing vinyl I've ever heard. A friend who was into metal and punk as a teen had it. Sometimes we'd mix it with rotterdam hardcore haha.microkorg
- That sounds brilliant!Gardener
- Have you ever seen/heard
- Gardener3
Footage of when I was last at the Mammoth Fair in Reading, Berkshire, I'm back there next Sunday 16th if you're in the area come and say hi!
- fooler2
I bought this this weekend before I saw it in the "Perfect Albums" thread. Sealed when bough but some German gatefold pressing that shouldn't have been as expensive as it was...
- Gardener19
An old bloke in Arbroath rang me earlier to say he was clearing a house and that he'd seen my records wanted card in a shop. He said he didn't know what to do with a big pile of them so was thinking of just dropping them at the tip but asked if I'd like the lot for nothing. So I went and collected a huge sellotape sealed box which is now sitting in the back of my car. I haven't opened it yet as it's fun to imagine wtf is actually in it! So I'll open it tomorrow and spill it's results good or bad here then.
- Impressed with your self restraint! :)mort_
- discipline, and I also have all the stuff I bought on my recent trip south to sort outGardener
- oooooh exciting!scruffics
- I once sold a crate of hard house to a kid who was so happy to have them – i wanted 500 quid but just took a ton off him – go on lad lets have itDaveO
- That's awesome! Let us know if you find any goodies.instrmntl
- Hey. That's not vinyl. That's a box. Who do you think you're fooling?Continuity
- excitingAQUTE
- Will film the opening ceremony lolGardener
- I saw you with the box, what was in the box? No what's in the box? What's in the fucking box?utopian
- It's not a solar garden globe (I am assured)Gardener
- Got any jungle in guy?
https://www.youtube.…dee-dubs - ^ hehmort_
- All Carpenters albumsmisterhow
- and Muppetstimeless
- 100% Fergie MacDonald LpsmrAtor
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- Gardener24
- anyone want a FREE violin album just get in touch ta xGardener
- Ireland Swings - Keys in the bowlmort_
- Dickie Rock swingsmisterhow
- An old bloke in Arbroath seeing red after his 3/10 evaluation.garbage
- Still a fun watch Gardenercanoe
- ;)thenohero
- Scottish violin music, that's quite nice.kingsteven
- excellent camera workkingsteven
- Damn I was hanging on to my Scottish Violin Music Album as an investment but the market just got flooded :(kalkal
- An Oscar for the cameraman!!OBBTKN
- I like gardener.cherub
- this was just what I needed on this shitty Monday – thank you, wholesome!ArchitectofFate
- Gardener1
2 videos in one day, blimey! This one is a walkabout at last weekends huge Reading record fair. At one point I find a stall of 7"s for £2.50 each, this stall was run by old snooker ace Steve Davis. There were so many on his stall that I didn't recognise that I ended up buying none of them, now if they had been 50p...
- if you find any LPs from a leeds based band called "the music" then id gladly buy them from you if the price is right.trooperbill
- will do trooperbillGardener
- lemmy_k0
I found the Return of the Living Dead Clear blood splatter vinyl. Too bad it's such a pain in the ass to post pics here. it's pretty cool.
- Gardener1
I have just had another busy week digging down south in England. I spent one day with friends tramping the charity shops of Milton Keynes in the morning and Northampton in the afternoon with mixed results. There was a fantastic (bloody lucky) 7" find was in a shop in Bletchley in MK, which used to have 11 charity shops on it's high street but as of last weekend that has gone down to 7.
There were regular bargains to be found in The Bakehouse - a vintage stall centre in Northampton which was sadly having a closing down sale, all the albums were £1 a pop and singles 10 for £1.
Best find of the week was this disc by the band who used to back Johnny Kidd sitting in a cheap box with some other mid 60's singles.
Other finds included a lovely tri-fold-out-gate-fold sleeved Robert Wyatt 7" and other delightful oddities.
This one was a promo disc for the record pressing company Damont, both sides are completely blank hence the selling tag '5 minutes of peace'. The only other completely blank disc I have is for The Wit & Wisdom Of Nigel Farage which came out 10 years ago.
I am still the proud owner of the world's oldest football record (a 78rpm disc from 1907) and have quite a large collection of football vinyl, but I pleased to pick this up for 30p in Milton Keynes as I have never seen it before. Several of my discs of FA and League Cup Finals are on albums so it was surprising to find one on a single and with a great sticker on the front that was added to later editions and is quite scarce.
I also came across 3 albums featuring harp music, I was familiar with Dorothy Ashby's work as I have a copy of her excellent Afro-Harping however I was slightly disappointed with this earlier album of hers despite being a bargain at £3.50 but didn't touch me quite as much as the Osian Ellis record which made for a beautiful Sunday afternoon soundtrack.
This was another pleasant surprise which again sounded great this Sunday afternoon, but it may sound bloody awful come Tuesday morning.[img]https://i.imgur.com/wZoQITb...
A market stall find for a fiver, love the different colours on each side of the disc.
- Finest football record ever is the 1982 Scotland World Cup Team 'We have a dream!'.microkorg
- Gardener1
The first 3 albums from my mum's Xmas present, a subscription to LOTO Records which just arrived in the same box, each limited to 100 copies in these colours.
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I had another nice find of 7" records but these ones were mostly 80's Indie, the guy in the second hand shop had over-priced the albums but he said he hates singles (?!) so was doing a big box full at 3 for a tenner. This one was a big surprise as it had special stickers in it which were apparently only available on the first day of release. I mentioned it to a friend and he made me an offer £100 (!!) so I said yes, lol.
- Gardener2
Car booty today found at Errol, Scotland's largest car boot and I got there late!
A guy had 2 tables covered in a House and Trance & dance collection at £3 a pop, there were loads of Deee-Lite, Depth Charge and Warp/Ninja Tune 12"s but these two took my eye and were in great condition.
£1 for this early Brazilian pressing of the second Gilberto Gil album.
This pair were in the same box but got the 2 for a fiver, the Radio Caroline Story is a 5x LP box set.
7" odds & ends included half a dozen by Otway & Barrett including these 3.
I couldn't leave Can-Can by Can for 50p even though I find their version pretty annoying.
6" flexi-disc originally given away with a teen mag in 1974.
- Gardener3
Well, what a weekend down in Milton Keynes, digging in shops and selling/buying at a small record fair in a pub. I had all sorts of finds from 60's Afro-Beat to obscure early 80's synth 7"s. But blowing them all out of the water was this album I came across. I emailed a guy who runs a site specialising in David Bowie autographs after I picked up a copy of Ziggy Stardust. I was hanging around outside the venue where the record fair was and as I had got there 2 hours early got chatting to a bloke who was off loading loads of his own car boot finds and he let me dig into his boot before he unloaded his wares, which included half a dozen Bowie albums. Naturally I bought them all and the copy of Ziggy he had was very clean and also a first press - with the correct credits, no Mainman on the rear of the sleeve etc. I paid him £25 as that was what he wanted but upon closer inspection I noticed a signature on the rear which (to me) looks like it could actually be by the mainman himself. As a longtime fan ( since 1970) I was pretty much blown away by the possibility of having the good fortune to have found a first pressing of this that may have been signed - not something I would ever be able to buy on the open market. When I asked the seller if he knew about the signature he shrugged and said "I dunno mate, could be, I don't care to be honest". However... I thought it would be a good idea to contact Andy Peters who runs a site specializing in db autographs. He wrote to me today to say,
"Good to hear from you. I get hundreds of these requests a month and sadly, they are all either poor attempts or silly scribbles. I’m delighted to say, this is 100% authentic - an incredibly rare find indeed. Bowie signed the rear phone box often as it was the only decent area for a biro. I’d put this signature and LPs value at circa £1000. Always nice to have an Antique Roadshow moment - congratulations!!
Best wishes - Andy"Which is pretty amazing and a once in a lifetime find, right place right time but I know when I go back to the record fair seller and tell him about that Bowie album he sold me he'll just just shrug and say good for you, he really didn't care less either way! I will still buy him a pint or two though.
- nice! not to mention early UK pressings of ziggy are so much better than the US and reissue versions they should be £1000 anyway :Dkingsteven
- fuck yes!scruffics
- Gardener1
I have been digging through an awful lot of 7"s (+ one 5") recently, a few of which I found on my trip down south a week ago when I picked up the signed Ziggy which is now hanging in my front room.
A great new second hand record shop that's just opened in Northampton.
My mate minded my stall while I had a wander about, I got rid of loads of stuff as I tend to accumulate too much stuff, but I am cheap and ruthless at culling.Odds and ends that came into my orbit in Bucks/Northants.
I had no idea about this one but it turned out to be a 1978 Xmas oddity by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye produced by Todd Rundgren.
I'd not heard of this either but liked the name of the band.
Released in 1980 a private pressing from Southampton found in Northampton, the name of this band is Talking Reds.
Also from the same year this debut by a Milton Keynes band, who I remember seeing live several times back in the day.
Schools 7" from 1969 featuring the voice of Eira Heath who worked with Benny Hill and others.
A sweet wee American 5" yellow vinyl sampler for The Yellow Magic Orchestra album Multiples which has a fold-out poster sleeve.
Computer mag flexi freebie from 1988 cunningly titled C-Rap.
At the Milton Keynes record fair there was a dealer with a load of Beatles singles at a fiver a pop which were all pretty tatty tbh, but one caught my eye as it seemed unusual to the others. Turns out to be a ridiculously rare Oriole Contract pressing, distinguished by it's solid centre - 99% copies are push out, but due to the explosion in sales Parlophone called in other pressing plants to cope with demand and these pressings are highly prized (and highly priced) just for having no push-out middle, crackers really. I was aware of it's existence but had never seen one in the wild and the guy who sold it obviously had no idea about it, but hey the cats out of the bag now I have posted about it but good luck finding one!
This charity record by a Scottish beat group issued to raise funds for Aberdeen University was released in 1966 is pretty rare and there were 2 copies of it in the same box! It features a Beatles cover on one side and a great original number on the flip called Hanging Around.
A few of the albums I picked up last weekend, the first 2 original Hollies albums are in superb EX+ but the sweetest surprise was the Harry South album. I had a feeling it might be nice but not quite how nice, it's like VERY nice, a good punt for all 3 at a quid a pop.
- Gardener0
A signed 3 track E.P. from 1973 by wee Rusty. He also appeared in movies including as an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' and as a Jawa in 'Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'. As well as in 'Willow' and 'Flash Gordon' and also 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' and 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
- Gardener1
Bits n bobs that I have picked up in the last few weeks.
I got this for the Pink Floyd cover version (a collecting side hobby if ever there was one) but turns out to be not that different from the original (!?) I was hoping all the tracks would be sung by kids, especially Going Underground but it's more like an old TOTP album of dodgy cover versions. The only copies I could find online were on brown vinyl (appropriate for such a shit album) but for some reason this one is on white vinyl.
I was best pleased with this great pair of compilations of weird garage and freak out 60's singles linked with samples from trash movies & TV, one was a test pressing too.
I got this for the stupid sleeve.
I got this for the sampling possibilities.
Album & single charity shop finds.
First UK pressing from 1970 with no EMI logo on the label.
geddit?!
A classical 8 piece group recorded in Ambisonic UHJ surround-sound, sounds like Radio 4 closedown music.
A one sided promo of electronica & spoken word some copies came with a book, this one doesn't.
An excellent, lost funk & soul gem released on Holyground in 1972. This is John as in John Paul Joans eccentric Led-Zep-member-name-nicking Northern comedian, who made the Top 30 with The Man From Nazareth.
A Beatles cover version which went to #1 in Australia by Elvis Costello's dad, yes really!
In 1979 John Lydon dismissed the writer/performers of this song (aka Hudson/Ford, The Monks, Strawbs etc) on the TV show Juke Box Jury and they tried to get their own back with this lame tune first issued that year. For some weird reason they changed their name 9 years later and reissued it with a B side featuring a faithful cover of John Otway's Oh My Body (Is Making Me), it was still crap.
Lovely 4 track E.P.
