recent vinyl finds
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- Gardener1
I've been picking up stuff for weeks but have been too busy with family affairs to post for a while so have chosen some of the albums I've enjoyed the most in March. There were loads of singles and these ones below are very varied and most came cheap, but then I have been digging in some mucky places but luckily turned up some clean and tidy records.
The 2 recycle depots in Northampton test the patience of the most ambitious digger and it's bloody cold in there.
This is now the only album I have which has Sharkskin drums and Lava rock castanets.
Spanish covers band The Experience Group bravely taking on 5 Pink Floyd tunes on this 1978 release, they also went on to have a go at ABBA, KISS and Supertramp on other releases. This mini-album complete with various misspelled tracks comes in a fancy inner sleeve promoting a German bandleader.
Lovely 1st UK pressing, a few years ago I had no Lightnin' Hopkins records now I have six, a promising trend.
This AFX release in it's original stickered brown paper bag turned up in a lot of techno 12"s I won in an auction a few weeks back.
I already had a tatty copy of his UK debut album so it was great to pick up an excellent upgrade, I got this from the same collection as the earlier posted Elvis album.
These were in the same box at a car boot but despite being in excellent condition the Chill Out had no sleeve, I'll cope.
I even had a big clear out of albums from my garage a couple of weeks ago, all £2 each 3 x £5 and did really well, but they have been sitting there all winter. I'm doing another car boot this weekend to get rid of the rest & more in Tayport, Fife, so if you're in the area bring a fat purse!
I did spend some of my ill gotten gains on this repress off a dodgy fella at the same boot, it sounds amazing.
- Gardener0
Best car boot find this morning, yes it was that bad, I've not seen or heard this before and I wasn't aware he even did a football record. The puppet was obviously more talented than is usually given credit for as he/she/it's actually given a writing credit for the A side. I met them both when I was 14, oh dear...
- Gardener0
Fabulous charity shop find earlier today, a South African 10" folder, housing 2 booklets, a 7" single and 16 Kodak slides.
- hans_glib1
omg i've just found out what (or rather who) lies behind the iconic "a porky prime cut" that's scratched into the run-off on many of my singles & albums.
i always assumed it was a seal of approval, but it turns out it was the sign-off of one george peckham, a master lacquer-cutter back in the day.
Wikipedia:
British lacquer-cutting and mastering engineer, George Peckham, better known as "Porky" (as in "a Porky prime cut"), born 1942.
He has had an illustrious career including work on the catalogues of Genesis, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Whitehouse. He started his career in disc-cutting as a trainee at Apple in November 1968, and his signature can be found in the deadwax/runout grooves on many rock, punk, post-punk, and new-wave records.
Porky often included cryptic / humorous messages in these etchings (e.g., "you'll never work again" on the A-side of The Fall - Totale's Turns (It's Now Or Never)).
new fact for today!
- Gardener0
I am bidding on something incredible in an auction right now, I will be blown away if I do win it, I'll know by Thursday...
- Gardener0
I won another huge collection of House, Dub, Techno and Electronica 12" singles and albums earlier in the week. There were many highlights, Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Jah Shaka etc, but the mightiest twelve of the lot was inside a plain white sleeve and I never knew it was there until I got the collection home, I paid £420 for them but I think finding this beast made the expense worthwhile.
- Gardener0
More records from my recent Techno haul from which a collector in UK who ships overseas has already paid £700 for 80% of the lot, but I have kept plenty for myself, such as...
I saw them live several times in the 90's, twice at all-nighters, but never bought their stuff on vinyl and playing this out live the other evening reminded me of how great they were*
*on drugs, lol[https://i.haasie.com/Y7U.jpg
Another great band from the same era, funnily enough this wee plastic ticket fell out of an old 12" sleeve recently and I have fond memories of the night. There were live sets from Transglobal Underground, Natacha Atlas, Loop Guru, Fun-Da-Mental and other nation Records artists, they were all pretty amazing to see in such a small venue.
A great banging double set.
I'd not seen/heard of these two twelves before, but I was very impressed.
A nice pair of RDJ related releases, the SAW Vol II was a brown triple!
Richard D. James crops up again as Polygon Window on this early Warp compilation.
I'm a sucker for fancy formats and this un-named silver disc turned out to be the only release by the artist known as Death, aka German DJ Thomas P. Heckmann.
Also lurking in the lot were several Dub compilations including these two beauties.- sorry for the tag around https://i.haasie.com…Gardener
- keepers!!canoe
- Gardener0
I've been moving 78's around my studio, from one corner of the room to the other (ha) and came across my box of Durium discs. These were brown 10" card backed, flexible synthetic resin 78rpm discs that were made for only a couple of years in the early 1930's. These 2 are my favourites as they feature uncredited vocals by the great Al Bowlly. I bought these at a car boot in Northampton years ago and they came in this original shop bag. They were both released in 1932.
- fooler1
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
20th Anniversary Limited Deluxe Gatefold Edition
INCLUDES HEAVY METAL ORIGINAL VERSION 7" FLEXIDISC
PEEL OFF GECKO STICKERS TO DESIGN YOUR OWN ALBUM ARTWORK
ALBUM ARTWORK COLOURED SPLATTER VINYL.
- Gardener1
found this oddity out and about / tuoba dna tuo ytiddo siht dnuof
- love a reverse-groove.1979, later than i would have thought.kingsteven
- Gardener7
I got a call and went to visit a woman in town who said her husband died 3 years ago and that she wanted to get rid of his collection which was now in the garage. She told me she planned to put them into auction sometime but as she saw my ad offered me the chance to take what I wanted for £5 each. So I spent over £1,500 and she was very happy with that, even inviting me to come back in a few weeks before they all get carted off to auction and the pictured selection is just a quarter of what there was. She said just wants shot of them and doesn't care about their possible value, but I didn't take the piss, I basically took what I actually wanted to keep as there were so many I had never seen before and I have been collecting for over 40 years! There were whole runs of Tom Waits, Cure, Soft Machine, Nick Drake, tons of reggae, punk, jazz and folk, sometimes it was like flipping through my own collection. So these pictured are just a few of the ones I have been listening to and enjoying in the last week or so, but I'm looking forward to going back again and digging deeper. I left thousands of CD's, box sets, so many unopened, but I can't even imagine when I'd get the time to listen to the entire Spooky Tooth back catalogue for example. The experience has also made me reconsider what I should keep of my own collection, so many of his were in such good condition I have upgraded many of my own and so will be doing a big cull to make room for his and put ones of mine I have not played for years back into the wild, what goes around comes around.
Excellent late 70's comp produced by Hal Willner, which came with a label catalogue.
Another great compilation, this one of mid 70's progressive Virgin artists.
Lots of Robert Wyatt related records including all his solo albums and appearances like on these three.
I left all the Steve Miller related albums as I pretty much have them all, but I had not seen this soundtrack before.Other odd ones I liked to look of.
This double on Dead Oceans was a sweet surprise too.- Curious... What is your most expensive (value) vinyl? Do you ever find some gems in these collections you get? Just wondering. :)hydro74
- I sold my most valuable one a few years ago : https://gripsweat.co…Gardener
- I still have super rare stuff squirreled away of course lolGardener
- The Banksy sold to a Paris art gallery, I took the kids on holiday with the proceedsGardener
- those matching mole records have been on my wantlist forever... i'm sure i remember watching an interview with zoot horn rollo recently where he mentionedkingsteven
- that virgin compilation.kingsteven
- That Bill Fay. He has the best Jesus etc cover, but There is a Valley is one of those hits. Great find.garbage
- "the fury of the moment they felt, but could only silently look above" is something I wish wasn't relevant right now.garbage
- soul investigators are great (much like lots of other stuff on the Timmion label) and quite recent. he must have been collecting all the way up until he passedscruffics
- Gardener0
he Good, The Bad and The Ugly as far as recent 7" finds go
I guess it's not all that surprising that I come across such Scottish oddities as these 2 now, I never used to find records like these digging down south in middle England.
The debut 7" release by the actor/footballer who was sent off 12 times in his career and still holds the record for the quickest ever booking in a football match, bless.
Incredible to think that records were still being reissued in the mid 50's, this music hall singer had been making records like these for over 50 years by then.
An original UK Records (as in Jonathan King UK) 7" acetate recorded by Noele Gordon who starred as Meg Richardson in the classic ITV soap Crossroads, like WoW.
The first of only 2 singles released by the Scottish New Wave rockers.
I love finding odd mis-presses like these and when I come across one on a label like RCA of course secretly hope it's Bowie or Elvis before I turn it over, but it turned out to be...
which is still Ok tbh
Odd Scottish one this, I like the idea of putting a raffle ticket ticket inside a sleeve, but the previous owner of this 7" couldn't be arsed to post it off.
- Gardener0
A couple of odd 7"s turned up, I could have saved posting the top one until it's 50th anniversary next year but then thought, whatever.
Commemorative 7" with etchings on both sides to celebrate EMI Records Open Day weekend in May 1977.
I was very pleased with this one. The Minack Theatre is an open-air venue built into a cliffside, four miles from Lands End, I've never seen another copy before and it also came with it's original insert.
