Archive for the 'Latest vinyl finds' Category
Latest vinyl finds – Aug. 2010
The Association, The Association 6th (1970; still sealed)
Pat Benatar, In the Heat of the Night (1979)
Pat Benatar, Tropico (1984)
Blue Rodeo, Diamond Mine (1989)
The Cars, Shake it Up (1981)
Cheap Trick, At Budokan (1978)
Bill Cosby, Why is there air?
ELP, Works (1977) – excellent copy
Fanny, Fanny debut (1970)
Foghat, Foghat (1972)
Gameface, Three to Get Ready (1995)
Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie’s [...]
Latest vinyl finds – July 2010
Picked up a few from a local person who’s moving out west and can’t bring the heavy records (turns out he’s an assistant audio engineer and is now working on the Crannberries new album). He had a few 180gram reissues as well that I picked up (although I’m always hesitant about whether reissues will be [...]
Read More..>>Latest vinyl finds – June 2010
Mostly two bucks a piece:
Argent, All Together Now (1972)
Maggie Bell, Queen of the Night (1974)
James Brown, Hell (1976)
Eric Burdon (of Animals), Stop (1975)
Johnny Cash, Songs of Our Soil (1959)
Johnny Cash, Ride This Train (1960)
Johnny Cash, Orange Blossom Special (mono, 1965)
Chubby Checker, For Twisters Only (1962)
Chubby Checker, For Teen Twisters Only (1962)
Clancy Brothers, In Person at [...]
Latest vinyl finds – May 2010
Animals, Greatest Hits (1964-68 [1969])
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Blood, Sweat, and Tears 2nd (1968)
Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man (1965 [RE])
The Call, Reconciled (1986)
Sam Cooke, The One and Only (1968)
Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Where Have I Known You Before (1974)
Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Duke Ellington, The Music of Duke Ellington Played by [...]
Latest vinyl finds April 2010
At the very end of the month I lucked out when I found a pile of Jazz (mainly original pressings from the 1950s and 1960s) at the antique market at amazing prices:
Allman Brothers, Duane and Greg Allman = 31st of February demos (1968)
Alphaville, Forever Young (1984)
Louis Armstrong, The Genius of Louis Armstrong, Volume 1: 1923-1933 [...]
Latest vinyl finds March 2010
Beatles, Please Please Me (1963a; mono 1987 release)
Beatles, With the Beatles (1963b; mono 1987 release)
Beatles, Meet the Beatles (1964; stereo US version of With the Beatles)
Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Original Motion Picture Sound Track (1964)
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever ago (2008)
Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)
Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
Clash, Give ‘Em Enough Rope [...]
Latest vinyl finds Feb 2010
Argent, In Deep (1973)
The Association, Greatest Hits (1966-68)
Jeff Beck, There and Back (1980)
The Call, Let the Day Begin (1989)
Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)
Van Morrison, Veedon Fleece (1974)
Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
Pavel Sysoyev, Soviet Funk volume 1 (1971-76 [2009]; Secret Stash)
Jeremy Taylor, producer, Reggae Interpretations of Kind of Blue (1981 [2009]; Secret [...]
Latest vinyl finds Jan. 2010
Long John Baldry, Everything Stops for Tea (1972 – John and Stewart produced)
The Band, The Last Waltz (WB; 1978)
Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert, Carmine Appice (1973)
Johnny Cash, Hymns By Johnny Cash (1959)
Miles Davis, Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)
Miles Davis / Thelonius Monk, At Newport (1958, 1963)
Stan Getz, Big Band Bossa Nova (1962)
Lone Justice, [...]
Latest vinyl finds Dec. 2009
Last week I lucked out in finding two very friendly and generous people who simply wanted someone to enjoy the music they had on vinyl without making money on the deal. And so I’ve picked up a large load of LPs in absolutely perfect condition (God bless the people who recorded their records to reel-to-reel [...]
Read More..>>Latest vinyl finds – Nov 2009
Jackpot! Just bought a load of LPs in perfect condition from someone who advertized on a local classified site and who wasn’t worried about making much money from the deal (he just wanted someone to listen to his records).
Now also a few more from the local antique market.
Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball Adderley and Friends (1973)
Dave Alexander, [...]
Latest vinyl finds – October 2009
Allman Brothers Band, Brothers and Sisters (1973)
Aztec Camera, Knife (1984)
Aztec Camera, Love (1987)
Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds featuring Jeff Beck (1964-66 [1976])
Jeff Beck, Truth / Beck-Ola combo (1969 – had Truth but needed Beck-Ola)
Julian Cope, World Shut Your Mouth EP (1986)
Elvis Costello, Spike (1989)
Brian Eno, Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1979) — finally I’ve got an [...]
Latest vinyl finds – Sept. 2009
801,801 Live (with Eno and Manzanera; 1976)
Band, Cahoots (1971)
Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight (2 LP; 1955-65 [1984])
Blondie, Eat to the Beat (1979)
Dave Brubeck, Time Out (stereo; 1959)
Dave Brubeck, Time Further Out (mono; 1961)
Dave Brubeck, My Favorite Things (1962)
Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield (2LP compilation; 1973)
The Call, The Call (1982; out of print – still sealed!)
Chieftans, debut [...]
Latest vinyl finds – From Stephen Stills and Roberta Flack to The Faces and Chet Atkins (Aug./09)
A good lot of records this month, with many in near mint condition bought for .50 cents a piece (including Stephen Still’s debut that includes Hendrix and Clapton on a tune each):
Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allan Poe (1976)
Alan Parsons Project, Pyramid (1978)
Joan Armatrading, Joan Armatrading (1976)
Joan Armatrading, Show Some [...]
Latest vinyl finds – Donovon, The Band and others (July/09)
So far for July:
The Band, Stage Fright (1970)
The Band, Moondog Matinee (1973)
Harry Belafonte, Calypso (1956)
Harry Belafonte, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (LIving Stereo; 1959)
Harry Belafonte, Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (Living Stereo; 1960)
Dave Brubeck, Jazz: Red, Hot and Cool (CL 699; 1955)
Dave Brubeck, Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A. (CL 984; 1956)
Dave Brubeck, Brubeck Plays Brubeck (CL [...]
Latest vinyl finds – Hendrix, the Clash, and Shankar (06/09)
Jeff Beck, Truth (1969 – better copy)
Harry Belafonte, This is Harry Belafonte (1970)
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (1974) (new copy USA, without “Best Buy”)
David Bowie, Young Americans (1975)
Dave Brubeck, Right Now! (1967)
The Call, Into the Woods (1987)
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (1967)
Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton (1970)
Eric Clapton, Clapton (1973)
The Clash, London Calling (1979)
The Clash, Combat Rock [...]
Latest vinyl finds – From King Crimson and Roxy Music to Tom Waits and Stevie Wonder
Here are my latest (all in near mint playing condition), I’m especially glad to have found Tom Waits and Roxy Music, which are hard to find.
David Bowie, Hunky Dory (1971)
The Call, Scene Beyond Dreams (1984 – never released on CD)
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (1974)
Fifty-Four Fourty, Show Me (1987)
King Crimson, In the Wake of [...]
Latest vinyl finds, or jackpot – From Dylan and the Band to Van Morrison and Strawbs
Someone who was quite obviously obsessive in record collecting (he has over 1500 records with four copies of a particular LP in some instances — whether he listened to them much is hard to tell) is selling his collection locally (for $2 a piece). I have managed to get quite a few LPs (most in [...]
Read More..>>Latest vinyl finds (Feb 2009) – Shawn Phillips to Bowie
David Bowie, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
Neil Diamond, Tap Root Manuscript (1970)
Shawn Phillips, Collaboration (1971)
The Roches, The Roches (Fripp produced; 1979)
Latest vinyl finds (01/09) – From Jeff Beck to Blondie
Trading in some of the surplus LPs (doubles and unwanteds) from buying peoples’ collections, I picked up the following for “free” at local record stores:
Jeff Beck, The Jeff Beck Group (1972)
Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live (1977)
Blondie, Autoamerican (1980)
Elton John, Honky Chateau (1972)
Elton John, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy [...]
Latest vinyl finds Dec 20/08 – From Patti Smith Group and Dire Straits to Strawbs
I just bought another well-kept set of records through the local classifieds at one buck a piece. Although there are several genres, you will notice a rather progressive theme in that person’s collection. Both Strawbs and Wishbone Ash were new to me, but I like them for what they are. Finally I have a mint [...]
Read More..>>Latest vinyl finds – From Creedence Clearwater Revival to Tom Waits
Picked these up at a new booth in an antique mall in Cambridge, ON. I’m planning on posting on Wait’s Swordfishtrombones, which absolutely astounds me (especially since it doesn’t sound like 1983).
The Call, Modern Romans (1983).
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo’s Factory (1970).
Roxy Music, Siren (1975)
Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones (1983).
Latest vinyl finds – From Neil Young and John Stewart to the Specials (Summer and Fall 2008)
I’ve been woefully neglectful of this blog for a while, but I do hope to return to regular posts at some point (but the imminently arriving baby may delay that further). (My excuse is that I’ve been finishing up two books I’ve been writing lately, and I do have to lecture). Anyways, in the mean [...]
Read More..>>Latest vinyl finds (05/08/23)
Arcade Fire, Funeral
The (English) Beat, Wha’ppen (1981)
Bruce Cockburn, Big Circumstance (1988)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Armed Forces (1978)
The Fixx, Shuttered Room (1982)
Steve Miller Band, Abracadabra (1982)
Charles Mingus, Mexican Moods (1979)
Red Rider, As Far as Siam (1981)
Rush, Rush (1977)
Santana, Freedom (1987)
Paul Simon, One Trick Pony (1980)
Sly Stone, High on You (1975)
U2, Unforgettable Fire (1984)
Latest vinyl finds (05/08)
Jeff Beck, Truth (1968).
David Bowie, Low (1977) and Heroes (1977).
Kate Bush, Lionheart (1978), Never Forever (1980), The Dreaming (1982), Hounds of Love (1985).
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Déjà Vu (1969).
Earth, Wind and Fire, Gratitude (1975).
Brian Eno, Music for Films (1978), Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983).
Robert Fripp, Exposure (1979).
Fripp and Eno, No Pussyfooting (1973).
Al Green, [...]
Latest vinyl finds (12/07)
I just bought another person’s collection of records in mint condition, including:
AC/DC, Back in Black (1980)
The Beatles, Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), White Album (1968), Abbey Road (1969), Let it Be (1970)
Berlin, Count Three and Pray (1986)
The Buddy Holly Story
The Doors, 13 (1970)
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac (1975)
Marvin Gaye, Anthology (3 discs; [...]
Latest vinyl finds (11/07)
I just picked up a number of LPs in mint condition at two bucks a piece:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tarkus (1971) and Trilology (1972).
Roberta Flack, First Take (1969) and Killing Me Softly (1973).
Peter Gabriel, Plays Live (1983).
Mike and the Mechanics, Living Years (1988).
Pat Metheny Group, Still Life (Talking) (1987).
Sade, Promise (1985).
Santana, Moonflower (1977).
Simple Minds, Sons [...]
Latest vinyl finds: From the Beatles to Stevie Wonder and Supertramp
Once again I have managed to purchase for a pittance an entire collection of about 300 records (mostly in mint condition), including:
The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965), Hey Jude (1970), Let it Be (1970).
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country (1969).
Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive! (1976)
Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973).
Supertramp, Crime of the Century (1974), Breakfast [...]
Latest vinyl finds: From Brian Eno to Art Tatum and Buddy de Franco
Eric Clapton, Backless (1978).
Brian Eno, Before and After Science (1977).
Brian Ferry, Another Time, Another Place (1974).
Genesis, Live (1974).
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973).
Paul Simon, One-Trick Pony (1980).
Simple Minds, Life in a Day (1982).
Art Tatum, Buddy de Franco, Red Callender, and Bill Douglass, The Tatum Group Masterpieces (1975 [1956]).
Lastest vinyl finds: King Crimson to Dave Brubeck
This past long weekend we were camping near Ottawa and dropped by a local flea market. As usual, I had my eye out for records and it seemed generally disappointing (the usual scratched up LPs or Barbara Streisand or Neil Diamond). But then at the last moment I lucked out (all in mint [...]
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