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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 13, 2013 13:42:15 GMT
Whilst I'm pleased to see Banker Bets in the set list I'm a bit confused as it isn't The Best of Jethro Tull, it's the Best of Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. Isn't it? And while I'm on a rant, My Sunday Feeling should be added. Agree. It's a cornerstone of my "Tull thing" and it always send a shiver down my back. 1968 - I was twenty; the time has flown by but this song still has the ability to send me back. Hey just thought - perhaps My Sunday Feeling is part of the key stone allowing time travel Stephen Hawking - eat your heart out I bought "This Was" in a small record shop by West Croydon railway station which was situated where the shop with the red hoarding is in the centre of this image. The record shop closed years ago probably now replaced by a convenience store. Another Tull friendly shop was "Landau's" in Sutton who used to put yellow stickers on every record they sold and these stickers can still be found on records today when looking through discs at record fairs. Landau's was replaced by HMV who then sold it on when they moved to a modern shop on the opposite side of Sutton High Street. The other vinyl haunt of mine was Beanos run by David Lashmar in Croydon which had one of the largest selections of recorded material, of all genres, to be found in London. Fond memories indeed and all now gone - I used to love going in Beanos on a Saturday.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 13, 2013 17:48:59 GMT
Post pics past/present of where you would dash too and queue for the latest release.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 14, 2013 0:45:08 GMT
I used to walk to a record store in Raleigh, North Carolina called "The Record Bar". This was where all my albums came from and especially my first "A Passion Play". Eventually they got less and less which led me to "Peppermint Records" in the 90's. The most recent stores were in Winston Salem called 'Earshot Records'.
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Post by futureshock on Jun 14, 2013 6:38:24 GMT
I don't live in the same town and it's probably out of business, but they did help me out with A Passion Play, as when played at home, it would skip right where the piano slams down around the "all along the icy wastes" part. Took the record to the store, they played it, it was fine, so my parents el cheapo RCA player couldn't handle the dynamics, so of course the solution was to tape a quarter onto the tone arm. Sure, that's hi-fi, bulldozing the vinyl into oblivion. A fine day of irony. APP was probably my first Tull purchase, but had other Tull albums around before that from friends. Yours truly, Scratchy McVinylFracker
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 14, 2013 18:08:29 GMT
Our Welsh duck would have flown down here of a Saturday however he's too young to have queued up for APP in '73 - maybe not Spillers Record Store - the world's oldest record store and still going. www.spillersrecords.co.uk/Also participates, on the really good idea, Record Store Day i44.images obliterated by tinypic/2v7uekj.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 14, 2013 18:50:20 GMT
My own opinion is that although Record Store Day is a great idea, the rules concerning the availability and selling of vinyl before the day itself has got to be "tightened up" by the organisers. For example, the Jethro Tull EP that featured this year along with an LP of the audio of the band from the Isle Of Wight festival 1970 on coloured vinyl (actually a gungy brown and orange - not very attractive, see below) were on sale on ebay a week before the actual day itself and at very high prices, one seller had the EP on ebay at £30 - the actual cost of the EP a week later and on the actual day of the event itself at participating stores, was around £10, I understand. Still a lot of dosh for an EP although it is claimed that there were only 1000 copies pressed (for 1000 read 3000 allegedly) but then I supposed that collecting vinyl is in the blood and it sure beats the hell out of collecting stamps. It's rather like the situation with ticket touts. You wait outside the venue and you're first in the queue but when the venue doors open and you present your money at the booking office, the first two rows have already been taken and you were first in the queue !
Humbug and balderdash
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 18, 2013 8:39:51 GMT
I can’t find a pic of mine obviously it’s long gone and if I posted a pic of where it was it would only show a non-descript building off Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Anyway it was called Listen Records – the usual indie shop although this one prized itself in having staff that were a bit above themselves and gave you a lecture on why you shouldn’t buy certain bands. That didn’t put me off too much as I fancied one of them so I listened adoringly as he told me in a nerd- like, lengthy fashion that Tull were ok but not as good as this latest import of blah de blah… I don’t even have a picture of the record shop that I actually worked in - Virgin Records, Argyle St although it did look a lot like Branson’s first one in London. It was a small, hippy outpost, again staffed by an all-male clique who knew everything there was to know about music however just not talented enough to play it. I was hired to sit in the bay-fronted window (inside- not looking out!) selling baubles, trinkets and patchouli oils. As I grew up in a city there were quite a lot of indie record shops to choose from and they lasted for quite a while as well. This one is still going – The Lost Chord, Park Rd – the psychedelic paintwork having been retouched over the years.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 18, 2013 10:12:59 GMT
Found this on eBay a year ago, from a long forgotten record shop in Argyle St Glasgow (sadly not from my collection) Asking £566 - wonder what they paid for it? i42.images obliterated by tinypic/accwhj.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 18, 2013 15:07:22 GMT
Found this on eBay a year ago, from a long forgotten record shop in Argyle St Glasgow (sadly not from my collection) Asking £566 - wonder what they paid for it? I had a zoom around the web to see what prices equivalent copies of the above have gone for: £450 - March 2013 £487 - May 2013 £293 - May 2008 Even the counterfeit pressing has a "novelty" value $28 - May 2013 £36 - July 2011
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 23, 2013 15:25:52 GMT
I worked in Cheam Village for a couple of years in the middle to late 80s and there was a small independent record shop called "County Radio", on the right hand side of the picture, which used to do a roaring trade as the owner would go out of her way to find unusual releases if she knew what artists a customer collected. The Chrysalis rep used to visit once a week and I got to meet him a few times and managed to blag a preview copy of the Said She Was A Dancer single (release date sticker stating 29 December) and also a copy of the Steel Monkey single with a Chrysalis press release. The shop was sadly replaced in the early 90s and is now I believe a shop selling bric-a-brac and modern antiques.
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