2013 scores

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These are all from the same Goodwill over two trips, I'll try to stop back again to see what else they've put out:

Javier Vazquez Y Su Salsa - "Javier"
Justo Betancourt - s/t
Yolanda Del Rio - Se Me Olvido Otra Vez
Heleno - s/t
Los Hijos Del Ray con Fernandito Villalona
Sonora Ponceña‎ - Tiene Pimienta
Vicentico Valdes - Amor Y Felicidad
Tito Puente - Homenaje A Beny
Brown Express - Pilares de Cristal
Hugo Blanco Y Su Conjunto - Las Gaitas de Simón
Frederic Hand - Baroque And On The Street
Mach 1 (The United States Air Force Rock Group) - Down To Earth

Those look really great! I have the Mach 2 Air Force record, it's ok, sort of. Is 1 decent?

ehh, not that great really. I mean, if it was a free concert in a park somewhere I would probably be like "passable ABACAB cover" but not something anyone really needs to listen to

Yolanda Del Rio is awesome, Vicentico Valdes is great too, produced by noted swanky cat LeRoy Holmes

went to a local place cuz i heard the guy got good folk/bluegrass and picked up a bunch of Ian records cheap/wholesale. good deal all around. good folk/fiddle/blues/etc. my kinda deal.

awww maaannnnn i looooooove old music

i can't really buy too many recrds right now. gotta sell stuff..

its cool. my customers will dig them. already made tentative price list. gonna put them out tomorrow. plus, you already have most of them.

Riley puckett – bear family – ebay
carter family border radio – 10
bristol sessions – 15
doc souchon – 15
mountain songs – 8
new lost city folkways – 15
chet parker folkways – 10
fleming brown – 15
burt porter fretless - ?
obray ramsey – 20
last chance the homefolks – 6
roy harper old homestead – 6
harold & abe – 6
appalachians – 6
song of the chanter – 10
eddie poirier – ebay
banjo-istics – ebay
rev hunkler banjo – ebay
clawhammer county – 10
mountain banjo – ebay
toss the feathers – 10
song of the chanter – 10
how sweet the sound – 15
bob franke – 8
red rector – 10
armstrong twins – 10
charlie poole vol 2- 12
old-time southern dance music – 10
old time tunes from coal creek – ebay
old time southern dance music string bands – old-timey – ebay
skillet lickers county – 8
new lost city ramblers 20 years – 10
talking blues john greenway folkways – sealed – ebay
mississippi sheiks volume 2 matchbox – 20
blind lemon son house biograph – 10
tom shaw blind lemon's buddy – ebay
aldus roger plays the french music of south louisiana – ebay
asch recordings volume two – 15
philo glee and mandoline society – ebay
southerners plus two play ralph page – 10
new dimensions in banjo and bluegrass – 6
pete steele folkways – 15/20
foksongs of the louisiana acadians arhoolie - 15

also got HIGH MOUNTAIN HOEDOWN record on atco for me. ruralpsychssw. never heard it.

everything so clean. just bag it and tag it. old store stock. from some old boston folkie store.

oh duuuuude. "picking berries" on the high mountain hoedown record is gonna be your JAM. i love that song.

there are a lot of good records in that list. i don't think i need any of them though!

see, i told you. just good store stuff. the other local-ish guy is happy. i'm happy. everyone is happy.

he had some nice celtic/cape breton records but i still have a bunch of that stuff and i wasn't really buying for ebay. just getting some cheap-ish nice stuff to throw into the store. the stuff i have listed for ebay i could just sell in the store but i figure it never hurts to see what i can get for bear family and private banjo records. that tom shaw record on blue goose goes for some cash. but i might just put it out in the store anyway. people are always dying for decent blues records around here.

we took a trip to beantown today - or cambridge anyway - to buy CDs from an awesome ilxor and i stopped in cheapo records. they have a lot of, uh, stuff...they definitely have HUNDREDS of dollar records that i own priced at 5 or 6 bucks. and they have this HUGE section in the back devoted to ancient bear family box sets! very strange. the prices are ancient too. the whole back room is filled with old sealed budget bin records. kinda cool. i got three henry cow records sealed. original pressings. 10 bucks each. they had more if you are ever in the area. seemed like a good deal to me. anyway, i didn't get out of there crushed by the weight of my purchases. but i found enough skot stuff to keep me happy. spent a hundred bucks total and 30 of that was henry cow action.

marti shannon - you were on my mind (rca victor - 1966) (couldn't resist the cover. so beautiful. the lettering, marti, her pose, everything.)

those x-cleavers - cult statis (permanent records - 1987) (wisconsin weirdos. i have this on tape.)

soft machine - alive & well - recorded in paris (harvest - 1978)

rabindra - all i see is you (takoma) (my pal doug decker engineering and working his buchla magic!)

paul jones - crucifix in a horseshoe (london) (was happy to get this for five bucks. vertigo copies sell for $$$ and i never see them anyway. needed it for my thomas jefferson kaye collection.)

mick greenwood - living game (decca) (five bucks. i own it, maybe i'll gift it to someone.)

country - s/t (clean records - 1971) (couldn't remember if i had this or not.)

keith christmas - brighter day (manticore - 1975)

country coalition - s/t (bluesway) (sealed copy for five bucks.)

johnny melfi - johnnymelfi's sun...sun...sun...album (pyramid - 1977)

thomas & richard frost - s/t (uni - 1972)

babe ruth - amar cabballero (harvest)

atlantis - get on board (vertigo - 1975)

dallas county - s/t (enterprise)

morganmasondowns - s/t (roulette) (another one i was really happy to get for five bucks. i never see this record. my kinda stuff. most of the stuff i got had obviously been in the store a LONG time. old price stickers on top of even older price stickers. its the final markdown. god only knows how long those henry cow records had been there. all that sealed stuff looked like it had lived back there for years. maybe they started out with 50 henry cows each.)

i mean they aren't really big on "condition" there but i'm sure i could have found more bargains if i had dug longer. they had big dance 12 inch and rap 12 inch sections but i hardly ever pay real world prices for 12 inches. tons of boxes of 45s under the counters that i wasn't gonna bother going through. if i had hours to kill maybe i would have. the new arrivals section didn't really have anything for me. some good funky/jazzy stuff but nothing i needed to spend 10 or 15 bucks on.

someone came in talking about the goodwill store and soul records and maria and the kids went there and maria said a record dude was buying up tons of stuff there so i guess i missed the real score action by a block today.

bert jansch - nicola
coon creek girls - early radio favorites
carter family - gospel songs by (volume 3 of old homestead's border radio series)

dollar flea market records --
teena marie - it must be magic
herb alpert - rise

"rotation" on that herb record might be even better than the biggie sample.

lets see what did i get here...

Pigmeat Markham - Open The Door Richard
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
Ralph Macdonald - Counterpoint
Kirsten Flagstad in Purcell's Dido And Aeneas with members of the Mermaid Theatre Company, London Geraint Jones, conductor
Bill Dana - Jose Jimenez The Submarine Officer

and a dope box of 45s ($15 including the aqua porta-pak)

Redbone / O'Jays / Isley Brothers / Percy Mayfield / Eddie Carlton / Knuckle Busters - "Authentic Ring-Side Sounds" / Irma Thomas / The Townsmen / Henry Gross / Maxine Weldon / The Amazing Spiderman - Invasion of the Dragonmen (no book) / Bay City Rollers / Eric Carmen / Larry Jon Wilson / The Fabulous Echoes / Reno & Smiley / The Naturals / Bill Duncan and the Harmony Mountain Boys / Nancy Ames / Pamela Beaty / David Casidy / Carpenters / The Rocky Fellers / The Reactions / Charlie Moore and Bill Napier / Roy Hamilton / Captain And Tenille / MILES DAVIS / Barbara Fairchild / Love Unlimited Orchestra / The Three Degrees / Elves Pressly / Electric Light Orchestra / Johnny Winter / Cicero Blake / Olivia Newton-John (peace 2 bimble forever) / ABBA / The Bishops / Ohio Players / Morris Albert / Billy Paul / Bee Gees / Soul Survivors / Ruth and Shery (A Ray Vernon Production!) / The Wonderful Ones / Harlem Globetrotters Magicians of Basketball by special arrangement with the Tempo Record Co. of America Featuring Brother Bones

patrick vian - bruits et temps analogues
norman blake - whiskey before breakfast
pure bathing culture - moon tides
slow walkers - s/t (liz harris and lawrence english collab!)

boy do i love norman blake!!

ebay/discogs

girls at our best! - go for gold! 7"
rain parade - you are my friend 7"
? & the mysterians - 96 tears 7"
zeros (UK) - hungry 7"
women in prison - strange waves 7"
thrilled skinny - not half an EP 12"
john wilkes booze - the heliocentric views of the john wilkes booze LP
marbles - I love summer days 7"
frightwig - cat farm faboo LP

gigs

sun children sun - s/t 7"
formby channel - plums 7"
martin & the brownshirts - taxi driver 7"
active minds - turn back the tide of bigotry LP
active minds - the lunatics have taken over the asylum 7" flexi
active minds - it's perfectly obvious that this system doesn't work LP
active minds - behind the mask 7"
kulturkampf - caught in an evil web of violence LP
FUK - new wave of british punk rock LP
FUK - bad drugs competition 7"
intelligence - fake surfers LP
vivian girls - s/t LP
hard skin - on the balls LP
sic alps - a long way round to a shortcut 2xLP
(split) human junk + lich - 5"
urban blight - total war 7"
government warning - executed 7"
(split) lotus fucker + wankys - 7"
(split) despise you + agoraphobic nosebleed - and on and on... LP
va - human 7"
cosmonauts - if you wanna die then I wanna die LP

charity shop

chic - dance, dance, dance (yowsah, yowsah, yowsah) 7"

and I helped my friend load some stuff into his van and he gave me

discharge - hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing LP

1st pressing but it was really badly scratched up on side 2, but it actually plays fine!

that's because its an indestructible record made out of fire and blood.

This is true.

Reminds me I should message my friend and tell him because he insisted it was unplayable. He didn't really know what it was, I think he got it in a job lot of records he was trying to sell off on ebay. It's not rare at all but he could've probably get a fiver for it in that condition. I mean obv he gave it me for doing him a favour but he's on disability so I wouldn't've taken it if I thought it was worth any money. And I have it on CD already anyway but I'm def happy to have it on vinyl.

<50 cents each at the humboldt state univ record sale, all in SICK condition, except a few sticker and marker situations cause theyre ex libris...

these are highlights:

eddie russ -- fresh out (this version)
eddie russ -- take a look at yrself
vox pop -- the band the myth the volume
weldon irvine -- in harmony
the 24-carat black -- ghetto:...
maxayn -- s/t
larry ridley -- sum of the parts
robb kunkel -- abyss
shamek farrah & folks -- la dee la la
songs from suicide bridge (claimed by ian LOL)
mahmoud ahmed -- ere mela mela
v/a -- songs the swahili sing
stains -- s/t
suzanne ciani -- seven waves (test press)
social climbers -- s/t
daniel hecht -- fireheart
jerry harris -- don't stop (wackie's 12")
arthur blythe -- bush baby
bayete -- worlds behind the sun
bayete -- seeking other beauty
jones/johnson -- liberation of the contemp gtr (strata)
brass company -- colors (strata)
jayne cortez -- celebrations (strata)
leslie drayton -- our music is your music
john betsch society -- earth blossom (strata)
vangelis o -- earth
gene mcdaniels -- natural juices
janet smith -- the unicorn
legendary pink dots -- crushed velvet
temple of the dog -- s/t
temple of the dog -- pushin fwd back 12"
slint -- tweez
two -- waiting for winter 12"
kamal abdul alim -- dance
tree spirit -- s/t
leon spencer -- where im coming from
stone alliance -- s/t
globe unity -- improvisations
henry cowell -- homage to iran
evan parker at the finger palace
rhythm & faith -- time to run
ripple -- s/t (promo)
silva/celestial comm orch -- the shout
scott seskind -- s/t
nip drivers -- oh blessed freak show
landlords -- hey its a teenage house party
larry jon wilson -- sojourner
stinky toys -- plastic faces
the muffins -- manna/mirage
rat at rat r -- s/t
rat at rat r -- amer$ide...
terry-t -- the oaktown sound
the 3 pieces -- vibes of truth
synthesis -- sentiments
rosenbloom -- souls of chaos
sex clark five -- strum and drum!
phil ranelin -- love dreams
swervedriver -- reel to reel
jimmy silva -- remnants...

20-30 more for selling modestly. 159 total, $75 total. WTF DUDES

fuckin california man...

that Nip Drivers record is a total classic, so good. I treasure my copy and it beats the shit out of the CD reisssue.

that's cool stuff! did you leave a ton of stuff? i love that ripple album. it was made for me kinda.

jesus
i went to a 50 cent sale and got some good stuff, but not that kind of good stuff. it was like 30% christmas music so of the remaining 70% i only wanted a tiny portion. there were a LOT of late 90s/early 00s rap 12" which is fine but i don't really have any need for them.

pete always makes norcal seem like the golden land of record hunting. i swear everytime he & @nn13 drive outta SF he's coming back with piles of amazing records..

i got that robb kunkel for a few bucks this week but i think i'm gonna sell it.. a couple great tracks and a lot that leaves me a bit cold. but just.. wow. all that strata stuff. and rat at rat r. and larry jon wilson!

won this 78 on ebay for cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHAn38swqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fmj0nw49As

this might actually be my dollar find of the day. nice shape too.

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=330954877167

ian do you have the morganmasondowns record i mentioned upthread? think you might dig it.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20130130/251221495715.jpg

i don't have it, skot. should i look for it on ebay? that good?
i'm not buying many records these days..

if there's a korean CD that means i will never afford it unless i find it underpriced at a store or at a thrift..

there's a copy on ebay, low starting bid, i'll give it a shot.

its not like you can't live without it. its just a nice record.

if my record collection was JUST records i COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT it would only be like 50 records or so, probably...

christ, that score...i feel like every time i come across a pristine load of 50 cent lps it's always some worthless streisands or humperdincks.

that's a lot of money right there too! not to be crass, but i mean...for real. some 40-50-60 dollar records. and some more than that. i've never heard of the scott seskind record and i see it sells for 50/60.

that stone alliance record sells for a ton too. oh my.

The Stains LP is worth a ton I think?

pete's charmed life should not be considered indicative of the nor cal record landscape at large. i follow him around just hoping to get a sniff of the fumes. or i tell him a place that has records, he goes and finds the secret hidden cabinet full of sick records i left behind.

Great scores Pete!! That Scott Seskind record is a total score! Is that phil ranelin as good as his other records?

Record digging in south east texas the last few days, a dollar each or less!
Patterson & Pults - Second Time Around (Up To Snuff) Sealed!!
Mexia State School Sunshine Group - A Reason To Sing (Custom)
The Plainsmen - S/T (No Label) Country bar band
Ned Doheny - S/T (Asylum) Nice minty copy
Willis Alan Ramsey S/T (Shelter) finally a red label first pressing in shrink beautiful copy!
The Sunglows - The Original Peanuts (Siesta)
Texas Trilogy - No Refund (No Label) Texas country bar band
Cathy Young - A Spoonful Of ( Mainstream)
Little Joe and The Latinaires - Amor Bonito (El Zarape)
De Hernandez De Little Joe - Los carnales (Buena Suerte)
Little Joe and The Latinaires - Mas!!! Arriba (Buena Suerte)
Little Joe & La Familia - Live For Schlitz (Freddie)
Ramiro - S/T (no Label)
Oscar Y Leonard - Y La Mafia (Carino)
Los Angeles Negros - Y Volvere (Parnaso)
Los Hombres - No Deben Llorar (Orfeon)
Trio Los Panchos - Canta Pedro Flores (Columbia)
Roberto Carlos - En Castellano (Caytronics)
Los Tremendos Gavilanes - Quisiera Amarte Menos (Capri)

tbh im a bit overwhelmed at the crates in the living room! im starting w the things i KNOW I WANT -- shamek farrah & folks right now, which is just beautiful. scott seskind was in my 3rd round of picks, haha. it went 115 LPs grabbed initally, then 35 more when i realized the thrift annie and i were in was way less interesting than going back, and then 9 when our breakfast took too long, haha.

im feeling like i may keep a bunch of these? or just kinda go slow w them...

RECORDS

i admire your tenacity and nose for tunez, peter.

what year is that silva from, btw? never heard it. want it.

i needle-dropped it briefly last night and it sounds GOOOOOD -- it's the US chiaroscuro version here: http://www.discogs.com/Alan-Silva-Celestial-Communications-Orchestra-The-The-Shout-Portrait-For-A-Small-Woman/release/2393748

this was a "round three" grab haha