2013 scores

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

how much stuff did you leave? maybe i don't want to know...

How could you leave an alan silva record for 50c?!?!??! until rpound three?!?!

i wouldn't have been able to leave and then come back! oh man that would have driven me insane. let alone come back twice! such a casual dude you are, pete. i need to learn your zen methods.

re: leaving things, it's a bit complicated. my intent was to buy EVERYTHING if i found enough good things, and i certainly met that rubric, and the price wouldve been right (probably $1000 for the 5-6K records that were there if the volume pricing continued?).

BUT. i was 5hr from home and shipping it would have been really time-consuming, and putting up all the $$$ would have been a bit annoying for a few months, and compelled me to hustle hard to sell things immediately. also, it was a 100th birthday university party, and it felt a little harsh to buy everything on this festival day while older locals were stoked about finding stuff. i like to think of myself as psychologically capable of buying everything in these circumstances, and let me emphasize that if it had been one or two fewer of those limiting factors, id have had a REALLY hard time not making an offer on everything. that said, all told, it was a little much.

so i left ummmm 4800 records? more context, though -- i looked at everything, and grabbed with all my knowledge, intuition, and interest. i do not doubt that i missed a few $$$ records, and more important, a few SICK records. but i mean -- im still a bit of a novice at this power-moves game. im sure as boomers un/willingly sell their collections over the next 20yr, ill get more shots at being ruthless :)

xxp to ian: it was credited to celestrial comm orch so i didnt notice it at first...
xp to scott: i appreciate it, and the balance bw craze and calm (WHICH IVE BEEN TOLD IS THE VERY CONCEPT OF SKILLFULLNESS THANK YOU ALAN SILVA) is pretty cruc to me

i'm getting better at letting things go. i have to get better at it. i can't buy everything. i'm really good at record shows now. i look for cheap stuff for the store, maybe some stuff for me, but i'm calm. i don't get caught up in the frenzy. there will always be more. that's my motto. and even if there isn't, i have plenty of great stuff to listen to. that's my other motto.

yeah, id really like to keep lookin for records for my whole life!

it helps too that i'm totally happy finding cheap stuff that nobody wants except for me. i have endless fun with dollar and two dollar disco/rock/r&b/jazz/etc records. having said that, i would have completely lost my shit if i went to a sale like that. my heart would have been pounding. waxidermy dream sale.

I walked away from a lot of record yesterday, but it was due to being in this hoarders junk shop. I spent more than an hour there in no AC and the dust was overbearing. There were records crammed in shelves, on the floor, beneath other books behind clothes. I found great stuff too like Cathy Young and a lot of local bar bands, and I didn't even break into the 45's because I was drenched in sweat and couldn't breath anymore. I might go back next weekend, it's 2 hours from here. Hoarders are crazy.

oh right -- we're going back up there for christmas, and the station said they wanted to get me on the air for their pledge drive, haha. maybe ill try and buy everything else!

Found these at 2 different goodwills and an antique store for .50 or a dollar each!
Windrose - S/T (Ram) Been looking for anything on Ram records, a houston label with decent saw/rock
Mama & Papa Reece Owens & Friends - Voices of the Lonesome Pines (No Label)
Jimmy Holiday - Turning Point (Minit) Sealed
Trinity - Jesus When The Sun Goes Down (Living Waters)
Maddox Bros & Rose - S/T (King)
Reno & Smiley - Country Songs (King)
The Organ Happenings - Organ Serenade (Apple Honey)
Chris Hirsch - Crazy Creek (Hill Country)
Gene Newby and The Round Mountain Boys - Sunday On A Round Mountain ()No Label)
Justin Tyler - Night Fall (No Label)

Jimmy Holiday - Turning Point (Minit) Sealed

Yow.

I know! I've turned down buying this in shops a few times due to having scuffs and being $30, and when I forgot about it I find a prefect copy for a dollar!

I have a single on Minit that has a B-side I like that's on that album - "We Got a Good Thing Goin'"

after i did some work for a friend today, i walked around the west village looking in thrift stores and record stores... NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL..

BUT i bought a small stack of blues & old-time music records from my friend john. i'm gonna put up the majority on ebay, but keeping for myself --

dennis mcgee & sady courville on morning star
and two records on county by tommy jarrell/fred cockerham/oscar jenkins. good shit.

"after i did some work for a friend today, i walked around the west village looking in thrift stores and record stores... NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL.."

New thread: 2013 misses

Found an O'Jays single on Imperial at the Swap Meet today. Didn't know when it was from - I have another O'Jays 45 that's on Bell. This one's even earlier. "Stand in for Love" from '66. Cool record. Also bought a 1971 single by a group called Odds 'n' Ends. Soul record on a label called Today Records with Thom Bell involvement.

Got American Music Club - Engine for $2 yesterday.

^ This record is awesome, actually. I've never been hugely grabbed by anything else I've heard by them, but this one is killer to me.

not scores, but i placed my bids today on the latest 78rpm auction from County Sales --
#25 OK-45158 Scottdale String Band $18.00
#35 OK-45188 Scottdale String Band $18.00
#39 OK-45250 Hershel Brown $26.00
#84 CO-15043 Burnett & Rutherford $8.00
#93 CO-15187 Burnett & Rutherford $16.00
#94 CO-15205 Leake Co. Revelers $16.00
#100 CO-15334 Skillet Lickers $12.00
$135 SIL-5082 Hill's VA Mountaineers $14.00
#149 MW-7346 Arthur Smith Trio $8.00
#153 PER-12820 Carolina Ramblers $16.00
#165 CQ-7269 Alex Gordon $16.00***

*** Alex Gordon is a pseudonym for Frank Jenkins Pilot Mountaineers.

I look through 78s so much and really rarely see any old-time folk/country/blues. I suppose it's because I'm in California.

Found these country 45s in really nice condition today for 25 cents each at the thrift store:

Charlie Louvin - "Think I'll Go Somewhere and Cry Myself to Sleep" ('65)
Webb Pierce - "The Man You Want Me to Be" ('70)

If I knew more about great old time folk/blues/country 78s I would look more because I loooove that sound. I just don't know enough about it to browse. Plus I rarely encounter any...

there are reaaallllly not many string band records outside of the south. i've found one ever in NY. moe handy has found a few in the bay area i think, but even there it's more post-war and western swing stuff than my fave jams.

I hardly ever find country 78s, ever, it's always big band or easy vocal jazz. But I sometimes get discouraged while looking through stacks of 78s and give up. I always look for coral or king records and never see those labels. I love hillbilly bop and never find any.

Yeah, I do run across probably later '40s and '50s country 78s a fair amount.

Like there was an Ernest Tubb 78 (with a crack in it) at the thrift store today.

Trying to figure out what kind of town is just right in order to find actual interesting records in the thrifts and antique shops that haven't already been cleaned out.
Too small or removed: only ever was garbage
Too big and hip: only garbage remains

...generally

i'm going up to white plains today to look at some records.
if i get there early i might hit the salvation army and goodwill stores in town.
will be sure to report back my findings.

i expect: CSNY, Joan Baez, Fiddler On The Roof.

aside: whenever i think of white plains, i think of the Hit Man stories by Lawrence Block. His broker lives in White Plains, in a big old white house with a nice front porch, perfect for sipping iced tea.

Mmmm... a good iced-tea-style-porch is paradise.

so is killing ppl for money, apparently.
i really like the Hit Man books cuz they make a big deal out of the collecting impulse -- the hit man (Keller) is also a stamp collector and he ruminates from time to time on its essential meaninglessness/weirdness of desire for rare things with no real function.

a new one and some great quality second hand:
Daniel Lopatin & Tim Hecker - Instrumental Tourist
Bohannon - The Mighty Bohannon
Chic - C'est Chic
Giorgio Moroder - Midnight Express

blondes - swisher
factory floor lp
sabre - nightdrive to bolland 12"

this album which is my fave album of the month so far. never heard it before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3B7alymQ6I

Toy Love - s/t
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand
Uncle Wiggly - Across The Room and Into Your Lap

re: the 78 convo i missed the other day, the only time i found (well, tbh, my friend found them and texted me... i wasn't even there) pre-war string band shit in the bay was at the garage sale of r. crumb associates so that was a lucky fluke. pre-war hick and blues shit seems almost primarily a southern thing (maybe some chicago / mid-west for blues) which makes sense since most migration of southern folk happened during and after the war... that said, tons of great honky tonk and western swing and post-war blues 78s in cali...

this record shreds you guys. kinda in a ernie graham / brinsley schwarz / frankie miller vein but american. stoked to trade for a sealed copy yesterday at the KUSF swap.

http://www.bsnpubs.com/london/london/660.jpg

a couple of weeks ago:

louvin brothers - tragic songs of life
dillard & clark - through the morning, through the night
the white brothers - new kentucky colonels live in sweden

today:
robert wyatt - radio experiment rome february 1981
johnny dyani - witchdoctor's son together
roy harper - sophisticated beggar, stormcock
michael chapman - wrecked again, playing guitar the easy way (with instruction booklet)
various - matchbox days (late sixties uk country blues comp with mike cooper, jo-ann kelly, wizz jones, etc)