Tax Scam Labels S/D

Guinness, Tigerlilly, Tomorrow etc. I know very little about this, but they released a wide assortment of styles, soul, folk, pop, disco? Help me sort through the rubbish and the keepers. Are the sometimes high price tags worth it?

Thanks Jacob, I've never heard of tax scam labels before. This doesn't answer your question, but I did find a bunch of history here: http://www.shit-fi.com/interviews/AaronMilenski

Thanks! I figure The Acid Archives would come up and I guess I need to give in a buy that book. I'm sure there's many tax scam reviews in it. I didn't realize Crazy Cajun was a tax scam! I have a few decent records on that label. They are easy to find around Houston.

Any feelings on the many guises of Bob Gallo or his productions?

I've got a pretty scarce record on TSG by Tony Haselden called "Country Is All I Know." It's a decent record, somewhere between Mike Nesmith and Tony Joe White, but really not great. It's not listed on his official discography, and no real mention of it on the innernet. There are a few TSG discographies out there, and I e-mailed the folks maintaing them.

I also have a couple of things on Crazy Cajun, one of which I like quite a bit but can't remember the name of right now. And I think I have one record on guinness--Phil Dargo. More later when I am not so tired..

at the record shop where i work we had a copy of the Topics record on TSG. We sold it for $500, and sometimes it's sold for much more than that, but frankly I didn't think it was that good.

Just bought my first Bob Gallo related record called Sonny Bottarri - Never Look Back on Dellwood. Might get Painted Poetry or Composition soon. On the fence about a lot of these records, some seem middling soul or rock that's expensive because they are rare rather than actually quality music. I'm hoping there's good unknown 70's rock among these.

jacob, dunno if you've seen the Bad Cat Records site which has a LOT of info on this scene--

http://badcatrecords.com/BadCat/BOTTARIsonny.htm

This site will help thanks!

Didn't even know about Aesop's Fables!

so much good tiger lily stuff. love the steve drake band lp, stonewall of course, scoggins / daddy warbucks nice records too

the snowball lp on guinness has some really lovely tracks too - partic 'lullaby jean'

But owning a copy of Stonewall is near impossible?? And Steve Drake $400.00!! Are they that good? I saw that snowball for only a 200 and considered it, but..

impossible to own the origs yes. i'd say the snowball would almost be worth that to me, but the steve drake stuff while enjoyable is a little too much of a novelty to lay out that much $$ on

sorry to veer a little off topic but the steve drake story is totally fascinating

http://www.lysergia.com/LamaWorkshop/Kacz/lamaKacz.htm

That's totally on topic and a hilarious read!

Holy shit this Stonewall album better be good
http://m.ebay.com/itm/111501870611?_mwBanner=1

it's not bad, but the many boot reissues of it out there are enough for me

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

i didn't know about tax scam records until now, this is fascinating...

I bought a record recently and didn't realize it was a tax scam record until I did a bit of research on it! It was on Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun label which put out a ton of records between 1977 and 1978, and was inexplicably still sealed but makes sense now as it probably just sat in a warehouse and never made it to a store.

^A lot of those records didn't even hit the streets until the '90s when Meaux went to jail (for a lot of very, Very, VERY bad things) and he had to sell off his assets. I actually know the record dealer who acquired all that new old stock. It's been almost 25-30 years and that guy still has a good number of copies of the less-popular albums in his warehouse.

Oh interesting, this must be one of those old stock records. It looks like the release of those 77-78 records aligns with him being released from jail after being pardoned by Jimmy Carter!