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In Reply to: some pretty good titles in that list! posted by analog guy on May 15, 2007 at 15:10:38:
I hit a score of LPs every weekend. Sometimes a bunch of old Rock...like Little Richard and Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Sometimes late 60's, early 70's. I've had, on different occasions, 4 very clean "Disraeli Gears" on ATCO in my possession for 25 cents or less, for instance (there's 2 in the collection right now).Jazz scores were not that rare, but nothing like that one I wrote about earlier. I'd stopped at a flea market that had just opened...a little farm house along a rural road just off an exit on I-81. I asked about records and the guy just pointed upstairs. I walked into one room; had a huge pile of old Classical I'd picked out and then went to another room, started looking through huge piles of LPs, finding only a few that I wanted. Then I looked into a closet that had the door removed and damn near passed out!
I had never seen that sort of stuff before and probably never will in that amount. I've gotten calls from flea marketers to look through a few thousand LPs and I found lots and lots of late 50's and 60's Jazz, but never a pile of early LPs like that. I get shivers thinking about it today. It was a miracle! I still remember seeing those Emarcy LPs...I really thought I was going to have the big one, Alice!
It just occurred to me that with the sort of stuff they had, they probably had some old tube gear...I never thought of it until now...WAAAAAH, SOB, SOB! I got some Griswold frying pans there, if you know what those are. It was a great flea market, but they never "refreshed" it...once all the good stuff was gone there was nothing in the place worth buying.
I could have bought an old Allis-Chalmers tractor there for, I think, $75. That would have driven the old farmers around here batty! They had an old Ford and a really beat up John Deere. I'm a city boy...I can appreciate them but I'd never buy them.
Jeez, now I'm thinking about what I saw there and I could shoot myself for passing it all up! Lamps that were selling for 5 or 10 bucks that are probably worth thousands!
I'll get you for this, you mangy rat...you made me remember, now you're gonna pay! It'll take a while, but I'll think up an appropriate torture. Maybe send you all the Barry Manilow LPs I run across! No...not good enough!
The Monty Python method! Chased by a bunch of nude young women and forced to jump off a cliff! That'll do it!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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Follow Ups
- The Mingus and the Clifford Brown, of course! - Muzikmike 18:20:32 05/15/07 (1)
- i was hoping... - analog guy 19:44:09 05/15/07 (0)
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