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Today in my small home town in Holland there was a socalled Christmas market. I don't know if you have that in the US, it's a kind of fleamarket specialized in Christmas trees, home decoration, the kind of useless kitsch women fill their(your) entire house with, especially in this time of the year.
The last place where you would expect good vinyl, scored just one but worth it! Wanted this one for a long time, already had the excerpt but now i have the complete concert. It's a later Canadian pressing but dead NM. The best live recording i have ever heard and this is a 1959 recording! This record is like a membership card to the Vinyl Anonymous isn't it? You have to have it whether you like it or not!
"The torture never stops"
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I know I'd feel as if I was burning in the pits of hell if I had to sit through that.
I appreciate that people have different musical tastes, but it's worth listening to, even just because it is such a good recording
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...while most are in trashed condition, they sold so many copies that there are a lot of nice ones out there. I have had 3 or 4 NM ones. In fact, they're so common, they're getting tough to sell. I hardly bother to pick them any more.
I have the one you just acquired. Yes, excellent, must have album. It IS sorta like a club :-)I was lucky, the first one I found contained 1S and 2S pressings and was NM. I have acquired a few others since, all in reasonable condition, but none as good as that first. I even found a nice mono version for comparison.
The 'Returns to Carnegie' is also a very nice set. You have to get both :-)
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you are correct in that it was a hugely popular recording. The Irish don't seem to have that sort of luck around here though. I have handled probably sixty copies of that Lp trying to find a good one and probably only have two in my collection that are passable, none NM. I had to lower my standards just to find one! I could have just bought one from a dealer through the mail that was in nice shape without having to hunt through so many dusty stacks of Lps but where would the challenge be in that! It is a testiment to it being fun music that so many were used so often. The same is true with Beatles Lp's and many others. They made loads of 'em, but then there have been loads of parties since!
Hunting for old records locally is akin to treasure hunting and is so addictive and exciting for many collectors (who am I enlightening here, right!) that it is really the hunt that is so much fun. In the same vein, there is an emerald mine somewhere in NC and perhaps a ruby mine also where you can actually dig and find stones yourself. Probably not as easy as heading to the jeweler and getting a perfect stone without getting your jeans dirty, but imagine the feeling of finding a big-ass green rock that's yours for only $20 or whatever the fee is! I have only bought a few of my many records through mail-order and the rest have come from either local shops, mainly The Record Exchange or through private sales or a junk shop find.
-Bill
If you like that, you should absolutely find/beg/borrow or steal,The Weavers, Reunion at Carnegie Hall - 1963
Vanguard Stereolab VSD-2150
I found an exceptional copy a couple of years ago at a local thrift shop - definitive Belafonte......
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