What are you listening to, right now................
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Probably the most appropriate place for this. The source of music in the USA by year.
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Down-pitched Fleetwood Mac:
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Nice edit of a Robin Trower (Procol Harum) track from 1977:
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Last week I got seven boxes of 45rpm 7-inch oldies, most have never been played, and far and away most are songs by artists I’ve never heard before, so I’m having good times discovering “new” 50+ year old awesomeness.
(That’s a $2,500-$3000 single btw. PM if interested...)
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Bankers boxes, thousands of ‘em, and that is one of the higher values, probably because it’s a combination of rarity and a great-great song. Lots of rare r&b, soul, garage rock from small indie labels, circa 1955-1975. They were archive copies for a booking agency, and most have never been pulled from their sleeves let alone played. I’m selling on behalf for a 25% commission. Problem is finding buyers with fat wallets, because it’s really time-consuming. On the other hand, they’re easier to move and ship than LPs, and often fetch substantially higher prices. I do it for the discovery of the music as much as making money. I think there are close to a thousand records by my count that have NO official release listing at Discogs, which means I’ll have to list, tag & photograph the labels and sleeves for the website, and in my spare time it’ll take me a year-or-two.
Regarding sound quality, you’re right, there are laquers that are scratched to shit from the Fifties where the records sound remarkably good, and you can’t say the same about any vinyl manufactured after the mid-1970s.
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@salacious-crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Bankers boxes, thousands of ‘em, and that is one of the higher values, probably because it’s a combination of raraity and a great-great song. They were archive copies for a booking agency, and most have never been pulled from their sleeves let alone played. I’m selling on behalf for a commission. Problem is finding buyers with fat wallets, because it’s really time-consuming. On the other hand, they’re easier to move and ship than LPs, and often fetch substantially higher prices.
Make sure you also scan the old label logos and check if they are still under copyright. There is a good market for product such as t-shirts using these often great logo designs. I have started a collection myself with old Tamla, King, Stax etc ones and I know there are some rare variations off these well known labels around (plus the cool one off ones).
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My main purpose in getting the records was the seller wants me to archive everything from the collection, so I’m on top of it. But you do have a good idea... last year I started high-quality scanning cool logos from old garage rock bands with macabre names that nobody has ever heard before (The Tombstones, The Creeps, etc.) with an eye to possibly silk-screening some t-shirts. The Northern Soul angle is a good idea.
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Not a 'listen too' but music related.
I went to see a small exhibition at the Barbican Library the other day after work. It was based on some collected photos from inside Abbey Road Studios (mainly of Pink Floyd and Oasis recording sessions) but also had a bit of history about the studio, the equipment and a few 'artifacts'.
Of interest to me was the TG12345 MK1 mixing desk photos. A top of the range console in it's day and used for recording all of the Beatle's Abbey Road album. The blurb said it was also used for Macca's 'Maybe I'm Amazed' recording (I consider the Faces version way superior)
Some borrowed photo as well, including George Martin and Macca working at the console together.
For me though, the star of the exhibition was a real life Neumann U47 mic, used since the 1950s at the studios and has probably captured the vocals of an enormous number of hit vocals. The residual DNA in that headgrill cover could clone the world's best.
If you are interested in this sort of stuff and passing through London the display is on until the end of June
Inside Abbey Road Studios | Barbican
This free Barbican Music Library exhibition is a collaboration between Abbey Road Studios and renowned rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky, looking at the past and present of the iconic studios.
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Robin Trower - I'm Out To Get You (Ole Smokey Edit) by Ole Smokey
