If it is an issue / stock copy that was at one time for sale on the open market, then he's talking twaddle. (Records are not like computer software, where the makers licence the product to the purchaser.)
Theoretically, demonstration copies should not be for sale as they are owned by the issuing company.
Also theoretically, returned stock e.g. records with the drill hole, shouldn't be on the market
Probably about a third, same as the last time, and the one before, and the one before that;hence I didn't participate in the last one. However, if anyone want to PM their address, I'd like to do a swap of this one.
SHMB came out twice on CAT. I think he means the plain, all yellow label with 'I Can't Understand' on the flip. I seem to remember the one with 'Man From The Sky' on the flip is yellow and white?
Some-one's gonna tell me there's more than 3 copies of Inspirations now. .
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There is more than 3 copies of no one else can take your place
Tim Browns had two Dave Skeen n Kev Barrett found one several years ago in Kansas
from a address i gave them they sold it to Tim ..Gilly sold one to Tim same year
think Tim moved that on to his Buddie Ginger.. Did,nt Pat Allen have a copy
where are the others Butch as one Mick H ? Come on there are some more out there
Lew Stanley ?
Ted Massey? I'm sure he has/had one.
I often wonder what they were smoking when they made that record. The song's 3 minutes but the intro is a minute long. Fab record when it gets going, but I bet most people like me stopped playing it after the first 30 seconds of the intro.
I'm not sure if any of the titles were pressed up more than once. According to Eddie Singleton, all the tracks were pressed over a period of about 90 days. Only 2500 copies of each were pressed.
Rumour mill or not, you can't be sure, but:
Parliaments - rainy day, first 'uncovered' copy £8000
Mello souls - make it, first uncovered copy £8k & £10k
Attelects - love slave, £6k & £8k
both to the same DJ, both from the same seller.
By 'broken' I presume you mean who first played a record out?
Regardless of whether they were spoon fed it my a dealer?
Or sounds prsonally discovered and champion by the DJ?