as a few of you might know im a uk tamla motown demo collector,got around 170 red & white and green and white demos, met a guy off the music stack website who lives not far from me in brum . rang him up last week and he invited me over tonight to trade/buy sell, anyway got to the guys house had a chat and a cuppa. then he took me into his garage which was stacked to the ceiling with vinyl,to say the least i was gobsmacked but spotted a box with some orange motown sleeves on picking the first few out of the box i found red&white demos of brenda holloway operator,stevie wonder nothings to good for my baby,earl van dyke all for your,tammi terrell come on and see me and lots more.
i couldnt explain what was going through my head,but he picked up a large blue dj double row dj box labled tmg 501 to tmg 700 and proceded to the kitchen where he let me looked through more r&w demos,kim weston helpless 2 copys tammi terrell 1 more demos earl van dyke 2 more demos the hit pack 2 demos, babara mcnair 1 demo but 3 issues ! and the list is endless he had multiple copys of all the 500 series issues and demos.
he told me he caught a burgler a couple of months ago who obviously knew nothing about records. turns out i spent close on a grand tonight, and im a decorator by trade and hes asked me to come and paint his hall and stairs in a couple of weeks and he will sort a key out for me as hes at work, and then told me i was welcome to sift through the boxs in the garage .
hes such a nice guy dont think i could bring myself to be left alone with all these gems i would estimate alone theres got to be over 60/70 grands worth in that blue box alone. then again i could never bring myself to do anythind dishonest