Davenpete

Bird Rollins - Love Man from Carolina?

Bad fakes don't mean it can't be done by someone who knows what they're doing - and from the outset I made the point that it's getting the right paper for a label that is the print issue nowadays (because the lightweight self coloured stocks used for a lot of the really rare labels simply don't exist anymore)... Though the vinyl, matrix and mastering is a much bigger, more complex and more expensive issue (I could artwork up and have suitable gravure dyes produced to do Frankford Wayne, Bellsound, Virtue or whatever matrix fairly easily - but if you were paying for them they'd cost you a good few hundred quid on their own before you even think about doing the mastering and getting hold of the right raw vinyl - or recycling enough of the right vinyl from old 45s). Plus of course you'd need unlimited access to the record in question to do that perfect copy - and of course the opportunity to redo each stage if it wasn't up to snuff. Hypothetically I reckon you could probably do an indistinguishable fake say for about £5k all in, plus an awful lot of hunting around to find the people to actually do the different, highly skilled elements required in doing matching really effectively - but to make it worth your while you'd need to at least triple that in profit (a pretty poxey margin for a crook), so if it was a £5k record you'd need to sell four at full price to even bother doing it... and so four copies of a super sought after sound slip onto the (a very small pool of potential buyers at this price level) market - and people don't notice or question them...AND the price doesn't drop due to their availability meaning you have to sell even more????? Dx

Getting silly - you cannot tell the ink when it's on the paper which is what matters, regardless of the carrier. And Godzilla - actual facts and experience? How about 30 years buying print for my clients and current spending £200k a year on it? Dx

No change in inks to speak of (or indeed paints except for the appearance of new acrylic based paints - oils and water colours are unchanged) - the pigments are aniline dye based - invented in the 1860s. The carriers may be SLIGHTLY different - but that's like the difference between cellulose paint and water based paint on a car - I certainly couldn't tell the difference in the inks on paper. As noted, to make an exact copy of a specific example of a single (i.e. one particular copy) would be very difficult (the main issue being the mastering of the plates to be exactly the same - number of runout grooves and matrices being the hardest job) - but if you had unlimited access to the gear and the skills you could certainly do it - at least close enough to be within the range of variance between different examples of the same extremely rare single. Dx

B&Q used to do some nice unfinished lidded wooden boxes pretty cheap.

Brilliant Wheel sound - Wilson Pickett 'Three Time Loser' - other side of Mustang Sally - so what? £2/3? Dx

Paper and matrix stamps would be the hard bit - printing ink is printing ink (especially the matrix stamp - they'd need to be cut by a gravure die maker, though paper is also difficult nowadays as the range of papers commercially made has massively reduced in recent years) - you'd probably need to be working at a senior level in a pressing plant and have the expertise in mastering to make a set of matching plates (remember that many stamps have querks like uneven indentation etc) - though I remember that Vince Ayers had the actual original plates for I'm Not Destined to Become A Loser. Dx

It's interesting to see the stamp collecting analogy raised - it simply highlights that both are equally as invalid. This end of collecting is for conceitedness not for the pure love of the music and wish to own a recording in its original format in order to mark the personal honouring of the recording - this is just about being able to sit there and feel superior to everyone else because you have lots of money. It would be different if it were something magnificent but insanely rare (like the Mello Souls for instance) - rather than a very common record in the States in a novelty format. Dx

Yes but Do I Love You - whilst likeable and a good dancer is NOT a very good record - even FW thought it was a second rate. Have to say that whilst the Darrell Banks is an interesting oddity, whoever buys it has more money than sense - I've no doubt they'll be someone extremely wealthy who can easily afford it, but just think about all the other fabulous stuff you could buy with the many £000s they'd save simply by buying a US original. Dx

I've used transglobal for mailing 250 copies of a book I published, gives you the option of all the different carriers and does all the labelling and customs forms etc for you - it's the cheapest there is and they're very helpful. Dx

The boss' is 0263. Dx

Would've thought it was the other way round if anything - as Domino nicks chunks of lyrics from Little Richard's 'I don't wanna discuss it' as well.

Was talking in general terms - not a record I'm mad about and wasn't paying close attention (of course I haven't spent proper money on records for a good few years). Dx

Have to say for a change the prices seem fairly reasonable (except for Jeanette Harper, Big Maybelle and the Chandlers) - is it the christmas effect? Dx

I once had a Delcardoes materialise in my sales box at the 100 Club - assumed a mate had shoved it in there on the way to the floor, but spent ages asking round everyone and all the record dealers and never found where it came from. Dx

Give me the recordings of her mum and auntie anyday - though I like Hang On Bill.

I've always argued for use of membership cards - not 'necessary' for those you know of course, but a good excuse not let people you don't like the look of in - you don't need to charge for them, but the membership book is also a good vehicle for building up a promotional database to drum up support/ensure people know when events are on. Dx As regards youngsters at venues - we were all little divs ourselves at some point until we learned the ropes etc - we DO need these people coz someone of em get the crack and genuinely become one of us.

Better - no question the others were good records. Dx

A certain 'Cidre' advert.

Les Cokell certainly played it at the Wheel - we have his old copy somewhere (he hated it BTW). Dx

Jimmy Radcliffe - 'I'll pretend that I'm, loving you' is only about 1.20 from memory Dx

Er none of these are technically 'UK TMG' Dx

Staples have some nice looking little portable in at the mo at £39.99. Dx

It occured to me a while back - is she Lanie Hall of Sergio Mendes/Mrs Herb Alpert fame? Dx

The boot stands out like a sore thumb - crook. Dx