Mace

Cheers Soulcarp and Denbo. Dennis, take your time mate and find it at your leisure this weekend...I'm gonna be kinda busy in Allentown until Monday Also, Mr Hiscock is grey enough as it is.....two invoices will send him bald......I'll put your rate on my invoice and get you a pint

Tim, its a £60 - £70 record all day long. Used to go for £30+ in the late 80s when it was first played on the mod scene. Woz, it's Monguito, not Mongo....might help your search for it.

Mojorecords has one listed on ebay mate...finishes in a few days

S.F.A mate

Has anyone got a wiring diagram for a Audio-Technica Soundburger AT727, or know where I can find one....specifically for the wiring harness from stylus head to the small circuit board at rear of arm. Trying to fix one for a certain 'Father Ted lookalikie' Geordie......Steve Hiscock. Getting no sound out of it, though turntable works okay. Opened up bodyshell to locate main PCB and found a piece of rolled up tin foil inside one of the headphone sockets, which could possible short out the connections for the mini-jack. Not sure if this may have blown a component on the main PCB, but need to ensure stylus wiring is correct to start with. There are 2 headphone mini-jack sockets (A + B) Do headphones with single mini-jack work if plugged in either A or B? He tells me there were originally 5 wires at the back of the stylus head (4 that connect to head - black/white/green & red) and another black that didnt show at the rear end of the arm to the circuit board. Is this an earth wire? Is it soldered inside the arm cus I can't see any evidence of it. Hope he knows I charge a minimum of £25 per hour.....(this email took me 30 minutes to type) Any invoices for info / consultation charges will have to be forwarded to Steve himself Cheers Mace

I bought the Tommy Andre 20 years ago, but don't know where it is Didn't know it was mispressed and rare back then, and don't know what I've done with it...can't remember selling it. If some-one bought it off me please let me know so I can stop looking for the bloody thing every time it get's a mention on here Some-one bagged a Newports off Craig Moerer for about $20 a year or so ago

His prices are high on anything in the book. The stuff on the shelves thats not listed in the guides....well that's a different story...

His second clip with more detail...

Apologies if already posted before....worth checking this out..

I've discovered you can remove warps from records by leaving them on a tarmac drive on a hot sunny day for 2 hours, and then reversing over them in your motor. Please note, you must use reverse and tyres must be at 28PSI max.

You're not on your own...I know lots of people that don't like it. They just can't be arsed to waste 5 minutes of their life typing posts about records they don't like.

Hi Ezzie, Teds copy didn't come from me, I sold my copy of Peaches to Phil Saxe about a year or so ago. It's quite a tough 45 to find, though it seems to be the most common release on the label. Good femme R&B.

You may well be right on the dogs info. The reference to hoses being used etc led me to believe that the 'dogs' reference was a derogatory name for the police ...especially as the last fading line of the song says something like 'look out for that big fat one...'.....hard to imagine a german sheppard police dog being big and fat, but maybe it sneaked one too many of it's handlers doughnuts (donuts ) The James Meredith info is spot on, the song specifically refers to the University of Oxford, Mississippi. Interesting, though somewhat startling history from a mere 50 years ago. Thanks for links.

I've heard a rumour Steve Thomas has a few 'questionable' 45s about sheep....

It's actually a political song about protesters/riots...'the dogs' being the police. The other side 'James' is about the struggle for a black guy to be accepted into a 'white' educational facility.

Don't worry about Tommaso, he can afford it

Marc, I thought you knew the info on the 'unknown' Bumps release 1502. Were you referring to Jimmy Phillips when you mentioned Stevie Z? If so, that is not the 'missing' number from the discography. To clarify, discography of label to date.... 1500 - The Jangos - Jango Rock / Twist ( instro with steel drums...one went unsold on ebay for $20 a few months back...I heard both sides and it was pretty painful. Link below...oh, and of course I emailed the seller to ask if he had any other Bumps 45s ) https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220499974402 1501 - Gil Bernal - The Dogs / James 1502 - ?? (looking for info on this one) 1503 - Peaches - Please Don't Take My Man / I'm Living In A Dream 1504 - The Five Knights - She's My Baby / Dark Was The Knight B6404 - Jimmy Phillips - She Belongs To Me / Show Me (don't know why the numbers change at this point?)

Being as I have both Jimmy Phillips and Gil Bernal on Bumps, I don't really care which is considered the best

Surely you mean Robert 'Bumps' Blackwell? Never heard him referred to as Artie?

Add to that the fact it's on 'Bumps' Blackwells own small but increasingly significant label, is much rarer than Jimmy Phillips and has a great flip....$600 seems a paltry amount. Don't tell Des, but I'd have given him £800 for it when he offered it to me for £400

Hmmm.... I will do that, cheers Is it any good?

You might be thinking of the wrong guy Marc....they are good mates though

Sold

Hi Hermann. I'm not doubting you would offer a good price. However, I know all 3 top bidders on this auction, the 3rd highest bid was $1386. The 4th bidder bid $700. Thats a helluva difference between 3rd and 4th, and I know for a fact that the 2nd and 3rd bidders are desperate to get this record and will more than likely bid much higher next time. There are also a few other guys who pay big money for this type of sound that missed the auction. Now most people chasing this record know who it is (I had it covered up for well over a year), you can be sure they won't miss the next copy, and max bids will be increased next time to allow for this fact........hence my comment about having a decent wedge of cash available...not insinuating you could not afford it, but moreso that if another came on the market, or one of the 2 known copies were offered for sale, it could well fetch a lot more than CMs recent auction. Good luck in finding one

...and then you foolishly traded it with me for £400 worth of junk Craig Moerer recently sold the 2nd known copy for just shy of $1600 to a well known New York collector/DJ. I know of a few buyers with very deep pockets looking for a copy, so best save up a decent wedge for when (if) the next copy comes up for sale . Sorry to say that mines going nowhere for the time being.... To add to the topic, does anybody have any info (Artist/Title?) on another 45 from this label, Bump's 1502