Pete S

Blimey that Phyllis Brown is cheap!

Well done Gordy, I'll be listening...to the first hour anyway

Hi Kirsty, I posted this up a while back so it should still be around somewhere on the site. Can't do it again cos I lent it to Glen Walton

Where on earth did that description come from? VG++ is basically excellent but it would have one thing stopping it being EX for instance ONE click. VG+ should mean it's got one or two marks on it not affecting the play. VG the same but maybe the odd click here and there, a few of times at most. More and more, people use VG to falsely describe records that are actually in Good or Good Plus condition. Going by the photos, the record here is Good and no better.

asbo?

No, that was Eddie Parker p.s. doh, someone already said that p.p.s. Charles Diamond's missus never mentioned anything about him being in The Sunlovers when I "found" them. But then again, I never asked her...

Maybe everyone looks for something different in a record. You can obviously see something in the Otis Clay record that I can't, but that is of course mainly because that type of sound, production and beat is out of my comfort zone which is mainly 4/4 type records from 15 years earlier. My missus goes mad when she hears me play the odd "old skool" jungle track in the car and says it's not even music, how can I listen to that etc etc...well to me it's just got so much energy and I find it exciting. Same as most punk music, I like the energy but don't really listen to check out if the guitars are in tune.

Because no two persons tastes are the same, simple as that. I couldn't sit through that record if you paid me to. I don't hate it, I just don't like it. Quite like it by Yazz though

The Montanas weren't actually a bad beat group (I think they have a rare freakbeat track) but they probably got encouraged to sing the wrong type of song - their version of I'm Gonna Change never came out in the UK, I had one 18 months or so back and it's not that bad really - but pales in comparison to the other versions. I also have a feeling they may have come from round this way (Wolverhampton)

Just ask him how he justifies grading that record as anything above GOOD PLUS, and especially how he managed to convince himself it was mint minus.

£60 / £70 is the real price of this. I'd want 2 copies for £100.

I sold a mint one for £1500 last year Ted and I'm cheap! Or was it 2K. (I was selling for someone else under instruction though)

Agree, Lou's version is nothing more than pleasant, Roy's has got much more power and a better vocal.

You sure you've got the right record, Mamie Lee's got quite a deep voice.

Are you sure Kylee? Well it doesn't matter - I wasn't happy with it so I'll still stick a tenner back on your card like I said. Might be a couple of days though - skint!

Thats about spot on

Far by a million miles Dave, it's a terrible version and if there were thousands of copies around it wouldn't get a look in. Truly awful record.

Have to agree with you. p.s. I posted this up about 3 years ago with another Lou J track from the unissued LP, if anyone still has that it's worth a listen, can't remember the title now but it's really slow until the middle when it goes berserk

Honestly I am usually very cautious with gradings and I never overgrade, if anything I will always undergrade, so everyone is happy apart from one nasty person who really made life difficult for me and tried to ruin my reputation to cover up a con which she couldn't pull off. That left such a bad taste in my mouth that I have been winding things down ever since and will soon cease trading for good. Soon everyone can buy records at double what I sell them for from what will be the only 2 dealers left. It's like the High Street shops scenario: everyone moans that there are no small record shops left but if people had patronised them at the time they might still be running. Now you're left with HMV and what was Virgin.

I won a Lainie Hill from a JM auction last year and it had someones name and address scratched into the run in and a hiss on the intro of the B side! None of which was mentioned in the description. So nobodys perfect. p.s. at least I know where 'Paul Rowan' used to live

Because they're rich and lazy, that's why

How many have you got to sell, might be interested. I sell them on my own lists and sometimes on here.

Not me. Never been to one.

Styrene - brittle plastic with a label that you could peel off: vinyl - more flexible and you could not remove the label however hard you try. Also, on certain records you'll find something called a delta number - this is a triangle symbol followed by a 5 or 6 digit number. It's a way of dating records. The higher the number, the newer the record, so your Illusions probably carries a number beginning 100** in the run off meaning it was pressed in 1977. Whereas an original Brenda Lee Jones on Rust would have a number beginning say 66***. The Barbara English one sided is a boot, as are The Ellusions, Del Larks, Tomangoes 99% probabability, Ann Perry if it's pale green.

That's ok then...