Godzilla

Mrs G and I will be there - we both booked Friday as a days holiday as soon as we spotted it. Live events like this often seem to under-supported and I often wonder if it's because they are perceived as 'not Northern?" Alternatively - and at the risk of lighting the blue touch paper again - maybe it's another case of people preferring to to their local 'same old-same old' soul night. Or maybe some people just prefer hearing records? Whatever. Great artists, great venue. I'm Really looking forward to tonight

I suppose Del Capris on Kama Sutra / Ronjerdon is an obvious one. I remember someone in the back bar at W*gan who bit my arm off for a copy of The Nights - Let There Be Love on Liittle Star. He kept furtively looking at the flipside...

That's funny - wonder if a few people fell for that before the days of the net?

Post a want up in here next time Baz. The odd person will try to pull a fast one but most are cool and I've had some really fair deals doing that. Vice versa when I've answered them too, I like to think. I'm sure you're aware but it's also worth googling for the flip as loads of records are listed the other way round. Case in point this very 45. Cheers Paul (Godz)

No that's even cheaper. think I ended up sticking copies of that one in job lots of cheapies. Might have even done the same with Nothing Better Than Love come to think of it?

You sure this is right mate? Pretty certain I see them around for about £15 all the time...

1966 actually....

I've been thinking about the guides recently and I sort of concluded that Peter Wermelinger has the right approach with The Funk Lexicon. Although it's not strictly a price guide (Peter warns against them in fact!) the book, does give an indication of rarity, classifying records from A (very common) to H (extremely scarce). This approach is advantageous for various reasons: it's based on rarity rather than demand, it's not tied to one particular currency and therefore avoids the problem of fluctuation exchange rates. It's also immune to the impact of inflation. The big thing for me though is that it allows you to escape the tyranny of the dreaded fixed price. Psychologically speaking, if you only have a rough guide to the rarity of a record, it makes it easier to pay a bit more when buying a record you really want. You're aware of how much you want to pay based on availability, rather than thinking you're paying £20/30 more than the 'guide price' Equally it's easier if selling to reduce the value to what someone's prepared to pay without feeling that you're losing that £20/30. I'm aware that the Lexicon isn't perfect. Some of the estimates of rarity are a bit out and, of course, there's always the possibility of a quantity of a specific title turning up, which will clearly affect rarity/availability. On the whole though, I find it a more satisfactory contribution to my decisions when buying and selling funk 45s and I'm really glad that there are plenty of records in the Lexicon that are either missing or hopelessly under or over valued in John Manship and Tim Brown's guides.

Unless any of the records have a letter F in the title and and it's an even day of the week, in which case the normal rules are reversed.

It will have have to have been earlier - I'm sure that by then Richard's copy had gone in the 'driving away with the rarest album in the world still on the roof of the car' incident

Me and Pete must have been in the modern room when they did then....

The LP has all those other tracks but I only remember "I'll Always Need You" being played much. That's the only track I recall Richard playing at Carolines in Manchester.

I'll Always Need You.

I recall The Moments version played off their album before either of those.

Just pasted this from something I wrote in 2006: "March of dimes is the name for a group of charity organisations that raise money in various states for health related causes. It was started by President Roosevelt after he contracted Polio"

I think the guy who sold them on ebay (JD Records?) has one on his website. He did a few months ago when I was having a look. Probably kept one or two back when he realised it hadn't previously been available. How many did he sell originally - 10 or 12 or a few more?

I agreed with the sentiment of the original post but I'm not so sure about the more general opposition to the use of any descriptive terms. It's the prerogative of sellers to use a bit of hyperbole, surely? That's been a tactic in sales talk since the days of "this 'ere fine chicken 'ere will keep you in eggs for life and is easily worth two of them there goats there". Don't see why record selling should be an exception as long as the sellers aren't actually being misleading. That's why it's important to have scans and sound-clips from the actual item for sale. I actually like to see a bit of description and would be more likely to listen to check out something if it was depicted with a bit more imagination that simply 'great, classic etc'. "Incredible Eddie Bo-esque production with Jack-hammer drums and a vocalist that sounds like the bastard child of Sly Stone and Lulu, conceived in a Detroit Graveyard at midnight..." Where's that 'play' button???

Thanks Peter - just need a binder so that I can store the updates next to the Lexicon.

Seriously? It's a jazz record. That's probably why people who don't like jazz don't like it.

I thought he was on about Epitome of Sound. Not sure if I really see the relevance to this thread either way... I'm pleased he's come here to teach everybody though. We need a lot more of that kind of attitude.

Sorry Kris - I have a fever

Isn't it this?

...yet the very presence of your post provides evidence to the contrary...

Performers - LA stomp?

Think you may need to empty your in-box Neil - there's a message saying can't PM this member Have sent email to the sales address Cheers