Chalky

Daft question but I don't suppose you still have the tapes I'd love to hear some live recordings from those days.

original....

you can read an interview with Betty at https://www.crmvet.org/nars/chuckbet.htm

It's actually Betty Fikes and the Passions

no 45 carrying cases in the link for northern soul scene?

I noticed a few American dealers starting to use the 1 to 10 grading system lately. I personally think any more than one plus sign is not needed, why not just use excellent rather than vg++ or vg++ to nm? means the same thing to me. Don't ebay encourage the Goldmine system?

I was in Hudson's in Chesterfield t'other week, just off the market square, they had some of the 50 boxes made out of vinyl. Swan Flight will make to order, they did for me.

topics merged. Hope your stuffed after too much turkey

Topics merged. Hope you are all having a great day and you got all you wanted Merry Christmas to you all.

I see plenty of Americans use near mint which is their mint minus isn't it? See plenty list as excellent but like you say many seem to err on the side of caution and use vg+ which really is what most UK excellent and sometimes mint minus/near mint is IMO. Like I said what is the point of two or three extra plus signs (vg++ or vg+++)? Like saying it is in really really really good nick. Have you ever heard a dealer say that to you? It would be like talking to your kids

The ones I use I get from Roger Banks, and the cleaning solution.

So what grades are you gonna go for Richard? M- Mint Minus Ex Excellent Vg+ Very Good plus. No more plus signs should be allowed, one is ample, any more and it moves up the grades Vg Very Good G Good P Poor Any more? Too many would maybe confuse matters and IMO are not needed.

Very Good Plus (VG+) Generally worth 50 percent of the Near Mint value. Yeah right

I think a pricing guide in comparison to condition might be in order too....so many Vg and vg+ at ex, m- and m prices the Goldmine one and what you should charge according to Goldmine based on condition can be found >>>HERE<<<

The issue I once had was with backing.

two previous topics on this subject for you to catch up on....

Hi mate, hope you can, subscribing is so much easier, don't have to do owt once you've subscribed For some reason the download is stopping after about 8mb. I'll try the one hour ones....

Hi Steve, the download link didn't work for me, so I copied and pasted it and got about a minute and half Havin' another go. Pity the show isn't made available as a podcast and a subscription via iTunes made available, I presume it can be done as Roger Williams show is???

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It has been discussed on here before about a 7inch of Think About It Girl and in the past I could have sworn everyone was under the impression that it didn't exist on a 45 and that Ian's was home made, an emi/cut with a self made label. It wasn't until Ian offered it for auction that opinions changed. I dobt saying it didn't exist would have stopped anyone looking for the 45. I've seen the Lp for around £30 plus.

Styrene is also brittle and if you try to bend it it will snap in no time, viinyl is a bit more flexible and will give before it snaps. Styrene (properly, Polystyrene). Hard, relatively inflexible plastic used to press records, mainly 7-inch singles, mainly using the Injection Moulding process. The material is heated to a liquid form and is then squirted or injected into the closed stampers in the press. This requires that the labels be either glued or painted on after the record leaves the press. The cost savings to the manufacturer comes from the extended life of the stampers because of the lack of a heating cycle to the stampers. The material can also be reused without noticeable change to its moulding properties. Styrene records will therefore usually have very quiet surfaces when found in an UNPLAYED Mint condition, but unfortunately they will wear to a noisy condition rapidly, especially if played with a bad stylus or an improperly tracking tonearm. They also are more prone to Cue Burn. The Columbia Records Pittman, New Jersey pressing plant was once the major source of Injection Moulded Styrene pressings, and pressings from this plant are found on MANY small labels. Look for the glued-on labels. Painted-on labels can be found on records from the Amy/Bell/Mala group. Vinyl (properly Polyvinyl Chloride). Relatively flexible material used since the early 1930s to make non-breakable records. Its fumes are an acknowledged carcinogen, so don't breathe in deeply when you have your next holy burning of Beatles or back-masked devil-worship records. :-) Usually pressed by Compression Moulding which allows the label to be an integral part of the pressing itself. This process also requires that there be extra material which spills out the sides of the press, therefore this extra material is routinely ground up and re-used. Because vinyl does not re-heat and re-cool to a smooth, glossy surface, the excessive use of re-grind mixed in with Virgin Vinyl can account for the inherently noisy surface of even Unplayed Mint examples of the cheap pressings that some record companies used. Noise can be seen AND HEARD by looking at and/or playing the un-grooved surface of the lead-in and lead-out areas. If this area looks or sounds grainy, then the grooves will also have some of this grainy background sound. The stampers used for the compression moulding process will start to break down after only 1,000 pressings because they are forced to expand and contract when heated by steam at the start of the pressing cycle and then cooled to solidify the record. Some companies routinely overused their stampers for their pop record series.

so you've heard it out at a venue half a dozen times in a year, my point exactly

There is female backing on the issue as well? Thought the issue and demo were the same except for spelling? or are there releases without backing?