Stompingsevens

Use a Loricraft record cleaning machine, if you can't afford one then make friends with someone who can. This is (IMHO) the finest cleaning unit on the market. Anything you put into the grooves of a record you then have to get out again, this unit uses a great Vacuum system which works very well and is also sturdily built, I have had my unit for 20+ years and never had a problem, I have cleaned many thousands of records on it which when you break down what it cost me back then (£350ish) makes it a bargain. I got it direct from the Guy who builds them but do not have his contact details. The use of T-cut sounds insane...........! Also wood glue.........?? They both must leave heavy chemical residue in the grooves which must impair the sound and also effect the stylus. Also, remember when using alcohol to clean records you must let the grooves dry thoroughly before playback as the alcohol can effect the glue which attaches the stylus, this will effect playback and can cause the stylus to fail. Affect or effect? I bunked off school a lot!

Clean copy please. PM me with price and condition, no 'offers'. Thanks!

Do you still have the Banny Price 45 - do me a price on the 2x 45's?

I am interested, are you the person that had the Banny Price 45 sometime ago?

Still looking!

Still looking.........

VG++ CLEAN LABELS. £75 + POSTAGE PP F&F PLEASE. PM ME IF INTERESTED.

The more recent re-issue has the song titles written in the run-off, the original does not.

Can anyone help with this?

Anyone got a clean one please? Pm me, Thanks!

I want a gold Franck Muller please

Mmmm, Harold Jackson if I'm not mistaken, nice 45!

Those poor dj's, they spent all that money on original 45's just to have their ego's massaged and for others to realise how 'serious' they are about the music and some kid who just paid £7.00 for a repro plays the same tune they were going to play, that is just sacrilege. I think it's hilarious!, I mean come on, does that not just mean that these DJ's are just waving their dicks or tits about searching for some mis-placed kudos saying "look how big mine is?" or "Look how clever I am, I've got this 45." As I said before, it's great to be able to afford original records, I collect them myself but it is wrong to not allow others to enjoy playing the same records because they can't afford the originals or to allow them to have a crack at DJing if they choose to. If I follow your thinking then ultimately the best DJs will be the richest collectors who have all the tunes? "Hey, come and listen to my records, I'm really rich" Ooooh lawdy!

Hang on a minute, you still own a few boots but disapprove of other people who might be considering buying or playing them? I listen and collect a different genre (50's & 60's R'n'B) and also bought 'boot's' when I was a kid, at 15 years old I could not afford (or find) original 50's USA pressings. These 45's along with just a few re-issue LP's were my education. I now have a large collection of 50's and 60's originals but it all started with those early 'Mariano' boots. The argument that now the music is available on CD and download so there's need to buy 'boots' and they are no longer 'valid' is IMO nonsense and I will explain why. Any experienced music listener will know that 45's (or 78's in my case) are the purest way to listen to the music and the reason for this IMO is as follows. When you play a 45 you are not really going to be doing anything else for the next 3 minutes other than actually 'listening' to the music and possibly deciding what you might play next whilst shuffling your shoulders and letting your imagination soar with the recording, you 're not wondering off anywhere as pretty soon you'll have to lift the needle off the 45 before it hits the run off grooves and makes that unpleasant noise after the sweetness of the track. You will listen to the record in it's entirety whilst that sexy label design spins hypnotically in front of you - you can't beat it for a listening experience. By the time it finishes you have selected the next disc and that little quick movement of lifting the needle and swapping the discs, de-sleeving one whilst re-sleeving the other takes place followed by the the pleasant 'plink' noise of the vinyl dropping over the solid center and away you go again. Now of course this all subjective, but I would not want to deny anyone the possibility of enjoying the experience as described above because it has meant so much to me through the years. The idea that in order to enjoy that simple process you need to be either extremely rich or very lucky in order to play those top tunes just doesn't make sense. The alternative is to put a CD on and then you wander off to do something and the you get distracted and the CD finishes and you end up thinking 'what was that like?' or you remember the 2x tracks but not any of the others. It just turns it all into muzac. The only time I listen to CDs is in the car for which they are perfect. I now collect original records, I am very lucky to be able to do so but I do not be-grudge someone who is not so lucky the chance to enjoy the music in the same way I do. Why should anyone do that? I got as much pleasure listening to those repro's when I was a boy as I do listening to originals today. The fact that 'boots', 'lookalikeys', repro's, pressings or re-issuse (whatever you want to call them) exist does not make the original pressings any less original and if the only reason you are buying original records is so that no one can have them (or does have them) then I think you need to have a serious re-think about why you are buying records in the first place. I had a big soul collector over to my house a few weeks back and he confessed he never would have heard one of his top all time R'n'B tracks if it hadn't been for the repro 45 I put out and that's what it's all a bout, spreading the word and remember that music is for sharing. If I make a few quid along the way and a few quid for the artists in royalties then I'm sure they are happy too. Ultimately, who cares, they are just pieces of plastic that (hopefully) make a nice noise and if you want to pay £10,000 for one them then that's fine, if you'd rather pay £7.00 for a repro then that's fine too. I would also add that if OVO is your thing then don't go to places where they play re-issues but don't be negative about DJ's who play re-issues, it's just music that we all love at the end of the day and let's face it, if they are using the sounds to sell, eggs, beer and furntiture on TV then I think this whole argument is all a bit 'null and void' really. If it's your choice to only buy and hear originals that is great, if it's your choice to buy and hear only repro's then that's great too. We all have choices, some will make you happy and some won't, that choice is yours. Boots, repro's, pressings, lookalikeys and re-issues? I still love 'em, and so it appears do lots of other people and if you want to be angry about it then you crack on, me? I couldn't give a monkeys................

Pm me please with price and condition. Thanks!

PM'd you.........

PM me please with price and condition please. Thanks!

Hi, I'd like to hear this 45, can you post a soundclip please, it doesn't appear to be on YT

Hi Kris, Do you have any top end blues 78's? Any on Sun? Where are you based please? Jesse

Nice selection of 78's, do you have any for sale. I am always buying Blues/ R'n'B 78's!

Just in the process of leasing the 45 actually, nearly there and will keep you posted as you seem to be overly concerned.

Yeah, Huge money for that one!

Very rare record............!

Jimmy Phillips - She Belongs To Me - Bumps PM me please

Just to add that the Prelude pressing is, as far as I know, an early Pittsburgh 'boot' which was pressed in the 70's. The record was never originally issued on Prelude, it's a 'made up' issue. I was told that by a couple of the Pittsburgh Guys at the Allentown show. The record was a biggy in Pittsburgh and apparently was a 'Mad Mike' favourite. The way to tell the original Storm pressing from the reproduction copy is that the repro has the title (and nothing else) etched in the run-off. From the link above it also appears the record was issued on Colpix which I've never seen.