Trev Thomas

makes perfect sense, abc used various pressing plants when manufacturing a record, hence the varying label layouts and plastic variants i.e vinyl, styrene, once pressed, records were sent out on a sale or return basis, unsold stock was returned to abc to be recycled, a lot of the major labels adopted this policy, rca being a good example, obviously not every copy got returned, even a record that totally flopped on release would have sold a few copys, and probablly only around 80% of unsold made it back to be recycled, so there will be, albeit very few issues floating around, demonstration copys on the other hand were given out free and were not subject to the return / recycling policy, thaty why a vast majority of the major label stuff is more common on the demo format

both holidays and jj barnes 45's (which incidently are exactly the same take) are quite hard to track down, especially the holidays, however, the rare stamps album turns up quite regularally on ebay, shouldnt set you back more than £30 - 50, got mine, a nice u.s. minter about a year ago for £15

i never disputed the price, i disputed your theory that the red label copies are the most common, which, if you read the posts on this thread, seems to be the general concensus of opinion

ahhhh well , if it says so in "the" price guide then it must be right, it also says typhoo on the side of a bus

without a doubt, i've only seen 2 red stockers in 25 years, seen plenty of w.d's and yellow / greens

you know me kev, nothing but the best

ive told you a million times........dont exagerate

i sold a red issue sometime during the mid 90's at the griffin allnighter leeds for around the £200-250 mark, cant remember who to, think it might have been gary field, anyway thats by the by, what makes your scan interisting is the autograph, i rember steve handbury showing me his copy around the same time, that was also an autographed red stocker, is yours steves old copy

so, how are they skimmed, on a machine, or by hand,

the take 6 version of feminine inginuity is longer than the gold token version, both sides of the take 6 disc were booted on a solid centre disc with a plain white label some have had the titles handwritten on some hav'nt

not for me pete, joe jamma is to me what the carstairs is to you

i think you would have to be mad to want to buy joe jamma, regardless of the condition

it got us back, but we did have to bump it off at trowell services, we dumped it at the end of my mates road when we got back to southampton, three months later it was still there, certainly not british leylands finest creation

southampton to glenrothes in a stolen ford capri in the mid 80's, and the return journey in a stolen austin princess

bloody hell, for a demo i,'d have said 100 quid, 150 on a good day, somebody must really want it, never seen a issue must be pretty rare

sound quality on bob and gene is very poor, but for me that just adds to the mystique of the record, if that makes sense

three from me, that i dont think achieved the "monster" status they deserved don varner - masquerade - south camp chalfontes - he loves me - mercury dean courtney - we have a good thing - rca

mick & mo got a copy, you can try them

bout 150 quid phil, hard one to track down though

think he's refering to the fact that theres one on ebay at the moment

this one was played to death all over the country during the 90's

some of moerer's buy it nows have been on ebay for over 3 years, with all the listing fees he's had to pay, by the time he does eventually sell them he must be making a loss on them

tony michaels is definatley kosher, albeit way overpriced, so barry as your name suggests........close, but, no cigar old lad

its a boot of the lyrics on gnp creshendo, christ, you've only got to look at them to see that they are 1990's presses

dumbo is about half hour from times square on the tube