boba

thanks. why would a pirate copy not be made to look like an original? i have at least seen instances where "piracy" did refer to fake copies made to look real. p.s. you owned 700 david bowie LPs???????????? or you traded tapes of shows? I assume you also collected bowie LPs and 45s. Did you have the diamond dogs with the dog balls showing?

I'm not 100% sure if you're trying to disagree or agree with me, but you're agreeing with me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Wonder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_recording "Bootleg" was used to describe a release of an unauthorized recording -- e.g. a live concert recording. This is different than a counterfeit of a released record.

maybe it's not as clear cut as I said. the articles you quote about use the terms "pirates" "bootlegging" and "counterfeiting". At some point in time "bootlegs" were strongly associated with illegal live concert recordings that people traded tapes of though.

There was different terminology back then. Repressing records and passing them off as from the company was called "Piracy". "Bootlegs" were illegal live recordings of concerts. It's also not comparable to now because the intention was different, it was to sell the records to people who wanted to hear them (records at one time were for people who wanted to listen to music and not to collect...). There are anti-piracy ads in different magazines, even throughout the 70s (I remember seeing one about 8-tracks). The first examples of "bootlegging" in the modern collecting sense were probably doowop "repros".

Also he was involved with the 4th generation on debroussard. He was hired as a songwriter for the florida label Mercede

i had this in my original post but it's "soul brother muhammad"

I'm pretty sure they recorded the track at the studio of the show, or funded by the show. The show is done super-professionally, which is sort of what made it boring. Also, it was rare for any music show from any era to not be lip-synched.

lew stanley used to have some stock of the spice on carrie. my friend found some members of ash soul inc. recently, they didn't have any copies of 45s but they were from west virginia which was interesting, not many soul groups from there (besides the parliaments on cabell and a few others).

this is from the night train TV show. Lots of really cool obscure memphis groups but they all do covers of bigger songs instead of their own songs. This show evolved into The !!! Beat. On top of the covers, I actually think the staging of the night train makes it seem really boring, even though it is cool to see obscure groups.

If you've ever looked through store stock, records have been put in all sorts of different sleeves, even if they're as they came from the company. They will use whatever old sleeves they have, stuff is even in sleeves from different companies, etc. They weren't like special collectibles being sold to the public, it was just music and they needed something to put the records in.

I do a mostly sweet soul sales list (hopefully on a regular basis, I'm still sort of getting started). Hopefully within 24-48 hours I will have my next list out. It will still be a sweet soul list, but I tried to pick out records that had northern flips or that had some northern appeal. If you are interested in getting the list, you can sign yourself up at: https://eepurl.com/lP-S9 If you decide you don't want to be on the list, you can remove yourself at any time via a link at the bottom of any email you've received from the list. Thanks for your interest. thanks, Bob

given that they're totally separate pieces it's actually less of an issue, assuming there are no missing pieces. when a crack doesn't snap back together cleanly but it's just a crack, that is what causes problems.

I had 4 stock copies of this once and they all had blue/white sleeves

if all the pieces are there i bet i could fix it.

also, that washington post article was read by anyone who had any records in DC at the time and everyone thought their worthless 45s were now worth a zillion dollars

does the broken counts 45 still exist with all its pieces? I can potentially get it put back together in such a way that both sides are playable and even fairly sturdy.

so you're putting "northern soul sale" in quotes in your search?

I just randomly remembered this -- one listing that was in shifty's binder with a high price was the four vandals on boardwalk

I heard he had planned to collect and sell them all as a set but ended up selling them individually after people made offers on specific ones.

This post makes me laugh, just because I'm not seeing US record dealers getting email in the early days of the internet (not saying you're lying, just saying it's funny). By the last issue of discoveries, people still had typewritten and hand written auction lists. Record dude Bob Miner in chicago still doesn't have a telephone.

Obviously you have to know how to read the results and understand that there might be outliers. Plenty of items have tons of sales though and clear trends. Especially standard collection records that are not ultra-rare. If there are only a couple results for a super rare record then yes, you probably need more info, but the popsike info doesn't even hurt you in that case.

I never understand why you keep saying this. They're the first places I'd look and I would sort by the date to get a reflection of the price trend. They are sources of actual record sales, not hypothetical prices that you would never really get.

no, but the "what's it all about" counts are exactly the same detroit counts as the Fabulous Counts on Moira and the Counts on Aware

I personally don't like peaches baby but I think the ballad flip is decent. The exact same group recorded a funky 45 as Five Miles High and then recorded as Four Miles High on Calla. I really like "problem child" on Calla (also done by the Fawns on RCA).

don't check anything with any electronics or obvious valuables. Carry on as much as possible. TSA steals everything, super shady. I was at a friend's house and he had all these video game systems, cameras, etc. I was like "what the hell is this?" He said his friend worked for the TSA and his friend gave his wife a gift card that he stole out of a suitcase and she got arrested and put in jail. His friend dumped the rest of the evidence (all the stolen stuff) onto him. This isn't like an isolated person's actions, apparently it's pretty common for them to steal from you, and I've even heard of them taking digital cameras and then putting the memory cards back in the bag, I guess as a favor to the person so they don't lose their photos.