Colouredman

Bang on Tony👍🏽

Yre welcome Mick👍🏽The first Velvet Satins I bought, cost me a fortune, £11! It was £11 I couldnt afford and it turned out to be a Simon Soussan boot, lol.

Lol, 😂yeah Kev 👍🏽

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Oddfellows; now that was a good venue Oddfellows, now that was a good niter; I enjoyed it there; Gary, Adam, The Vicar djaying as I recall. Think it through from every angle Mick, and you’ll make the ‘right’ decision👍🏽.

Yre very welcome. These are all things Ive pondered on and been introspective about many times, so it was all there in my head; I just had to put it down in writing. Good luck with whatever you decide. Its definitely a ‘First World’ problem, which is nice for a change. None of us could have predicted the way its all gone, and if our records were all worthless financially now, we wouldnt be talking about any of this. But here we are; it is what it is, so think it through every which way, and Im sure you’ll make the right decision for the right reasons.👍🏽

No one can tell you what the right thing to do is; its subjective and very personal. You could take advice from 100 people here, but only YOU will be impacted by either selling your records or keeping them. But it may help to consider the following (mostly philosophical) issues: If you sell, later when the money is gone, then what; how will you feel? Like many of us, your records will have been the soundtrack of your life; so if you sell, does a significant part of you go with it? Are you selling to cash in, coz some records fetch good money now, or are you selling coz you’ve had enough of (some) them? As above, if most of your records were worth pocket change, would you still be considering selling them? If the premise for selling is that yre getting old and cant take them with you; doesnt that also apply to every other asset you own? You cant take with you the money you get for the records either, if your demise occurs before you spend it all! For many of us of a certain generation, the records we bought, and own were cheap, and now ‘owe us nothing’. So the percentage gain in selling them now is enormous. But we never bought them as investments; we bought coz we were/are emotionally invested in them. Are you still; or have they (or some of them) lost some of that for you? Back in the day, the only way to hear records we loved, in our own homes, was to buy them (originals or boots), or tape them ‘live’ at a venue. Now this is no longer the case; we can now own nothing, yet have pretty much 99% of mainstream and obscure records on mp3 via YouTube etc, streamed right into our homes. So if you sell, you can still listen to everything you currently own (and more). So the question is really about to what extent the ownership of the physical product/entity means to you. If these records/collection have been a part of you for most/all of your adult life (maybe before that), and been the soundtrack of it; if you sell them will you still be the person you were/the person you’ve been??? Is there a way for you to assess the value of what you sell, and the pleasure that money (or what you do with it) will give you, against the pleasure of continuing to keep them? Whatever the answer to that is, may well be the right way to go. Finally; take note of all those before us who’ve sold up, and how many of them express regret; coz they wish they hadnt, coz records have shot up ridiculously in price since, coz they miss them, etc etc. How will it feel to be one of the many constantly saying..”I used to have that”😜

FOR SALE: SAMMY AMBROSE. . Welcome to Dreamsville. Musicor WD. EX (SOLD) Vinyl plays flawlessly, but label has been defaced where it indicates ‘Promotional copy’ hence overall condition of EX not NM/M. Free Special Delivery Postage.

FOR SALE. Charlie Gracie. He’ll never love you like I do. UK Stateside Demo. EX/NM £450. Postage: Free Special Delivery.

FOR SALE. Solomon King. This beautiful day. Columbia Demo. NM/M £450 Special Delivery Postage: Free

FOR SALE WHAT A PAIR!…….as they say, lol. Fathers Angels. Bok to Bach. UK MGM Demo. NM £900. April Stevens. Wanting you. UK MGM Demo. EX /NM £450. Postage: FREE Special Delivery.

It sounded absolutely fantastic in there with those ballroom accoustics. Yre right about being there; no one cares about instrumentals anymore, but as you know they used to light the Casino up, and cause dancefloor mayhem, lol.

Yeah Tony it was. I still love it, but to many now its a joke, and an absolute no no to play. It worked superbly though in that huge ballroom.

Pal and the Prophets. Peace pipe. Jamie. Covered up as Luther Ingram Orch. ‘Space Odyssey’. Sounded great at the Casino, and the right tempo for those times lol. Also, another 2 in the morning monster instrumental……proper!

FOR SALE Syng McGowan. Loneliness is a pleasure. Hope. M- (SOLD).