Amsterdam Russ

It's the flip to 'Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow'...

I'm after a label scan of Linda Cumbo 'Did you ever lose your head (Over a boy)', please? Doesn't have to be hi-res or anything special. Can anyone oblige? Thanks in advance.

Anyone sending to or receiving from the Netherlands should be aware that TNT, the Dutch post office, has a 24 hour strike scheduled for next Tuesday (16th). That shouldn't cause any more than a day or two of delay, but there could be more action to come.

Well, there was a packet in the post box today - sent from Chicago on Wednesday. That's pretty good going

I've noticed bit of a slowdown over the last month, but only a bit. Got an LP at the weekend that had taken three weeks to turn up. Most though are arriving in good time. Occasional customs delays are inevitable, of course, and I'm sure that because of the heightened security alerts all packages are receiving greater scrutiny.

Am looking for a copy of the Barry 'Barefoot' Beefus EP on French WB, complete with picture sleeve. PM's please... Thanks!

It really is worth watching. I'm quite surprised that no one has so far claimed that their mates, or some geezers that they heard about on another forum, cherry-picked Bussard's collection years ago, and that the sad reality is that its crap cos there's no four or five figure Northern in there.

Completely sold out at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on a drizzly Monday night. Sharon Jones is dynamite on stage and the crowd were wild for her and the band. Shame we could hardly see a thing though. We got there a bit late (a 13km cycle ride through the mist-filled woods of Amsterdam) and were at the back of the hall. There was no room to move - and the Dutch are the tallest nation in the world!

I got an email yesterday advising that the books are now in the warehouse and will be shipped this week...

You can tell that it's the DTS logo. Seems to be a lot of these about in recent months.

Looking again this morning, I believe it's actually taken from the 30 minute 'featurette' that accompanies the film on DVD (or from the extra "40 minutes of footage not in the original film". Well, that's what it says on the back of my DVD cover).

If you haven't seen it, check out the documentary film Desperate Man Blues. Source: IMDB You want to see hunting for old records? Here's your man, and he has some great tales to tell in the film of heading out into the countryside and knocking on the doors of old black families living in wooden shacks, trying to find out of they might have some even older records stashed in the barn or under the bed. Watch this and you realise that it could just as easily relate to the hunt for rare soul vinyl. In fact, there is no difference. The hunt is the same, and so are the hunters - the genre is irrelevant. Just found a trailer for the film on YouTube. In it, Jo Bussard talks about record finds including one which netted him the only known copy of a particular 78, valued, he says, at US$50,000.

If you get the French Vogue/Pop release there is no distortion.

Contact details - is he on here? My telepathic powers won't extend that far from the Netherlands. Other sources still welcomed...

A long shot, I know, but I'd like a few 8" sleeves, preferably original Audiodisc ones. Anyone? If not Audiodisc, then just plain 8" sleeves would do. Is anyone out there selling them? I don't need many - 6 or even a dozen would be great...

Possibly both, but his main purpose is to draw attention to his record shop! He's just using eBay as a platform to advertise it to buyers interested in what he's got...

LOL - this guy does keep popping up. Thought he had this for sale at about 2 million a few weeks back! Anyway, the disc looks like an acetate pressed for dj-ing with - a product of the 70s.

Based on the strength of the refosoul file, I'll be wanting a copy of the LP...

Thanks for sharing some info on this seemingly odd and short-lived little label.

Keith Rylatt used to play this regularly at Bogart's in Kent. That would have been early to mid-80s. On what was possibly it's first outing at that club, I vividly recall him saying that the recording had been set up by 'a friend'...

I heard that it was an old Wigan cover-up...

Will be seeing them 1st November at the Paradiso in Amsterdam!

Sure, Pete. And I could post up a link to a vinyl pressing plant where you can make your own records! That's not the point though, is it? For some people, like me, original juke box strips are part of the paraphernalia of music collecting, just in the same way as original press ads are, or artists' publicity photos. It's not everyone's thing, but it is part of the whole for me.

If anybody has strips for Loma releases, I'll gladly take them from you. Let me know if you do...

It's an acetate, and just about every acetate plays with background noise/hiss. I think the seller is being very honest in their description, and good on them for being so clear, although the reserve they have on it could be another matter For me, acetates are wonderful pieces of history. I know that many couldn't care less about them, but how many copies of an acetate exist in comparison to the number of 45s of that track that get pressed - and how many of these fragile acetates survive the rigours of age? In a scene that values a 45 with a certain colour label higher than those without it, or thinks that the difference in lettering or design used on a release can increase or decrease the value of a 45, then why more don't value acetates for the extreme rarities that they are is beyond me. Still, the longer people continue to dismiss them, the happier I become - regardless of their sound quality...