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Weekend finds 13th June....
Had an hour to kill in Hereford yesterday, en route to a mate's wedding.
Visited seven or eight charities with no results, had a look through the records on the stall in the market, found a closed and boarded-up record shop, gave up and was on the way to the cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi when I happened upon an Oxfam bookshop and bought these...
They'll keep me out of trouble for a while, didn't make it to the cathedral though....
We know when a mate buys it for you too.
Lonely Jelly
Suddenly got the urge to buy some more VHS tapes after I fengshui'ed most of my collection about a year ago. Got a shopping bag full of tapes for 8 DKR ~ 1 Euro...
They also had a "jass" drumset for 70 Euro. Didn't purchase though...
Animated Egg
Nice colection of b moviesOriginally Posted by Headless mermaid
If you ever visit Århus you should spend an evening in this little place http://www.slagtehal3.dk/
Lonely Jelly
I've never been there myself but they showed my documentaries Beat diggin and Vinyl heaven there once. Seems like a good place.Nice colection of b movies
Electric Prunes
Sundays euro finds ...
Find (surprice) of the week
Christian Vander Tristan et Iseult ... Complex, harmonic, orchestrated piece of music, minimalist compositions and the most frightening vocalizings. Drums, piano and vocals in a mix of opera, jazz, 20th century classical, and rock music. One word ... extraordinary
Nirvana All of us ... Disappointed that "smells like teenspirit" wasn't on this one, serious Uk press on Pink Island in VG+ condition, only the former onwer put his name with marker on the label.
Youngbloods The Wind Ride ... Folk Music with a souljazz feeling on two songs "Ride TYhe Wind" and "The Dolphin"
Brook Benton Story Teller ... Great line-up on Cotillion label
Francoise Hardy Je vous Aime
David Bowie Space Oddity ... and again... with poster, think this time I will keep this one
Ossie Scott The Wonderful Sound of ... I'm not a reggae fan, but I know, the label "Third world", "King Tubby" Studio and producer "Bunny Lee", but this record sucks even with this big names
Flora Purim 500 Miles High ... Great live set
Fairport Convention Babbacombee"Lee
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Chocolate Rain
Sundays euro finds ...
Nirvana All of us ... Disappointed that "smells like teenspirit" wasn't on this one
Great find for an Euro mate.
"Hangin' out with you two is like partying with Fugazi"
Electric Prunes
Thanks ... I have to be honest, this one was two euros
Lonely Jelly
By any chance are any of the three "belly dance" records marked as from Lebannon, but are French pressing - one looks to be EMI..?Had an hour to kill in Hereford yesterday, en route to a mate's wedding.
I picked up Faruk Salame & Aboud Abdelaal "The Exotic Orient in the Flesh" a weeks or so back - I think I left the "Port Said" one behind -
"It's all just one big plastic hassle..." - Psych-Out
Ugly Custard
Mine are from the last three weekends, bearing in mind that last weekend doesn't really count, seeing as it was like something out of 'Platoon' round here.
French popstress Regine with some crazy hair action, stranded between pop, chanson and yeh-yeh, but rescued by a couple of tracks by a Monsieur S. Gainsbourg. Not sure it's a keeper, but curiosity was satisfied. Mick Softley's a bit battered I'm afraid, but isn't all that good anyway to these ears, ignore high book price. Solarplexus is well known round these parts, La Folia and Bouillebaisse still sounding great. The Manor Live album has some real highlights (belting vocals from Elkie Brooks), sounds a top session. Wouldn't pay much for it - I got that and Solarplexus in trades. Back Door - can't make my mind up whether they're great or mental. Or both. Shawn Phillips - lamest LP I've heard by him, all West Coast jazzers, far too polished.
A boot sale a couple of weeks ago saw me wading through a large pile of a nice fella's albums, almost all of which were country. But I got the Humblebums and Super Stereo Sound for 50p each and he said he has a few more boxes to unleash in future. Then got the Carly Simon 12" for a quid from one of the ubiquitous Yummy Mummies. I just love my Chic stuff. Edwards/Rogers are right up there with Jagger/Richards, Lennon/McCartney and Clinton/Collins for me!! Also sharpened up on my New Wave after a recent thread on the main forum. Surprisingly impressed by the Simple Minds stuff and will have to dig further. Reminded me of one of my favourite Shooting Stars moments as well "True or False - Simple Minds' Jim Kerr is actually Spanish and his real name is Juan."
Always great to pick up Tour de France. Doesn't remind me of Breakdance so much as Channel 4's 80s coverage - "Who's this coming through the fog?! Oh my God it's Stephen Roche!!!". Nice charity shop find anyway. Love Machine is a rather tepid disco LP with the overwhelming whiff of 'cash-in'. Fat Larry's Band with the ace 'Act Like You Know'. Steve Miller, bought (of course) for 'Macho City' - this pressing is rubbish though, so quiet. Bugsy Malone OST, just for the giggles ("We could have been anything that we wanted to be, and it's not too late to change..."). And a rather lovely book on modern Japanese art with the man Murakami, a couple of quid in Save The Children. Not my cuppa really, but I've a mate who loves his Jap stuff and he has a birthday approaching!
So, not bad lately. Nothing majorly exciting, but it's that little taste that keeps me coming back!!
If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions.
The Horseless Headman
I have at least three belly dance / striptease LPs featuring large-breasted topless women on the cover and with mention made of Port Said in the title.
I once worked with a bloke who'd been a sailor and who swore blind he once saw a women have sex with a horse in front of a large crowd of men there.
This brief anecdote has stayed rotting in my mind for many a long year.
To infinity - and beyond!
Chocolate Rain
Still a great find I'm so jealous.Thanks ... I have to be honest, this one was two euros
"Hangin' out with you two is like partying with Fugazi"
Ugly Custard
Just fyi The original Lebanese pressings were pressed by EMI Greece.
Chocolate Rain
My copy was 10 or 12 euro AND has a much less interesting sleeve - just a picture of Christian Vander. Amazing album though, one of their best.Still a great find I'm so jealous.
Enthusiastic vagueness passes for scholarship in the twilight world of the disc-jockey.
John Peel
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'Viva Belly Dance' and 'Dance of the Hareem' are both Lebanese EMI from the 70's, pressed in Greece. The 'Port Said' is on Audio Fidelity, UK record in a US sleeve...By any chance are any of the three "belly dance" records marked as from Lebannon, but are French pressing - one looks to be EMI..?
I picked up Faruk Salame & Aboud Abdelaal "The Exotic Orient in the Flesh" a weeks or so back - I think I left the "Port Said" one behind -
We know when a mate buys it for you too.
Animated Egg
at work i recently walked into a room full of crates of 100's of vinyl from our arabic section and there was an absolutel tonne of these belly dance type records and hundred and hundreds more stuff but all the titles in arabic and i don't recognize a thing...By any chance are any of the three "belly dance" records marked as from Lebannon, but are French pressing - one looks to be EMI..?
I picked up Faruk Salame & Aboud Abdelaal "The Exotic Orient in the Flesh" a weeks or so back - I think I left the "Port Said" one behind -
just took some pictures which i will post up tomorrow when i get home...
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Lonely Jelly
I guess it is the same thing, but with a variance in the cover based on the re-press country - I think I'll go back for these.
keen to see these...
"It's all just one big plastic hassle..." - Psych-Out
Lonely Jelly
Went to West London to see me girlfriends mates at Richmond Green. My lady kindly let me check out some charities.Richmond and Twickenham gave me nowt even though twick had a load of charities. Managed to squeeze in Mortlake and finally got
DAVY GRAHAM- Complete Guitarist lp- didnt have the book but cool for a quid.
Also picked up a Kicking Mule comp of ragtime finger picking guitar.
Me missus mates live in Staines so my night was a bit hellish due to the house music and the general nightlife. In the morning I thought I would do the charities with not much hope but got a few singles for 25p a pop which were in a little box out the back of YMCA. Highlights
THE CHARMERS- SKINHEAD TRAIN - on Explosion OG,well chuffed with this.
DREAM POLICE- LIVING IS EASY - nice Scot progger demo copy in a great old record shop bag called 'scene and heard'.
MOON PEOPLE- LAND OF LOVE- on Speed,soul latin stuff,sounds good.
and about 17 others,mostly mid 70s soul.One had an 60s Island records sleeve with a stamp 'The Jive Hive' on it, a record shop in Middlesex.
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Baldhead Growler
Anything with Port Said in the title is probably one of a series by Mohamed El Bakaar dating from the early/mid 60s. Very straight middle eastern music with brilliant musicianship, but probably only for the hardcore fans.By any chance are any of the three "belly dance" records marked as from Lebannon, but are French pressing - one looks to be EMI..?
I picked up Faruk Salame & Aboud Abdelaal "The Exotic Orient in the Flesh" a weeks or so back - I think I left the "Port Said" one behind -
the 70's Voix De L'Orient stuff is a good place to look for the psychey arabicsploitation stuff, in my experience.
I'm interested in seeing Mr Jarred's photos too.
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I picked up a Peret EP with El Gato on it, after committing it to memory after Babycart's suggestion (I think). Great groovy flamenco-latin effort. One pound well spent.
Cheers BC.
Electric Prunes
Wasnt Scene and Heard a chain? There was one in Leeds in the mid seventies, Upstairs was for straight pecks, but down in the basement you would find a mix of heads and punks. As 14 yeara olds we would be in there every Saturday morning gawping at all the picture sleeve 45s on the wall.
Memories
Genre Dysphoria.
Baldhead Growler
De nada
If it's the ep where Peret's face is highlighted in a star, then I reckon Lo Mato's just as good.
Here's the man doing it in Ibiza in the 70s, menacing a parrot and sporting classic gypsy hairstyle and shirtage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUBXsKfFjQ8
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That's the one - enjoyed Lo Mato as well.
The Horseless Headman
That is one of the best video clips I have seen in many an age.
Thank you for that.
To infinity - and beyond!
Lonely Jelly
This Friday we went to the Hova record fair - Swedens oldest record fair. Never been there before, and this trip was quite improvised. A car was bought (not by me) just for this trip a few days before we left. We had no proper sleeping arrangements made up beforehand and we just started driving without a map but some vague notes hastily scribbled down on a piece of paper by me a few minutes before I was picked up.
The drive itself was pleasant enough until we came to Jonkoping and had to start using smaller roads - here the feeling of entering the unknown really settled in as we passed large plains and small semi-dead towns one worse than the other. Jokes about Deliverance kept the spirit up and we arrived at the camping after 7 hours at 10 in the evening.
The major action actually takes place on the camping the days before the proper fair on the Thursday and Friday evening, so we arrived too late as business was more or less closed for the day but managed to enter a few tents and look in a few car boots and actually find some decent stuff left. The evening was
spent with friends of a friend - drinking lots of beer until 4 in the morning occassionally interrupted by other campers asking to look at the records they had brought to sell.
We slept in their tent so we didn't have to sleep in the car. At 7-7:30 in the morning I was awoken by the sound of one of our tent sleepers violently emptying his stomach - luckily outside the tent but it still marked the time to get up and leave I thought. Some of us nevertheless stayed to sleep longer while I joined the crew driving down to the fair. And here's the total finds:
Bobby Darin - Bobby Darin Born Walden Robert Cassotto
Cheap spare of this quite good and odd record
Shocking Blue - Scorpios Dance
Decent.
The Paupers - Ellis Island
Prog/psych/blues/allkindsastuffmixedtogether. Bit uneven, but some really really good tracks. Heavier than their other LP Magic People. One very nice slow
song with japanese koto melody was the standout track for me, but the long acid bluespsych tracks are also great.
Exuma - Do Wah Nanny & Reincarnation
Very odd stuff - like a Caribbean Richie Havens?? Tropical folkrock? Both records are a bit uneven but has some amazing tracks.
Stardrive - Intergalactic Trot
Total chance-taking here. Proggy moogy jazzy stuff from 1973. Bit uneven, but has it's moments and ends with a quite cool and funky track.
Mel Henke - Dig Mel Henke
Quite weak as compared to La Dolce Henke which is much more fun tongue-in-cheek bachelor pad jazz.
Pierre Henry & Spooky Tooth - Ceremony
As of yet unlistened to.
El Klan - Love is a Swedish Thing
As I understand it - a Mexican group that toured Sweden and somehow during the course of the tour managed to record an album that was released on a Swedish lowbudget record label? Soul/funk/groove that's pretty good and unexpectedly wild for such a lame label.
George Gruntz - Noon in Tunisia
Jazz musicians (Eberhard Weber, J-L Ponty, Sahib Shibab etc) travel to Tunisia to jam with beduins. Not listened to this copy but I've heard it and been looking for a decently priced copy for some time as it sounds excellent.
As you can see I stuck to the somewhat cheaper stuff - loads of real rarities with prices thereafter were abound but I didn't really feel like spending 3000 euro on a mint Pater Noster which might or might not have been the priciest record in circulation that weekend...
Baldhead Growler
Here's another one with an even better shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxk6q...eature=related
and here Peret has a nightmare where the whole world turns hippy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwLE7yOnJWM
...which appears to come true in this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_6D...eature=related
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Ugly Custard
Sounds like a rather fun trip! Camping and record buying is a great combination
I'd be interested to hear what you think of this LP.
I've listened to it an really enjoyed it and i've also listened to it and had to tear it off the turntable after 5 minutes.
Lonely Jelly
much discussed on this forum. some like it, some hate it. i like it, kind of...
MAN and BIRDMEN
Animated Egg
sorry not sure how to post photos off facebook and i don't have an account o any of those photo storing sites.. anyway here is that collection of Arabic lp's that i accidently found at work.. I just grabbed a few
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=73fc064055
Last edited by Jarredjazz; 15-06-2009 at 06:35 PM.
Zapatta Schmidt
Had a trot around the Bedfordshire countryside on Sunday morning and came home with the following 50p finds...
Mint UK 45 of the alternative vocal/sax instru of Junior Murvin's "Police & Thieves". Lee Perry at the controls.
As featured on the upcoming "Working Mans Soul 2" compilation. Comic 'genius' () Russ Abbot smashes the fugg out the skins on "Soul Man".
Just what the heck this US-only 45 was doing in a field on a Sunday morning is anyone's guess.
Last edited by Sie Vulture; 04-08-2009 at 01:23 AM.
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Lonely Jelly
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"It's all just one big plastic hassle..." - Psych-Out
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