Weekend Finds 7/22/06

[beddoes]

Good day for me!

Som 3 -same (Odeon 1969)

Great bossa-soul lp. Worth it for a lot more than just "Homenagem a Mongo". -edit- I'm crazy about this record. I would do volunteer humanitarian work to have seen them live.

Menescal -Soul Beat Brazil (Kapp)

More nice bossa. Lots of flute and vibes, nice drums.

Caymmi and the Girls From Bahia -Dorival Caymmi (WB)

Popular stuff, but nice.

Claus Ogerman -Latin Rock (RCA)

It's not WATUSI TRUMPETS, but it's still pretty darn good.

Miltinho and the Oscar Castro Neves Orchestra -The Rhythm and the Sound of Bossa Nova (Audio Fidelity 1963)

Makes me want to throw a party. And I hate parties. But I don't mind -much- feeling like I want to have one.

Lambert & Nuttycombe -At Home (A&M 1970)

Simon & Garfunkelesque duo with more haunting guitar figures and a quieter feel, and without Paul Simon's pseudobohemian short-man hokum. A record I'm certain figures prominently in the record collections of Kings of Convenience. I can't stop listening to it.

John Fahey and His Orchestra -Of Rivers and Religion (Reprise 1972)

I have decided to love this record, though I have yet to hear it. -edit- Holy Lincoln! This is a work of genius, this is Van Dyke Parks dreaming on acid of doing it right.

Dmitri Tiomkin -Rhapsody of Steel (United States Steel 1959)

Famous cold-war oddity. Bought it because I've become nostalgic for the Cold War. All I want to do is sit in the bathtub reading John Le Carre, with music like this playing in the background, a cigarette and martini within easy reach.

I also bought two Tom Jobim lps and Elis 72.

I also bought some records that turned out to be shitty. Fuckers.

[Viva Chiba]

I thought you had run out of money and space Mark ?

Always find a way of feedin' the habit eh. . . .

Reminds me of. . err. .. me!

[beddoes]

I thought you had run out of money and space Mark ?

Always find a way of feedin' the habit eh. . . .

Reminds me of. . err. .. me!

Yes, both! But I ran into a guy who knew a guy... and when I looked up I was poring through crates of records. I've really wanted the Som 3 lp, so I'm glad I succombed.

But I'm staying home tomorrow.

[benjamin hatton]

I also bought some records that turned out to be shitty. Fuckers.

aye, me too

[leebrady]

[QUOTE=beddoes]Good day for me!

Som 3 -same (Odeon 1969)

Great bossa-soul lp. Worth it for a lot more than just "Homenagem a Mongo". -edit- I'm crazy about this record. I would do volunteer humanitarian work to have seen them live.QUOTE]

GOOD,


rare an worth a few bucks too

[Ian Townsend]

I also bought some records that turned out to be shitty. Fuckers.

Thirded
Especially Sir Douglas Quintet's 'Rio Medina' LP. Yuk. Poor 12 Bar jokey blues stuff.

But I did get Reunion - Songs of Jimmy Webb sung by Glen Campbell which I've wanted for a while and is fine, fine listening.

On a lighter note I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to the flutey tunes of new VV poster fartisjazzforarseholes (or whatever his board name is) on his MySpace page. Quirky EZ sampled grooves=

Counts as a Weekend Find I think.

[beddoes]

Thirded
Especially Sir Douglas Quintet's 'Rio Medina' LP. Yuk. Poor 12 Bar jokey blues stuff.

Terrible record, so sad. PLEASE, Ian, don't let this keep you from getting MENDOCINO, one of my favorite records of all time.

[Ian Townsend]

Terrible record, so sad. PLEASE, Ian, don't let this keep you from getting MENDOCINO, one of my favorite records of all time.

That's a fine tune and I love the cheesy Frank Barber version of it on Happy Percussion too.
I'm comforted there's someone who shares my disappointment with that LP...I'll definitely file it neatly away on a very hot radiator along with Herbie Flowers similarly appalling Plant Life.

[beddoes]

On a bossa tip


Would anyone recomend Jorge ben's "O Bidu" - "Silencio No Brooklin" ???

or any other LP's of Mr. Ben that are worth investigating ???

only recently discovered the squire's work after hearing Taj Mahal, which Rod Stewart swiped for his "sexy" chorus.

utter genius

That Jorge Ben lp is genius. Buy it and then hug it, applying only as much force as you would embracing a brittle-boned puppy.

[Ian Townsend]

Early and worthwhile rise bought me a couple of original & one re-released oldie but goodies to kick off my summer holiday on a groovy 60's note. (I love the random way that regular booting shapes the week):

Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Without Reservations
The Herd - Paradise Lost
Donovan - Fairytale (PRT re-release)

Also:
Kool & The Gang - Live at PJ's
Stanley Clarke's 1st
Ray Charles - My Kind of Jazz
Reggae Chartbusters (Trojan)
Earth Wind & Fire's - Gratitude
Herb Alpert - Solid Brass
Piesni polski Walczacej (Songs of Fighting Poland) Spinning now....gawd blimey...a Muza mutha F.

Bit a brekkie an' I'm off again whilst the karma light is shining. A week too late for my birthday but what the hell.

[soulmarcosa]

France and Japan invaded my mailbox the other day:



That's Jun Mayuzumi obscured by obi in the upper right corner. One of her tracks opens the album and it's great.

[blue burt]

A few finds from a car boot today..I ain't too familiar with the library stuff but those Weiss albums could've been worse, as they actually get quite funky in spots...the Weller dude (of Paul Revere & the Raiders fame) is pretty decent, straight-forward Bakersfield-style country, included in the lineup is the late guitar ace Clarence White - the reason I picked this up in the first place..the Henry Stephen 7" is a Spanish pressing (never heard of him, nice sleeve though..), below in the right is 'Sirkustirehtöörin pieni sydän' by a Finnish folk outfit Cumulus..it's from 1973 and quite scarce, as I don't recall seeing it before...

[Benicio Del Toffo]

I'll definitely file it neatly away on a very hot radiator along with Herbie Flowers similarly appalling Plant Life.

Don't do that mate, someone on here (or eBay) may well take the Herbie LP for the Alf Bigden (?) breakbeat at the end of 'Little Caesar'.

What is it Paul Calf said, "In every bag of shite, there is a scrap of gold - 'course, it could be the wrapper off a Caramac"? Something like that. It applies in this case anyway. But you're right, rest of 'Plant Life' is utter arse.

[Campag Record]

I've decided to go cold turkey this weekend (and for the previous week in fact) as I've got to find £500 or so for car service + MOT

What difference a couple of quid on a few car boot punts makes I'm not sure but at least I've been listening to records that I already own.

Don't think I'll quite go as far as Sermad mind!

[Joe M'geek]

boot was especially rubbish today...

got a cockney rebel album-psychomodo, on the strength of hearing one track on a publishers sampler, which is good + a kids album- Tallulah and the cat burglars, and a weird trinidadian 12 inch, but...nothing to shout about. I think its cos I got there a little later than usual, but seeing as the competition were greedily clutching 'Gigi' and a grubby Def Leppard lp, it might just have been a shite day for it.

[Ian Townsend]

Don't do that mate, someone on here (or eBay) may well take the Herbie LP for the Alf Bigden (?) breakbeat at the end of 'Little Caesar'.

What is it Paul Calf said, "In every bag of shite, there is a scrap of gold - 'course, it could be the wrapper off a Caramac"? Something like that. It applies in this case anyway. But you're right, rest of 'Plant Life' is utter arse.

Information greatly appreciated.

Only ever spun it once and felt I was in acid Chas n' Dave hell.... I'll WAV the break for no good reason at all and move it along

Now let's see....LITTLE CAESAR!! Raer HUGE open BREAKS.....etc....

Yup.

[Campag Record]

Information greatly appreciated.

Only ever spun it once and felt I was in acid Chas n' Dave hell.... I'll WAV the break for no good reason at all and move it along

Now let's see....LITTLE CAESAR!! Raer HUGE open BREAKS.....etc....

Yup.

I must admit that I really like the drum break on that LP. Whether that merits keeping it is open to question but if I put that logic to all my records I'd only end up keeping a handfull

Don't forget to add "illsick" to your description as well

[leebrady]

On a bossa tip


Would anyone recomend Jorge ben's "O Bidu" - "Silencio No Brooklin" ???

or any other LP's of Mr. Ben that are worth investigating ???

only recently discovered the squire's work after hearing Taj Mahal, which Rod Stewart swiped for his "sexy" chorus.

utter genius

That´s a great LP but then as are most of the Jorge Ben Jor LP´s, he´s a fukkin legend, a brazilian of the highest order any of the LP´s made in the 60´s are killer as are most of the 1s in the 70´s too
The best one is novo esquema da samba (the New wave of samba.) from 1963 or força bruta heavy heavy shit.

Rod stewart is a prize cock when Jorge tried to sue him he gave the song to unicef so Jorge could not get any royalties for the shameless swipe.
He also had the cheek to play NYE on copacabana beach a few years back and pulled the biggest crowd ever there, not cos they like him tho!! that´s fo sure, but just cos everyone hits the beach on NYE.
U can imagine what song he opened with!!

[beddoes]

Rod stewart is a prize cock

Did you guys hear the urban legend, all those years ago, about Rod Stewart going to the emergency room to have his stomach pumped, whereupon doctors discovered a large quantity of jizz? Or is that an American rumor?

[leebrady]

Did you guys hear the urban legend, all those years ago, about Rod Stewart going to the emergency room to have his stomach pumped, whereupon doctors discovered a large quantity of jizz? Or is that an American rumor?

like it

[Hayes]

Rod stewart is a prize cock when Jorge tried to sue him he gave the song to unicef so Jorge could not get any royalties for the shameless swipe.
He also had the cheek to play NYE on copacabana beach a few years back and pulled the biggest crowd ever there, not cos they like him tho!! that´s fo sure, but just cos everyone hits the beach on NYE.
U can imagine what song he opened with!!

we are sailing?

[wayne]

Did you guys hear the urban legend, all those years ago, about Rod Stewart going to the emergency room to have his stomach pumped, whereupon doctors discovered a large quantity of jizz? Or is that an American rumor?

I suspect it's an urban legend - the very same rumour was in circulation about Marc Almond in the early 80s, and George Michael around the mid - late 80s...the names change, but the story stays the same...

[beddoes]

I suspect it's an urban legend - the very same rumour was in circulation about Marc Almond in the early 80s, and George Michael around the mid - late 80s...the names change, but the story stays the same...

Just what I suspected. Then there's that urban legend about Bruce Willis' stomach being full of hamburger.

[Ian Townsend]

DAF - Der Mussolini.

Loved this when I was a callow youth. Powerful, urgent & HARD ..... such a relentless drum-driven track. They never matched it sadly....

[Snoop God]

naff all

lp
neils heavy concept album(neil from young ones does album pish apart from some spoken word)
blue mink-hit making world(take it this is missing all the good songs all i liked off it was a little handclap drum break from first needle skipping)

[Benicio Del Toffo]

Saturday morning, decided to try a village car boot sale that I've only recently found out about and had little idea of where the village was. Made use of Green Flag's on-line route-map service and also a few tricks of my own (us country boys know the short-cuts!) and ended up doing a 33-mile round trip on my bike. To get fook all. To be fair, it rained pretty hard Saturday morning in darkest Lincolnshire, so I can understand why the attendance was poor, maybe I'll try again in decent weather. But what confronted me on Saturday was like a curious coming together of Albion Market and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. All in-bred hicks selling rusty tractor parts and battered ornaments (he said, generalising).

Sunday, I got up late and nipped off down to my regular boot sale and got one of the better hauls of this summer so far. Just goes to show that there is really no 'right' time to get to a car boot. You'll hear just as many stories of folk going at closing time and meeting that seller who just wants to get rid so he/she doesn't have to take all the records home again as you will the stories of early birds getting the juicy worms. As M'Geek has pointed out before, many of the dealers who are there at silly o'clock and hover round the cars as they pull in are really looking for Elvis and Beatles rarities anyway and wouldn't even glance at many of the VV staples.

Anyhoo, here's what I got for a few quid in a Nottingham shop on Friday and for under a tenner yesterday:

Shop:

Scott Bradford 'Rock Slides' - Really liking this so far. Rock/jazz fusion which has that dirty, late-60s fuzz which always works for me. The Nathan Davis tune 'Mid Evil Dance' is killing me.

Car Boot: (listed in order of finding!)

Ginger Baker and Friends 'Eleven Sides of Baker' - Nice Afro-rock kind of thing, particularly good to see this about 5 from the front of a lovely old gent's crate - a good indication that VV-type chaps haven't arrived early and beaten you to the punch. 'N'Kon Kini N'Kon N'Kon' is a good 'un off here.

(and then you pull out..)
Sly and the Family Stone 'Back On The Right Track' - late period Slyness with the ATCQ sample on 'Remember Who You Are', but flip it over for some lovely pop/soul/funk on 'It Takes All Kinds' which demonstrates that, somewhere in the midst off all the Class A madness, Sly still had it. However, you do get the feeling that some of his later work had the sound of debts to dealers being paid off!

Deodato 'First Cuckoo' - Not mad on this. Diet-jazz/funk with a couple of super disco breaks percussion breakdowns, but a bit lightweight really.

John Barry 'Ready When You Are JB' - Nice comp of some movie highlights, well known to most on here and bought as a makeweight really.

The 4 Instants 'Discotheque' - Again, bought as a makeweight, but perhaps the surprise of the weekend and threatening to be my favourite purchase. Looks like total Swinging Sixties cash-in (released 1966) and as it's on Saga, probably exploito rubbish. But it's REALLY good!! Lots of freakbeat-y, fuzz and Hammond. On first listen, several tracks that are well worth the price of admission (50p in this case). Would be interested to know who these Instants chappies are - pretty decent playing really.

Various 'Electro 9' - Well, you have to pick them up when you see them don't you? Unfortunately, the quick once-over I gave this in the field proved insufficient as it's pretty trashed and may well head bin-wards. Never mind, still, goes to show that they're still popping up.

Fresh 4 'Wishing On A Star' 12" - Another copy this month! Not a rarity or owt, but a nice nostalgia piece and will be punted on to a mate.

Stomu Yamashta 'Go Too' - Looked alright due to the Arista All-Stars ensemble, but is way too noodly and lacking in funk, despite the presence of Paul Jackson (Headhunters).

Birds and Brass 'Are Back' - Get in! Again, the vinyl's not great, so this one will stay with me, but after a good old clean, it plays fine. So I can give 'Fritzy Baby' a regular airing after parting with one of those pointy silver coins.

Steve Hillage 'Motivation Radio' - Another makeweight and it's surprisingly tolerable. I won't be keeping it, but it's got some nice grooves here and there for the more open-minded sample freak (particularly on 'Motivation').

Various 'Millie and her Boyfriends' - Yes, yes, I know I have voiced my hatred of reggae many times and this purchase appears to be hypocrisy. But, I could hardly leave behind a MINT Trojan LP could I? A nice condition Trojan is rare enough in itself isn't it? Will probably trade this with my chap on the market for something that won't make me want to pull my fingernails out when I listen to it.

Salinas 'Atlantis' - "Fookin' 'ell!!" I thought, when I spied this one, still in it's shrink-wrap. And at 4 for £1!! Classic Cadet biz with the mighty 'Straussmania' (remember it from the Argo/Cadet comps of the mid-90s?) as the opening tune. Had a quick needle-drop last night and it sounds like 'Straussmania' is far from the only good tune on the LP. Made my weekend really.

Making up the 4 for £1 were:

Clement Brown and John Wright 'This Is Stereo' - The usual spoken word stereo demonstration stuff. They really thought they were on the cusp of a brave new world in the 70s didn't they?!! Got this as the music was credited to Mike Vickers. It's crap though.

Eileen Fulton 'Sings With You In Mind' - Hoping for Peggy Lee-type lounge, it's just chicken-in-a-basket cack though.

Don Reeve Sound 'Mighty Hammond' - Yes, that one. Will be coming to a freebies pile near you soon.


All in all, well pleased and faith in booting restored.

Spent the rest of the day listening to the God-like genius of Peter Alliss. Wish he was appearing at the Big Chill!! Perfect Sunday afternoon vibes with the corpulent golfing sage.

[Ian Townsend]

The 4 Instants 'Discotheque' - Again, bought as a makeweight, but perhaps the surprise of the weekend and threatening to be my favourite purchase. Looks like total Swinging Sixties cash-in (released 1966) and as it's on Saga, probably exploito rubbish. But it's REALLY good!! Lots of freakbeat-y, fuzz and Hammond. On first listen, several tracks that are well worth the price of admission (50p in this case). Would be interested to know who these Instants chappies are - pretty decent playing really.

That's a minorly 'sought after' makeweight you got there.
I bid on Ebay for a copy a while back after hearing it at Sie's.... didn't win it.
About 8 bidders crashed in during the last few seconds...I think it went for about £25. Sure there was a thread on this LP a while back.

[Campag Record]

Saturday morning, decided to try a village car boot sale that I've only recently found out about and had little idea of where the village was. Made use of Green Flag's on-line route-map service and also a few tricks of my own (us country boys know the short-cuts!) and ended up doing a 33-mile round trip on my bike.

What I want to know is where do you put your bike when you ride to all these carboots? Do you get people making you an offer for it thinking that it's for sale?

Nice finds btw.

[Goldstonerapper]

Hi, I'm the new kid here, stumbled across this site a little while ago and was intrigued to discover that there are several of you about that spend an unusual amount of time rummaging through musty smelling crates for Vinyl nuggets.............pretty much like me then

This weekends rummage in my 4 local Charity emporiums yielded:

Brian Friel - S/T on Pye 1975 (No idea about this but features BJ Cole on guitar)
The Clash - The Clash 1977 (Had Sadinista but not this one)
Pink Floyd - The Wall 1979
Rod stewart - An Old raincoat.............Vertigo 1969 (Swirly centre)
The Smiths - William 12" RT 166 1984
Kraftwerk - The Model 12" 1978
David Bowie - Low
Johnny Cash - The man, The World, His Music (Sun 2LP set)
Freda Payne - Band of Gold (Champagne Records)
The Mighty Mighty Dells - The Dells 1974 (nice cover!)
Grandmaster Flash - The Message 1982
John Rocca - I want it to be real (Arthur Baker mix) Beggars Banquet
Hamilton Bohannon - Lets Start II Dance Again - Domino Records 1986
Surface - When Your 'Ex' Wants You Back (Salsoul 1984)

Quite chuffed with this lot, and all for just over ten notes!

[Benicio Del Toffo]

What I want to know is where do you put your bike when you ride to all these carboots? Do you get people making you an offer for it thinking that it's for sale?

Nice finds btw.

Ta. I push the bike round with me, much to the consternation of other buyers! I have sussed the knack of holding the bike up with one hand and flicking through crates with the other. Or just letting it lie against my back if I have to crouch right down. Organisers could do with getting some nipper to mind the bikes for £1 or something, it would encourage people to be a bit more eco-friendly. Admittedly, you can't carry loads home from the booter if you're on a bike (my rucksack can take about 30 LPs at a push), but it would save people parking cars half a mile down the street to avoid paying the 30p admission!

Amazing how many people walk into my bike while it's static and expect ME to apologise!!! It's symptomatic of that 'old biddy at the car boot' walk, you know, head turned to the side (sometimes even to the back), legs marching forward and.........clunk!

Will happily do a CD-R of that Discotheque LP if anyone feels a need.