Interesting article in the Washington Post yesterday ...

 

Charles and Linda Everson were driving back to their hotel when their minivan was struck by a falling object _ a 600-pound cow. The Eversons were unhurt but the cow, which had fallen off a cliff, had to be euthanized.

The year-old cow fell about 200 feet from the cliff and landed on the hood of the couple's minivan, causing heavy damage.

 

The shipment from Texas arrived safely at the UK office on Friday but I was in sunny (but bloody cold) Blackpool for a few days so I wasn't here to sort through it. Peter and I had worked like maniacs whilst in Texas pricing and researching as much stuff as possible before shipping so although I wasn't here in person to answer questions, a large portion of the shipment has been added in my abscence. Of course that's not to say that all the gems are there for the taking, far from it! There's probably still 100 items in need of research and pricing. I will do my best to get everything sorted over the next couple of days so that the entire shipment should be on the site by the weekend.

What's still to sort? Well there are lots of Mobile Fidelity vinyl LP's including some we've never stocked before such as Derek & The Dominos In Concert plus titles by The Moody Blues, Kenny Rogers and Rod Stewart to name a few - many still sealed! Also there are still a lot of original US vinyls from the 70's that are still sealed - they are always popular, but are getting harder to find. Finally (for now) I have a fully autographed Sepultura 'Roots' box set which will no doubt fly out.

Don't hesitate on any of this stuff as so many of the items added to the site from this shipment have sold already, including both the Madonna autographed items plus the Beatles Sgt Pepper Mobile Fidelity Box and the factory sealed original US Christmas album!

 

 

 

 

Just remember to look after your animals kiddies...

Obviously a winning formula for the former Squeeze member so why change it?

 

Tonights guest include a now solo Siouxsie Sioux and West London chaps Hard-Fi showing off songs from their latest chart topping album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Well, the broom is back in the closet for another year :-)

I've obviously been listening to a little too much Jeff Beck recently as I was persuaded to purchase a nice Fender Strat yesterday - The fourth I've owned over the years. For some reason I always ended up trading them for something, regretted it, & then bought another only to trade that for something & regret it again.

This time (I tell myself) it's for keeps.

They're such versatile toys that I've really missed not having one around the house.

Time to remind myself what silly things you can do on electrics again - I shall have to practice that pained expression that you have to pull when tweaking that perfect note during your twenty minute guitar solo ...

Luckily for the world (and my neighbours) I'm more of a rhythm guy than a multi note noodler though I do confess to the odd noodle from time to time.

Can't afford it, but what the hey. Never stopped me from buying a guitar before.

See you at the soup kitchen.

It's been a year since the last Austin Record Show and both Peter and I were nervous as to what to expect there in terms of decent quality stock and how many other people would be there looking for a bargain.

The weather was great, days were warm but not hot, the evenings cool but not cold and there was less humidity than in previous trips, but enough about that. I'm guessing that anyone reading this is more interested in what cool items we found than in what the weather was like and what places we ate at (check Peter's recent entry if you are interested though).

The answer is we found A LOT of great items, too many to list them all here. The bulk of the shipment should be arriving at the UK office on Friday but a few items are already here and on the website.

If I had to choose my favourite items of the trip they would have to be the great selection of David Bowie original 1960's and early '70's UK white label demo 7"s - Space Oddity, Prettiest Star, the Laughing Gnome, Memory Of A Free Festival, Holy Holy. Also whilst on Bowie, we also picked up both promo and stock copy of the highly desirable Rubber Band 7". ALL of these 7" are in perfect MINT condition.

 

If Bowie isn't your thing, how about The Rolling Stones legendary The Promotional Album, seldom seen this is only the second time we've seen this in good enough condition to stock. Collectors who are familiar with this item know that they are quite often wrecked!

 

Beatles Fans shou...