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Pete white

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:33:40 +1200

A song to john and don https://soundcloud.com/pete-dnanz/aint-no-kiwi-john-and-don

Pete white

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:31:38 +1200

hmmmm https://soundcloud.com/pete-dnanz/vlc-record-2016-05-02-05h12m42s-track-7

https://soundcloud.com/pete-dnanz/vlc-record-2016-05-02-06h39m01s-track-13

Pete white

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:26:57 +1200

https://soundcloud.com/pete-dnanz/truth

Pete white

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:25:31 +1200

first try at posting this ....

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:23:47 +1200

Among other stuff I got a Fatback LP for $1 out of the cheap bins

Oh man, the cheap bins.

The amount of good stuff for $1 and $2 is amazing.

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:21:59 +1200

Good lord, have never seen that Slim Smith LP before in my life …

Not in that sleeve, no. It must have been Jamaica-only.

Cleaned up nicely too!

Props for cleaning your purchases too – something I am sadly religious about

A Spin-Clean isn't that expensive and it makes a…

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:43:43 +1200

Good lord, have never seen that Slim Smith LP before in my life …

Really glad you were able to swing by Good, as it is a great shop and they put a lot of work into locating stock (noting Yuseef Lateef’s widow took in copies of her husbands personal…

James Littlewood*

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:43:12 +1200

Bill Sevesi died

Oh, that's really sad! And the fact I didn't know before now tells me I'm working too hard.

I just spent fully 5 minutes staring out my window thinking of tons of stuff that all somehow sheets back to Bill.

James Littlewood*

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:31:01 +1200

I had to go to a bar

Well, it was an emergency, after all. I'd have done exactly the same thing.

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:52:42 +1200

Just cleaned a batch of 25 records. Forgot to mention this one from Good Records ($10). Jamaican Studio One pressing.

Howard Edwards

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:51:22 +1200

I have a copy of Their Satanic Majesties Request (bought in Australia in 1968 when my parents took a naive 15 year old for his first trip outside NZ) and I'm pretty sure it's a 3D cover too. I'll have to ask my son to dig it out as he…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:09:38 +1200

It’s on my bucket list!
'crate list' surely?
;- )

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:32:26 +1200

Great stuff on the Brooklyn digs. I remember P-Money tweeting some great finds when he was working over there a few years. It’s on my bucket list!

And I didn't even make it to Academy, which is supposed to be a real trove.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:05:35 +1200

Great stuff on the Brooklyn digs. I remember P-Money tweeting some great finds when he was working over there a few years. It's on my bucket list!

Also, Laura Lee is a boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeogbY-5tA

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:08:04 +1200

BTW, it's not on the vinyl version of Women's Love Rights, but this is the track that got me interested in Laura Lee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBN7OfqUOI

It's on a compilation I bought at a record fair. Total banger.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:04:51 +1200

flyers-by-night?
It would have been good to look longer at some of the non-record things there.
Ephemera from the FM-era...

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:53:52 +1200

... vintage (pre-internet) swinger mags.
People had a lot more hair in the old days …
Postmodern Prehirsutery?
__Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair
...
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily,…

Russell Brown

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:38:10 +1200

I did need to escape in the end!

It would have been good to look longer at some of the non-record things there. I did notice that they'd come by someone's collection of very explicit vintage (pre-internet) swinger mags. People had a lot more hair in the old days ...

Matthew Goody

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:25:05 +1200

If there's ever a shop to leave you bloodied it's the Thing. I failed to mention it to you in my Twitter msg because once you go in there it's hard to get out! A true experience though, not many of those types of shops left.

Kumara Republic

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:43:27 +1200

3D art time...

"Last drive of the little red Corvette"

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:35:30 +1200

yeah man, bleeding thumbs (always the inside corner at the back of the right hand nail...ouch)

Middle finger, right hand in my case. The crazy thing was that I hadn't noticed, so I had quite a bit of blood caked into the record grime. I had to go to a…

JP Hansen

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:52:17 +1200

Nice piece Russell. For those who might be interested in such things, this is an historic concert – read the Youtube blurb if you need more details on why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-O-LsD7czo

Alan Perrott

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:08:07 +1200

didn't get to bottom before blabbing so plus one on Bill Sevesi – he was practically a genre unto himself – and cool news about K Rd, I'll be getting along.

also, last time I looked there were two euro disco 7s in the groovy bin that had your name…

Soon Lee

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:46:50 +1200

Lovely column Russell; like you had a lovely time fossicking for vinyl.

Here's also Bill Sevesi talking to Trevor Reekie.

Alan Perrott

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:46:21 +1200

yeah man, bleeding thumbs (always the inside corner at the back of the right hand nail...ouch) digging is a beautiful thing – only equalled by perching in a pub afters to flip through the finds, scour the covers and wonder what they sound like. that's bliss. until you clock on…

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:23:26 +1200

Here’s the bigger version of that Prince review. Click to read.

Public Address

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:23:26 +1200

Discussion from blog post.