While chatting in Oxford St outside the 100 club on Sat night, the conversation got around to who had sat on or broken what rarity.

I rater foolishly left my record box open one night after spinning a few tracks at home while the kids were out of the way in bed......

When I finally got out of bed (about 2 hrs after the kids) I found that my record box lid had been knocked shut and had pinged a big chunk from Ace Spectrum that was at the front of the box....

A lesson that I have learnt is always put a crap pressing at the front of the box and always close the lid when children are around.

Now its you turn....

A couple over the years Seven Souls Issue no idea how it broke just did, Van Dykes Issue snapped in my hands for no reason lol.

When I finally got out of bed (about 2 hrs after the kids) I found that my record box lid had been knocked shut and had pinged a big chunk from Ace Spectrum that was at the front of the box....

Ace Spectrum ? Result

When I finally got out of bed (about 2 hrs after the kids) I found that my record box lid had been knocked shut and had pinged a big chunk from Ace Spectrum that was at the front of the box....

Ace Spectrum ? Result

Linda jones you hit like t.n.t broke it when it was being cleaned

Jimmie Ellis - Happy to be on CENTURY CITY .....purchased a nice decent copy and then played it with a cheap shitty stylus (prob with a lot much wieght on it) without thinking and it got massive cueburn...bloody tragic....other than drunkenly buying 'the snake' by Liverpool 5 on RCA, it rates as my most stupid record related act!

Linda jones you hit like t.n.t broke it when it was being cleaned

Same thing happened to me with my Soul issue of 6 by 6 - the one with silver print- snapped clean in half. Lucky it wasn't hard to replace!

round about 77 i was cooly spining the brand new faces on my finger that i'd just bought off Sam and of course it fell on the floor, nasty little edge chip! so whoever has that now you know the story

Ray Pollard on Shrine clean in half with a hard bound diary

Around 2007 I had a copy of Joanne Courcey and Max wanted it, so I said I'll drive over with it, just to be safe I thought I'd pack it in a mailer and as I put it in, I put my thumb through it and cracked it. Took it to Max, he loved it, didn't see the crack (it was very hard to see) and went to give me the £600 we had agreed on and then I said Max, have a good look at it...and I sold it for £200...

I've lost count of the amount of records I've damaged by opening the mailers with a stanley knife

The funniest one I have ever heard was when my friends Bob Lee and Matt Bates were double decking at a Brighton Beach do at Leicester Uni.

Behind the decks was a great little area perfect for us DJ's that like to have a dance while DJing.

Matt had just finished playing Harvey-Any way you wanna on its original very brittle styrene label, and started to have a dance to the next track that Bob was playing while still holding the said record in his hand. Matt getting rather involved in spirit of the track that Bob was playing decided to do a high kick.......

He kicked the record full on, shattering it in to lots of small pieces and showering the full dancefloor with fragments, leaving him holding just a small diry-lea sized triangle in his hand........

Ray Pollard on Shrine clean in half with a hard bound diary

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO

two belters here :-

Djing at Taste of Honey last year dropped my Accents - You Better Think Again on its edge on table that decks were on, nice little chunk out of the record - had just bought it a few days earlier and was giving it its first spin! Can still play it if I miss out 5 secs on each side of intros.

Legends - Deep Inside (Pumpkin), noticed that the cardboard sleeve was opening at the seam, so removed record and applied superglue to the sleeve, in my haste didnt give glue enough setting time, stuck 45 in said sleeve. Few months later went to spin it at Radcliffe all-niter and found I couldnt remove the disc from the sleeve! Yep glue had stuck record to the sleeve, crap flipside ok, 'Deep Inside' side fooked! Nice line of superglue across it. (Hence Pete why asked if you had any method of removing a line of superglue from vinyl).

dont wanna tempt fate but ive been lucky enough not to break any rare ones....had a few come in the post broken a mint copy of a need a helping hand in about 50 bits...gutted to see it had lasted 40 years and then a week in the hands of a postie!...

when i was djing at a reggae 'blues' in stoke in the early hours and pitch black dropped a 12" of bandelero by pinchers which was massive at the time but no longer available on 12...a huge chunk broke off,not expensive but still gutted ,could only get in on lp by then

sean parry a go go children dj came over to mine to make a go go cd with his tunes in an original 60s 7" 'wallet'...looked nice but not secure,a uk copy of helen shapiro's stop and you'll become aware fell out and broke in two...

11th commandment " thou shalt not open mailers at 2am in the morning whilst pissed up over a tiled floor "

Steve

11th commandment " thou shalt not open mailers at 2am in the morning whilst pissed up over a tiled floor "

Steve

Did you mistake it for a poppadom Steve and take a bite out of it?

I didnt break it but about 25 - 30 years ago, I paid a months wages for a track off a record list.

The record arrived a week later (When cheques needed clearing).

I took the record out of the pristine mailer and it was in 7 or 8 pieces. So I phoned the dealer who didnt sound in the least bit surprised. He told me to write a letter explaing the state of the record, and send a photo. Which I did. Soon after I recieved my money back and a record for free, as the dealer had insured the package for nearly double what I paid.

I've never asked him. But I have always thought it was probably already smashed and his elaborate plan had been a roaring sucess. I came out a winner too. The free record was Eddie Foster - I Never knew on In. Which at the time was in plenty supply at about £4 a go.

Andre Williams - Happy...my first 45 and I simply sat down on it about 15 years back...never happens again, since I now always look behind me before I sit down when records are in the same room!

Bought a copy of Paul Sindab..." dropped your candy in the sand" of my mate one morning...put it in a record mailer under the car seat for ' safe ' keeping while at work...forgot about it and drove home...while in bed remembered about it and rushed out to the car to get it....fabulous it had slipped out the mailer, which was still under the car seat.. and lodged itself under the clutch pedal...took it out the sleave... snapped in half !! Never even had the chance the play it!!!! DOH!!

Edited September 27, 201113 yr by Dennisoul

Ray Pollard on Shrine clean in half with a hard bound diary

ouch!! Very sore

Bought Robert John Raindrops Love and Sunshine in 1975 from Paul Aisbitt in the Pilgrims Inn Bedford on a British A+M Demo. As I paid I walked back to my seat as the record dropped onto the floor and chipped a bit out of the run in groove.As they say NAP, but bloody close!

Jimmy Soul Clark "I'll be your winner", closed the record box lid heard the snap and threw the the record box lid at the wall which was sheet rock, two for one

A lovely mint Invitations demo on Stateside. Found it in a girlfriends mothers collection, "I'll borrow that if you dont mind" ( with no intention of return ) chucked it on the back widow shelf of my 69 Escort... forgot about it ... next day record had warped itself into a perfect "S"

This was the Summer of 76

After hot water treatment it did play again but was very deformed..........

Mint- Billy Hamlin on bethlehem. Bought it $7 "Buy It Now" from Ebay. After a few days the seller says he accidentally broke it while cleaning it. Well what a surprise. I told him to piss off. He relisted it again after a month or so asking for $700. Also Freddy King - Now Ive got a Woman, dropped it on the floor without a sleeve while Dj:ing. Didnt notice it fall and so stepped the whole night on it. Condition changed from M- to VG-. Not so rare but a great record IMO.

Edited September 27, 201113 yr by jackpotofhits

A few years ago I bought a copy of John Bowie - You're Gonna Miss a Good Thing. Had it delivered to my parents' place, as I am often abroad on biz trips. When I returned, I visited my parents to collect a couple of records that had arrived, 1 cheapie and John Bowie. Put both of them into a mailer and left the other mailer on the table at my parents' place.

A few hours later my mother told me that she had broken a record while bending a supposedly empty mailer. When she told me what was written on the label I felt like dying.

Of course I hadn't collected both records but only the cheapie ...

Way back - djing at Portcullis - too many records in Box - snapped an issue of Van Dykes in 2, Bought a second copy - Did exactly the same 2 months later.

Last year I tried again and bought another issue - getting out of taxi on way home - seat sprang forward letting people out of back - Crack ( at least it didn't break in 2)

Think I'm doomed not to have this - Never broken another record, just 3 copies of this.

Last one I cracked was Attractions - Why Shouldn't A Man Cry

Hope you are well Derek

Last one I cracked was Attractions - Why Shouldn't A Man Cry

Irony as that is a very good reason to cry.

Irony as that is a very good reason to cry.

Yes very ironic.

Add another to Falling Box Lid Syndrome: Kenny Wells - Isn't It Just A Shame. And yes, it fcking was, a clean crack from edge to label. Sturdy piece of card taped over crack on the flip allowed it to play ok, albeit with a 'click' through te first few seconds.

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Edited September 28, 201113 yr by Alan Walls

A couple over the years Seven Souls Issue no idea how it broke just did, Van Dykes Issue snapped in my hands for no reason lol.

If it's the same one Mark, I remember that Seven Souls issue back in the early 80s. I seem to recall you bought it at Stafford off Ian Clark for about £20. A few weeks later, one side was covered with more cardboard and sellotape than Asda use in one of their distribution centres in a whole year! DJed OK until another one came along though......................

Not had time to read what will be an interesting topic so far as i'm trying to pack up some records at the moment, but mines and I think it'll take some beating was Tommy & Derbys - Swing while packing it for a customer. Cracked from outside to in.

Beat that

Cheers Darren

Not had time to read what will be an interesting topic so far as i'm trying to pack up some records at the moment, but mines and I think it'll take some beating was Tommy & Derbys - Swing while packing it for a customer. Cracked from outside to in.

Beat that

Cheers Darren

I exactly the same with Joanne Courcey. Damn these stubby fingers.

I've lost count of the amount of records I've damaged by opening the mailers with a stanley knife

So why don't you stop doing it Pete?

So why don't you stop doing it Pete?

Because it's the easiest way to open them?

Not a major rarity but I bought a box of 45's from an add in the paper purely because when I got there there was a mint copy of Out On The Floor on Canadian Reo - then broke it clean in half whilst giving it a clean.

Rest of the box was pop shite!

broke a bob collins--inventory of heartace -IT WAS------------ LID FELL ONTO IT

Records in storage, charades-I don't want to lose you-mgm demo, edge chip( fortunately I had two copies), chancellors-all the way to heaven ( had for 35 years), it started getting plays, dug my copy out, small crack in run in, nap, even noticed it, as eyesight deteriates over the years. Also slightly off topic, matt lucas-baby you better go go, hundreds of records, piled up, while crate diggin', in america, only soul rcord left, and only centre of record, and a piece of vinyl attached, left.

WHILE DJ,ING AT LOWTON I TOOK TIMMIE WILLIAMS ..COMPETITION OFF THE DECK AND IT BROKE IN MY HAND, FROM EDGE TO MIDDLE, IT DID PLAY OK AFTER THAT WHEN CLICKED BACK INTO PLACE, WHEN I SOLD UP I STILL GOT £500 FOR IT, ALDO DROPPED A DON RAY DEMO ON TILED FLOOR AT THE BIRCH IN ASHTON WHILE TAKING IT OUT OF THE BOX FOR SOMEONE TO BUY. AND NO ....I DIDN'T SELL IT!!!!

Lent Lyn Vernado "second hand love " to a mate in the seventies , when i got it back it had a inch crack in it from edge inwards. "DEVASTATED"

chancellors-all the way to heaven ( had for 35 years), it started getting plays, dug my copy out, small crack in run in, nap, even noticed it, as eyesight deteriates over the years.

I once saw what I thought was £15 record sell for about £50, dug a copy out to sell and cracked it in half whilst cleaning it ...can't remember what it was, Larry Houston or something like that. Wsn't mine though it was the ex's so wasn't too bothered

Box lid on Al Williams (LA BEAT ) play's alright but I'm concience of the click when I d.j with it will spin it at Stoke this saturday thank god for celotape regards Simon.

A pink Mint Majestics I love her so much. Picked it up out of the box when using other hand on mobile whilst talking to someone about my new lovely copy when it fell out of the sleeve and landed on my wooden floor taking out a chip. Just misses out most of the trumpets intro. Lesson learnt to double sleeve and place at right angles inside outer cardboard cover.

As a matter of interest my insurance company paid out.

Bought a copy early eighties at Glenrothes Ymca allnighter from Pat Brady , laid it flat on the bottom of my bag and after several hours dancing slumped my entire weight on it as a pillow !!! , they don't half snap well those Columbia demo's !!!!!!

Hi All The one that comes to mind, although it was many years ago now! but still haunts me to-day is / was Frankie & the Classical "What shall I do" UK Philip's mint -, Perhaps one of the great blunders in the history of Record Collecting, while wiping the record free from static I used a cloth that I had used half hour before on another job, Just a quick wipe is all it needed, and like magic I whiteness my record go from mint to a heated groove f**k up, The cloth had thiners on it.

The only positive to come from this was to make other minty copies a bit more rare? DAVE

Was in LA with kev murphy when he broke his deltours,by trying to force it into a full box.3 weeks later snapped a sam williams tower demo doing exactly the same thing miself.

Was in LA with kev murphy when he broke his deltours,by trying to force it into a full box.3 weeks later snapped a sam williams tower demo doing exactly the same thing miself.

Ouch X2!

All back to mine after Sub Club,Glasgow in the nineties and decided to change the music on the decks from house to soul.

Kneeling on the floor djing for another few hours surrounded by sevens, rather the worse for wear and knelt on ,and cracked Tony Middleton 'Return to

Spanish Harlem ' and Jimmy Reed Jnr 'I Aint Goin Nowhere '. The Jimmy Reed still plays with a quiet click all the way through but the Tony Middleton click

is murderous. Every now and then I try it again thinking that it wont be so bad ,it is.

Nick.

Dropped my Clydie King " Missin my baby " in Tescos after photo copying it for Manifesto , split in half ..held together just by the label ......

Not mine but worth a reminder. Richard Searling lent Dave McCadden his Jades on Nite Life. Dave managed to leave it on the top of the server bit in a chip shop. Left the chippie, remembered and went back BUT to late was the cry. Think it was virtually a one off at the time. Also RS leaving the Len Barry LP with I,ll always need you on the roof of his car back in the day then drove off never to be seen again.