Gateway Metal 7" 45 - Harvey - Any Way You Wanta

[Mal C]

Just saw this online, interesting isn't it, flipped with a totally different track, so deffo a one off made for whoever, Mad Mike... dont know what all thats about, maybe a local DJ perhaps? but be interested to find out why this exists as it does, any ideas?

 

Here's the blurb from the ad..

 

'gateway metal 7" 45 - Harvey - any way you wanta - and the triumphs - draggin wagon  -  condition is nice clean VG+!!!!!!!!  - dated 12/9/67 - good fidelity as you can hear the reverb - plays with slight hiss but doesnt distract -  period correct super rare gateway metal 7" 45 from mad mikes backyard - 2- SIDED  MAD MIKE MONSTER!!!!!!  very rare mad mike collectible'

 

Malcolm

[George G]

Search Mad Mike Pittsburgh for the story about him.....very interesting..

 

Yeah, this is nothing more that taking a couple common issued records and making a one off dub for use either on radio or for mobile gigs since by the date on the record is years after these songs were originally released and the original records were out of print.  The Triumphs song on the back is an early rock band from Columbus, OH which came out on a standard 45 about 6 years before the date. I've seen a few dozen similar dubs from the Pittsburgh area.

[Windlesoul]

Mad Mike from Pittsburgh also did that re-edit / rehash of Manny Corchado on Decca, as the Mosquitos "The Fly" on Spear (actually just lopped off that long drawn-out intro from memory).

Edited July 18, 2014 by Windlesoul

[Pomonkey]

Have a few of Mad Mike's old 45s - actual ones, not acetates/boots - with the label scratched right out and his name etched on, normally would be a bit of an arse having a label messed up anything like that but make a big exception knowing it's the actual copy he'd have spun out, pride of place of those goes to his old 45 of the beyond off the hook Willie Smith "My soul baby" on Royal, to this day only know of 1 other copy (take a bow Mr Finewine) so shows what an amazing digger MM was decades before most of us

[Prophonics 2029]

Mad Mike from Pittsburgh also did that re-edit / rehash of Manny Corchado on Decca, as the Mosquitos "The Fly" on Spear (actually just lopped off that long drawn-out intro from memory).

It's the Lp.version....as well as the 45.