I know you've all seen this before but look how nice it looks after a revamp!

 

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Excellent reading - not something I'd come across before at all.

enjoyed reading that...thanks pete

Excellent reading - not something I'd come across before at all.

 

I did it in 1992 for Record Collector mag...always liked it!

I did it in 1992 for Record Collector mag...always liked it!

I was buying RC infrequently around that time, so obviously missed just the sort of article that probably would have had me buying it regularly again!   

I remember this feature well Pete.

Still have that particular Record Collector magazine here somewhere with that feature in it.

I only kept 2 Record Collecter magazines from that sort of period and this was one of them.

Will have to dig them out sometime.

I know you've all seen this before but look how nice it looks after a revamp!

 

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Its a really great piece Pete. Worthy of a revamp for sure,looks superb. Thanks for posting up the link again.

Cheers everyone.

There's another article on the site but everyone has definitely seen that so I won't link it.

I did it in 1992 for Record Collector mag...always liked it!

 

Ive still got the mag, is it really 22 years ago?…..  

Great article BTW 

Superb article. I remember the original in the mag but it's long gone. Nice presentation!

Superb article. I remember the original in the mag but it's long gone. Nice presentation!

 

That's down to Mal C on here.

Genius.

1. So has any body got red 3 Leos Sunship on 7 inch cos I need one, a demo if possible  cos I've never seen one, seen hundreds of 12s never on 7 issue or demo 

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Nice one Pete 

Interesting reading about Nabay being dropped from playlists during 7 day war ! Weird !

Great stuff that pete..missed it back then.

I gave my copy of nabay away a few years ago (to a fellow DJ) as it had a knackered label

I don't know how you can say that almost every 70s record released by Grapevine is crap. 1 star for Leo's Sunship. You must be joking!

I don't know how you can say that almost every 70s record released by Grapevine is crap. 1 star for Leo's Sunship. You must be joking!

 

Well I wrote that 22 years ago so I probably wasn't joking, and having relistened to Leo's Sunship, I'd now give it half a star so I was right first time 

Well I wrote that 22 years ago so I probably wasn't joking, and having relistened to Leo's Sunship, I'd now give it half a star so I was right first time 

 

 

Well I'd giver it foive   

Awesome Pete. Big thanks.

Steve

Not seen that before Pete......great read! Could you get me one of those "I`m Gone" s  i`ve a grand waiting

Not seen that before Pete......great read! Could you get me one of those "I`m Gone" s  i`ve a grand waiting

 

If you can me the time machine to take me back to when I wrote it, then yes!

Good scanning through. There was a Grapevine contract for the Superbs I Wanna Do It With You Baby but it never was finalised.

 

I got a Jimmy Burns from Sailor Vernon a well known blues collector's record list for a quid. I didn't even know it was rare I just got it because I knew it was on Grapevine and fancied an original. Sailor Paul told me later that he had loads of calls all offering much more money but he told 'em I'd got it fair and square.

Picked up the first LP for £1 on Harpurhey's Conran Street Market....great find.

Very good article

deana barnes  & nabay were amongst just a few that did not have a demo format.....the tamangoes however, did despite it's withdrawal. this information is deemed to be correct.

deana barnes  & nabay were amongst just a few that did not have a demo format.....the tamangoes however, did despite it's withdrawal. this information is deemed to be correct.

 

I have a Tamangoes issue and demo at the moment.

look.....it's like this the tamangoes is on washpan, the original u.s. issue...as far as the u.k. is concerned, grapevine is the first and only legitimate issue...there's isn't necessarily a problem with playing it...is there?..it may not be u.s. ovo but it IS u.k. ovo....that applies really to all of their releases..all first timers in this country, anything after , of course, IS a second issue. djs were playing tunes on stateside and various other u.k. outlets when they were already available on u.s. issues but of course in the early 70's the vast majority wouldn't have been aware of that, because imports were only just beginning to filter through, even though they were mostly 6 to even 8 years old. collecting on a vast scale now, is making it nigh on impossible to pay for, let alone obtain the tunes...as the younger generations are finding out..we were lucky in our day remember...even up to the early 80's stuff was literally giveaway potential...even at stafford, yet because of stafford appreciation of these cast-offs was more acute, til eventually all things must pass and abundance dries up to a trickle...everything then suddenly has a value. grapevine made some of the genuine obscurities available to a larger record buying audience much earlier and with the passing decades some of the releases have seen a surge in demand because of the former situation...which brings us up to date. i don't think anyone has any quibbles about spinning betty boo because it was a completely unissued track..and the tamangoes was one of just a handful of projects that was withdrawn...so the quandry is: if everybody had £4k to buy a copy of the washpan issue, there wouldn't be enough to go round anyway...and as the officially withdrawn u.k. issue is the only way of obtaining and playing it...why not?......

and before anybody says anything, i haven't even discussed the issue of bootlegs, of which the tamangoes was one....and sold very well, lest we all need reminding.

where did all those 10" promos go to?

 

hanky panky

spellbound etc

 

saw them in wigan tiffs circa 82..never seen since 

A great read,Enjoyed it,Thank you.

look.....it's like this the tamangoes is on washpan, the original u.s. issue...as far as the u.k. is concerned, grapevine is the first and only legitimate issue...there's isn't necessarily a problem with playing it...is there?..it may not be u.s. ovo but it IS u.k. ovo....that applies really to all of their releases..all first timers in this country, anything after , of course, IS a second issue. djs were playing tunes on stateside and various other u.k. outlets when they were already available on u.s. issues but of course in the early 70's the vast majority wouldn't have been aware of that, because imports were only just beginning to filter through, even though they were mostly 6 to even 8 years old. collecting on a vast scale now, is making it nigh on impossible to pay for, let alone obtain the tunes...as the younger generations are finding out..we were lucky in our day remember...even up to the early 80's stuff was literally giveaway potential...even at stafford, yet because of stafford appreciation of these cast-offs was more acute, til eventually all things must pass and abundance dries up to a trickle...everything then suddenly has a value. grapevine made some of the genuine obscurities available to a larger record buying audience much earlier and with the passing decades some of the releases have seen a surge in demand because of the former situation...which brings us up to date. i don't think anyone has any quibbles about spinning betty boo because it was a completely unissued track..and the tamangoes was one of just a handful of projects that was withdrawn...so the quandry is: if everybody had £4k to buy a copy of the washpan issue, there wouldn't be enough to go round anyway...and as the officially withdrawn u.k. issue is the only way of obtaining and playing it...why not?......

 

Rob, why the f*ck are you arguing with yourself?  

Nobody's talking about playing anything on this thread..

Just read the article - excellent stuff, thanks for posting this!