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I never understand why you keep saying this. They're the first places I'd look and I would sort by the date to get a reflection of the price trend. They are sources of actual record sales, not hypothetical prices that you would never really get.

no, but the "what's it all about" counts are exactly the same detroit counts as the Fabulous Counts on Moira and the Counts on Aware

I personally don't like peaches baby but I think the ballad flip is decent. The exact same group recorded a funky 45 as Five Miles High and then recorded as Four Miles High on Calla. I really like "problem child" on Calla (also done by the Fawns on RCA).

don't check anything with any electronics or obvious valuables. Carry on as much as possible. TSA steals everything, super shady. I was at a friend's house and he had all these video game systems, cameras, etc. I was like "what the hell is this?" He said his friend worked for the TSA and his friend gave his wife a gift card that he stole out of a suitcase and she got arrested and put in jail. His friend dumped the rest of the evidence (all the stolen stuff) onto him. This isn't like an isolated person's actions, apparently it's pretty common for them to steal from you, and I've even heard of them taking digital cameras and then putting the memory cards back in the bag, I guess as a favor to the person so they don't lose their photos.

jamaican VG+ maybe

hey don't ask me

yeah, it looks like they probably thought of the idea when they were high and didn't think it through all the way. plus i can't imagine that is "high quality" as described in the news report.

ok . the only scan that grant could find on popsike looks like styrene.

I saw something, don't know if it was on TV on the internet, but there were photos. It was a jamaican weed smuggling ring where the weed was dried and pressed into 12" discs and then put inside regular LP covers.

that popsike copy also looks styrene while pete's pics look like vinyl

Also, btw, Eugene Todd and Leon Barber are the E.L. in G.E.L. (the label and the production company).

I just checked and Soul Harmony Singles now says Pittsburgh, I think Jeff got more detailed information since I last talked to him. Here is the listed membership: "Sisters Crystal and Penny Wilson, plus one unknown member." The lady from the Fawns did say Philly though. Either way, they are definitely not DC, the fact that they were on a DC label makes it not surprising that there were DC songwriters.

Someone offered me a copy that was essentially mint but had some weird pressing bubbles (it wasn't heat damage or anything like that, I haven't ever seen anything like that before). They don't affect play and the needle doesn't move up and down. If interested, PM me with an offer and I'll see if the guy is interested in selling at that price. Thanks.

That is a Jamaican seller. They frequently have Jamaican boots for sale.

The lovations were definitely from Philadelphia. One of the Fawns (who were DC) confirmed this. That is also why they have a record on Segue which was a philly label. I suspect Part III might actually be a Philly label and not DC (despite being listed at dcsoulrecordings.com) because the Sherlock Holmes thing on Part III reminds me of the Sherlock Homes Investigation, but that is just speculation. But the Lovations were from DC for sure. They are also not the Lovelettes, those are two different recordings of the same song.

"sticks and stones and kerosene" "hold tight <?> soul brother muhammad" [elijah muhammad] "carmichael [stokely], brown [h. rap], mckinsey [dennis?????], the late dr. king" "hollin" should be "hollering" the last one is unintelligble

I'm pretty sure they don't actually, it's pretty complicated (I'm not being sarcastic). Even "producer" (totally different than "publisher") isn't that simple.

I think it's all the pre-Hi material.

Sorry to not be clear. There are two soul walkers 45s on cardinal avalon. I thought one was included in the box and one was the bonus.

Well it's the "other" soul walkers.

I'm not denying this, I'm acknowledging that this can happen with specific records. it's obviously less "special" now. I'm sort of questioning how that really destroys the scene, it's not like Butch and Dyson's sets were reissued in a box. I understand that it takes a piece of something that's very special to you away from you. But again a) I question a scene built entirely on exclusivity, like it's been destroyed by a box that has a couple rare northern records in it (most of which have previously been reissued) and b) I think the importance of this relatively small scene in your world obscures the larger impact of the box on the world. it's kind of like if there was a secret special underground club where only you and like minded people went. opening that up to everyone else makes it less special. lol

I'm moving this to look in your box as it's more about records / ebay. Also, not sure why you made this post. I know you're not the seller. Did you want to be the first to post about it?

so the scene is going to die because you don't have to travel to dance to two plus two on an original 45? that's a good example actually. That record was already reissued before the box. Did that kill the scene? Is it a negative that you no longer want to pay $6000 for an original? are clubs in the UK much darker than clubs in the US? My point was that the top DJs that play on the scene you're talking about have some sort of personal integrity where they don't try to pass off represses as originals. If someone all of a sudden showed up with a mint copy of an ultra-rare original, people would be pretty suspicious as to where it came from, be trying to look at it and the deadwax, etc. In fact, for most ultra-rare records, you usually know exactly where the record came from (in terms of the seller), right?

honestly, I can at least partially understand how special the scene is to the people who are upset about the box. It's an important part of your and other people's lives.