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Leah and I got to Princeton Record Exchange near the end of the day and was able to get the 10-inch-2- disc Janis Joplin Pearl outtakes and the 10-inch Pete Townsend Quadrophenia demos. She put back The Wall 7-inch box. She got an Ozzy 12-inch and 7-inch pic disc, and another 7-inch left over from last year. (That's Osborne, not Nelson.) I got the Muddy Waters 12-inch. Then today we got to the Brooklyn Annex of Academy and thanks to Steve Ramm's heads up about the Tompkins Square 78s I was able to get TWO copies of the Luther Dickinson one that is going for more money on ebay than the one by Ralph Stanley. They said they sold out of the Stanley yesterday. I wonder how many copies they had?? They were $18 each. They had them on a rack on the wall behind the register, and I spotted them since I had seen that they were just in plain yellow sleeves. I agree with Steve that this was not a well thought out promotional effort. Too few copies and no effort to have a printed sleeve. We also bought oodles of other stuff and I have no idea if I will have money in my account when the credit card bill is due!! At Princeton we got a lot of laser discs. I got Vol 1-3 of Twilight Zone for 3.99 a box, and she got four box sets of Twin Peaks for same price. At Academy I got the Pearl reissue of Florodora cast recordings from 1900. Two volumes on JEMF of "Work's Many Voices". Some interesting early Gene Autry reissues, one on Anthology of Country Music "sounds like Jimmie Rodgers" with thing from the early 30s with a lot of alternate takes, and a 4-disc box by Columbia Special Products on Murray Hill (of all labels!) of Autry from 1929 thru 1942 with no dupes on the ACM disc. A Clark Galehouse special on Golden Crest by Jon and Sondra Steele which I never knew existed. They are most important for a 1948 recording "They All Recorded To Beat the Ban" about the musicians union strike. And one record that would be interesting for Tom Fine for the info on the gatefold album -- a mono copy of Freddy Fennell conducts Cole Porter on the f:35d series. If only it was stereo. But if it were stereo not only would it have been much more than $1.00, it would have been gone long ago. Mike Biel [log in to unmask] On Apr 22, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There were some retro items in the RSD selections, reissues of old Vanguard albums plus old Stax/Atlantic singles, and a vinyl issue of Dr. John's new album, not to mention a red vinyl limited edition RSD exclusive of Little Richard's first LP, newly reissued. For early-middle-aged among us, Uncle Tupelo was likely on the radar in college times and now their first 3 albums are back out in vinyl. For the younger among us, punk and speed-metal fans, Refused is back together and touring, and their superb album, "The Shape of Punk To Come" (which had totally escaped my worldview back in 1998) was an RSD exclusive as a 2LP red vinyl reissue. Remember, that was 14 years ago it was issued, so when it was current, the likely fan base from that time is now in their late 20's to mid 30's. An old 40-something like me wasn't following Swedish speed metal in the late 90's, although apparently I should have been! Funny thing, what caught my attention was the retro-appreciating album cover and title (the title is an adaption of an Ornette Coleman album and the graphics are lifted from the style of old Columbia jazz albums including the "stereo 360" logo). Liking the music was a bonus, making the $30 well spent. > > By the way, one could easily count the Metallica RSD vinyl album as "retro" since they were in their heyday when I was in college back in the mid-80's. That's a generation ago now, hence retro for sure. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Ramm" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 3:04 PM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Record Store Day and - "ARSCers" > > >> Cary wrote:"I have seen nothing in the way of new compilations of material >> on vinyl or reissues of classic jazz, >> Broadway, country, or even generic pop. The Record Store Day releases, >> aside from the occasional >> "novelty" issue of something on 78 (the Beach Boys' 78 of "Good >> Vibrations" last year comes to >> mind), are still of little interest to ARSCers - at least from a West >> Coast perspective." >> >> While I'm sure I know where you are coming from in your comment Cary, I >> think that if the term "ARSCers" will always be defined as those who collect >> recordings (including CDs) pressed before 1980 or so (or even before 2000) >> then ARSC needs to broden its exposure to new collectors. We have folks like >> Uncle Dave Lewis who give a classical music AND a punk rock paper at an >> ARSC Conference (great jobs on both!) but not everyone is UDL. Are the folks >> who really flock RSD ARSC member (and hence ARSCLIst member) possibilities? >> I understand the 78-L listserve members (many who are here) but it seems >> to me that we should be as diverse as the MLA listsefe - and, actually, more >> sore since many of the MLA folks work with sound recordings as part of the >> JOB and not hobby (and probably could care less about RSD). >> >> What I thought was the dumbest RSD move was for Tompkins Square records to >> press 500 78s and send to the stores. They probably could have produced >> 2,000 or more and sold them. They'd make a nice profit and collectors would >> thank them. Instead those "resellers" who grabbed the 500 will put on eBay >> and Tompkins Square won't see a penny. We only had one (out of of 6 >> independent record stores within blocks of my house) participate in RSD and they had >> basically no "special product). >> >> Steve Ramm