Vinyl Guy

Well, maybe the masters are out there somewhere. I am just repeating what someone posted on one of his FB groups. He has said in interviews he lost all his masters, but who knows what might turn up someday.

 

Yeah, it surprised me. He's talked a lot about losing all the masters in that fire. It would be nice if there was actually something out there but it sounds like it likely wouldn't see the light of day anyway.

 

Total guess, but probably late 1977 or early 1978 and I was in the 8th grade, and I'm going to say $7.99.

 

Damn, we got a “corner” group in early 70’s made up of two twin beds that came together under the stereo table with a turntable and radio and speakers. That was a blast. I gave away my albums when we moved into our first house. Then the cassettes went after the next move. I had Out of the Blue, and Vacation amongst probably several hundred albums.

Was golfing with buddy from 1975 and remembered how he bought Elton’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album and we played it over and over on that corner group turntable.

Enjoy folks, I might join you.

 

I think if you were alive and had a turntable in the 70s there were a few albums you were required to own. Out of the Blue is one. I think Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is probably another, although you may have been able to swap that out for Elton John's Greatest Hits.

Frampton Comes Alive
Kiss Alive
Rumours
Hotel California

 

In the early-mid Seventies, the cool kids owned the Beatles Red and Blue albums, but probably not the individual albums.

Who, Floyd, Zeppelin and the Stones were musts. Although not much before 1970.

"Captain Fantastic" was Elton's last really big hip-rock album. "Blue Moves" let most of the air out of the balloon.

 

Bits and pieces from this thread

Really enjoyed the interview Kathy Valentine did with Marc Moran his podcast. Going to buy her book.

KISS sucked then, sucks now, sucks forever.

Frampton is a fantastic musician, but never 'got' that album. Finally picked up a few copies in lots I bought this year. Will sell them. I buy lots, pick out what I wanted and move the rest along.

Repped for real talk: @TheSportsPredictor , if you find you like the format you're going to want to upgrade from the Victrola at some point. The sound quality isn't great, which you can live with, but they also have a tendency to skip like hell because there's no counterweight for the tonearm. That'll get pretty frustrating.

The folks who collected those have passed on and the market tanked. I have two and may be buried in one. Might as well put it to use: For years we had an old upright phonograph with steel needle from my grandmother's house, circa 1920s. My parents finally decided to sell it, a rarity they thought would be worth big bucks. They drove it at some effort to Lambertville and the antique shops. When my father walked into the first shop, he blanched. The store was packed with upright phonographs.

The market for 50's, 60s and 70s audio gear has been steadily increasing in price over the last few years. The 'Marantz tax' is common, for example. Lloyds all-in-one, not so much. Will it hold? Better than the Victrola market did, methinks.

You people are driving up the price of albums/records on old fuckers like me.

 

First time I gave a serious listen to Black Sabbath Paranoid was in the basement of a friend's house down the street. We'd go there and get high, or 'stoned' as it was called back then. I remember looking at the album cover and trying to figure it out. Early 70s. I was big on covers, liner notes and all that.

Anyway, the guy went waaaay deeper into drugs as the years went on. Cleaned up finally and found a different path.

Now he posts about god and guns on social media. Bigly. All the fucking time.

 

I still have and will never sell a K-Tel compilation album that I love:

Various - 20 Power Hits Volume 1

 

And understand if you start buying records, different pressings are of different quality.

Just because you buy a certain record and it sounds awful doesn't mean other pressings are crap, too.

 

In looking through the track lyrics, there's some messed up stuff in there.

 

Madman Across the Water