Cheap used LP's: They're still out there!
I often read or hear people complaining about the sky-rocketing prices of used LP’s. Albums that used to be available for a coupla bucks (or even in the dollar bins) now selling for twenty or more. I can’t speak for the rest of the country (or world), but that’s not true here in the Northwest.
For instance: Twice a year or so Music Millennium in Portland has a sidewalk sale, selling thousands of LP’s for $2 each. MM opened it’s doors in 1969, and after all this time has kept it’s counterculture vibe intact (you can almost smell the patchouli oil ;-). To make room for incoming LP’s, the store marks down some $5 albums to $2, and it’s not all junk. Yesterday I found the following LP’s, all in VG+ or better condition (many Mint/unplayed):
- Gordon Lightfoot: Summer Side Of Life.
- Ry Cooder: Jazz (backup copy).
- Cindy Lee Berryhill: Who’s Gonna Save The World?
- Linda Ronstadt: Simple Dreams (backup).
- Barbara Streisand: Live Concert At The Forum (engineered by Bill Schnee).
- Maria Muldaur: s/t (backup).
- Buck Owens: Best Of Vol. 2.
- T Bone Burnett: Trap Door (yet another backup copy),
- Mark O’Conner: Elysian Forest.
- The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over (mono).
- The Rumour: Max.
- 10cc: How Dare You!
- The Ben Vaughn Combo: Beautiful Thing.
- Barefoot Jerry: Southern Delight (drummer Kenneth Buttrey’s name should be familiar).
- Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Bernstein conducting The New York Philharmonic.(2 LP’s).
- and for a buck: Joe Ely 12" promo 45 of "What’s Shakin’ Tonight?"
$31 out the door, about the price of one new-release LP.
@bdp24 - sorry, just saw that post. Yes, Welsh musicians are most certainly an incestuous lot; were you ever into the Man band and the other related Welsh hippie/psychedelic musicians from the 70s and 80s? I was, very much, and got to see Man several times; they liked playing in San Francisco, where they often jammed with their hero, John Cippolina... |
@bdp24 - I got to see Copperhead a few times at Winterland and at the Longbranch in Berkeley - great band! Man played around 7 or 8 times at least around here, first supporting Hawkwind at the '1999 Party' back in 1974 in Berkeley, but later doing support slots at Winterland and headlining at the Savoy and Keystone Berkeley; also saw them supporting Todd Rundgren's Utopia in San Jose around 1976. When KOME in San Jose was a prog-rock station in '74 - '76, they really championed Man, which is one reason they were so popular here. |
