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ORDINARY RECORDS, EXTRAORDINARY PRICESWe know how it is. Zeppelin singles, Beatles acetates, David Bowie Sings Korean Folk Songs on green vinyl… they just aren’t things you’ve left in the shed or are likely to discover at the school car boot sale. But there are some records which are rarer than you think. Ian Shirley uncovers the valuable gems that anyone might already own. Keane fans, check your collections… TV … FEATURED ARTICLE From Issue 414 |
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THE OTHER DELTA BLUESThe latest album in the Record Collector Rare Vinyl Series is from a group which boasted a guitarist who might have joined John Mayall – or even the Stones. Instead he played pure blues with Backhouse James Blues Band – and cut a fantastic private-press LP that only 30 people owned. Now you can own it too, says Ian Shirley Back in early 1968 Barry Bailey was at his girlfriend’s … ARTICLE From Issue 414 |
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TITTY TITTY BANG BANGPsst! Hey, fella! Wanna meet sexy dames? Then just walk downstairs to where that bluesy, dirty sound is coming from. Our private, uh, dick in the grubby mac, Jonny Trunk, investigates the wild retro club craze of Titty Shakers Anyone watching British TV throughout the 1970s and 80s would have experienced the long, slow wave of American cop shows, TV drama and movies that flooded our screens. A … ARTICLE From Issue 414 |
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Reviews from the current issue
Here is a selection from over 200 reviews from this month's Record Collector, the magazine that has the world's largest coverage of reissues
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Bouffants, Beehives & Backcombing: Early Brit Girls Vol 1
Hair today: gone yesterdays The post-Shapiro Brit girl scene has been left relatively untapped since the Sequel label’s Here Comes The Girls compilations in the 90s, but now their compilers deliver a budget set of 68 tracks to delight and bewilder. Be prepared for an overdose of pizzicato strings and “sha-la-la” backup interjections as the many voices of the period …
ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 414
IRON MAIDEN - Maiden England ’88
Latest backwards look from Britmetal veterans Clever Iron Maiden. The esteemed heavy metallers have clearly realised that, as much as their new albums are worth a listen, the real gold comes from the 80s, when Maiden bestrode the airwaves like a spandex colossus. Hence the release of this splendid live set filmed at the Birmingham NEC in 1988, plus plenty of footage of …
DVD REVIEW From Issue 414
OFFICIAL TRUTH, 101 PROOF: THE INSIDE STORY OF PANTERA by Rex Brown, With Mark Eglinton
Revelations about life amid the chaos From this distance, it’s easy to forget that Texan heavy metal quartet Pantera were massive in the 90s. Only Metallica filled bigger halls between, say, 1992 and 1998, and no band lived the rock star life with more devotion than Pantera. It all went downhill in 2001, when singer Phil Anselmo and the founder brothers …
BOOK REVIEW From Issue 414
THE PRETTY THINGS - Brighton Komedia (6th March, 2013)
View: front, stage-right The Pretties began with a celebration of their early R&B days, showing that they haven’t lost their youthful muscle. We then entered their psychedelic era with Alexandra, and a selection from SF Sorrow. Phil May read out the list of missing in Private Sorrow, and Dick Taylor rendered gruff vocals on Baron Saturday. The band then presented a blues set featuring …
ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 414
