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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:13:28 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) three gentlemen fail to agree
Gentlemen!
for how long did we not have an "argument" such like this here! Almost forgot how good it feels when the adrenalin concentration rises above the normal level.
Ebay again...
Have we not been aware of the fact that the "system ebay" means, that the richest guy in the whole wide world gets the record? I must admit I haven't seen it clearly myself in the very beginning. I only saw the advantages for collectors to find a record they wouldn't usually ever see in a shop. But it's a fact. When the price of a record was formerly defined by the average default shop goer, now this customer has to compete with everybody on the planet. It seems like the advantage is clearly on the seller's side (but try to sell a Witney Huston record from 1995, and you will find, that it's still a question of supply and demand). But that the prices for virtually everything would somewhat rise with the ebay system, is that so surprising? Some people just CAN pay hundreds of $$ for records. Even if we see them as fools: they don't care.
Looks like we old school hunters and collectors have to go back to the thrift stores, although even there the competition has increased: the chance to make big bucks with old records on ebay surely gave a lot more people the idea to systematically search the common sources. But is it that bad to go back to the roots of record hunting? We can even sell records on ebay ourselves for big $$ to the fools who are willing to pay it. I don't remember anybody complaining about Jack Diamond because he did just that. We can't change it anyway. It's too late. Alea jacta est.
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:20:12 -0600
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) White Goddess and Kapp --add Modern, Kent & Crown
Thanks for the info, Clayton. I'm getting the idea that Kapp had two or
three tiers of releases: budget tributes to mostly minor artists by no-name
artists; recordings like White Goddess, Eartha Kitt, etc.; and the high-end
Gold Medallion LPs. Can you or anyone verify? Hunted for a Kapp website--no
luck.
Recently learned about this comprehensive site for the Bihari Brothers'
labels, Modern, Kent, & Crown. (Thanks, Jeff!) No coverups the Biharis'
seamier business practices either. The developers are looking for people
who can fill in missing info. Maybe some of you want to oblige them.
http://www.bsnpubs.com/modern/modernstory.html
Mimi
Clayton wrote:
I never thought of Kapp as being a budget label. I don't collect them,
by any means, but as far as I know all of Roger Williams albums were on
Kapp, and Kapp had a fairly nice "high-end" series (Gold Medallion) with the
requisite brass and percussion complement...
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:14:42 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) April Fools
HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote:
> "The Masked Marauders" was an "anonymous" supersession that was
released by Reprise (no date on the album, most likely around 1969). People
were led to believe that Dylan, Jagger and the Beatles were involved.
===
The folks behind the actual Masked Marauders LP (which I have) were, or so I've heard, a bunch of musos who used to hang around the Freight & Salvage's folk/old time music scene. These same people were recorded by Mike Seeger on "Berkeley Farms: Oldtime and Country Style Music of Berkeley," Folkways FA 2436 (1972) (which I also have).
Can I confirm from listening to the two that it's the same personnel? No, but it seems just possible enough that I've considered this mystery solved (at least for myself).
lousmith@pipeline.com
other pranks:
Trubee's Blind Man's Penis
Darleen and Jonathan Edwards
answer records
recordings of Bridey Murphey (http://skepdic.com/bridey.html)
