Eddie Cochran....Summertime Blues...fantastic. Visited Elvis's "Graceland" for the first time this summer...was surprised how small it was! Just watched the movie about Richie Valens who died in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Eddie Cochran was about to get on that flight but Richie who was sick took his place...Oh Donna!!
Did the same with 'Tiger Rag' (Mills Bothers) after my parents went out on a Saturday night during the Carter era after we had won. Turned it up to full blast and only lowered the volume when the neighbours started banging on the common wall between the 2 council houses.
Syd's for loads of vinyl including some Tim Buckley LPs on import. Some other local ones I remember using: Golden Oldie, Offbeat, Regis Records, Tempo, Mel Smith's (Spring Bank and used to get 80s indie stuff there), Disc Discovery, GJM, Gough & Davy (sold some for a while) and I even remember getting The Clash's first LP in Woolworths in November 1977. Other ones visited elsewhere: Red Rhino, Track & Cassidy's in York, Record Collector, Sheffield, Vinyl Tap, Leeds; Badlands, Huddersfield, Muse, Hebden Bridge, Selectadisc, Nottingham, Reveal, Derby; Probe, Liverpool, Ultima Thule, Leicester, Rough Trade, London. Compare the thrill of finding that long sought after record, the feel of it and even the smell of the thing, the social aspects etc, with the admittedly effortless downloading of virtually anything, but a product which is effectively an aural wisp of ether.
i remember buying bootlegs at hammons.hendix for sure. i bought pinky the pink floyd double bootleg from back a market. and BOGUS.......is that where i bought me loon pants from.they were always at the back of the shop?? i think i bought a really ****ty blazer from BOGUS as well.....ahhhh happy days...........
Loon Pants Jimmy Hendrix ! Sounds like you use to be a bloody Hippy. I had forgot about loads of these record shops Dr Stanley...i bought loads of reggae stuff from that shop you sold your collection to. He had some good stuff in there
Unfortunately when there's a market for something the big companies move in and dominate, its sad that the biggest high street retailer for vinyl is Urban Outfitters and the biggest online retailer is Amazon. Its the small independent record stores that managed to keep vinyl alive over the past few decades but now its fashionable again they are losing business to the big companies that can buy in bulk and sell cheap. Its also annoying the number of bands that are pressing reissues with major labels, these large bulk orders are given priority with the pressing factories and causing bottle neck for the smaller independent artists that may only press a few hundred copies. Record shop day is the worst, its now just an excuse for established bands to repress and sell their old albums, completely undermining the original meaning behind the day.
Worked on 'Lighthouse' second hand record stall in the indoor market some years ago. Didn't do much business as CD's were coming through. The owner was rarely around, preferring to run Kathmandu on Ferensway where he sold dried parsley as a legal high and poppers to homosexuals and clubbers. He had a fake rasta wig he'd put on before entering the shop and then some fake oily overalls that he'd wear before entering his other shop, which was a DIY tools one - it was good for business to look the part. I used to buy friends' parents old LP's at ridiculously high prices and eventually got sacked when the owner realised he'd acquired the world's largest private collection of Perry Como, Val Doonican and 'Hits from the Shows' LPs. ESSEX GULL
E+M. Mart on Hessle road is a place I have picked up a few gems from in the past and for pence. The bloke who runs it has no idea of value/artists in many cases. Another place that stocks vinyl is on spring bank(on the right heading into town) but I forget what the place is called.
hmv opened in whitefriargate in about 1977 with ed stewpot stewart cutting the ribbon, though it had been open for a while before he officially opened it. most of the department stores had their own record departments. hammonds/binns (was a few p cheaper than anywhere else), woolworths, thornton varleys, debenhams, boots as mentioned. etc.
woolworths also sold albums.possibaly some of the worst ever recorded. i remember john peal playing tracks off an album called........PURPLE FOX PLAY HENDRIX....i actualy bought a rolf harris live album.which i still own!!
E&M Mart was a Godsend when I was still DJing and living on Anlaby Road - all of the promo copies of non-mainstream chart stuff that Viking got went straight to E&M. You could buy the CD new at Offbeat for £12 or 'second-hand' but essentially brand new and never touched for £5 from him. I got a few signed ones as well - all straight from Viking. I can't remember the guy's name, but he was a real fan of soul.
The first records I acquired were Tel star and Apache. Can't remember which came first. They are still there on the shelf in their Hammonds sleeves. When I started buying for myself it was Shakespeare 's or Scarborough 's.
