Heheh...ok, well, UFO albums are rare in the states...I'd love to be able to
go to Tokyo and get some more, though...got a spare mountain of money lying
around? Or any website recommendations where I could get them? As far as
the Lionrock album goes, I've never seen another one; I had to get mine from
Action-Records UK....did I put Reconstruction instead of Deconstruction? Ah
yes, so I did....my mistake. As far as rarity goes...there are many ways of
defining rarity. I tend to define a rare item by how much it is in demand,
how many copies exist, AND how many other people actually own it; When I
posted that message, I didn't mean to be so general. I was referring to
dance music/acid jazz. My rarest CD by far is an album by the rock group
Buttsteak called "Shit, Cool, it's the Honeycomb Generation". As far as I
know, there were less than 1000 pressed, and very few were sold...and after
Merkin Records went under, they all vanished.
I also have Coldcut's JDJ cd, but since that is being reissued....oh well.
>From: nethed <nethed@ninjatune.net>
>To: "Christopher Grass" <bluesjumper@hotmail.com>, acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: What are your 10 rarest albums/cds?
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:30:10 +0000
>
>are you sure that lionrock is on reconstruction? i've got several
>lionrock double promos on deconstruction that were never released,
>but i wouldnt consider them rare.
>
>i dont know how rare my original Ken Nordine vinyl albums are, but
>they're dead old. if one defines rareity as the limited number of
>copies available and/or the commensurate price you paid, then i paid
>$100 in 1987 for Jack Kerouac on vinyl reading poetry in San
>Francisco. i've also got a Ferlinghetti record from the same period
>(jazz in the background) that's never been re-released. Rhino then
>re-released three Kerouac albums in a CD box set. My dream was to
>get the albums on vinyl in pristine condition, but was told it was a
>CD only box set.
>April 99 on a weekend in nyc, I found a record shop somewhere in
>the Tomkins Park area with all three kerouac albums in the rhino box
>set on vinyl. the price again: $100. it had been sitting in the
>shop for over a year the guy said. i happily forked over my plastic
>& came back to England with my treasure.
>Bizarrely enough, I consider my other most valuable record to be a
>recording of Alice in Wonderland with Jane Asher reading Alice, a BBC
>Radio play from the 50's. Absolutely top for scratching/sampling.
>And a recording of Timothy Leary's lecture on consciousness - the
>only other person I've ever seen with a copy was Matt Black who
>played it over some lushness at a big chill. Picked that up while
>trawling through a cut out warehouse in California in the late 80's.
>The cover is enough to make you hallucinate. Oh, yeah, I've got that
>KLF record where they sampled Abba, Whitney Houston, got sued & had
>to pull the lot & replace with an instrumental. Of course I picked
>up the instrumental.
>as a steinski fan, follower & now probably friend for life, i've got
>two copies of "the motorcade sped on" that tommy boy promoed & then
>realised, "uh we cant really release this record". i have no idea
>what they're worth & i wouldnt sell them anyway. these may not be
>rare records to anyone else, but to me they are treasured gems
>equipped with memories of the search & the find.
>
>as for UFO on vinyl - you can get anything, and I mean records you
>didnt even dream existed on vinyl in Tokyo. what you'll need is a
>mountain of money to get there & enough credit on your plastic to
>fulfill any vinyl junkie requirements, but at a pirce.
>
>At 9:38 am +0000 24/3/02, Christopher Grass wrote:
>>The lists has been a bit quiet as of late, so here's a little
>>something to stimulate you guys. Everyone try and list your 10
>>rarest CD and/or vinyl albums...I'd love to see what is really hard
>>to find, and what isn't. It also might be a good way to find out if
>>someone has something you might want to trade for or even buy. Plus,
>>you can see just exactly what your bragging rights are :) Here are
>>mine to start with:
>>
>>1. Mr. Scruff - self-titled album on Pleasure Records (both CD and
>>double vinyl)
>>2. Bill Cargill - Submarine Address cd(on Cup of Tea)
>>3. Jazz Spanky and the Sound Approach - Spin and Spank cd (on Milk,
>>offshoot of Cup of Tea)
>>4. Mr. Nevuex - Tuba cd(also on Milk)
>>5. Lemongrass - Drumatic Universe (pre-Mole CD, worth seeking out)
>>6. Blue States - Nothing Changes Under the Sun double vinyl (on
>>Memphis Industries)
>>7. Thunderball - Scorpio Rising double vinyl (on ESL). For some
>>reason, this was never offered for sale on their website.
>>Apparently, it was a very limited release
>>8. Lionrock - City Delirious double vinyl (on Reconstruction)
>>9. United Future Organization - Bon Voyage double vinyl
>>10. United Future Organization - Third Perspective double vinyl
>>w/bonus 12" of dubs. I think the bonus disc is rarer than the album
>>itself...
>>
>>By the way, if anyone knows where I can get the other UFO albums on
>>wax, I'd be very grateful....
>>
>>
>>
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