Anyone know any Rockabilly Collectors or Dealers?
cpeetz
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I've got a quantity (9 copies) of this locally pressed Rockabilly 7", byDale Marwood. I've done some research on the dude and could only find outthat he was in a couple garage bands in the late 60's here in Seattle. I can't find anythingabout this release specifically. It's got 2 really cool tunes, the A-side being about MuhammadAli getting knocked out by Joe Frazier. The chorus is something like:"Have You heard the latestHe's No longer the greatestHe got knocked out by Smokin' Joe"I'd love to get these to someone who could find an audience for them and/orcreate some kind of demand amongst Rockabilly collectors and make a little scratch.If any one has any leads or knows any websites, dealers, collectors who might be into this.Let a brotha know!
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Are you familiar with Rollin' Rock Records ?
They are a rockabilly label that started up around
1971 and still release quality stuff today. Their early 70's
material was a revival unto itself.
I know, a rockabilly record from 1971, WTF? Sorry but I am really behind the times as far as uploading
sound clips goes...
What is the simplest, easiest, and cheapest way to go as far as sound clips?
I've got a Mac runnin' OS X Tiger.
I've been meaning to get with clips for waaaay to long.
Drop some knowledge on me folks!
I am very familiar with Rollin' Rock, to the extent that I even have an old ish of Rollin' Rock magazine (from '72) around here somewhere. I also own different reissues here & there of the RR masters (including this album on Rhino that is a rockabilly soundtrack to a porn movie!...features nothing BUT Rollin' Rock records from start to finish...I think it's called Teenage Cruisers).
See, Ronny Weiser with Rollin' Rock was INTENTIONALLY trying to bring back the fifties sound...but this 45 shown at the top of the thread just LOOKS like it's by some guy out in the woods who didn't know that the times had changed...you know, some cat whose music was out of fashion and didn't know it was on the way back, but probably didn't care 'cause he was gonna do what he was gonna do regardless! Which makes it even more interesting. I've never heard this tune, but I get that vibe just looking at the label and knowing it's from the seventies (the subject matter - Ali getting KO'ed by Frazier - is a dead giveaway).
That may sound steep but when the Rockabilly dudes get wind of this
one the price will skyrocket and it'll seem like a bargain...
At least that's the scenario in my private mind garden.
Attempted a reply but your bin is full?!
Clean it out and get back at me.
Or just give me the # and a good time to call over the weekend.
Many thanks,
CP
What? Like the Black on White Affair?
When I came across these, I was like why couldn't this be the BOWA!
But that would be too good to be true.
9 copies of BOWA damn, that's some serious cheddar...
Hit me up wit a PM let me know a good time to come by Rubato and I'll let you
check one out.
CP
Peace
Hawkeye
Are you just making a funny?
Maybe rockabilly is the next library or psych...
You know the genre that's cool amoungst the diggers for a couple years!
Maybe I'll set one copy aside for the big man.
From what I've heard, Keb is a SERIOUS rockabilly fan, so the story sounds easy to believe.
The NEXT library or psych? Dude, rockabilly was already becoming collector's-item music in the early '70s, when you could still find psych elpees in the bargain bins (and library records were still being used for background music)! Nah, rockabilly ain't exactly uncharted territory...just the fact that this thread exists proves that!
Check the quote holmes, I was talking about it possibly being the "new thing" amoungst
the "diggin' set". A new tangent that people think is cool for awhile then drops off and settles
back down to mostly the standard funk, soul, jazz, breaks deal.
For example "Ayo I really checking for school band records these days".
Yeah, you right; in the back of my mind, I kinda figured you were aimin' the comment at the "ultimate breaks 'n' beats" clique. You know, the type of people who are shocked that King Records put out other kinds of music besides funk (including rockabilly!). But to me, "crate digging" is just "record collecting" in hip-hop drag...
I've often said that "the diggers" are the coolest of the record collecting nerds.
There are basically three kinds of Rockabilly collectors...
1) Old School - These are the guys, mostly from Europe, who's Rockabilly universe is centered in Memphis circa '55-'57. These guys have been at it since they were kids in the 50's and came over to the U.S. and stripped us clean of most of our Rockabilly records in the 70's. The majority of the hard core Rockabilly 45's are in the UK, to stay. They are very traditional in the sound that they like and anything post-1959 begins to get questionable. These guys wouldn't even take the time to listen to a disc from '71.
2) The Norton/Kicks Magazine Crowd - At least one generation removed from the Old School cats these guys focus on the wild and outrageous sounds that crept up to the mid-60's. Off the wall artists like Hasil Atkins and Jack Starr, whom old school guys scoff at as being almost a "Novelty" act. This crowd enjoys the weird, unusual and Garagabilly that fills LP's like the "The Big Itch", etc. A percentage of this crowd are hard core 45 collectors but the majority are satisfied buying the Norton catalog which is certainly large enough to keep most folks busy/happy.
3) The New School - These are folks from all over the world who realize that collecting original Rockabilly in modern times is near impossible or ridiculously expensive. Comps and CD sets fill their ears with the likes of Gene Vincent and other well known artists. If they dig deeper they will find the White Boy label and other Euro-Boot comps. These guys tend to have the same tastes as the Old School crowd except they incorporate the music into their lifestyle via hair, clothes, fashion, etc.. Most of these guys were spawned out of The Stray Cats movement of the 80's.
I work as a music journalist and the lady which does all the promotion for BBE in germany allways tells me what is in the pipeline for the next months.
And she told me about this Kings of Rockabilly projekt. Keb Darge and the westcoast DJ which is known amongst us but I cant remember his name right now. But he is in the class of Babu, J-Rocc and so. Either one of them was the name she dropped.
So no funny, I#m talking real shit. Trill recognizes trill ma man !!!!
Peace
Hawkeye
Cool it just sounded like someone clowning.
I suppose the tone of SoulStruters in general makes you take shit
with a grain of salt.
Hip-hop or no hip-hop, bein' a digger is probably the way to go. Nobody consciously wants to be like those no-pussy-gettin' trolls that Steve Buscemi was hangin' out with in the movie Ghost World.
So sounds like this might be a hard sell?
Hopefully someone from the 2nd or 3rd category will be open minded enough to
give this one a shot.
I think it's a pretty sweet record.
I dig[/b] rockabilly, but I've never gone digging for[/b] rockabilly - I admit, I've stuck with the reissues (some of which became collector's items themselves, after the market switched from vinyl to CD's). Rockabilly, unlike soul, just does not turn up cheap on a 45 at the used rekkid store. Unless it was a hit. And EVEN THEN...
There are basically three kinds of Rockabilly collectors...
1) Old School - These are the guys, mostly from Europe, who's Rockabilly universe is centered in Memphis circa '55-'57. These guys have been at it since they were kids in the 50's and came over to the U.S. and stripped us clean of most of our Rockabilly records in the 70's. The majority of the hard core Rockabilly 45's are in the UK, to stay. They are very traditional in the sound that they like and anything post-1959 begins to get questionable. These guys wouldn't even take the time to listen to a disc from '71.
2) The Norton/Kicks Magazine Crowd - At least one generation removed from the Old School cats these guys focus on the wild and outrageous sounds that crept up to the mid-60's. Off the wall artists like Hasil Atkins and Jack Starr, whom old school guys scoff at as being almost a "Novelty" act. This crowd enjoys the weird, unusual and Garagabilly that fills LP's like the "The Big Itch", etc. A percentage of this crowd are hard core 45 collectors but the majority are satisfied buying the Norton catalog which is certainly large enough to keep most folks busy/happy.
3) The New School - These are folks from all over the world who realize that collecting original Rockabilly in modern times is near impossible or ridiculously expensive. Comps and CD sets fill their ears with the likes of Gene Vincent and other well known artists. If they dig deeper they will find the White Boy label and other Euro-Boot comps. These guys tend to have the same tastes as the Old School crowd except they incorporate the music into their lifestyle via hair, clothes, fashion, etc.. Most of these guys were spawned out of The Stray Cats movement of the 80's.
This is pretty much on the money...group #2, I might add, are probably the only people on Rockadelic's list who would consider listening to anything after the Beatles (a lot of the Norton/Kicks crowd are also into early punk like the Dictators and the Ramones).
That's exactly the type of guy I imagine when I hear the words record collector...
Why is this guy wearing a shirt of himself aged 30 years?