Friday Yard Sale finds
johmbolaya
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I haven't been to a yard/garage sale in a long time due to (straight outta) low cash, but some $$$ came my way at the right time. An ad in the Giant Nickel said there was a yard sale very close to where I live. What hooked me was the fact it said 35 Year Liquidation[/b]. Even if it was junk, I was sure there were a few records there. The sale started at 7am, but I wasn't able to get there until 11:30am. That's 4?? hours of lost time, which meant 4?? hours of possible goods being bought by someone else.However, knowing this area all too well, one has to go in with low expectations. I found the house easily, and as I looked in the garage from my car, someone was holding a square object. From afar, it looked like this Graham Central Station album:
That only made me wonder what else was in there before I got there.I went into the garage, and there were two crates of records. A lot of Waylon Jennings and Oakridge Boys, all in excellent condition. However, there were a few things I was able to take home:Clarence Gatemouth Brown-Blackjack (Music Is Medicine)Solomon Burke-Proud Mary (Bell)The Drifters-1959-1965: All Time Greatest Hits & More (Atlantic)Emmylou Harris-EvangelineMillie Jackson-Live & Uncensored (Spring)Millie Jackson & Issac Hayes-Royal Rappin's (Spring/Polydor)Kraftwerk-Autobahn (Vertigo)Ben E. King-Stand By Me: The Best Of... (Atlantic)Los Lobos-By The Light of The Moon (Slash/Warner Bros.)Otis Redding-The Dock Of The Bay (Volt)Sly & Robbie-Rhythm Killers (Island)Stars On-Stars On Long Play II (Radio/Atlantic)SOUNDTRACK-The Hollywood Knights (Casablanca)[/b]All for $13. Nothing too special, but when I paid for the records, the lady there (I would say mid-50's) started talking about how she loves music, but her and the family are moving after 35 years of living in the same home, so she needed to sell them. Then she goes "you know which record I really like? This one", and she points to the Millie Jackson & Issac Hayes one. I said "oh really?" and she replied yeah. Then she goes "and which is the one that's REALLY good?", said with an emphasis on the word REALLY and all I could think in my head was "damn woman, what were you doing when these records were playing?" and she points to the live Millie Jackson album. She looks at Autobahn and then says "oh my gosh, this album I loved". Eventually she makes it to Clarence Gatemouth Brown and says "oh, have you heard of him? He makes some incredible music". Unfortunately I went away without knowing if she was a Sly & Robbie fan.She was disappointed that the Jackson & Hayes album was not on CD, so I think I'll do a vinyl transfer right now and give her a copy tomorrow morning.
That only made me wonder what else was in there before I got there.I went into the garage, and there were two crates of records. A lot of Waylon Jennings and Oakridge Boys, all in excellent condition. However, there were a few things I was able to take home:Clarence Gatemouth Brown-Blackjack (Music Is Medicine)Solomon Burke-Proud Mary (Bell)The Drifters-1959-1965: All Time Greatest Hits & More (Atlantic)Emmylou Harris-EvangelineMillie Jackson-Live & Uncensored (Spring)Millie Jackson & Issac Hayes-Royal Rappin's (Spring/Polydor)Kraftwerk-Autobahn (Vertigo)Ben E. King-Stand By Me: The Best Of... (Atlantic)Los Lobos-By The Light of The Moon (Slash/Warner Bros.)Otis Redding-The Dock Of The Bay (Volt)Sly & Robbie-Rhythm Killers (Island)Stars On-Stars On Long Play II (Radio/Atlantic)SOUNDTRACK-The Hollywood Knights (Casablanca)[/b]All for $13. Nothing too special, but when I paid for the records, the lady there (I would say mid-50's) started talking about how she loves music, but her and the family are moving after 35 years of living in the same home, so she needed to sell them. Then she goes "you know which record I really like? This one", and she points to the Millie Jackson & Issac Hayes one. I said "oh really?" and she replied yeah. Then she goes "and which is the one that's REALLY good?", said with an emphasis on the word REALLY and all I could think in my head was "damn woman, what were you doing when these records were playing?" and she points to the live Millie Jackson album. She looks at Autobahn and then says "oh my gosh, this album I loved". Eventually she makes it to Clarence Gatemouth Brown and says "oh, have you heard of him? He makes some incredible music". Unfortunately I went away without knowing if she was a Sly & Robbie fan.She was disappointed that the Jackson & Hayes album was not on CD, so I think I'll do a vinyl transfer right now and give her a copy tomorrow morning.
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That's fuckin' sweet, dude. I've got a bunch of garage sales to go to tomorrow, including one that says "Getting rid of 30 years of stuff".
Just think. 10 years from now a sign like that won't guarantee that there will be records there.
10 years from now someone will have invented a car
that??s driven by old vinyl from jerks like James Last and Bert Kaempfert.
Someone HAS to ...
I think you could fuel up cars for a few years based on abandoned classical and religious records.
Hoooooooold on right there! Big NOSIGN! You can have yer funky James Last but I'm keeping the Bert. Not only is there braeks, Walk in The Blackforest is top drawer cheese. If no believe on the braeks, will post some mambo madness!
Joan Armatrading however...
I have that Solomon Burke, it's my favorite of his non-Atlantic material, although I don't have the "Cool Breeze" OST, which I hear is pretty dope. The production, arrangements and playing on the "Proud Mary" LP are all on point. Do NOT buy "I Have a Dream," it is painful listening.
"Proud Mary" can usually be scored for well under $10, and is definitiely worth it.
on a cheesy tip I still prefer Klaus Wunderlich most
I am a fan Proud Mary. I don't have a copy here, but I remember it sounding like Muscle Shoals with Duane Alman. I think it might say American Recording Studios in Memphis. Still I remember it sounding like Duane was on it.
Burke is funny, Electronic Magnetism is not Electronic at all, Back To My Roots is not rootsy.
Wunderlich, Bert, James Last (and Les Humphries) all have crisp drumbreaks on their records, so don't front too much on those german schlager joints !
auwright-
I find an electric prunes record, "ohhhh, tri-color label....ohhh yea even though that ones on a major label, those psychedelic records are worth a LOT of money, this one too, it goes for 50-60 dollars in record stores, but i'll give it to you for 20bucks"
what a waste of fuckin' time.
Yep. I mean, the whole point behind going to yard and garage sales is for the bargain.
"i have the white album in the house. saving that for ebay...."
Of course, it was pure garbage. Glen Campbell, Percy Faith, Godspell, etc...
The thing that really bummed me out, was that when I talked to her on the phone last week, she gave me this long speech about how her husband had been such a neat freak, so anal, that the records were all "like new" and "perfect." Now, years of record store employment have taught me the definition of the average person's "like new" when it comes to grading records, which generally means "unplayably trashed," but I guess it being a friend of the family, I actually fell for it...NOPE, not only were the records lame, they were all too destroyed to even trade in to a record store for $5 credit or something...second post in a row I have made that needs this bad boy: