by Marty | Feb 10, 2025 | uhhh...
Lamps Made from Vintage Vinyl Records I am upcycling old lamps and making lampshades from vintage vinyl records. I use 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch records in a variety of configurations, all of them vintage vinyl records. I am building every lamp by hand and each one...
by Marty | Jun 12, 2020 | General Tomfoolery
Popular music swings and sways with the changing times for sure. Being by definition popular, it can also become pretty pedestrian and collectively uninspiring for years at a time. However, every once in a while, a song hits the charts (or not) and it seems to...
by Marty | Nov 6, 2025 | uhhh...
Here are the only known recordings of The Social Whores that I am aware of. These are from 1986-87, recorded at Shane Pringle’s house in Fort Myers, Florida, on my brand new Ross 4×4 4-track cassette recorder. We had one microphone, and recorded it a track...
by Marty | Oct 11, 2025 | uhhh...
Here we are looking at Stanley Turrentine’s Up at Minton’s on Blue Note from 1961. This is a nice copy overall, but does have a few flaws that bring the price down a lot. The cover of this one is pretty solid, but there is some kind of slight discoloring...
by Marty | Sep 30, 2025 | uhhh...
Here we are looking at the stereo reissue of Jimmy Giuffre 3’s Trav’lin’ Light, from 1959. It’s on Atlantic. This is a really nice copy – and I have 3 or more of them to compare right now, so you can trust me. 🙂  But the front on this...
by Marty | Sep 15, 2025 | uhhh...
Here we are looking at Paul Chambers’ GO! The main reason we are looking at this one, is because there is a super tiny runout groove on side 2. If the label is off-centered at all, it is a problem – but this copy does not have that issue. The label is...
by Marty | Aug 18, 2025 | uhhh...
First, we will look at Robert Johnson’s King of the Delta Blues…a 1963 Mono issue of this classic compilation. It has the 2-eye Columbia labels that are specific to the 63 release. The cover of this one is solid, but does show a little normal shelf wear...
by Marty | Jul 23, 2025 | uhhh...
Here we are looking at Geroge Braith’s Musart, on Prestige. This is a nice copy overall, showing only some monor shelf wear. The cover has a little bit of shelf/ring wear to it, but is holding up well. On the back cover in the lower right, it is stamped...
by Marty | May 9, 2025 | Sales Display
Here we are looking at a first, mono pressing of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. One of the main things we are looking at here, is what they call foxing on the cover. Foxing refers to small discolored spots, like age spots on your grandma’s arm. Foxing might...
by Marty | Apr 9, 2025 | Sales Display
Here we are looking at Duke Pearson’s Wahoo! on Blue Note. The specific issue with this one, is to look at the damage in the upper left corner, on the top edge. In my write-up I referred to this as “chewing” but it is truly some form of dry...
by Marty | Mar 16, 2025 | uhhh...
 Here we are looking at Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets Volume One from 1956 on ABC Paramount. This one has a really solid cover overall, though the back shows clearly established levels of foxing/age and discoloration. I zoomed in on what looks (in the picture)...
by Marty | Mar 12, 2025 | uhhh...
Here’s a very rare and cool version of The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks. This one, is a version from the initial release, before it had 12 tracks (Surrender added). The way I identified it, was using the fact of back cover song listings, the pink offset...
