About four years ago accompanying my wife to one of her favorite antique/junk shops one of the owners told me he sometimes gets in jazz records as my wife told him I was into jazz. So four years later he calls me up and says he got about 50 jazz records in. I went to take a look.
A lot of the “jazz” was Boots Randolph type stuff, and big band legacy dance records, but I did find 8 that I picked up 3 for 10 dollars. Since I could get 1 more to make 9 I picked up a Barbra Streisand that my wife wanted because it had a cute photo of Barbra as a kid on the cover.
This was about 3 weeks ago. In that time I have been looking on and off for the SpinClean fluid that I had in the kitchen before our remodel, and never have found where my wife stashed it when we cleared out the old kitchen. So I finally caved and ordered a new bottle (which was part of amazon’s Black Friday sale!)
They all needed cleaning BIG TIME but cleaned up pretty well. The first I’m playing is one of four that the guy said “no one will want because they probably have nothing to play them on” as he thought they were 78s. What they were though were 10" LPs, 33 1/3 rpm.
“Duke’s Mixture” Columbia 10" LP. I’ve known of this, heard all the music, but never saw one in the flesh. It’s actually in really good condition cover and disc.
A bit of a flex, this is the 2002 Classic Records 200g Mono of Axis: Bold as Love, Mint still sealed.
They did an initial pressing on standard 180g in 2000, then only 2000 copies of this in 2002 on their Quiex SV-P vinyl formula, then they did a last pressing on SV-P II Clarity vinyl in 2008.
All from the same metals done by Bernie Grundman.
I would have loved to have gotten one of the UHQRs, gutted I missed them, but this is a very close runner up for a fraction of the price.
