michel1969 Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Not really a "fuck up" but still an impossible situation that lead to negative vinly equity. Back in 1990 when I was just a kid in London discovering jazz, I was really into an LP by Walter Bisphop Jr called Coral Keys. This was well before ebay opened up the maket to the Europeans. So back then, judging by the ultra budget cover art and general obscureness of the whole deal, I was convined that this was rarer than a good LP by Acker Bilk. Anyway I went to see the old guy play at a small east-end club and took the LP along to get him to sign it. When he saw it he was so amazed that he grabbed it from me and stared at it in a daze. He asked me how I found it and I replied somewhat reticently "with a lot of difficulty". He then asked me if I could find him one too. Jesus what a dilemma. So I had to give him mine of course. The guy was old and his memories were wrapped up in this LP. But i was gutted. I expected to go home with a signed treasure, not empty handed! Fortunately it proved to be a relatively easy find once the internet got going. But µI still had about 7 years of waiting and cursing my scruples! To avoid that, i have a good bunch of Richard Clayderman and Fausto Papetti records, i bring one with me whenever i want a record signed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 i have a good bunch of ... Fausto Papetti records Really? MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel1969 Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 i have a good bunch of ... Fausto Papetti records Really? MG No. Just kidding. I can't even imagine my Richard Clayderman and Pappetti original first press to go out of my house, for whatever reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 i have a good bunch of ... Fausto Papetti records Really? MG No. Just kidding. I can't even imagine my Richard Clayderman and Pappetti original first press to go out of my house, for whatever reason. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Another one, this one more recent: I read on the Hoffman forum about using Elmer's wood glue to clean a record. Rather than try it on a record of no value to see if it actually worked, I tried it on my Charles Lloyd OF COURSE, OF COURSE mono copy. It didn't work, naturally. You'd think that after 36+ years of nonstop stupidity, I'd learn something once in a while. Elmer's Glue to clean a record? That sounds like an April Fool's joke....which gives me an idea. We once had a station staffer clean records, only instead of using the VPI vacuum machine, he poured tape head cleaner onto them. Needless to say, we tossed every one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1969 Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 The conscientious french postman where I work in Marseille was so concerned to get all the mail safely inside my firm's delivery box that he kindly bent my LP in two so it wouldn't protrude. He was right - no one would steel it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel1969 Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 The conscientious french postman where I work in Marseille was so concerned to get all the mail safely inside my firm's delivery box that he kindly bent my LP in two so it wouldn't protrude. He was right - no one would steel it that way. NO ?!!? I suppose i'd have killed him. I Don't care about the CGT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 One major screw up by the post office was the due to a lazy mailman a few years back who tucked a box with an LP in it between the outside of the mailbox and the flag, just so he wouldn't have to make a 30 step round trip to my front porch like most folks delivering packages too large for the mailbox. It contained an out of print LP on Fat Cat's Jazz by Willie the Lion Smith and by the time I got home, the record was hopelessly warped from a day in the hot afternoon summer sun. Needless to say, I never have been able to acquire a replacement for it. Thanks a lot, you lazy S.O.B.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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