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Where's.......Tom Petty
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MRL_Audio
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Interesting question. I have more than a few answers. Roy Buchanan avoided me for 50 years. Same with Johnny Winter to some degree. Knew who is was but wasn't a listener until the last few years. I have plenty of Johnny now. Same with Savoy Brown. Knew, no listen, now own a bundle. For me if they weren't in the mainstream FM airplay lists I didn't hear em so I wasn't a buyer. Thanks to the good folks here my ears have been opened to a whole new world. Oh yeah, Wishbone Ash, King Crimson, Gentle Giant are few others that come to mind.
If I get the meaning of this question right.
Your asking what albums a artist put out that you just can't seen to come a cross?
My opportunity buying of new and used records are at record stores, so someone like Tom Petty is there all the time, at least his early common titles. Then the fact he has a bunch of reissues being put out. Big artist putting out albums at the hight of the LPs, Played on pretty good equipment, Doing Rock & Roll at a time of new wave, punk, rap, and kids could afford the records.
If you think about it the hard artist and titles to find for "popular music"are really correlated to the equipment of the time being used. Demographic and target audience, LP and 45s, and music genres in a socioeconomic class.
It's hard to find early 60s late 50s R&B, Rock n Roll, Blues because of this demographic, target audience and socioeconomic class. If they even had and could buy the LP "Album" the equipment could have been vary hard on the record right along with how the owner used and stored it.
I know I haven't mentioned an artist but really anything I can add to my collection that's very clean in the above mention time frame is a plus. I get stoked if I get a old copy of Strawberry Alarm Clock, Them, Free, The Crickets, Howlin Wolf, Sonny Boy, The Miracles, Carl Perkins, Sam the Sham.
Your asking what albums a artist put out that you just can't seen to come a cross?
My opportunity buying of new and used records are at record stores, so someone like Tom Petty is there all the time, at least his early common titles. Then the fact he has a bunch of reissues being put out. Big artist putting out albums at the hight of the LPs, Played on pretty good equipment, Doing Rock & Roll at a time of new wave, punk, rap, and kids could afford the records.
If you think about it the hard artist and titles to find for "popular music"are really correlated to the equipment of the time being used. Demographic and target audience, LP and 45s, and music genres in a socioeconomic class.
It's hard to find early 60s late 50s R&B, Rock n Roll, Blues because of this demographic, target audience and socioeconomic class. If they even had and could buy the LP "Album" the equipment could have been vary hard on the record right along with how the owner used and stored it.
I know I haven't mentioned an artist but really anything I can add to my collection that's very clean in the above mention time frame is a plus. I get stoked if I get a old copy of Strawberry Alarm Clock, Them, Free, The Crickets, Howlin Wolf, Sonny Boy, The Miracles, Carl Perkins, Sam the Sham.
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stereofanboy
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If I could add 10-20 lps/cds per month for the same cost as one purposely sought title, I chose the 10-20 for a long time. That meant shopping yard sales and bargain bins and wanting what I found instead of buying new and finding what I had in mind.
My collection is large and varied and includes nearly everything I would have chosen piecemeal, but there are some chinks to fill.
Wishbone Ash and Savoy Brown are a couple of artists I never had until the last year or so. I still don't have all the ELO releases or much early Fleetwood Mac.
I may be approaching a time when I'll start paying retail, but I'm not there yet.
My collection is large and varied and includes nearly everything I would have chosen piecemeal, but there are some chinks to fill.
Wishbone Ash and Savoy Brown are a couple of artists I never had until the last year or so. I still don't have all the ELO releases or much early Fleetwood Mac.
I may be approaching a time when I'll start paying retail, but I'm not there yet.
reydelaplaya
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Jeff K
Well-Known Member
Why not?
There's a bargain to be had on Amazon right now.
$255!!! That's some spendy musical sewage.
Grbluen
Super Member
That older stuff is great! I can recall liking the current incarnation so much that I decided that I had to have every FM lp. When I got down to the early stuff, after an adjustment, I couldn't believe how great the early bands were. Totally blew my mind!
Grbluen
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And, the early Fleetwood Mac must have flown totally under the radar. Most people that I've talked with seem to have no idea about the early bands!
Son-of-Vere
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Thin Lizzy, Johnny the Fox. Got all excited when I finally seen it at the local RS. Took it out of the sleeve...........
Recycled vinyl, had a wad of label molded into it. Discogs, here we come!
Recycled vinyl, had a wad of label molded into it. Discogs, here we come!
RedShift42
Some guy
Roy Orbison. Would love to have the man's complete catalog but in several years of picking records, I have yet to find even a single. I'd expect his stuff would be more common
Poinzy
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likebike23
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I agree that Tom Petty is a tough find in the wild. I've only seen one of his albums at a thrift in over a year of looking and it was all scratched up. One thing I have been having great luck finding is James Brown covers lately. The last 5 or so I've run across have been covers only, no vinyl. 
Funky54
Super Member
Why not?
There's a bargain to be had on Amazon right now.
[/lots of money
