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Member	Item		Review/Comment
davie gordon 1st May 2019		Vinyl Album Atomic Rooster - Nice 'n' Greasy	"Voodoo In You" was a cover of a track from "Ton Ton Macoute" by Johnny Jenkins SD 33-331
davie gordon 3rd Sep 2018		Vinyl Album The Tremeloes - Shiner	A separate entry is unnecessary - all it needs is an alternative cat. number for the DJ pressing.
davie gordon 28th Jul 2018		Vinyl Album The Wozard Of Iz - An Electronic Odyssey	Now listed as a pseudonym of Mort Garson
davie gordon 3rd Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Morgen - Morgen	Welcome To The Void [YouTube Video]
davie gordon 3rd Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Blue Cheer - Oh! Pleasant Hope	I'm The Light [YouTube Video]
davie gordon 3rd Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer	Peace of Mind [YouTube Video]
davie gordon 3rd Jun 2018		Vinyl Album Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer	Fruit and Iceburgs [YouTube Video]
davie gordon 16th Oct 2017		Vinyl Album Saga [UK] - Sweet Peg O' Derby	Artist renamed - now Saga [UK]
davie gordon 3rd Oct 2016		Magazine Blues & Soul	Blues and Soul issue no. 1 was dated Oct. 1967 if I remember rightly. B&S was the successor to Home of the Blues which started in '66. There were 11 issues of Home of the Blues, the first eight were mimeographed with glossy paper stapled covers. The last three issues were professionally printed on glossy paper. My original copies of Home of the Blues have long since disappeared but I think I have scans of the covers of most of them .. I'll see if I can find them. ... I've just had a look at the Wikipedia page .. they're wrong. The first issue of Blues and Soul was John Abbey's twelfth publication but it didn't continue its numbering from Home of the Blues, the first issue of B&S was no. 1. I remember buying it at the news stall in Central Station in Glasgow. It's indelibly imprinted in my memory as I had never expected to see such a specialist magazine there .. previously it had been a case of scanning the small ads in Record Mirror then sending off a postal order by snail mail.
davie gordon 23rd Jun 2016		Vinyl Album The Collectors - The Collectors	See the scan of the Billboard review I've just uploaded.
davie gordon 21st Jun 2016		Vinyl Album The Collectors - The Collectors	The U.S edition was issued in May 1968, since the New Syndrome issue used the US catalog number I think you can take it that the Canadian copy was issued more or less simultaneously with the US one. Definitely 1968.
davie gordon 6th Jun 2016		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Original Hits	Advertised in Billboard Aug 8, 1960.
davie gordon 3rd May 2016		Vinyl Album Sam And Dave - Double Dynamite	Added scan of an ad from Billboard (Oct 29, 1966) with a different cover - third image in row 2. I've never seen an actual copy so it looks probable this was the intended cover but for one reason or another the album was held back and the cover replaced. An interesting curio.
davie gordon 31st Dec 2015		Vinyl Album Earth Opera - The Great American Eagle Tragedy	Absolutely brilliant track ... for my money nothing else comes close to capturing the sheer helpless rage so many felt at the time. It's always puzzled me that it's never referred to in the few interviews I've seen with Peter Rowan. The rest of Earth Opera's material you can live without but the title track is one of Elektra's most underrated masterpieces. I've been listening to it since 1969, when I was in high school and found a copy in a deletions bin in Woolworth's of all places - it hasn't lost one bit of its power in all those years and is as relevant now as it was when it was recorded. It's just dawned on me that Jack Bonus, one of the sax players is the guy who later turned up with a solo album for Jefferson Airplane's Grunt label. Any Velvet Underground specialists know if John Cale has ever spoken about his involvement ?
davie gordon 24th Feb 2015		Live Music Procol Harum @ Winterland	I don't think unicorning a gig because one of the acts didn't play will work .. that would imply that none of the advertised acts appeared which would be wrong. Probably best to add that Pink Floyd didn't appear in notes. I've had a look at Paul Grushkin's "The Art of Rock" to see if it mentions who took over Pink Floyd's spot but had no luck. I'm sure one of the Floyd fan sites has the info. but it'll take a bit of digging.
davie gordon 20th Feb 2014		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits Volume 2	Probably somebody had prior UK rights to the name "Scepter" but off-hand I can't think of a UK Scepter label.
davie gordon 11th Sep 2013		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwick - Promises, Promises	The ST-91597 / ST 91597 copies were issued through one of the big record clubs, Columbia if I remember rightly.
davie gordon 11th Sep 2013		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange"	Wouldn't it be better to have the artist credit as "Soundtrack" or "Soundtrack - Clockwork Orange" ? There are thousands of soundtrack albums out there, mostly with multiple artists, so we'd be better off arriving at a consensus while were still in the early stages of the album database.
davie gordon 28th Jan 2013		78 RPM Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollypop / Say You Understand	mickey, have a scout around on Ebay or Amazon for this book "Big Beat Heat : Alan Freed and The Early Years of Rock and Roll" by John Jackson US Schirmer Books, 2000 [ISBN no. 0-02-871156-4 paperback] [ISBN no. 0-02-871155-6 hardback] It's a very thorough (400 pages) and readable overview of the record business in fifties New York - it'll help you make sense of the connections. No mention of Barbie Gaye, Darl, Johnny Roberts so you've dug into previously undocumented areas. I found a copy about ten years ago for a pound in the excellent Fopp Records in Glasgow but I've no idea how much it goes for these days. There was an NBC TV movie based on the book which I haven't seen .. it might be available on DVD.
davie gordon 1st Feb 2014		Magazine Panic	It works for me .. I've no idea why it doesn't work for you. Maybe it's something to do with the browser you're using .. I'm using Mozilla Firefox. The first box has the drop down menu where you get things like writer, penciller etc. Try it withuot touching the drop down box. Just enter the comic's title in the blank box then hit "search"
davie gordon 1st Feb 2014		Magazine Panic	"You can search the site by the letterer or inker, but not by the title of the comic?" Of course you can search the database by title .. that's the default http://www.comics.org/ 1. Enter "Panic", or whatever the title is, in the blank box 2. click on the "search" button That brings up http://www.comics.org/series/name/PANIC/sort/alpha/ You then pick the exact title you're after. You do have to have some knowledge of comics to get the most out of the GCD but that applies to all databases.
davie gordon 31st Jan 2014		Magazine Panic	RadoxTheGreen : "Perhaps (he says reluctantly as he knows what lurks in the loft) we should look at introducing a Comics World in the near future" While I wouldn't say no to a Comics World being set up I really wonder if there's any point when the incredible Grand Comics Database exists - http://www.comics.org/ Panic was both a comic and a magazine EC issued 12 issues of the comic (1954-1956) then relaunched the title in the larger format in 1958. Panic (the comic) http://www.comics.org/series/1063/covers/ Panic (the magazine) http://www.comics.org/series/23478/covers/