I have been writing about music now for 50 years both for the UK and USA . Involvement in 60s radio shows both in the UK and USA where I lived for a period of time . I was also a publisher and Editor of The Bridge Music and Arts magazine in conjunction with the Northwest Arts Board . I own a massive CD and vinyl. collection. Here I post regular updates on items from my Collectors Cave. Mainly music related but sometimes films and DVD's, Box sets. Items I have located in charity shops, Car boot sales Facebook Marketplace hauls or general items Iv'e owned for years. May include Vinyl, Cassettes , Books ,posters etc. So why not join me and become a Cave Dweller.
Hi Im a tocuh confused not sure whether you are in your 70's (Surfaris) or late 60's (Hendrix) Im 69 and started with the Kinks - Tired of waiting - would you mind saying how old are you?
I'm 70 my musical journey started about 196 listening to radio. The Surfaris record was one that had probably been in my Grandad's collection for some years. I have very broad tastes.
Excellent historical reflection of Birmingham's old record shops thank you Jim. I started seriously collecting vinyl in early 1984 and can remember the old "Revolver Records" on New Street and the original 'Virgin Records' shop on Bull Street I think. (Not the megastore). Also had a friend who liked Reggae and used to go to Don Christie's with him, which I think was near The Rag Market. Happy days..😊
Well I left Brum about 84. I remember Cranes music store on Corporation st that sold instruments, sheet music and records. Then further down next to original law courts was the original Virgin shop that sold Bootlegs. Inside was a circle of aircraft seats you could sit on with Headphones and b listen to records. One of the main ones was Tonto's Expanding Headband. Across the road there was a large hall that occasionally hosted record fairs where you could pick up Bootleg tapes etc. Further back there was a place on various levels called Oasis. Bev Bevan had another branch of Heavyhead records. I was told a funny story about there.
Recently a woman sold some original Bill Graham Filmore West Posters from the late 60s. Her brother passed away and he purchased the posters and they were still tubed with no holes in them. I think she made about £130,000. One was of Jimi Hendrix. My Mum and Dad purchased their first owned house in 1968. An ordinary two up and down not modernised for a £1,000. I doubt you would have got anything great for £650.
We used to have loads of them in the 70s and 80s. The best one in the Centre of Hull was Sydney Scarborough'. It had been running for years. In the mid 80s it was a meeting place and they employed Bouncers. A great shop as they stocked everything including imports. I have the single Nantucket Sleighride. A cover by the band Quartz. The catalogue number is Dan 1. Bev Bevan visited my friends house around the 60s or early 70s. Bev's full name is Beverley. Ironically, to get to my friends house you have to come off Beverley Road. Us locals used to call it Bev Road. True story. We had two stores that the owners moaned about people just browsing. I used to sometimes just browse. One of them really annoyed me as I may have been looking to come back another day with money to purchase what I may have seen and wanted. Not good marketing by them.
I have all the albums when they were released separately. In that box, the first two albums are the USA reissues and not the UK reissues. There is differences on the extra tracks. I did buy both the UK and USA reissues for the first album, but still need the USA reissue for ELO II. The first two albums in the UK came with an additional CD each with more extras. There was a further CD with more extras called Early ELO. A further 3 CD Fatbox set was issued in 2006 and contains both the first two albums plus extras including all the Quad versions from the first album. I also have the 90s disc of the first two albums too. I don't have the 1CD/1DVD of the first album. The DVD is the album mixed to 4.1 plus a flat transfer of the original vinyl. The On The Third Day album reissue is the original album cover from the Warner Bros version. The release on Jet in the 70s used the white cover with a black and white cover of the band. My friend gave me a copy of On The Third Day with the later cover. It turns out it is the same issue in the box. He bought it on it's own, but it was separated from a three disc boxset. My fave is A New World Record. Out Of The Blue is great, but A New World Record has no filler. Secret Messages was originally recorded as a two LP set, but the Record Company refused to release it at the time. It has since come out on vinyl in the UK including the extra tracks except the Beatles tribute song as Jeff is embarrassed about it. The only CD version of the double album was released in Japan and is quite expensive. Most of the Extra tracks were released on the 90s Afterglow Boxset in the USA and it was heavily imported. I have that too. For me, the first album is a classic and both Roy and Jeff did us proud. Apologies for the ramble.
First computer was an OSI (Ohio Scientific), 5.5 inch floppies, tape, and keyboard 6502 processor 16MB ram if I recall correctly. Then my company went 'big' with an OSI machine and a 72MB hard drive, 3 processor motherboard 6502, 6800 and z80. Centronics pin printer w/ribbon, multi-user and 64MB ram. Kept records of over 3000 clients.
@@jimwood1968CDcollectorCAVE Well the first computer I used was an IBM 7040 with punch cards, writing a 5 card loader, handing the cards to operator and getting the results hours later as each program 'batch' was run. (wrote in machine code)
I used to take part twice a week in Pub Quizzes. I would not do it now as people can cheat using mobiles. At one point I used to answer the Music Quiz questions without taking part and did quite well. One week I decided to take part and the questions that week were more difficult. I'm no an expert either, but know a fair bit.
Hey Little Cobra was the only hit by the Rip Chords. I'm wondering if that was on your turntable. I've been a Bee Gees fan since the 60s. There's so much great stuff from their earlier period, I wish people would discover it. Nice upload!
I remember the zx 81 , commodore then the spectrum , which seemed much more advanced at that time , you could Programme & make your own games using the codes from the magazines if i remember correctly .
A number of these Consoles have been reissued in mini size. They come with the games preinstalled. I got a Spectrum from my brother. I loved it. The worst was when the loading failed, you had to start again. My Mum purchased it from W H Smith's with 25% Staff Discount as she worked for the Company.
I really enjoy your interesting & amusing anecdotes jim , Masachusettes is a great song, but I most enjoyed their disco years . Sounds like your grandad may have been pulling your leg there, that generation were real characters 👍
They were amazing! Loved their music. Sad only Barry left! Brilliant life sized statue of them all at Douglas, Isle Of Man where they used to live. Still love their music❤ Deexxxx
I remember seeing those Reggie Perrin shows on American PBS years ago and they were hilarious. Shame about Leonard Rossiter though. I should see if they're on Britbox.
Jim, I thought that you did really well for what you paid for those. I've heard of a lot of those bands but not actually heard them. Arcade Fire are Canadian but they've had a lot of international success. I see those Don Gibson CD's and vinyl quite frequently as he might have been Canadian. He's take his recording unit into the wilderness and record the nature sounds. You must remember that Verve CD with Bittersweet Symphony. Soundgarden were a very successful grunge band and their hit was "Black Hole Sun". I think their main man died a few years ago, Chris Cornell.
I had the Boxset. The first two series were great. The last series was okay, but not as great. Have you bought any Grot lately😂😂. I also liked the remake too. I notice in the last couple of weeks, you've picked up another 66 subscribers. That's a big jump over the 300 that was showing. Edging closer to the 1000 mark.
Oh man, I recall catching a little bit of that actor's shows on PBS when I was in high school. First time I heard the old joke "I knew we were in the wrong church when they started bringing that bloody coffin up the aisle!"
Hi Jim, U.K editions of ‘Hide Tide Green Grass’ ‘Darkly Through The Past’ were my entry point to the Rolling Stones. I snapped up ‘Rolled Gold’ and ‘Made In The Shade’. Ultimately buying the original albums.
Thanks for Another great informative video jim. A top down video here & there showcasing books etc would be something to look forward to as seen on some of your interesting early youtube recordings. take care 👍
Sadly, I'm not a fan of the group, so I know very little about them. I recognise one name you mentioned. Very similar to them is George Clinton. He did some Doo Wop/Vocal recordings around 57/58 as a late teenager. They may have been under the name The Parliaments. In the early 60s he was a Staff Writer at Motown. In 1967, The Parliaments released a few singles and I Wanna (Testify) which was a sizeable hit. In 1970 a album by Parliament was released. They couldn't use the name again until 1974 due to contractual reasons. At the same time from 1969 onwards , he had an alternate group called Funkadelic. They were more Rock Style Funk as opposed to Parliament as they played Funk with horns. Both groups utilised the same members. George has now retired, but is now 83. Both Funkadelic and Parliament did different style recordings of The Parliaments songs too.
Fond memories of not just my first vinyl LP as a teen in the sixties, but also my first 8Track tape player in my '62 Chevy Impala Hardtop and first cassette player in my '66 Ford Galaxy Convertible. Looking back I realize the one constant in my cars has been The Beach Boys, the placeholder CD in my Subaru Crosstrek being the thirty song version of this Sounds of Summer collection. Guess it's time for more Beach Boys. Just an aside, a friend in Highschool returned east from a brief move to California (as with other families we knew who sought the easy life away from Northern States winters, but couldn't tolerate the summer heat). He brought back the California sound, naming his new band "The Harbor Men".
It had huge viewing figures for one good reason apart from going to the pub or having a quick one with your partner there was nothing else to do in the 70's
I thought I had heard the title before . A vastly expanded reissue which is great value. I have the Endless Harmony Soundtrack from The Beach Boys Documentary. I'm not sure if I have the 1998 version or the 2000 version which has variations of some of the tracks on the earlier release. I also have the Good Vibrations Career Boxset from the 90s, The Smile Superdeluxe Boxset too. Last week, I ordered a Who CD on Discogs and due to being below the minimum order amount, I added the 2000 single album version of Pet Sounds. Around 50% of the tracks I already had on the Good Vibrations Boxset. For me, the best period of The Beach Boys is 1966 to 1971. I believe The Beach Boys were not that popular in the UK until around 1965 and most of the albums up to that point were not released in the UK until quite a number of months after their initial release in the USA.
@@jimwood1968CDcollectorCAVE I was unaware of this fact. I know Roy was friendly with Cheap Trick and played on stage with them a number of times Up to the mid 90s.they also performed a small number of Roy's songs too.
@@bobby666666 Yes I know I went to a show in 81 and Roy guested (funny story about that) After he invited me backstage for a drink with the band until the early hours lol
glad I'm not the only one with grievances with the presentation of modern DVDs, the discs lack a creative design, the menus are becoming more flat and standard and there's no little booklet! what a festering shame.
I'm a yank but I have an adoration and fascination with British culture, cinema and television, I've never heard of this show but the 60s/70s brought about some great programmes like Doctor Who of course, Steptoe & Son, On The Buses and Last Of The Summer Wine, this however apparently has the reputation of being bad but I'm curious about it, looks interesting.
Well I try to cover many of the TV series that you mention. When I lived in NY in early 70s I was for at a time working at a TV station that showed some UK programs.
I'm in the US, and I thought that the Thin blue line was Entertaining and reasonably funny. If you want bad, watch the pilot for the US version of Red dwarf.
How very mean-spirited your manager was; the man entered your shop in a spirit of trust and this is how he was treated! I knew Patrick Cargill in the eighties, he had great style and was very generous materially, and of self!He really was a generous spirit and his G&T's were very high octane as was his car, a rather splendid, open topped Bentley, in which he was happy to give lifts! My last and lasting memory of him was of him drving through the centre of London, waving at me and asking if I needed a lift! Never measure a man by his luggage, however disreputable LOL !
@@jimwood1968CDcollectorCAVE You are too right! And some of those awful scrpts actors have to spout. I read somewhere about John Gielgud saying about an awful script "It's awful shit isn't it!" Bur baby must have new shoes!
I vaguely remember it. It was okay, but I found it a bit twee. Patrick Cargill played one of the number 2's in The Prisoner. Network don't usually issue any booklets with their Dvds. I originally had The Prisoner on DVD and it had subtitles. I sold it, but then bought the reissue on Network as it came with a separate book. This version didn't feature subtitles. Network were very stingy in providing subtitles.
Excellent video Jim. I first saw "Father Dear Father" when it was shown on UK Gold in around 1994/95. It was certainly corny at times, but I didn't think it was that bad. My least favourite of this era has to be "The Fenn Street Gang" and my all time most disliked sitcom has to be "My Hero" with Ardal O'hanlon. Personally I found this series about as funny as the bubonic plague. Just my opinion and I apologise if it is a favourite of yourself or a subscriber.
You are quite right about My Hero. Fenn ST Gang was trying to squeeze more out after Please Sir. I did a training film with Richard Davies and Robin Nedwell ( a lovely man) Richard had some uncomplimentary things to say about Please Sir.
I agree that if it's music I'm not fussed about Blu Ray. The smoking warnings are featured on Streaming now. I watched this on Disney+. I enjoyed it. It was tough in parts due to the length. I loved it when Paul strummed for the first time a famous track we now all know. I was quite emotional. I can't remember the track now. The Let It Be version has Bern redone recently with some changes, but it is not coherent and the context is not always clear.
