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Date Posted: 05:55:10 04/02/00 Sun
Author: LUXTON
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Subject: Re: Hardest Find
In reply to: bannatyne 's message, "Hardest Find" on 22:38:53 04/01/00 Sat

HEY JOE...I admit freely and publicly that I've quit collecting vinyl altogether...now that cd's have been around since 1981, there are already incredible remasterings of classics that have "come and gone again"...my seeking now takes place in the arena of the CD world...two incredibly rare CD purchases immediately come to mind, both having taken place in Eruope on the Ringo tour of 1992...late one evening just before closing time I wandered into a HUGE record and CD store in Frankfurt Germany...I was there primarily searching for anything by Georgie Fame, an absolute idol of mine since the British Invasion days and singles like YehYeh, In the Meantime, and Get Away...finally finding the Georgie section with the help of a clerk from the store, I excitedly leafed through about ten or eleven cd's by Mr. Fame...I had most of them, but anxiously grabbed every one in a cover I didn't recognize...one of these quick grabs was an album by Georgie called " A Portrait of Chet"...the cover was a coloured drawing/painting perhaps done in chalk, of Chet Baker, sitting with his eyes closed, cradling his trumpet between his knees...this picture is then mounted on some sort of pillow or piece of parchment or SOMETHING...I paid for all my purchases and went back to the hotel, not listening to anything for several days...late one night in Switzerland, after having played at the wonderful Montreux festival, I took my discman, earphones and "A Portrait of Chet" out onto the balcony of my suite, overloooking part of the Alps...the night air there in Switzerland, coupled with the sight of the stars over the mountains was enough to take your breath away...with all this already going for the moment, the Gods somehow nudged me into listening to Georgie Fame doing his album-long tribute to Chet Baker...I didn't even know who the hell Chet Baker was...honestly...it was one of those profound moments in life after which a person is never the same...when I first heard Georgie sing Dancing On the Ceiling and Do It the Hard Way, immediaetly followed by It Could Happen to You, something told me that I was "meant to hear" this stuff...I fell in love with the tunes and arrangements without yet ever having heard Chet Baker...it was weeks later, after the Ringo tour had finished, I was in Tower Records one night here in LA and just for fun, I checked the jazz section for something by Chet Baker...once again I was having a profound moment...I found almost fifty cd's by this guy...my special angels silently and invisibly made sure that out of all these fifty cd's about which I knew absolutely nothing, I chose the one called It Could Happen to You....when I finally heard Chet himself doing Everything Happens to Me, I knew I was having another one of those "profound moments" in an already fascinating life...
Ever since hearing Chet Baker, my idea of being an artist has had its bar raised considerably...Chet is one of the most amazing singers that ever lived, and I never heard of him until I was 44 years old...Incredibly, I had been almost "led" to this man through complicated circumstances...I didn't mean all this to sound corny, but my idea of what GREAT singing is has changed since finding that very rare little cd of Georgie Fame's "A Portrait of Chet"...sorry I took so long to tell that...I now own thirty or so of Chet Baker's cd's...
One more piece that I value so, so highly in my rather formidable cd collection may not be as rare, but I've never seen another one anywhere, ever...it's an 8 disc box of the Shadows with just about EVERYTHING they ever did for EMI...I found it in Paris on the same tour in a small cd shop near the Champs Eleysses...saw the box, grabbed it, paid for it and just bloody well smiled all afternoon...I have a friend here in LA who has a store called Ear Candy who can get you some pretty rare stuff, and he's never seen another one either...I guess deep down I hope somehow that EMI never bothered to shove out more than a couple of thousand of these beauties...
I'm still an obsessive collector of music, but let the vinyl freaks chase the vinyl...I'm chasing the zeros and ones...LOL...
Oh yeah...by the way...on that same tour when we got to Gotenburg, Sweden we found out we were appearing on the same big festival as Georgie Fame himself...he personally autographed his "20 Beat Classics" cd for me, which I had been carrying with me for the whole tour, just because it makes me feel good whenever I listen to it...the music Gods certainly do seem to think I'm worth the odd nudge now and again...

Luck and Health

BC

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[> Re: Hardest Find -- Glen, 15:06:38 04/02/00 Sun [1] (proxy1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.2.33)

Well, just collecting some GW & BC rarities is a journey in of itself:

Japanese pic cover of band live onstage for Follow Your Daughter Home & Bye Bye Babe.
Japanese pic cover of group shot for Hand Me Down World & Runnin' Down The Street.
Scandinavian alternate cover for Artificial Paradise. (I didn't know this even existed until many years later).
Japanese cover for Share The Land. It's the same cover, but the packaging & print is different from normal LP.
BC Plus signs vinyl (Nos. 3997, 3998); Now I know who as Nos.1 through 25 :-)
BC's Woman Love with misprint of Woman In Love on the spine.


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[> [> Re: Hardest Find -- Sue, 05:45:38 04/03/00 Mon [1] (NoHost/203.26.28.169)

> Hey, Glen. Just curious. What's the Scandinavian Artificial Paradise cover look like? We had an alternate cover here in Australia, too. It was a reddish long-exposure photo of the band playing on a black background. The back cover had the guys sitting on a circular seat under some pavilion.


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