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2012-01-17T15:22:00.000-08:00

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Vinyl Record Talk Live 8pm PT / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2012-01-17T12:56:00.000-08:00

Join us today as we announce a new show coming to Radio Dentata.

Jane and I will talk about Bill See's performance with 3/4 of Divine Weeks that we went to see at Taix in Los Angeles last week.

Plus Norm will have a special commentary on the sad events that unfolded last week at Cult Radio A Go Go

That plus great music, the news and Top 5.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/14/2012

2012-01-16T15:36:00.000-08:00

Two Northern Soul 45s made the list this week. And punk is making the list more and more. The "Chain Of Strength" 45 is from 1990 which makes it pretty late for a high dollar punk record.

1. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $4,600.00

2. 45 - Jimmy Burns "I Really Love You" / "I Love You Girl" Erica - $3,107.57

3. 45 - Soul Powers "Soul Power Pt 1" / "Soul Power Pt 2" Scream - $2,649.00

4. 45 - Chain Of Strength "What Holds Us Apart" Test Pressing - $2,130.00

5. EP - Mayhem "Deathcrush" Posercorpse 001 880/1000 - $1,987.00

Vinyl Record Talk is Live on Radio Dentata on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT at http://www.radiodentata.com/. Listen only at the website. Radio Dentata is no longer on Live 365 and streams from sites like Tune In have not yet been updated. The only place to hear Radio Dentata's unique programming is at RadioDentata.com

Jane and Norm's Interview With Author Bill See On VRT From Tuesday January 10th 2011

2012-01-13T16:03:00.000-08:00

Vinyl Record Talk Live 8pm PT / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2012-01-10T16:46:00.000-08:00

Bill See, author of "33 Days", and singer for the band Divine Weeks, will be out guest in about 10 minutes from writing this. Plus, we have more Beatles auctions in the news, no teeth this time, and the Top 5 record sales on eBay.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 01/07/2012

2012-01-09T19:33:00.000-08:00

The withdrawn first Sex Pistols single tops the list this week, but selling at several thousand less than its usual closing price. The Elvis 7" is interesting; Compact 33 was an RCA label for jukebox vendors. Typically they were like an EP and had two cuts per side from whatever LP the artist had out at the time. This Elvis Compact 33 has one cut per side, like a regular 45. For only the second time in almost five years of keeping this list, there is a three-way tie. The #4 spot has a Butcher Cover, a rare jazz and a rare classical LP all selling for $2k. Finishing the list is a rare Northern Soul 45.

1. 45 - Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" / "No Feeling" A&M AMS-7284 - $11,710.08

2. 7" - Elvis Presley "Good Luck Charm" / "Anything That's Part Of You" Compact 33 Single - $4,995.00

3. LP - Bach Mozart "Violin Concerto" His Masters Voice ASD 429 W/G UK Pressing - $4,050.00

4. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday And Today" 3rd State Butcher Stereo - $2,000.00

4. LP - Kenny Dorham "Quiet Kenny" New Jazz 8225 - $2,000.00

4. LP - Beethoven "Symphony #9" Furtwangler Akkord D-010851 - $2,000.00

5. 45 - Mac Staten "There She Goes" / "Do The Freeze" Prelude - $1,951.00

Vinyl Record Talk is Live on Radio Dentata on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT at http://www.radiodentata.com/. Listen only at the website. Radio Dentata is no longer on Live 365 and streams from sites like Tune In have not yet been updated. The only place to hear Radio Dentata's unique programming is at RadioDentata.com

33 Days Author Bill See On Vinyl Record Talk - Tuesday January 10th, 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2012-01-07T10:47:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles and the roads that stretch away: 1987.

Like every city, Los Angeles has always had its own music scene. This has existed independently of the Music Industry with the big "M" and the big "I", and in the 80s this scene existed in confrontational opposition to the coporate dinosaur bands, the hair metal bands, and the synthesizer bands whose uninspired and contrived music this "I"ndustry of Los Angeles spued out into the world.

Bill See was one such member of one such band in confrontational opposition to that force in music and art that has put dollars over authentic energy since, well, probably the ancient Greeks.

Bill See's book "33 Days" is an autobiographical work, in part derived from the diaries he kept while fronting the band Divine Weeks as a young man in his twenties, and in equal measure taken from his own current perspective on his origins, which is that of a writer whose fate was to have his life profoundly touched by family and friends that once breathed the same gritty Los Angeles air as chroniclers like John Fante and Charles Bukowski.

It is one more book, one more very good book, in that vein of Fante, Bukowski, and Henry Rollins, where in the city known for its grand fictions, the best way to confront is to just write what you know.

We are very proud to have Bill See as our guest on Vinyl Record Talk. Listen live at Radio Dentata, Tuesday, January 10th 8pm ET / 5pm PT.

Find out more about Bill See and Divine Weeks at 33 Days The Book.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Tuesday January 3rd 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2012-01-03T15:29:00.000-08:00

Vinyl Record Talk returns to live broadcast today on Radio Dentata.

Only Radio Dentata has the live feed.

Jane and Norm return to the antics with rare vinyl, news and the Top 5, plus several important announcements.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/31/2011

2012-01-02T14:00:00.000-08:00

The private press funk treasure from John Heartsman gets the top spot on this lackluster week. The week after Christmas can be low-key, but watch for the weeks from early January through Valentine's day to test the economic resilience of vinyl in 2012. As filmmaker Jeanie Finlay points out in her acclaimed documentary "Sound It Out", record collecting is primarily a men's pre-occupation.

And I declare that as men most of us never get what we want for Christmas - socks, ties, hand-made chotchkies from our kids. We must sneak in our true material desires in the zone between New Years and Valentine's Day.

1. LP - John Heartsman And Circles "Music Of My Heart" Private - $3,250.00

2. LP - Hank Mobley "self-titled" Blue Note 1560 Original Pressing - $2,480.00

3. 45 - Ellipsis "People" / "Gregory Moore" Briarmeade - $2,462.00

4. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday And Today" 1st State Butcher Cover Mono - $2,300.09

5. 45 - Nirvana "Love Buzz" 533/1000 Sub Pop - $2,306.70

Vinyl Record Talk returns LIVE to Radio Dentata on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT at http://www.radiodentata.com/. Listen only at the website. Radio Dentata is no longer on Live 365 and streams from sites like Tune In have not yet been updated. The only place to hear Radio Dentata's unique programming is at RadioDentata.com

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/24/2011

2011-12-26T23:49:00.000-08:00

A sweet find turned up this week, a test pressing of "Freewheelin'" that has the alternate tracks that were mistakenly released on the original pressing. A stock copy of "Freewheelin'" typically sells for around half the $5k price that this test pressing bid to. Psych stuff continues to make the list, with Canadian holy grail "Bent Wind" getting the #2 spot, and Delany and Bonnie's Apple record getting the #4 spot. Poking in at the bottom is a KBD 45 from Bad Brains.

1. LP - Bob Dylan "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" Test Press LP Alternate Tracks - $5,212.00

2. LP - Bent Wind "Sussex" Trend 1015 - $4,064.00

3. LP - Jaques Dumont Bach Sonata & Partitas Belvedre - $3,962.00

4. LP - Delany & Bonnie "The Original Delaney And Bonnie" Apple SAPCOR7 UK Pressing - $3,534.64

5. 45 - Bad Brains "Pay To Cum" / "Stay Close To Me" w/sleeve and insert - $2,938.00

VRT Show is on haitus. This space will still be active with the Top 5 and whatever other record collecting freaky stuff we find.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/17/2011

2011-12-25T20:02:00.000-08:00

In 1971 you could have found any of these records in a used bin for a half-dollar. Maybe the Brute Force 45 might not have turned up so easily as it was given out, more or less, as a joke by Apple Corp employees and was never officially released. This week is an honor roll of psych holy grails, with the Mexican psychedelic band Kaleidoscope having their only release topping the list.

1. LP - The Kaleidoscope "self-titled" Orfeon - $7,200.00

2. 45 - Brute Force "King Of Fuh" / "Nobody Knows" Apple 8 - $4,374.00

3. LP - The Bachs "Out of the Bachs" Private Press - $3,888.00

4. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday & Today" Capitol T-2553 #6 Mono 2nd State Butcher Cover - $3,483.83

5. LP - Damon "Song Of A Gypsy" Private Press - $3,450.00

VRT Show is on haitus. This space will still be active with the Top 5 and whatever other record collecting freaky stuff we find.

Support Those Who Scour The Earth For Grooved Black Gold - Buy Some Stuff Damn It

2011-12-14T16:22:00.000-08:00

Even Santa appreciates our shameless self-promotion via guilt trip that you aren't spending enough with Mom and Pop's this year.

And you can't get much more Mom and Pop than Vinyl Record Talk's Store. Jane and Norm search the country for lost treasures of music history because, simply stated, people buy this stuff from them.

Vinyl Record Talk Show on Radio Dentata is Jane and Norm promoting vinyl, record collecting, and the huge cache of music that has yet to be transfered to digital media. Each week we play several pieces of vinyl history that are not available for commercial download. We cover news topics on collecting, auctioning and internet broadcasting.

And did you know, many of Jane's fans turn off the NFL Network just to hear her voice. So listen to us on Radio Dentata and click and go to our store. Buy stuff. It will atone for many corporate sins.

Vinyl Record Talk Show Will Be Going On Haitus Until Next Year

2011-12-14T15:47:00.000-08:00

First, apologies for the last two weeks. Two Tuesdays ago, storms in Tennessee took down power and our feed was lost halfway through the show. Yesterday, Radio Dentata's move to a new server crapped out. The player was not working well in IE, among other problems. Some of our listeners who chat with Jane through Yahoo messenger (feel free to message Jane and say hello at janegeddis), kept going to the Live365 station and not the Radio Dentata website. The Live365 station only has an auto playing music now, and will be gone in a few days. Radiodentata.com will have the live feed. I'm not sure about Tune In and the other sites that list the feed, but it probably will take some time to update them. For the time being, listen at Radiodentata.com only. There's a big frickin' link there that says "Play It - TUNE IN HERE". It's up and down now right now being tested and tweaked, but shall stablize and RD will be back to its original programming and great music, with many more live programs coming next year.

So, VRT will be back next year. We'll update here on the continuing saga.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/10/2011

2011-12-14T15:34:00.000-08:00

No doubt the Beatles stuff is hot right now. The "Love Me Do" 45 usually goes for $7k - 10k with the sleeve. But if a scrap of paper (see Lennon to-do list post) sells for $16k, what Beatles item isn't worth more than its weight in gold? The non-Beatle entries on this week's list are worth a look. The Maitrey Kali LP is the very rare double LP version, not the more typical single LP repress. And the "Love Buzz" 7" as a test pressing gets about double what one of the regular releases bring.

1. 45 - The Beatles "Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You" Parlophone Demo with sleeve - $17,338.20

2. LP - Maitreya Kali "Apache/Inca" Private Press - $10,101.00

3. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone Stereo UK 2nd Pressing - $7,029.00

4. 45 - Nirvana "Love Buzz" / "Big Cheese" Test Pressing - $4,350.00

5. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone Stereo UK 1st Pressing - $3.982.10

Radio Dentata is currently going through a server upgrade, with all new features planned for next year. So VRT Show is going on haitus. This space will still be active with the Top 5 and whatever other record collecting freaky stuff we find.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Tuesday December 6th 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2011-12-13T15:37:00.001-08:00

Be sure to go only to Radio Dentata for today's show. The Live365 station is playing only an auto, and that will be going down in a few days.

Jane will pick up where the old server dropped us last week about half-way through the show and continue with her playlist of 60s favorites. Norm has numerous 45s he wants to spin, plus the final tally on bids for John Lennon's To-Do List.

This link will take you directly to the player.

John Lennon's To-Do List

2011-12-06T23:25:00.000-08:00

Radio Dentata lost today's live feed of Vinyl Record Talk about half-way through the show, so we never got to today's news. I thought I'd share the to-do list that was the subject of today's news story. This list is on auction at "Gotta Have Rock And Roll" and bidding currently sits at close to $6000.00. John Lennon wrote this list in the 70s (we know this because the list notes that his HBO needs to be fixed).

Notice Lennon is picking up "herb" from some guy named Steve. I was texting Malice Cooper during her show and she speculated that the only thing that got done on this list was the "herb".
Me, I'm not so sure. I think the marmalade probably got picked up too. And the cable guy got let in. But I'll bet that bathroom hook never got fixed.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Tuesday December 6th 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2011-12-06T11:05:00.000-08:00

More weird John Lennon stuff shows up at auction in the news. We have acquired a sweet collection of 45s, and we'll be playing some of those including a very funny Lee Eldred record on Chess.

As well, we have a number of obscure LPs from the early 70s and we'll play some tracks from the CSN sounding band Wally, and a band akin to the Moody Blues - Willow.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 12/03/2011

2011-12-06T10:52:00.000-08:00

Beatlemania is re-surging in auctions all over. The Beatles take three of five spots this week, with two "Please Please Me" records and an export "White Album".

1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone Stereo UK 2nd Pressing - $5,146.50

2. 45 - Ray Agee "Hard Loving Woman" / "I'm Losing Again" Soultown 104 - $4,450.00

3. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone Mono UK 1st Pressing - $2,984.52

4. LP - The Beatles "White Album" Parlophone Export Pressing - $2,838.44

5. 45 - The Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" / "Did You No Wrong" Virgin South African Pressing - $2,591.82

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 11/26/2011

2011-11-29T10:03:00.000-08:00

Santa always takes care of The Beatles and Elvis during the holidays. But this week's list also has some odd treasures. The D A Hunt blues 78 topped the list back in August of '09 selling for over $10k. Mellow Candle and The Churchills are two psychedelic holy grails.

1. LP - The Beatles "Introducing The Beatles" VeeJay Adback - $5,000.00

2. 78 - D A Hunt "Greyhound Blues" / "Lonesome Old Jail" Sun 183 - $4,500.00

3. LP - Mellow Candle "Swaddling Songs" Deram UK Pressing - $3,194.70

4. 7" - Elvis Presley "Good Luck Charm" / "Anything That's Part Of You" RCA Compact 33 Jukebox - $3,161.00

5. LP - The Churchills "self titled" Hed Arzi Israeli Pressing Promo - $3,000.00

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Tuesday November 29th 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2011-11-28T21:11:00.000-08:00

Shhhhhhh. No one will say so publically, but it looks like 2012 will be the end of the compact disc. Details on that story and how vinyl is coping in comparison.

Jane found a really sweet Elvis tribute 45, sort of like Orion but more rockabilly. You'll have to catch the show to find out what other music we'll be playing, cause right now we don't know. It'll be another out of the box show. We've got a half dozen boxes of 45s that will be picked through before the show.

So join us live once again, for all of the above, plus the Top 5 auction sales.

Malice Cooper Loses It Over John Lennon's Tooth

2011-11-27T11:23:00.000-08:00

This is hysterical. Nightmares With Malice Cooper is the show on Radio Dentata before VRT. I was texting Malice during her show for her to announce some upcoming segments on VRT and she completely loses it over John Lennon's tooth being auctioned for $30,000. This is about 15 minutes.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Today, Tuesday November 22nd 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2011-11-22T13:27:00.000-08:00

Yup, that's the tooth that went from John Lennon's mouth to his housekeeper's hands to the auction house. It sold for almost $30,000.00 a few weeks ago. Last week, a letter written by Paul McCartney to an unknown drummer inviting him to try out for the Beatles went on the auction block. Does paper beat tooth? Find out on VRT, today at 5pm PT / 8pm ET on Radio Dentata.

Also, be brave, Jane's been digging through the crates and has a very strange 45 she's going to play. That and the Top 5 record auctions plus lots more music on Vinyl Record Talk.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 11/19/2011

2011-11-20T20:18:00.000-08:00

The #1 record this week is a known entity that first sold at Christie's in London in 2002. It was signed at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store in 1963, at one of only three Beatles record store signings, and included an original bag from NEMS. The Beatles also take the next two spots, before an African pressing of the Sex Pistols most famous single and 78 from Robert Johnson finish out the list.

1. 45 - The Beatles "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why" Parlophone UK Signed Authenticated - $12,631.20

2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Stereo Pressing - $5,183.53

3. LP - The Beatles MFSL Box Set - $4,149.99

4. 45 - The Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" / "Did You No Wrong" Gallo Zimbabwe - $3,947.25

5. 78 - Robert Johnson "Walking Blues" / "Sweet Home Chicago" Vocalion - $3,550.00

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Records Top 5 eBay Sales Week Ending 11/12/2011

2011-11-20T20:07:00.000-08:00

All 45s this week and the top three are soul or funk 45s, and the bottom two are KBD punk records. Seems the Chicago discovery from the previous week has woken up bidders.

1. 45 - Two Plus Two "I'm Sure" / "Look Around" Velgo - $4,550.00

2. 45 - Sandi & Matues "The World, Part 1" / "The World, Part 2" Matues - $3,383.00

3. 45 - 2. 45 - Ellipsis "People" / "Gregory Moore" Briarmeade - $4,250.00

4. EP - The Necros "Sex Drive" Touch and Go - $3,650.00

5. 45 - The Fix "Vengence" / "In This Town" Touch and Go - $3,516.00

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

Vinyl Record Talk Show - Live - Today, Tuesday November 15th 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Radio Dentata

2011-11-15T07:51:00.000-08:00

One more time live. Probably. If you don't hear from us send lawyers, guns and money.

Find out 5pm ET / 8pm PT on Radio Dentata.