Hope this counts.When I was little we had a record kicking about the house I used to listen to a lot, it was written and recorded by my Dad's work colleague sometime in 1976, a fella named George Grant. I remember it as being very plaintive, kinda Roy Harper-ish and a lot of it seemed to be about trains. It was released on some local Scottish micro label called Deeroy, its called 90768.
Sometime in the mid-nineties I'm wandering about at one of those massive Wembley Record fairs on a gloomy Saturday with my Pink Floyd obsessed housemate and I see George's record on the pin board at the stall of a Psyche/Folk/Prog seller guy, It was fun to chat with him and his wife about the record letting him know what little details I could, cause he knew nothing about it. It was on sale for £75 iirc.
One day, years later I searched for it on the net to see if how much it might be worth, I get only a couple of hits but one of them is from an Italian Psyche/Folk collector's wants list, offering 500 euro for a copy.
I get the word back to George through my Dad as I thought he'd be tickled by the info, he was of course and I even idly chatted to a guy from Cherry Red about a reissue one time. Nothing came of it as I didn't have a copy of the record to send him, George still has the 1/4 inch masters though.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:08 (nine years ago) link
A copy of this record came through my place of employ... it's really good! Still virtually zero information out there, BUT there is a Japanese CD reissue now.
Damn I want this LP pretty bad tho.
― ian, Thursday, 5 January 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link