E-Z
Senior Member
Hi Nai Noswad yeah I'm ok thanks, by the way I only come on the forum when I can as I don't own a home PC.Hey E-Z..how's things man?...good to hear from you!
Got loads of those track samplers..and 99 rock compilations with Fat Mattress etc..
Found 2 Transatlantic Samplers recently. tucked away with a Dandelion sampler featuring Tractor and Brigid St.John...John Peels label apparently!
Must post that Beacon UFO album compilation...pressed before Flying!
Talking of old record shops..twice a month i'd journey via St.Pancras to Hanway St.( Kris Needs shop.) ..and a shop on Hereford Rd.called Vinyl Solution..he was an American dealer...nice guy-he didn't believe i had a spare copy of Satanic Majesties Request on an Israelli label ( Pax)..swapped it for 5 french Stones ep's...good times...and a fab record shop near Sloane Square tube...no wonder i was always ******' broke!
Kris Needs he's the rock journalist I presume?. Hanway street is that the narrow back street that runs behind Oxford street at the Tottenham Court road end of Oxford street?. I walked along it back in February this year the first time in a decade or more and the two small independent record shops that were there in the 1970s-1990s have both gone now.
Fat Mattress Noel Redding's band (The Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player 1966-69 for those that aren't aware?). Yeah I liked those Track Records 'sampler LPs' they were a good little introduction to the artist or band.
Record shops are few and far between in London these days as you can guess but I usually go to Fopp at Cambridge Circus in Shaftsbury Avenue just off the Charing Cross road in the west end or for the last year I travel out to Sheperd's Bush in west London and visit the small HMV shop at the Westfield shopping centre also if I am going to Sheperd's Bush I have recently stopped off at the second hand Tape & Record Exchange at Notting Hill as well. The only other record shop I occasionally use in the west end is Sister Ray in Berwick street Soho that guy gets some rare stuff in he's pretty good.