Comments on: City Lights and the Meaning of Life

By: DG Mono

DG Mono — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:45:06 +0000

True, the record is actually not a deep groove, so *maybe* a refund would be in order if the buyer could not somehow see that from the pictures, but I definitely do not think a seller should feel obligated to mention that a particular repressing does not have a “P”. If a buyer hasn’t done their homework, shame on them and congratulations to the seller. And I saw a non-P mono copy of Open Sesame sell recently for close to a grand so for some of these rare titles it seems that people are willing to pay just for the RVG mastering.

By: zarabeth47

zarabeth47 — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:25:08 +0000

Does (present tense!)

By: zarabeth47

zarabeth47 — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:24:37 +0000

Aaron/Mattyman: Did it have the ol’ PLASTYLITE moniker? : )

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:06:54 +0000

Mattyman has a copy of Somethin’ Else or Blue Train (can’t remeber the details) that has STEREO labels but was pressed with mono stampers

By: zarabeth47

zarabeth47 — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:57:16 +0000

No DG on the pic I see(city lights) Did this press have the NEW YORK 23 to the labels at all?
If I was bidding (at any price) I would of definitely asked about the PLASTYLITE symbol. Labels were put onto “biscuits” and some were never pressed(squeezed out) until years later because of different reasons. I had some Jimmy Smiths with NEW YORK 23 labels that had no ears. I have to give credit to later Liberty BN big wigs as they never mislabelled represses with the earlier “found bisquits” I;e. a stereo press with an older bisquitted MICROGROOVE NY 23 label or vice versa!!!!! Or at least I haven’t come upon many mistakes if any.

By: Jay Jay

Jay Jay — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:18:57 +0000

I am still amazed at how many sellers I have to correct for their incorrect usage of DG. You know you have cred issues when we are taling about Mid 70’s black b Liberty pressings with DG and even EAR a few times. Oh Well, Ignorance is bliss.

By: Chewy

Chewy — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:36:51 +0000

look, it might of been real. the “H” isnt that dissimilar from other hank script ive seen, but the red marker man, i still dont know, who had a red marker on hand for a lp singing in the 60s. red marker? really?

By: arick

arick — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:12:47 +0000

The Mobley sold for a mere $427, which is roughly half what a VG++ UNSIGNED copy demands these days.

After corresponding with the seller, I really should have bid on this. It is true he spoke/wrote poor English and was largely ignorant of the finer points of vintage jazz records, but I truly believe he was not malicious. He was just not the right person to sell them. I have no reason to believe all the buyers won’t get fine albums, I’d say this buyer got a heck of a deal.

By: ROB L

ROB L — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:55:46 +0000

Impossible to say what the real deal is with Mobley’s signature and how trustworthy the seller, but the kind of (red) felt tip pen was definitely around in the mid-sixties. At the time a lot of library items were ruined by it forever… Seller would have done himself and his business a service by having someone to rewrite his descriptions in straightforward English. Despite the off putting language, from what I can gather some of his items may be quite worthwhile, for instance the Portal records and other European ones of interest to fans of the avant garde.

By: Chewy

Chewy — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:56:41 +0000

k i found it, look you guys, the only other mobe lp sig i saw was on ebay c. 1998-9 and it was in ballpoint pen, really neat, if this lp is from france than he must of signed it years later, 67-8…but RED SHARPIE? did they even have those then. if i this was a sig akin to the former i would bid a grand in ten seconds for this, but this one…….i dunnnoooo…..