…featuring Nirvana, Jive Bureaux and Mott The Hoople:
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At the end of 2013, the site officially hit 250,000 views (since starting the website in February 2012, but really from around mid 2012 when the bulk of the content and structure really started taking place)…so a huge THANK YOU to everyone who’s found the RareRecordCollector.net website and hopefully found it useful!
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featuring Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Steppenwolf and Carol Grimes & Discovery:
Hard to find on the original pink Island label, this 1970 one-off Fotheringay album (they disbanded in January 1971) in particular features some sublime guitar from Jerry Donahue (definite future influence for Mark Knopfler) as well as top class vocals from Sandy Denny (no wonder she was the only other vocalist to appear on a Led Zeppelin LP). The more folky/renaissance style tracks work better for me than the country influenced ones but it’s still an essential addition to your record collection:
Three new additions to the pink Island and orange CBS labels as well as the very first LP issued on the newly redesigned Charisma label which utilised an existing drawing by Sir John Tenniel of the Mad Hatter and other images from “Alice In Wonderland” and this design has become known as the ’pink Mad Hatter’ variant.
There are new sections for singles on pink Island, CBS orange, B&C Records, Charisma pink scroll and Mooncrest as well as a rare addition on Vertigo. Click the labels to go to each singles section featuring Traffic, Titanic, Atomic Rooster, Nazareth, Rare Bird and Manfred Mann.
More singles to be added to each section as they are acquired. Keep coming back for updates.
featuring King Crimson and Brian Augur:
…including Manfred Mann, Jethro Tull, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Ian Hunter:
here we have the sleeves and labels for differentiation between the mono and stereo versions of “This Was” and also the later issue pink ‘i’ issue on ILPS 9085:
…featuring an eclectic mix of updates and additions to the two-tone blue Liberty label (Bonzo Dog Band), a couple of additions to the orange CBS collection (Chicago Transit Authority and Christie’s “For All Mankind”), the Rolling Stones classic LP “Let It Bleed” on the sought after red mono label, a couple of additions to Probe label (both the early black and silver style and the later pink label) and finally Fairport Covention’s “Unhalfbricking” on pink Island, showing both 1st and 2nd press editions:
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