20 cents > She Devils Stories by Barbara Sheen . an interesting find , i didn't know anything about the author or the book , but i liked the look of it & the back cover snippets & quickly read it from cover to cover
Monday, March 30, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
blow speed racer blow
$1 > some sort of a hand held fan or paddle , but i'm not sure what this is or anything about it . at first i thought it was Speed Racer , but when i looked at Speed Racer's pic's on the internet i realised that this aint Speedy at all & that's not his girl Trixie either ... they're some sort of impostors. i dunno anything about this sorta stuff . if someone out there does i'd be kinda interested to know who these characters are & the story behind this item ?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
girlcussion
50 cents > ... not sure what to call this one & no idea of its origins . it's a kind of hand held percussion instrument decorated with a painting of a 50's style 'girlie' sitting in a cocktail glass . it makes a fairly annoying ding ding sound on it's own but sounds o.k. with other percussion . also found that it make some interesting sounds when using the dinger thing to strike the strings of electric guitar or bass , kinda of like a piano hammer hitting a piano wire ... only more random .
Labels:
50's,
girlie,
incredibly strange,
instrument,
percussion,
weird
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
kaleidoscopic vibrations
$ 3 > four track tape in near mint condition of Kaleidoscopic Vibrations by Perrey & Kingsley recorded in 1967 using Moog Synthesizer & the Ondioline . this was a flea market find i picked up a few year ago along with a bunch of other 4 track tapes for $3 each .
Labels:
4 track,
incredibly strange,
kaleidoscopic,
kingsley,
perrey,
reel to reel,
vibrations
Friday, March 20, 2009
d.i.y. musique concrete
$3 > flea market purchase . oxford university press 1971 . good condition . what else d'ya wanna know ?
Labels:
'70's,
avant,
musique concrete,
paperback,
recorders,
tape,
terence dwyer
Thursday, March 19, 2009
suitcase record player
$8 > HMV stereophonic automatic electrogram ... thats what is says . it's a suitcase style record player not that you'd wanna carry it around ... it weighs a ton ! the lid is a speaker & detaches as in the pic . it doesn't have a radio it just plays records at either 16/33/45 or 78 rpm . you can stack up a bunch of records & it'll play one then drop the next one down & play it & so on & so forth , it's a regular party machine ... i bought this at a second hand shop around 1996 & it's been my only way to play vinyl since . which is the main reason i cant upload any vinyl to this blog , as it doesn't have any outputs . a specialist repair shop told me that it 's a 1957 model . i've googled it but can't find any more info . i wouldn't even think of parting with it , but i do think of getting a more modern turntable & amp from time to time .
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
budgetbilly
$1 > from the closing down sale of Synaesthesia Records , you just never knew what you might find there ....
Labels:
7 inch record,
bargain,
charlie feathers,
norton,
records,
rockabilly,
synaesthesia
Sunday, March 15, 2009
ant men !
20 cents > 1969 u.s.a. reprint of this 1955 apocalyptic paperback set in the central australian desert. written by Eric North a pseudonym for australian author Bernard Cronin 1884-1968 . i bought this book at Camberwell market coincidentally the same melbourne suburb that the author lived & died in according to wikipedia ...
Labels:
ant men,
australian,
camberwell,
central australia,
eric noth,
market,
paperback
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
hand painted by daisy pitty
$3 > a small 180mm x 122mm china plate hand painted with a landscape of Haasts Bluff [i think] in the MacDonnell Ranges . done in the style of the great Aboriginal water colour artist Albert Namatjira who was of the Arrernte people & from the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia . i can't find any information on this artist who's last name has been obviously anglosised . i have never seen another plate like this one , but thats not to say there aren't any ...
Labels:
albert,
australian,
bargain,
central australia,
chinaplate,
hermannsburg,
namatjira,
water colour
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
feedtime on cassette
50 cents each > i didn't buy these , they were given to me by someone i worked with who saw me in a feedtime t-shirt once ... a very observant fellow ... he came up to me one day & said "i found some cassettes in an op shop that may interest you" he then handed me these still shrink wrapped cassettes . he didn't want them & wouldn't take anything for them , so ... if you're out there steve , you sir are a true gentleman .
as familiar as i was/am with this band [i was at the recording sessions for 'shovel'] i had never seen these albums on cassette before . they were released on Rough Trade in the U.S. only . just before the label went bankrupt & folded in the late '80's / early 90's .
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
"all the kids are here they all look the same"
50 cents > 1983 'Death Party' 7 inch 33 rpm single by 'Gun Club' produced by Chris Stein of Blondie & J.L. Pierce ... strangely the title track is the b side . i found this in a pile of the usual scratchy old crappy op shop faves & it just jumped out at me. the cover is a bit trashed but the vinyl is very good . i use to have this on a 12 inch 45 but it disappeared into the bermuda triangle that has claimed so many records over the years . i also saw them in brisbane around this time with the line up of Jeffery Lee Peirce, Kid Congo, Patricia Morrison & Spencer p Jones & Billy from 'The Johnnys' i remember being impressed at the time .
Labels:
1983,
33 rpm,
7 inch record,
bargain,
jeffery lee peirce,
the gun club
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
capitalist
$2> canaries for pleasure & profit 1965 by Cliff Newby paperback
>> click to enlarge you just gotta see their little hairdo's
Labels:
canaries,
capitalist,
cliff newby,
exploitation,
op shop,
paperback
communist
20 cents> 'little red book' quotations from chairman Mao Tse-Tung 1967 second english language edition vinyl cover
Sunday, March 1, 2009
birds on piano
$4 > Olivier Messiaen 'Catalogue d'oiseaux' [catalogue of birds] 4 lp box set bought at the same op shop on the same day as the Xenakis box in a previous post . this beautifully packaged box by french composer Messiaen [1908 - 1992] played by pianist Yvonne Loriod on the Record Society of Australia label [!] is a nice thing to have & it's a great listen too
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