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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Valuing Your Vinyl (Goldmine Record Album Price Guide)
Great reference book. The highest compliment we can pay is that use this book a lot. Covering the beginning of American LP manufacture in 1948 through today, it presents more than 60,000 listings in up to three grades of condition. Collectors can accurately and confidently value and inventory their collections with a record label identifier section and a checklist format.
About the Author: Tim Neely is book editor and research director of Goldmine magazine. He has written more than a dozen other record collecting books.
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Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting by Brett Milano
Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of record collecting. A vinyl junkie is not the person who has a few old 45s shoved in the cuboard from their days in high school. Vinyl Junkies are the people who will travel over 3,000 miles to hear a rare b-side by a German band that has only recorded two songs since 1962, vinyl junkies are the people who own every copy of every record produced by the favorite artist from every pressing and printing in existance, vinyl junkies are the people who may just love that black plastic more than anything else in their lives. |
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Vital Vinyl: Rockin' the House : 12 Inch Record by Stephen Webber
Want to know how DJ's do it? With this book you can create your own music with this essential, limited-edition series of 12-inch records! Features originally created loops, grooves, break beats, vocals and sound fx for DJs, rappers, producers and re-mixers.
About the Author: Stephen Webber is a professor at Berklee College. He is an Emmy Award-winning composer and producer, President, Willow Shade Records and Guest lecturer/artist-in-residence, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He composed and conducted soundtrack for Zoetrobics at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch and is a writer for Mix, Electronic Musician, Audio Media, and Pro Sound News magazines
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Goldmine Price Guide to 45 Rpm Records (Goldmine Price Guide to 45 Rpm Records)
Record listings, record listings, record listings! More than 70,000 individual listings of 45 RPM records from 1949 through 2000—more than any other book. Record collectors and music lovers will get 8 pages of stunning full-color photos of rare and interesting records and sleeves. Plus every record is indexed alphabetically by artist and includes a convenient checklist format to help them inventory their collections. This is the most user-friendly 45 RPM record book on the market! |
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Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
A backstage pass to the Rolling Stones from Bill Wyman, founder of the Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones, commonly referred to as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, epitomize everything that's excessive, lavish, exciting, and powerful about rock music. Now, founding member and bass player Bill Wyman presents an honest and humorous account that serves as a backstage pass to the band's history, from drug busts, to tax exile, to solo careers. Straight from Wyman's huge personal archive, With over 2000 photographs, more than 45 beautifully designed tour spreads, song lists from every show, and biographies on each band member, there is no need for any other Stones book to be written.
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A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song
Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves. Illustrated with over 200 photographs,
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Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."
So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles, Volume I, his remarkable, book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities - smokey, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.
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Jazz : A History of America's Music by GEOFFREY C. WARD, KEN BURNS
Visually stunning, with more than five hundred photographs, some never before published, this book, like the music it chronicles, is an exploration—and a celebration—of the American experiment.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans but played from the beginning by musicians of every color, jazz celebrates all Americans at their best.
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