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Post by poptrash on Jan 24, 2015 14:32:57 GMT -5
Hi MyNick,
Thank you for your questions!
The Mastermixes double 12" is an official release from the USA. It was also released in Asia with all tracks on just 1 disc. Same catalog numbers. There is also an official Brazilian Mastermixes EP with a slightly different track list. And a wonderful pic sleeve, by the way! This double EP is not very rare, but i believe as a lover of vinyl a must-have for a vinyl collector. :-)
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Post by mynick7 on Jan 24, 2015 14:40:10 GMT -5
Hi MyNick, Thank you for your questions! The Mastermixes double 12" is an official release from the USA. It was also released in Asia with all tracks on just 1 disc. Same catalog numbers. There is also an official Brazilian Mastermixes EP with a slightly different track list. And a wonderful pic sleeve, by the way! This double EP is not very rare, but i believe as a lover of vinyl a must-have for a vinyl collector. :-) I edited my post above with what I found out...
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Post by rob on Jan 24, 2015 22:59:06 GMT -5
Really great thread. Thanks to everyone for the contributions.
I don't spend as much time with my collection as I used to but I'm really proud of it and have spent so much time and money on it. Been a fan since 1982 but started really collecting in 1987 or so once I got a car. For years I would shop for records everywhere I traveled. Record shows in town, college visits, any traveling. My poor girlfriend and family were so tolerant. By the time the internet came around (to me) I pretty much got everything I'd always wanted. I am still finding stuff from time to time but around 2000 I became obsessed with collecting wine. Now I have an 8 year old boy and spend most of my time cooking.
I've got hundreds of records, tapes, CDs, books, posters, shirts. I love them and occasionally run into someone who cares, but I just love them. Like many others, my target was first songs I'd never heard, and then what they looked like. I'm also partial to 7" singles, especially from the UK -- because when I was kid 7" singles were the first thing I bought and I love the UK versions because DD is from the UK (although I am a USAmerican).
If I could have absolutely anything, though, I would love to have very, very early promotional posters/gig posters from 1978 to 1981. Durandy has such amazing posters from that time period.
I miss spending late night alone time with my records and music, but I'm 43 and I've got lots of other commitments. I'm probably the only lawyer in Idaho with a Planet Earth promo ad framed in his office. Clients think I'm kind of weird, but whatever, I am who I am.
rOB
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Post by figital on Jan 25, 2015 0:24:11 GMT -5
>>For years I would shop for records everywhere I traveled...My poor girlfriend and family were so tolerant man, i feel that! that was one of the best things about the pre-net days. you had to work had to collect, so when you found something cool, you were just blown away! the first time i went to paris in 1987, i found a store called BOYS KEEP SWINGING. that was the first full throttle collector store i was ever in. the prices were crazy, but i had never seen any of the duran stuff he had. it was the first time i ever saw ITSISK from mexico with the b/w sleeve. the first sighting of LAS CHICAS EN PELICULA from spain with the custom cover. and so many more...it just blew my mind. i honestly couldn't afford anything he had. but the owner and i talked for hours and hours and became fast friends...so later i would send him records from canada, which were cheap and plentiful for me and he'd send me amazing shit i'd never seen or heard of. i got my blue uk test pressing of MY OWN WAY from jimmy in paris. and i finally got a copy of GIRLS ON FILM from spain. he had kept the one i had seen on that first day. just like he promised. when i lived in australia, i had the opportunity to write an article in an aussie collector paper called COLLECTORMANIA. it expresses a lot of what i feel... i actually found a copy of the RIO RADIO SPECIAL in australia for about 6 aussie dollars! LOL score!! these days, i sometimes find it hard to find stuff i need. i have a wants list of key items that used to be 100 items long that is now whittled down to maybe 15-20 things. and like PD mentioned in his earlier posts, even if you wanted 'everything duran duran' you'd never do it. when i have the time, i spend a shocking amount of hours on duran duran. and it always amazes me to find new stuff. honestly, on a good day, i can find a handful of things i've never seen or heard of before. luckily a lot of this stuff is cheap! however, i have developed a taste for award discs lately and they are not cheap! like rob mentionedd, having kids changes your whole world. i have an 8 year old too. so i get that he needs to have a collection of wine in the house. ;-) and it makes it harder to find long stretches of time to look/sort/enjoy/love the ole collection. one thing that i find really rewarding is hitting the ends of things in my little collecting list. like getting an AVTAK seven inch promo from japan at the end of last year which gives me a complete set of all the japanese promo seven inches! a copy of PLANET EARTH sheet music from the UK will be the last one in that list! and if these was one thing that was a really, really big deal to me it was this... i found out about that bootleg in a mag called HOTWACKS in a record store in my home town in 1983 <that was a later edition of a compiled bootleg book from 88, but it used to be a magazine.> when i finally found a copy of that record. i had to rejoice on my DURAN podcast. i found this note i had made at the time... DECADENT DAYS from mid 1983 to now... 24 whole years 8760 days plus 6 months 183 days 8943 days so clearly finding a copy of that among a lot of 10 or so other records for 23 dollars was a coup! and i guess if i could have anything now, i'd want the craziest shit: one of nick's synths and one of john's basses. i have a set of roger's drums (which is cool!) but if i had to say i had a one dream, it would be to jam/play music with duran rather than collect anything in particular.
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Post by mynick7 on Jan 25, 2015 1:26:14 GMT -5
Oh, I'm right there with you, Rob and figital! In 1991, had my first (and only) child. So he is the reason that I missed a lot of collecting and concert-going...but I wouldn't trade that time for the world! In 2000, I met Nick, Simon and Warren in St. Louis during a MnG during the Pop Trash tour...and my seat was 2nd row, smack dab in front of Nick. That was the first DD concert since 1983 so it hit me hard. I had gotten the guys' autographs and that triggered the collecting bug again. I went on ebay often and got things I'd never seen before...a lot of merchandise mainly (Heck! I have a matching lighter and cigarette case with Duran on them!), but still vinyl. My then husband woke up one night and saw that our new puppy had gotten a hold of one of my copies of Carnival. Knowing how much I treasured and took care of my Duran vinyl since 1981, the thought of me waking up and seeing what happened scared him to death! lol He immediately got on the computer and got one off of ebay to replace it. I still have the one with the chewed up sleeve. I just can't bring myself to get rid of it!
My son is 23 now and lives on his own so I'm alone and the apartment is Duran decor. Since I decided to go back to school 2007 (and I'm on the verge of getting my BA and starting grad school early), finances are tight but I still love to go through the few record stores in St. Louis every so often. Collecting is a big thing for me but it's something I can't put a lot of money into. I love my new finds, not caring if they're worth anything. If I didn't have it before, it's special to me when I get it.
This board has awakened more in me than just collecting, as I get what I can when I happen to come across things, but more so an understanding of what I do have...and you guys are really awesome!! That's why I started this thread and asked for help...and patience! And I'm tickled with my limited edition Master Mixes as well as a certain copy of Duran Duran.
P.S. That's a great article, figital!
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Post by ansgar on Jan 25, 2015 5:20:12 GMT -5
I also have kids and all your 3 stories are great! I know I could or possibly should spend more time in collecting. I can spend some days in a row hunting for things which came to my mind again, but I can also spend months without searching for anyting. And collecting items in Germany back in the 80s or 90s must have been even harder for me than living in the UK, USA or Canada I guess. I don't have a special want list. I am hunting for items that have a unique version of a song, or vinyl & CDs which I am suddenly thinking of again, but they have to be in at least NM or EX condition. Sometimes I also buy only another copy of the Rio Album. By the way, I still don't have a copy of the Rio Radio Special, so if anyone wants to sell his copy or knows where to find one, would you please PM me.
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Post by vermeerf on Jan 25, 2015 7:56:26 GMT -5
I'm a fan since 1984 and started collecting around 1991. When I was young I didn't have a record player but listened to music on cassettes. So I wasn't aware of things like b-sides and Night Versions for a very long time. Whilst working as a 15 year old in the local supermarket I met another boy, a few years older, that also worked there. We got talking and I mentioned I liked Duran Duran and he turned out to be a fan too. I went to his house that night and was introduced to the world of the 12" and all the wonderful music that I didn't even know of.
Now I had started working at the supermarktet in the hours after school to save up for a stereo. This had to include a LP player now of course. A few weeks later I went with my new best friend to my first record fair, a small one in a nearby town. There I bought 2 or 3 12"s, I really don't know which ones. My goal was to get a 12" of each single to get all the b-sides and mixes. We went to London and searched for records there too, I bought a lot at Sister Ray, and visited all the big record fairs in Holland (Amsterdam and Utrecht). At the record fairs I learned about other great releases like the UK 3x7" set of Do You believe In Shame? and I bought these too but my focus remained on the 12"s.
But then came the time that I completed that task and was beginning to get an interest in 7"s too, form there I decided that I wanted to have the music as complete as possible. So that's when I started to collect promo releases as well. They are my main focus now. As Skinburn, I really don't pay much attention to matrix numbers nor am I a completist. I don't want to own everything. I look for music I don't have, different artwork and sleeves, coloured vinyl and bootlegs on vinyl. As for Asgar the items have to be preferably in mint or near mint condition for me. I have let items go because the price was too high for the state the record was in.
Since the arrival of Ebay I hardly visit record fairs anymore. I have a pretty specific wantslist including DD and the solo projects and I buy new releases like the RSD issues. I don't have kids but also love books, movies and art so I don't spend as much time on my collection as I used to.
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Post by redmumba on Jan 25, 2015 8:56:39 GMT -5
Great post figital! I really like that article you wrote because it just doesn't describe you, I'd like to think it describes us all around that time (I'm assuming everyone here is in their early to mid 40's). Oddly enough, I didn't become a Duran fan until '85 when A View To A Kill came out. Duran Duran was my sister's favorite band. I had known of the band since 1983 because of girls around me in school fawning over the band. I just dismissed the band. I had at that point latched on to this other band that was more appealing to me (the Thompson Twins).
I didn't get hit with the record collecting bug until around 1984, but that's not to say I didn't buy any music before then. Back in 1982, there were really only two record stores I knew of and they were both in the local mall. One was Camelot and the other was Hastings - both chain stores. Camelot seemed to have a bigger selection of music, but Hastings had the distinction of carrying imports although not in a large quantity. One day while I was at home watching MTV, I saw a local commercial for this indie record store. Imports! This place carried imports! I had to go there. Now, this local indie record store in Dallas was run by this person of a dubious character, but his store was a treasure trove of imports in all their guise, promos, posters, t-shirts, etc. It was almost like an overload to the senses being in there. The place was so cram packed with stuff that at times it was hard to maneuver around, not to mention nothing was in alphabetical order.
This place had three glaringly huge problems: the people that worked there were almost hovering over you like you were going to steal something, there were no prices on anything and when you did find something you wanted, you had to take it to the front of the store where the owner was and the price of an item depended on how much the owner of the store "liked" you (if you get my drift). Anyways, 12" singles usually ran me $12-$15 which was a crime. Once I got my first car in 1985, I made it a point to go to every indie record store in my area that carried rock / pop music to find deals. Ah, those were the days!
In 1987 I went to my first music fair / convention. This was great! Dealers from around the country coming to my area - this really helped. Then there was the huge Austin Record Convention that happened twice a year. I only made it down there a few times and was able to find a few items of bands I collected. As the '90s lurched on into the 2000s, I found myself going less and less to the record stores in my area and the record convention that use to come to my area suddenly dried up and went away. Anything you want now can be (just about) found on the internet. Every time I've gone over to London, my friend and I would make it a point to go to all the indie record stores in the Soho area (Berwick street) as well as some other ones off the beaten path. I scored lots of stuff when I went to London and it wasn't just all Duran Duran stuff. To be honest, I've pretty much scaled back my Duran collecting to almost zero as I've had to readjust my priorities when it comes to money. That's not to say that I don't look at stuff on Ebay, that's what I have that "Ebay items of interest" thread for. But, as one member of the board mentioned, there are only so many versions of Rio that I need (and that's kinda been my mantra for some time).
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Post by rob on Jan 25, 2015 13:16:50 GMT -5
Never got my hands on Decadent Durantics. Always top of my wish list and lost several ebay auctions for it back in the day. Availability of high quality downloads has downgraded my resolve over the years but I consider that a true treasure.
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Post by poptrash on Jan 25, 2015 16:13:36 GMT -5
Never got my hands on Decadent Durantics. Always top of my wish list and lost several ebay auctions for it back in the day. Availability of high quality downloads has downgraded my resolve over the years but I consider that a true treasure. Hey Rob, I found my copy last year and was able to make a good deal. But it took many years of searching. The fun thing is, that if you find the top item of your wishlist, the next one is already in line... Hahahaha
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