Sad news today, local lad Alvin Lee as passed away at the age of 68. Alvin best known for being the main man with blues rockers Ten Years After was from my home town of Mansfield. Ten Years After took the Woodstock Festival in 1969 by storm and became worldwide superstars.

Ten Years After Live at Woodstock 1969

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Sad news today, Tony Sheridan one of the original Beatles before they made the big time passed away yesterday aged 72. Sheridan was the vocalist on the recording of "My Bonnie" that Beatles manager Brian Epstein's shop in Liverpool kept getting asked for and is said to have inspired him to go to The Cavern club to see them play, and the rest, as they say is history.

      

Record Store day will soon be upon us once again.

This is everyone's chance to support your local independent records store (if you still have one).

Saturday, April 20

Record Store Day 2013

To find out what's happening and to learn about some of the great limited editions and competitions click on the link above.

R.I.P. Reg Presley

Sad news today that Reg Presley, lead singer with sixties legends The Troggs passed away after suffering with lung cancer. The Troggs had a series of major hits throughout the sixties, "Wild Thing", With a girl like you", I"I can't control myself" and "Love is all around", the latter being covered by Wet Wet Wet  in 1994.

Reg who's real name was Reginald Maurice Ball was 71

Wild Thing

With a girl like you

Love is all around

Anyone looking for vinyl.

I have a large selection available to buy at e.bid.net

To take a look just click on the pictures below.

 Art of Noise 7" vinyl 

Jess Roden LP

Be-Bop Deluxe 7" vinyl

   

Queen 12" vinyl

     

Krokus 7" vinyl

Shades of folk LP

These are just a few items I have.

I have vinyl from the fifties through to 2005.

Everything from pop, rock, reggae, soul, country folk & blues. Plus soundtracks and TV themes, comedy & spoken word.

Pretty much something for everyone.

I also have a few CDs & a selection of music books & memorabilia.

So take a look at 

Happy New Year.

Each New Year comes around quicker than the previous one, must be something to do with getting older.

Got some great CDs for Christmas, a mixture of stuff, mostly albums that I have meant to pick up earlier or that I had on vinyl. Two albums from Black Stone Cherry, that i'm pretty sure that would have become "Diskits" favorites, if we still had the shop. Also got another Half Man Hal Biscuit album "90 Bisodol (Crimond)" which like all other HMHB albums is totally brilliant.  Two Jethro Tull CDs "Thick as a brick" & "Aqualung" classics from my youth, and then I spotted in a charity store at the bargain price of 50p, The Mutton Birds "Envy Angels" Saw the Mutton Birds in Derby several years back and have four albums now. They prove that New Zealand had more than Sheep and Crowded House as exports.

Would be great to hear what other people got in the way of music for christmas.

I'll leave you with a selection of tracks from some of mine.

 Black Stone Cherry "Lonely Train"

 Half Man Half Biscuit "The Coroner's footnote"

 Jethro Tull "Thick as a brick" Full album

 Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

 Mutton Birds "She's been talking"

Hope you enjoy