Glasgow’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[Josef]

In case any HGers have a few they wanna sell...here's wot their worth today...as far as i can find out anyway

1 Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing (7") Picture Cover with Flexi, Mint, one sold in 2006 for £352.00 and earlier this year for over £400
2 Orange Juice - Blue Boy (7") Sept. 1980 (First 2083 with hand-coloured sleeve). Brown Cover, £40-£50. The hand tinted one hasn't been found yet, should be as much as falling and Laughing though,
7 Aztec Camera - Just Like Gold (7") Mar 1981 Mint with the postcard inside the black cover, one sold this year for £76 and again for over £90. Postcard is a photo.
9 Aztec Camera - A Mattress Of Wire (7") Jul 1981 With picture ciover, mint, £50-£75
10 Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (7") 1981 with the postcard in the black cover, postcard is of cats with the lyrics in the back. £30-£60

today:

I have all the Postcard vinyl except Falling And Laughing. Doubt I ever will at those prices!

I've no contents insurance. At least partly because a lot of the books and records I have are not replaceable. And even if they were, I wouldn't buy them again now. They're of the moment.

But if that's the kind of money we're talking about, maybe I should just sell the contents of my shelves and buy a palace in the West End.

Except I wouldn't sell them. It's just money.

[Sandy Robertson]

Admirable. I still feel angst about treasures I sold when desperate (the book England's Hidden Reverse signed by Coil et al; Radio City original vinyl signed by Alex Chilton; Bosie Douglas sonnets inscribed by vicar who bailed Wilde - originally found for 4 quid; etc etc). Nowadays I subscribe to the adage that if I have money I buy books, and if there's any left I get some food too. It used to be drugs not books, but let's not bring up all that...

[John]

I had a lot of these but passed them on to a friend who will care from them better than I can when I was clearing out the last of my vinyl recently. No regrets.

[dimairt]

My brother, over from Australia at the moment, told me while passing the City Halls the other day that he had gone there to see Bowie in 1972(?) only to find that the gig had been cancelled by the then Corporation on the grounds that he wasn't a suitable act to play there.
Is he right or has he started wandering too? According to the Apollo website, Bowie played there in July 1972, having released 'Ziggy Stardust' a month earlier.

Durachdan,

Eddy

[Sandy Robertson]

I saw Bowie at the Apollo, but it's absolutely true he was scheduled to play an earlier gig at City Hall. I was gutted when it was cancelled, but I've never heard it was because he was thought unsuitable (though the council were always a prissy, parochial bunch!). I can't swear to it but think that show was between Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust being released, or at least right after Ziggy, so doubt he was a mega enough name then to attract council ire - the City Hall was a relatively modest size venue favoured by acts not yet big enough to headline the Apollo.

[dimairt]

Thanks for that Sandy. According to 'Bowiewonderworld', the 28th February 1972 gig was cancelled because the management wouldn't allow him to use their full amplification.Bowie met fans outside to speak to them and explain. My brother says that he didn't get to the venue, having been told by others on the way that it had been cancelled.
The management must have relented though as AC/DC played there twice in 1976.


Durachdan,

Eddy

http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/tours/tour72.htm

http://www.ac-dc.net/archives/subcatego ... ity_id=191

[Sandy Robertson]

Yes, I heard before I got there too - wish I'd gone and met DB as he's one interviewee that eluded me in my time as a rock hack. I also regret that a gig by Eno and the Winkies at the Apollo was cancelled due to the man having a collapsed lung!

[neilmc]

The acoustics in the City Halls didn't lend itself to heavily amplified music. I saw Gong, PFM and Supertramp at that venue in the mid-1970s, and PFM in particular sounded pretty bad, thanks to the sound reverberating off the walls.

I saw Ravi Shankar at the Kelvin Hall during the same era, where he was using the most basic of sound systems, and I remember thinking the City Halls would have been the ideal venue for him.

[Sandy Robertson]

Gong show I remember as impressive, also John Cale did a great gig there with Chris Spedding on guitar. I saw Captain Beefheart at the Kelvin Hall which was a crappy place for gigs but he was impressive, with a ballet dancer and a belly dancer (visual word pun?) onstage.I know this is going to make me look monumentally dumb, but who are PFM?

[Sandy Robertson]

Prematia Forneria Marconi, says google. I had never 'eard of 'em! Apologies. And he calls himself a rock journo, that old bum Robertson...

[rabmania]

Prematia Forneria Marconi, says google. I had never 'eard of 'em! Apologies. And he calls himself a rock journo, that old bum Robertson...

ELP's Manitcore label. Prog'n'roll!

[Sandy Robertson]

Hmmm. My ex told me to cut my hair, saying "Prog rock, not a good look for an OLD MAN"! Ouch.

[neilmc]

I hate the term 'Prog Rock'; but then, I hate most of the bands that come under that banner.

Truly progressive bands, like early Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, King Crimson and Egg, would never have labelled themselves as 'Prog', and I don't actually remember the term being used until much later.

As for PFM, they were very much in the Yes mould, without the wizard's capes and pointy hats.

[RDR]

Thin Lizzy played the City Halls in '75. I was at it and I have to say for the size of the venue, they were loud. They weren't big at that stage, so probably the right size of venue for them. The year before I saw Free and the then Green's Playhouse and thought the size of that venue dwarfed them, despite the power of Paul Rodger's vocals.
I thought I went to see Black Sabbath at what then had become the Apollo in '76 but I'm not sure if my memory is correct. Can anyone confirm?

[rabmania]

[quote="RDR"]Thin Lizzy played the City Halls in '75. I was at it and I have to say for the size of the venue, they were loud. They weren't big at that stage, so probably the right size of venue for them. The year before I saw Free and the then Green's Playhouse and thought the size of that venue dwarfed them, despite the power of Paul Rodger's vocals.
I thought I went to see Black Sabbath at what then had become the Apollo in '76 but I'm not sure if my memory is correct. Can anyone confirm?[/quote]

yes, I can confirm you thought that!


btw I saw them at Green's in 73. Or 74. LOUD!