Your greatest FM-related find
 

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Here's my greatest find:

Last year, I placed a wanted ad looking for Fleetwood Mac records. A guy responded, and said he had a few he'd like to sell. What records?

Bare Trees (original version sleeve)
Buckingham Nicks (gatefold with "COLLECTORS ITEM" on the front)
Live ('80 - spine was a little worn)
Mystery to Me (original version containing "Good Things (Come To Those Who Wait)" instead of "For Your Love". However, no lyric sheet was included.)
Rumours
White Album
Tusk
Penguin (sleeve/cover was a little worn)

All of the albums were in pristine condition, no scratches, and were all complete minus the lyric sheet from Mystery to Me. How much did I pay for all of this, you say? Twenty dollars.

I also found Go Insane in a pawn shop for a dollar, and Mirage on cassette for .75.

I guess my greatest find would have to be a rare bootleg of The Dance. I thought I had all of them, but I kept looking on tradelists and on Ebay. Lots of the video boots on Ebay are scams. Then I made an exchange with someone who wanted a copy of Lindsey's old Center Stage and they gave me a copy of a Dance boot that I didn't even know existed. It was bad quality, but still wonderful. That "new discovery" feeling was probably my greatest find.

Michele

Finding new records that I don't have is always a treasure. I'd have to say that all things considered, inheriting the Rumours Promo Penguin stand (penguins flanking either side of the Rumours cover) was a great thing. Scoring particular posters for kibble (while certainly others were not) was cool. Going into a record store owned by an a-hole of an individual, and because he wasn't there, getting the Almanac for $20 was SUPER cool. Hmmm, I guess also just finding pictures. Even though I am trying desperately to thin down my collection, each thing has a story, and a wonderful discovery they were.

My greatest find happened about 4 years ago...I had just moved to Philly, and I was in this little cd shop down the street from my apartment (that has since closed) anyway, as is my wont, I was searching through the used racks when I came across a box of unmarked cds and in it was an original copy of the ATT release 'Stormy Weather' that included Stevie's "At Last"... I had a burned copy, but couldn't get the original anywhere upon it's release...anyway, I, of course, scooped it up and went up to the counter to ask how much it was and the guy there said "Where did you get this from?" and I told him and he said "Oh those just came in, we haven't even looked through them yet..." so I said "So I can't buy it?" and he said "Nah, just take it..." and I walked out! I was so psyched...what a 'welcome to the neighborhood' gift! : ) Alas, I never found anything half as cool there again...

As i don't search for any rarities,my find is easy to think.
Buckingham Nicks.
Last year in Barcelona,a guy was selling records on a fleamarket in gothic town.
He had a few records that i thought were ridicilously priced,
Uriah heep's Magicians birthday,Nazareth's Razamanaz for 50-70€
When i saw Buckingham Nicks for 25€,i didn't think he'd sold it for less,but
when i asked if he'd sell it for 15€,he thought for only two seconds and said sure.
I walked away happy as a clam.
I made few other great finds there too,only other rarity was Iron maiden's A real live one.It hasn't been available on it's own for many years,but coupled with A real dead one.

Record buyers visiting Barcelona,see Ramblas,few really great record shops right next to each other.

My greatest FM-related find?

Jeremy Spencer's single 'Linda', with the otherwise never released studio version of 'Teenage darling' on side B.
Jeremy on guitars and vocals, John McVie on bass and Mick Fleetwood on drums.

It was quite expensive, about $ 20,-.

GJK

a huge promo poster of the BuckinghamNicks album. A friend had worked for a record Co. and got it. It was already framed and matted. It says
"In the beginning.......
Stevie Nicks
Lindsey Buckingham
Buckingham
Nicks

some sort of radio release vinyl for tusk

Buckingham Nicks picture sleeve single of Crying In The Night (the single was mixed differently from the album version).

Original Buckingham Nicks album on cassette.

12 inch single of Oh Diane (with Only Over You and The Chain). Issued in the UK, the cover features a great big french penguin, the icon they used during that time -- in reference that they recorded the album in France

12 inch promo single of Go Your Own Way/Silver Springs

12 inch "Special Radio Sampler From The Tusk Album" -- a rather curious selection of songs, don't you think?
What Makes You Think You're The One
That's All For Everyone (remixed)
Think About Me (remixed)
I Know I'm Not Wrong
Honey Hi
Sisters Of The Moon (remixed)

Lots of posters....all stored away because I have no more wall space.

Hey...I also have the Mystery to Me album that lists that song and has the lyric sheet (It's written by Bob Welch). Yet, the song For Your Love is on the album. I assumed they printed the album cover before the band swapped songs.

Is the song "Good Things" on your album? I didn't think it was ever released!

Good Things (Come To Those Who Wait)

Night after night, day after day
This dream I keep having just won't stay away
It's you that's the star with a famous name
Getting all that you wanted -- taken away

Two headed coin, the other side is coming near
It's getting closer all the time

Hold out a candle, and look in my eyes
You'll see a prisoner learning to lie
How do I know? It's like a whisper on the wind
And a voice that gets louder before it disappears again

Two headed coin, the other side is getting strong
Saying "Good times come to those who wait
But don't wait too long"

Night after night, day after day
I still get suspicious in the same old way
How does it go? Just like a whisper on the wind
And a voice that gets louder before it disappears again

Two headed coin, the other side is getting strong
Saying "Good times come to those who wait
But don't wait too long"

it was never released.


I have come across (never while actually looking) some rare stuff:

* a poster advertising the performance of the Penguin lineup at a venue in Rochester, NY.

* the wonderful picture sleeve for the "Everywhere" single

* Danny Kirwan's Second Chapter on vinyl

* the British release of Then Play on, which has an entirely different picture sleeve

* the songbook for the Bare Trees album (complete with band photos and Danny Kirwan's four Kiln House songs)


I've always wanted the songbook for Heroes are Hard to Find, which I saw on ebay once but was outbid at the last minute. Anyone got it?

This is an easy one with two answers.

1) When I started my first newspaper job ('91), I cleaned out an abandoned, broken filing cabinet once used by an &E editor. One drawer contained nothing but music-related press kits, CDs, etc. Well, it was like opening the Ark of the Covenant when I found The Other Side of the Mirror promotional kaleidoscope along with the complete press kit for the CD. I didn't even know the kaleidoscope existed.

2) I found a still shrink-wrapped copy of Sandy Stewart's Cat Dancer at Nuggets, a used record store, for 99 cents. It was 1990.

My greatest FM-related find was probably this website. During The Dance I got computer access for the first time and found my way to this website and was amazed at how much information was here. I also learned about ebay and the Silver Springs Emporium.

Probably the 4ft by 4ft RUMOURS album promo poster from 1977. I got it on eBay and it was part of an estate sale...the poster looks brand new. I framed it with plexi and it's hanging in my man-cave at home (takes up a whole wall).

I won the FleetwoodMac.com quiz thing back in 2003 during the SYW promotions and got a signed 12x24 flat of the SYW will cover by all the band members.

I have a lot of signed Neal Preston prints too, from The Dance era that I really treasure.

Just to reiterate:

Yep, they didn't notify the printers of the switch in songs in time...the song never made the album, but it was listed on the first run of album covers & lyric sheets.

The song finally WAS re-recorded, retitled, and released on Bob's Three Hearts album as "Don't Wait Too Long".