Wednesday, November 29, 2006
best yardsale purchase ever
Except for those dudes who discover long-lost Renoirs and shit behind some dead granddad's Emmett Kelly portraits. Four years ago a collector bought this record for 75 cents at a yard sale in New York. All he knew was that the hand-written label mentioned the Velvet Underground, the date 4-25-66, and the name Mr. N. Dolph. It turns out the record is an acetate of the VU's very first recording session ever, nominally produced by Andy Warhol but in actuality tasked out to ghost producer Norman Dolph. Dolph vouched for the authenticity of the recording. After alerting the media and making a "high quality digital back-up" of the music, the collector is now selling the acetate on eBay. The current highest bid? $4050.00, with nine days left in the auction. I can't decide whether that sum is ridiculous or not.
Anyway, here's a sendspace link, as long as it's active. And here's a Mojo article about the acetate's discovery from a few years back
Except for those dudes who discover long-lost Renoirs and shit behind some dead granddad's Emmett Kelly portraits. Four years ago a collector bought this record for 75 cents at a yard sale in New York. All he knew was that the hand-written label mentioned the Velvet Underground, the date 4-25-66, and the name Mr. N. Dolph. It turns out the record is an acetate of the VU's very first recording session ever, nominally produced by Andy Warhol but in actuality tasked out to ghost producer Norman Dolph. Dolph vouched for the authenticity of the recording. After alerting the media and making a "high quality digital back-up" of the music, the collector is now selling the acetate on eBay. The current highest bid? $4050.00, with nine days left in the auction. I can't decide whether that sum is ridiculous or not.
Anyway, here's a sendspace link, as long as it's active. And here's a Mojo article about the acetate's discovery from a few years back
