nice garage sale find  

Must
rate quite highly as 'Best Bargain Ever'

all the luck
I'm in construction, am a painter by trade and have recently sold 50-100 of Edwardian Glass Negatives but damn if I've ever had his luck!.....damn!

Buzzkill
.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2546668,CST-NWS-ansel29.article

buzzkill: detailed
also, did anyone read the recent New Yorker article about Peter Paul Biro, the art restorer involved in the recently discovered Jackson Pollack paintings? Great piece.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_grann
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2010/07/29/ansel.adams.photos.un...

Who the #$&% ...
...Is Jackson Pollock? Very entertaining.
Missed the article...Thanks.

Perhaps I mentioned this before
but in 1992, I strolled into a church thrift shop in NYC's Greenwich Village - one I visited frequently - and after chatting with the staff, I went to the back room and there was a box of record albums. I started to look through and the third or fourth LP in the box was Bob Dylan's second LP, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan". I kept looking through the box and found a couple worth buying, so I went back and looked at the condition of the Dylan LP. Not my favorite album, but I was going to buy a couple of others.
I slid the album out of the sleeve to check condition and notice that the first song was NOT "Blowing In The Wind"! I had found a stereo copy of the first-state record in a standard sleeve with the 4 songs that were deleted from the very first pressing, prior to it's actual release!
The story as to why it was changed at the last minute is complicated; but Columbia ordered all of the few first pressings destroyed and this was the very first stereo copy yet found. It was not in perfect condition, and for my $1.00 purchase, I sold it through a record shop and Goldmine Magazine for $12,345.67. Since that sale, 3 or 4 copies have been found, and of the 4 deleted tracks, 3 have been reissued on CD.

Shoulda held onto it ...
-Perhaps it's worth 10 times that now? 🙂

wow
Love stories like that! Most of will never be so fortunate, but the little finds make it fun.

To the
Ansel Adams story: I guess cloud formations appearing in a photograph would be as good a means of identification -- of a moment in time -- as a fingerprint would be in identifying an individual. I'd buy that evidence. . .

In view of its condition,
I was probably smart to sell it when I did!
Maybe it worth more now, but as I said, 3 of the 4 tracks have been reissued on CD.

A story doing the rounds in t...
A story doing the rounds in the UK at the moment is of a Chinese vase picked up for £50 at an antiques market (Kempton) a few months ago thats now going to auction with an £800,000 - £1m estimate....

barry
DId you happen to get digital copies of the songs? Especially the one that isn't released?

I put 'em on
cassette and have the cassette, but have not gotten around to create mp3 or mp4's of them. As stated, 3 of the 4 songs have been reissued on CD.
Tracks were:
Let Me Die In My Footsteps (on Bootleg Series 1-3)
Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie (on Bootleg Series 1-3)
Rocks and Gravel
Talkin' John Birch Blues (later live version is on Bootleg Series 1-3)
Of the 4, only "Let Me Die In My Footsteps" is really very significant!

Update
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/arts/design/14photos.html?ref=arts