FlaminÕ Groovies
1976
Imperial College, England
From The Moose Track Collection
Audience Recording. Listen to sample in comments section.
Track List:
1. ?
2. ?
3. First Plane Home
4. Hold Me Tight
5. Please Please Me
6. From Me To You
7. Shake Some Action
8. ?
9. Let It Rock
Sony TC-RX410 Cassette Deck>Alesis 9500 Masterlink (no EQ)>AIFF
File conversion done with xACT setting of 6
The story of The Moose Track collection
In the late 80Õs a buddy of mine in Pennsylvania, Clark M., told me during my visit to the East coast about a tiny independent record store in Port Jervis, NY called Moose track Records. He thought I be interested in a box of live tapes he saw for sale in there. I went over almost immediately and sure enough there it was, a box of 72 cassettes. Some without labels. Some were generic white cassettes with a white cardboard insert. Most were TDK normal bias. Some were from the sixties, most from the seventies. Some were from BBC, most were audience recordings from the NY/east coast area. I bought them all at 50 cents a tape. Bands I knew: Devo, NY Dolls, Capt. Beefheart, Runaways,Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Graham Parker, Rockpile, Damned. Bands I didnÕt know: Ducks Deluxe, Eddie and The Hotrods, Frankie Miller. Some cool oddballs: Johnny Rotten DJ-ing at the BBC, Monty Python in a radio appearance, a 10 minute radio clip devoted to the death of Paul McCarthy.
Jan 16, 2011 from nevinsrip
I am pretty sure I know where those tapes come from. The white cassettes are BASF bulk tapes that were sold in lots of 1,000 for commercial use. I bet those tape boxes are 2 part clear plastic. The tapes are probably all C-90's and C-60 but there were several C-45's too. The C-45 may have been black shells.
Back in the mid 70's there was a girl named Amy F from Queens NY who was a known bootlegger. She made her living by selling those tapes. She had trading partners all over the world and her and a big tall guy named Arnie (who looked like Bozo the Clown) did quite a bit of NY concert taping.
All of my collection of well over 1,000 shows is on those same white tapes. I used to go halves with her when she bought the tapes and the tape boxes. I know that at one time we got black cassettes but I cannot remember which were first the black or the white shells.
Anyway I lost touch with her in the '80's and heard that she moved upstate somewhere. If those are not her personal collection then they are someone's that she sold too. But she typed those lable just like the pictures you have.
Let me know if there are any identifying markers anywhere like her or Arnies initials or maybe a Forrest Hills or Kew Gardens address.
*(I sent nevinsrip an email with scans of tapes that had handwriting on the labels (that wasnÕt my own), a look at some of the cassettes, and even a Lou Reed Bottom Line show that had two tickets tucked into the jacket)* - hitwitstuff2
email from nevinsrip (Bill). January 17, 2011
Hey !Ê I'm gonna really think that those are Amy's original tapes. I was very familiar with her collection and I know those plastic tape containers always had typed labels on them. The handwriting looks like Arne's which would have been consistant with him giving Amy a copy of his stuff. He was always hot for her!! All she wanted from him was tapes LOL LOL.
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Amy was big into Big Star, Chilton, Texas stuff and British things like Ducks DeLuxe and BBC concerts. Back in the tape days we had extensive networks
with Brits (BBC) Swedes and Germans (Rockpalast) who did a ton of live broadcasting.
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Amy was a pretty good live taper but Arnie was the king around NYC. He was a tall guy who really looked like Bozo the Clown with tufts of hair on the sides of his head and nothing on top. If I recall he used to go to shows with crutches and have 2 mikes taped to the bottoms which he would then turn upside down once the show started and the lights went down.
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Amy advertised in all the magazines of the day Record World, Creem, and those free supermarketÊrags. She also used to advertise over in Europe where she had really good connections.
I probably have a copy of her list around here somewhere in my tape boxes.
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She graded everything X or VG+ no matter how crappy it was and was usually one step ahead of some angry buyers. But it was her only source of income
and she was good at finding the cheapest cassettes, cases, labels and anything else.
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You have to remember this was before there was an Internet so it was all done by mail or phone. Great days and fun times!!! We were alwaysÊtrying to outdo each other. There was one other guy who was also big into it Frank Kornullson
or something close to that who also live inÊQueens (Middle Village, I think). He did a lot of Genesis, Richard ThompsonÊand the Clash.
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In case you're wondering...Amy was a big girl. She was 5' 9 or 10" and probably 150-160. She has curly dark hair past her shoulder and beautiful, beautiful gray eyes. Not a show stopper, but pretty in a big girl kinda way.
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Ok that's it. If you have more questions I'll try to help you as much as I can.
Jan 17, 2011 from rannyhill
Thanks for this! ÊAbout Arnie - a real wheeler-dealer. ÊHe prowled the record shows in the northeast for years and always had great stuff! ÊThanks again!
jan 18, 2011 from swimcat2
I will reinforce what you guys have to say about Arnie. ÊHere in Michigan I would get
blanks from him time to time, but I stopped after awhile, as the quality wasn't always
that good. ÊHad long phone conversations with him and the last time I took a road trip
to NYC we met up. ÊBozo the Clown, now that is a flash back, I have the same memory.
However, I have an addition to make to this thread. ÊIf my memory serves me correct,
Arnie, turned me on to a guy named Sam R down in Arizona. ÊI'm not sure of
the spelling or even if that is his real name, but the stuff he had was crazy. ÊHe got his blanks from these two as well. ÊSam was connected to somebody. ÊLast I heard of him he was arrested and everything in his house was taken. ÊAnybody have any knowledge of this guy or traded with him back in the 70's?