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Roger McGuinn Blog: Roadie Report 18 -The Chad Mitchell Trio – by Camilla McGuinn.

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Some provenance:

Rainy Day Music, Spencer, Iowa, was established in November of 1987 at the same location as the former Merrie Melody, an Iowa store of not enough reknown today. According to the file card I still have, we accepted the first Vulcan LP into our inventory March 25, 1988.

My further records are a little incomplete as we switched our inventory over to computers in 1991 and a lot of our sales and inventory data wasn’t preserved when those computers wore out.

I estimate my entire career sales at well under 25 copies of this record, but I am unsure of how many my predecessor Terry sold (he’s still around, I should ask him shouldn’t I?).

As far as that goes, Lyle’s still easy to find, and maybe I should ask HIM………

Anyway, the years passed, we stashed a few copies and one day in 2001 Lyle asked me to but a bootlegged copy of his record from a distributor in Germany over the Internet. That copy was twenty-five dollars, which inspired me to price the real McCoy at twenty-five dollars in my bins.

That copy went to Lyle at a price somewhat lower, as he needed one to give someone as a gift and he didn’t have any more copies of his own record.

Enter the modern era: My first eBay sale for a hundred dollars openly taunted bootleggers and dared them to obtain this nice fresh verifiable unplayed source material for their purposes and it didn’t take long before that deal was closed.

The two hundred dollar listing a year later didn’t take long either, and the three hundred dollar listing a year after that only waivered a little while.

I haven’t listed any since then.

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