[78-L] R: Moreschi G&T

[Michael Biel]

  On 9/1/2010 3:00 AM, Alfonsi Sergio wrote:
> Looking the picture it seems a little bit worn. Record is not shining.
> I didn't pay more then 100 $.
>
> P.s.
> It's unique record - no exist similar anywhere! ??? Ahahahah
>
> In the last 15 years I found it at least 10 copies..!!!
>
>

It also can't be a first pressing as he claims since it is a two-sided 
pressing.  It also is not a G&T pressing, it is later.  Pretty label, 
though.  Did all the chant records have that fancy label?  It is 
interesting that they bill him as a Soprano!

It is amazing how much he raised the price after getting no bids at the 
lower price!  Maybe that's how they do things now in Ukraine.

The Soviet Rolling Stones CD he also got no bids on is also 
interesting.  It was the first pirate CD pressing in the Moscow Melodiya 
Gramzapis plant.  I had bought a copy of it from a Louisville store in 
the early 90s, and when I was in Moscow in 1995 I was taken to meet the 
man who had been the manager of the plant when it converted to CDs in 
1989.  I asked him about this CD and his face dropped.  He was 
embarrassed and amazed that I had gotten a copy in the U.S.  He told me 
he was tricked into allowing it to be pressed.  He had been shown forged 
contracts by Artemy Antrop.  Antrop later pressed Beatles LPs in the 
Leningrad plant on his own label after the breakup of Melodiya.  The man 
I met had tried his best to keep his CD factory honest but had a 
difficult time keeping the Mafia out, and by 1992 he left and the mob 
took it over.  My friend Alexander Tikinov was afraid as I took pictures 
of the outside of the plant, and he made me take them from across the 
street.  But we did go into the factory store to buy things, and the 
women behind the counter even gave me free LPs.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Thomas Stern
>
>
> one on the auction site - relisted at 10 times the original listing price Is this guy showing off, not actually wishing to sell the item?  Item number: 140445488127 What would be a fair value for this item?
>
> Best wishes, Thomas.
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