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Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship-Blows Against The Empire (1970)

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  Artist: Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship Title:  Blows Against The Empire Label: RCA Victor Format: LP Cat #: LSP-4448 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1970 Gatefold Rockaway Pressing with original inner sleeve Listed Condition: VG/VG Sell Date: 12/18/25 Sell Price: $8.92 Discogs Last Sold: 12/10/25 G+/VG $1.40 Low: $0.99 Median: $4.50 Average: $6.57 High: $35.29 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 156 Have/Want: 5378/380 Where Sold: Miami, FL Time it took to sell: 4 years Where and When Bought: facebook marketplace $3 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No The first time I really thought of this album, my current bandmate Jubal got a used copy of this outside.  I don't remember if he knew it from his San Francisco time or what, but he thought it was a cool find at the time.  Ever since then I had a mental note to check it out.   I got this copy a few years ago from an internet lot of $3 record...

The Yardbirds-For Your Love (1965)

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  Artist: The Yardbirds Title:  For Your Love Label: Epic Format: LP Cat #: BN 26167 Year of Release: 1965 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1965 Listed Condition: VG/VG Sell Date: 12/18/25 Sell Price: $44.64 Discogs Last Sold: 6/26/25 G+/G+ $18.00 Low: $12.95 Median: $36.00 Average: $37.80 High: $94.12 Current low price: $20.33 G+/VG, $23.94 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 314/316 Where Sold: Miami, FL Time it took to sell: 1 year Where and When Bought: whatnot auction lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: Yes The Yardbirds 1965 American debut led off with the classic Graham Gouldman written title track "For Your Love" which brought in both Jeff Beck and a move away from Clapton's Blues. Clapton played on that track, but it led to his departure.  The rest of the album is covers of varying degrees of importance.  "A Certain Girl" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" are probably band canon classics, but for me ...

Jeff Buckley-Live At Sin-é (1993)

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  Artist: Jeff Buckley Title: Live At Sin-é Label: Columbia Format: CD EP Cat #: 44K 77296 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 12/13/25 Sell Price: $7.63 Discogs Last Sold: 12/1/25 VG+/VG+ $3.95 Low: $1.33 Median: $3.72 Average: $3.98 High: $7.63 Current low price: $2.99  Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 893/117 Where Sold: Villa Rica, GA Time it took to sell: 4 month Where and When Bought: discarded collection street find Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The Greenpoint found bag of CD's continues to produce sales, this time with the second Jeff Buckley sale this month, the original Live at Sin-é.  Originally this was issued as a commercially released 4-song live EP before his 1994 debut Grace.  Since he passed in 1997, this was expanded to 34 tracks when his woodshedding at the NYC small venue became legendary. "Mojo Pin" was revisited as the opening track on Grace and it o...

Nick Drake-Maximum Nick Drake (2004)

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  Artist: Nick Drake (Written by Keith Rodway, Read by Sian Jones) Title: Maximum Nick Drake Label: Chrome Dreams Format: CD Cat #: ABCD187 Year of Release: 2004 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 2004 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/10/25 Sell Price: $5.76 Discogs Last Sold: 3/30/24 VG+/VG $3.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $5.76 Average: $4.71 High: $5.76 Current low price: $3.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 23/6 Where Sold: Huntington, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: $2 cd lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: D- Sad To See It Go: No Chrome Dreams "Maximum..." series is the type of thing you find in a bookstore cutout bin.  This one, like I suspect all others, consists of no music and a drug store biography of the performer in question.  The books-on-tape reader sounds like she possibly never heard the artist she was reading about and reads the text like a haughty schoolteacher's aide.  She never fails to accent a single sentence w...

Roger Hodgson-In The Eye Of The Storm (1984)

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  Artist: Roger Hodgson Title:  In The Eye Of The Storm Label: A&M Format: LP Cat #: SP 5004 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Canada 1984 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ with glossy printed inner sleeve Sell Date: 12/8/25 Sell Price: $9.80 Discogs Last Sold: 9/13/25 VG+/VG $5.76 Low: $2.07 Median: $4.29 Average: $6.40 High: $34.77 Current low price: $1.99 G+/VG, $3.02 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 58 Have/Want: 1350/36 Where Sold: Bellevue, WA  Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: vinyl lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No "Had a dream/It was WAR/and they couldn't tell me what it was FOR..."-In The Eye Of The Storm Stepping out from sharing vocals with the recently passed Rick Davies in Supertramp, In The Eye Of The Storm is the sound of Roger Hodgson taking over.  In the selfish tradition of prog, nothing was to be compromised or left to chance.  Roger played all the instruments save some female b...

Gruppo Sportivo-10 Mistakes (1978)

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  Artist: Gruppo Sportivo Title: 10 Mistakes Label: Epic Format: LP Cat #:  epc 82793 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1978 promo Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 12/8/25 Sell Price: $6.38 Discogs Last Sold: 7/25/25 VG+/VG $1.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.74 Average: $3.92 High: $7.00 Current low price: $1.33 VG+/VG UK Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 35 Have/Want: 274/40 Where Sold: Bellevue, WA  Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: vinyl lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The debut from Dutch new wave 70's band Gruppo Sportivo had one foot in prog and another in 60's "Beep Beep Love" has a tangential Beatles feel of "All You Need Is Love" and "Superman" musically quotes both Zappa's "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" from We're Only In It For Money and Del Shannon's "Runaway" keyboards.  Later "I Shot My Manager" combines Marley's "I S...

Jeff Buckley-Mystery White Boy Live '95-'96 (2000)

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  Artist: Jeff Buckley Title:  Mystery White Boy Live '95-'96 Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #: CK 69592 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 11/25/25 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold 11/20/25 VG/NM $3.00 Low: $1.40 Median: $3.12 Average: $4.05 High: $9.99 Current low price: $1.52 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 1182/123 Where Sold: Montebello, CA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: discarded collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No The electric posthumous release Jeff Buckley's mother put together, Mystery White Boy, is distinctive as a loud rock record.   Led Zeppelin and the grunge of the day, I'm lookin' at you Stone Temple Pilots, have clear influence on this music.  Yes, Jeff was an "artist", son of Tim and user of Gary Lucas guitar (but not with this band).  Jeff's warble, something that made my skin crawl a little as it ...