The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Chicago Title:  Chicago II Label: Columbia Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: 18 BO 0858 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition: US 1970 red shell Sell Price: $4.74 Sell Date: 6/21/26 Condition: VG/F tested sounds good, front cover label missing only tracks,  Discogs Last Sold: 5/31/26 VG/not graded $3.00 Low: $0.49 Median: $3.50 Average: $3.24 High: $5.00 Current low price: $5.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 90/55 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought Ebay 8-track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No  Chicago changed their name in 1970 to avoid a lawsuit by the Chicago Transit Authority.  I guess the city had better things to do.  Anyway this spawned a series of albums without a title for the brunt of the 70's until Hot Streets.  Retroactively they were assigned numbers to their titles.  This one is II or 2.  There were 3 top ten hi...

  Artist: Traffic Title: John Barleycorn Must DIe Label: Liberty UA Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: U8 216 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1970 Sell Price: $3.86 Sell Date: 3/29/26 Condition: VG/VG+ PRO REFURBISH Discogs Last Sold: 7/15/23 VG+/not graded $4.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.86 Average: $3.27 High: $4.00 Current  low price:  $3.49 VG/VG Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 12/33 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years  Where and When  Buught: Ebay lot Gwiz-gau Grade: A- Sad To See  It Go: No I've had this in my original vinyl stash sitting in storage bought from the dollar bin many many years ago.  It was an album I never played beyond the initial once and file away.  Although it is quite good, I never bothered to get a CD issue of it.  This 8-track that sold came in a lot of a few dozen tapes like they always do.  It broke upon playing and found it's w...

  Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival Title: Bayou Country Label: Fantasy Format: LP Cat: 8387 Year of Release: 1969 Country and Year of Edition: US 1969 Hollywood Pressing Sell Price: $7.31 VG/VG 7/9/24 Discogs Last Sold: 6/29/24 VG/VG $12.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $12,00 Average: $21,85 High: $130.43 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 23 Have/Want: 13380/2419 Where Sold: Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand Time it took to sell: 8 years Where and When Purchased: used Worcester That's Entertainment early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No CCR's 2nd is so good I have very little to say about it.  Yeah, you get my second favorite CCR number after "Fortunate Son," the album opening "Born On A Bayou."  You also get "Proud Mary" in the middle of the second side.  They might be kings of the 3 minute single, but the epics fade out sometimes if not hammered out to completion. So what of the rest?  All top tier, m...

  Artist: Bob Dylan Title:  New Morning Label: Columbia Format: LP Catalog Number: KC 30290 Year of Release:  1970 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1970 Santa Maria Pressing Sell Price: $6.20 Sell Date: 5/2/24 Condition: VG+/G+ Discogs Last Sold  4/29/24 NM/NM $32.26 Low: $3.00 VG/VG Median: $3.42 Average: $8.56 High: $36.46 Current  low price:  $4.44 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 31 Have/Want: 1994/264 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time It Took  To Sell: 9 years Where and When  Bought: early 80's Al Bums Worcester $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See It Go: No "So happy just to see you smile/underneath that sky of Blue...." Nobody really listens to Bob for blind spiritual uplift or at least I didn't.  The Christian records were the voice of a wrathful God and everybody ripped "Wiggle Wiggle" apart when Bob just wanted you to enjoy life and dance. For me, I look to Bob to push intellectual, sonic or my own nostalgic b...

    Artist: Simon & Garfunkel Title:  Bridge Over Troubled Water 2:50 Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat: KCS 9914 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition: US 1970 Sell Price:  $4.99 G+/G+ 4" square peel on cover 5/6/23 Discogs Last Sold: 5/6/23 VG+/NM $50.23 Low:$0.99 Median: $6.99 Average: $17,94 High: $77.94 M/NM Current low price:  $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 140 Have/Want: 26990/3357 Where Sold:  Charleston, SC Time it Took to sell: 8 years Where and When  Worcester Al Bums early 80's mother bought it used to replaced beat up copy Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No "...and he carries the reminders/of every glove that laid him down/or cut him/til he cried out in his anger and his shame/"I am leaving"/"I am leaving"/but the fighter still remains..." My first two albums of memory were this and the previous S&G album Bookends.  I'm pretty sure this was the first I remember even though I've always giv...

  Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival Title: Creedence Clearwater Revival Label: Fantasy Format: LP Cat:  8382 Year of Release:1968 Country and Year of Edition: Canada 1977 Sell Price: $12.99 11/4/22 VG+/VG Discogs Last Sold: 10/27/22 VG+/NM $35.00 Low:$5.00 VG/F Median: $14.41 Average: $18.39 High: $50.00 M/NM still sealed Current low price: $11.57 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 29 Have/Want: 1822/285 Where Sold: Sunnyside, NY Time it took to sell:   7 years Where and When Purchased: used Worcester early 80's $3.99 That's Entertainment Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No CCR's 1968 debut seemed downright embryonic in it's debut compared to the next 4 blue collar masterpieces the band shot out in 1969-70.  This could be in part that the 2 singles, "I Put A Spell On You" (Billboard #58) and "Suzie Q" (Billboard #11 in edited form) were covers of two Hawkins: Screaming Jay and Dale .  The other cover on the record is Wi...

  Artist: Hendrix Title:  Band of Gypsys Label: Capitol Format:  LP Cat  STAO-472 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1971 gatefold with Gold Record logo on cover Listed Condition: VG/VG Sell Date: 5/26/22 Sell Price: $11.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/28/22 VG/VG $9.50 Low: $5.99 G/Not Graded Median: $11.99 Average: $15.69 High:$34.00 VG+/VG Current low price:$8.00 VG/generic, $10.00 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:8 Have/Want: 1142/383 Where Sold: Stoney Beach, MD Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: That's Entertainment used $3.99 early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Originally intended as a contract fulfillment release for a pre-Experience contract, Band of Gypsys became the final album Jimi released in his lifetime.  This live band replaced the Experience with Buddy Miles on drums and busy co-vocals along Billy Cox on bass.  This was from a turn of the decade January 1970 performance at the e...

  Artist:  The Doors Title:   Morrison Hotel Label:  Elektra Format:  LP Cat #:  EKS-75007 Year of Release:  1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue:  US 1976 Gatefold Reissue Listed Condition:  VG/VG Sell Date:  3/30/21 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold:  2/22/21 VG+/VG+ $19.00 Low:  $9.00 VG/G+ Median:  $14.24 Average:  $15.95 High: $30.00 NM/M Current low price:  $13.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  23 Have/Want:  1792/404 Where Sold:   Brooklyn, NY Time it took to sell:  5 years Where and When Bought:  Worcester That's Entettainment early 80's $1.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!" was Jim Morrison's salvo that opened Morrison Hotel.  It was inescapable well beyond Morrison's death a year later. "Roadhouse Blues" rolled and rolled and rolled. The album is divided into two titled sides.  Side O...

  Artist:  Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Title:   Jesus Christ Superstar Label:  Decca Format:  2LP Cat #:  DXSA 7206 Year of Release:  1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue:   US 1970 Listed Condition:  VG+/G+ spine damaged Sell Date:  3/13/21 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold:  2/28/21 M/NM $75.99 Low:  $1.00 Median:  $8.50 Average:  $15.11 High:   $75.99 Current low price:  $0.83 F/G+, $1.43 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:   143 Have/Want:  7278/174 Where Sold:   Doral, FL Time it took to sell:  5 years Where and When Bought:  dollar bin somewhere late 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No Since I wasn't raised in a religious household, this double album I heard constantly over an early childhood friends house was an obsession of mine.  Flogging!  Hammering nails into hands and feet on a wood...

  Artist:  Bob Dylan Title:   The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Label:  Columbia Format:  LP Cat #:  CL 1986 Year of Release:  1963 Country and Year of Edition Issue:   US 1963 Mono Pitman Pressing Listed Condition:  F/F scratches galore, writing on label and cover Sell Date:  3/6/21 Sell Price: $19.99 Discogs Last Sold:  1/19/21 $47.65 VG/VG Low:  $14.00 G+/G+  Median:  $27.78 High:   $90.00 NM/NM Current low price:  $25.00 F/G+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  6 Have/Want:  3833/3072 Where Sold:   Kyoto, Japan Time it took to sell:  6 years Where and When Bought:  passed down from mother Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A+ Sad To See It Go: yes 4 beat up Bob albums passed down to me went off to Japan this week for around $75 after shipping.  At least they were beat up by 3 year old me.  This album was memorized at a young age after my mother...

  Artist: Led Zeppelin Title: III Label: Atlantic Format: LP Cat #: SD 19128 Year of Release: 1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977 repress with fully functional wheel Listed Condition:  VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/20/20 Sell Price: $19.99 Discogs Last Sold: 10/20/20 $16.99 VG+/G+ Low: $7.88 G+/VG+ Median: $20.00 High: $44.99 VG+/VG+ Current low price: $18.29 VG+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 246/585 Where Sold: Edmond, OK Time it took to sell: 4 years Where and When Bought: Al Bums Worcester $3.99 used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go:  No Probably the best complete discography after the Beatles, Led Zeppelin's third is a departure into the realm of one of a kindness erupting out of nicked tangential blooze.  A Billboard number one album with a #16 hit in "The Immigrant Song," yet still considered among the least commercial of their releases. In terms of quality, I rank Zep...