1978.05.13 London - second generation

[QUOTE] [b]Barry Durex wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]tilomagnet wrote:[/b]
As for the tape stories, its easy in the internet age to ridicule this behaviour but back in the snail mail days when there was real trading going on, such things were very common.
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Did anyone ever break into your house and mess with your tapes though?[/QUOTE]

Nice ad hominem argument there.

[QUOTE] [b]paulosham wrote:[/b]

Hey Bob,

Regarding the spoken part before Liar this is what I can make out.

Fred: "The last, the last couple of nights we've been here there's been this ridiculous trough, black trough or whatever. I don't know what you actually think do we come across that we might maul you or take your clothes off or something. We need to extend the stage c'mon do something, somebody do something. Come on Gerry Stickells. C'mon." (Crowd voice girl "What's this? What? Crowd voice guy " he's gettin' a bit of wood put out so he can walk on) "The lovely Chris Lamb everbody, He's very very practical. Well that's much better. See what you make of this" [/QUOTE]

Thanks for that. Although it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Barry Durex wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]tilomagnet wrote:[/b]
As for the tape stories, its easy in the internet age to ridicule this behaviour but back in the snail mail days when there was real trading going on, such things were very common.
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Did anyone ever break into your house and mess with your tapes though?[/QUOTE]

Nice ad hominem argument there.
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Perhaps just answer the question I put to YOU at the end of the last page, rather than opting to answer one I put to somebody else?

Have heard similar stories tbh. Have even heard of police raids, and the police actually keeping the items for themselves (rather than for evidence).

Thanks again for the share!

Thistleboy1980,

I think that was a story relating to bootleggersthat were SELLING discs and making an income.

In over 30 years of trading this is the first time I've heard of anything as ridiculous as people risking arrest and imprisonment for breaking and entering over concert audience recordings.

Will NEVER hear the like again.

Unless, of course, this Wizard character comes up with something equally as wallyish.

True, but the agenda was just to get stuff they wanted for themselves, and using their position to do it. Not intended as "corroboratory" but just an add-on to some of the mad things you hear as a collector. In this instance, it definitely happened.

But that only addresses part of my post - you've skipped over the bit where I say I've heard stories similar to what Wizard suggests, i.e breaking and entering (all for stuff that was rare at the time but freely available now). I've also heard stories of "friends" visiting and just lifting what they want from houses.

Of course, there's no proof to back what I've heard up (on some of it, anyway) - but because it all sounds far-fetched doesn't mean it didn't happen. I guess that's an argument that works both ways.

This is still the best evidence of the breaking and entering into the home of a Queen collector http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0kxAthVODc&t=3m47s

Just like there's nothing to support it didn't happen. Just because some twat says it didn't happen, doesn't mean that twat's right. I don't give a shit either way, it doesn't affect me - it's just some of the bizarre things you hear whilst trading and it was an interesting tale, regardless of how tall it may seem. Just because you've never heard of something is not to say that you never will.

This link indicates that The Real Wizard's claims are partially true:

www.snopes.royalfamilyscandal.com

Thus, I think that apologies to The Real Wizard are needed to atone for these treasonous and baseless attacks.

thx!

Saint Jiub, re:

>treasonous and baseless attacks.

You sound like Chancellor Valorum.........

Does the following return indicate something further:

Sorry, the website www.snopes.royalfamilyscandal.com cannot be found.

........like it's all a figment of an overactive imagination, perhaps?

To the people calling the stories bullshit.... There are worse things going on right now in the Guns N' Roses community.

Nitroboy,

Such as........?

I'd like to know too, any proof of breaking and entry incidents, court cases or even newspaper articles would be greatly appreciated.

If you really want to learn, you can go to a GnR forum, message people, and find out for yourself. But even then you'll probably be doubting them too, the same way you've doubted everything here.

Tape collecting goes back to the 1970s, and there a million great stories and a million ugly stories. Nobody is going to type them all out for you. You just have to trust that the world is more complex than your limited life experience seems to allow for.

Personally - I don't care what either of you think, and nobody else should, either. Your opinion doesn't change any of this.

So you can stop trolling now, both of you.