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Points: 65844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 19:26
hmm, I guess Jon Lord's Sarabande LP with the original cutway image on the cover-- then probably the Arzachel record (though it's a reprint).. as for CDs, Bruford's The Bruford Tapes and Lord Flimnap's Point of View pretty rare


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Gravy Train - Second Birth on vinyl perhaps
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Hard for me to say.  I'd guess one of the rarest flood survivors would be a deluxe edition LP of Jethro Tull's Living In The Past.  It has a hard cardboard outer cover and nice inner booklet.   I also have a Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow with a great inner booklet.  Sadly many of my out of print ECM label LPs that I thought were on the top shelf got flood damaged.  CD wise, I'm not so sure but as I've been collecting since the '80's I bet there's a few rare ones there.  Also my original open up cover LP of Brain Salad Surgery was ruined. Cry
I have Living In The Past on vinyl as well.  A reminder of what albums used to be.  Heavy cardboard cover, page after page of photos, and by the way two very good albums hidden away in all that packaging.  Sadly, my old Thick As A Brick newspaper album has gone by the wayside, sometime, somehow.  Still have the original ELP BSS vinyl as well, poster intact. 
 
Also still have all the original Zappa vinyl, from Freak Out to Joe's Garage, in various states of disrepair, but with all the little posters/booklets intact.  Not to mention my United Mutations stuff from FZ.  Search carefully on the web and you'll find a copy of my UM membership certificate.  Ah hell, here's the link:
 
 
And of course all of the original Beatles vinyl.
 
And of course BTO's greatist hits LOL
 
 
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 18:18
I have a Japanese copy of Up the Downstair - they can reach $100 NZD online; Jakob's Dominion EP which I found by luck and that is about it really.
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Points: 67468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 18:13
^ That reminds me, I've got a Russian copy of Emerson, Lake & Powell. Or was it Ukrainian?
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Does a pristine copy of Emerson, Lake and Powell count?
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Hi,
 
If I list the stuff I have I think that Doug Larson and Slartibartfast  will be in my place so fast and knock me off ..
 
But I am not sure I can still get those folks to appreciate the Pipes of Pan in Joujouka or the Missa Luba ... or so many other albums ... that it's hard to even list them ... I'm cleaning house anyway ... getting as many of the cd's and letting the LP's go ... the weight alone is not fun when you don't have a permanent house for it ... but the music lives in my heart!
 
Kinda strange ... I was listening to this long cut on Live 365 ... and they were playing RAM ... a band in SF in the psych days ... and I looked at that and ... wasn't even sure if I should cry or laugh! Somehow, this board can not even appreicate (at times) how much other prog was around the Bay area ... that we tend to ignore!
 
And I have that album!


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I have a few first pressings on vinyl - ITCOCK, ITWOP, Abbey Road and hard to get vinyls such as Jethro Tull's hard covered "Living In The Past". I have a lot of old prog on vinyl but most of it has since been re-issued on CD - so I don't think they are worth so much now.
 
CD's of note - a signed "Mei" by Echylon, A signed limited edition of "Insurgentes" by Steven Wilson and a signed limited edition of "On This Perfect Day" by Arjen Lucassen's Guilt Machine. Anything else once considered rare, I have as a re-issue eg: "Charger"  by Palladin.

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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Giant Squids The Icthyologist and Drawns A New World? are two rare albums I have.


Do you have the limited edition of The Ichthyologist from pre-ordering on the band's website?  I am very jealous.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:42
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:


I have a copy of the original pressing on CD of Porcupine Tree's Futile EP, which the material on is near impossible to find.


Too bad it's completely awful, then Tongue
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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:36
Originally posted by hektur hektur wrote:

I dont have anything very rare, I suppose The Incident Deluxe Edition and Ilosaarirock are both limited releases by PT, I just dont know how limited they are though.


Ilosaarirock are super rare now, The Incident LE is not too rare but pretty hard to find.


I have a copy of the original pressing on CD of Porcupine Tree's Futile EP, which the material on is near impossible to find. I bought it off a teacher at my school who's wife is a radio manager who received it for free.
He also lent me his copy of Recordings.

I also have three of Porcupine Tree's singles which go for quite a bit on ebay.

And also a copy of Marillion's Brave Live 2002, which is out of print and super rare. (http://cgi.ebay.com/Marillion-Rare-Brave-Live-Concert-DVD-2002_W0QQitemZ130354646351QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101)
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:32
All editions are limited; there is no unlimited edition. There.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:18
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Points: 67468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:12
Aren't all box sets limited editions? Confused
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:04
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Not super rare, but I've got some of the hard to find Zeuhl CDs (Dün's Eros, the Magma box set).


Same.  I don't think I have anything that would consider super "rare".


Funny thing is, I didn't even realize that the Magma box was a limited edition, I just happened to get lucky and pick it up at the right time.  Must have been destiny. Big smile
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Points: 203 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 14:03
My LP collection is way too extensive to list,but one of the rarest and coolest things I have is Jimi Hendrix's Cry Of Love album on the  two-tone orange Reprise label. It was one of the last albums pressed before the transition to the beigy orange label and there weren't  that many pressed. Not really Prog but ,hey. As far as Prog goes,I have many albums and pressings from different countries,two of the coolest being  the Italian pressing of Selling England By The Pound with the gatefold sleeve,lyrics in Italian and a great live shot of Peter in the foxhead/dress costume on the back and an Italian pressing of The Lamb with a full libretto in Italian by Armando Gallo. Wish You Were Here with the blue shrinkwrap still on it is another rare one to find. I have two copies thankfully! Wink
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 13:59
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Not super rare, but I've got some of the hard to find Zeuhl CDs (Dün's Eros, the Magma box set).


Same.  I don't think I have anything that would consider super "rare".
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2009 at 13:55
Not super rare, but I've got some of the hard to find Zeuhl CDs (Dün's Eros, the Magma box set).
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An original "The Beatles Again" lp in good condition. Worth maybe $200.
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I have quite a lot of old vinyl. Rarest meaning hard to find. Must be an original?

I don't know how many of these were pressed but I have an original Austrian Paternoster LP that I paid about 3 bucks for in the seventies at a second hand shop. I saw it on some website a few years ago for $2000 ! 

When I look at all these sites who try to peddle rare records it's sort of disheartening to see that a piece of plastic is worth more than a weeks worth of groceries. Back when I was really going crazy with music I would buy the records for the freaking music. Sometimes, as was the case with this Paternoster LP, I would buy an album because it looked weird or if it was German!  

The most treasured and cherished album in my collection has to be a mint copy of Guru Guru's Dance of The Flames that has NEVER been opened! I have backup copy for playing. I also have a Hawkwinf PXR 5 album with the incorrect wiring on the cover art  that was sent over as a present by a cousin in England. Don't know if it's worth $$$$. 

Of course, in this age of the internet everyone tries to attach value to just about anything!
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