POOR RICHARD Place Of The Sun 1978 PRIVATE LABEL LONER ACID FOLK PSYCH LP LISTEN

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POOR RICHARD "PLACE OF THE SUN" LP

ORIGINAL 1978 LP on the US KAZOO label, STEREO 

COVER IN VG++ shape, some ringwear

VINYL plays VG++ to EXCELLENT

Nice, melodic “real people” folk psych from Kalamazoo, Michigan on the tiny Kazoo label, with mellotron, strings and reeds, financed by a record store and sporting a gorgeous swirling acid-tinged psychedelic cover.  In other words, the kind of stuff psych-folk heads go crazy over.  From 1978, but don’t let that put you off – Poor Richard’s influences go straight back to the mid-60’s.  It didn’t put off the recent outsider folk comp Wayfaring Strangers, who borrowed “As I Walk.”  Me, I find “The Gulls” to be the best of the loner folk beauties here, and the 12-minute epic closer “Series/Finish” is like Donovan if Roger Dean designed his album covers.  The two side-openers rock, surprisingly enough.  “Time” opens Side 1 with an uncharacteristic blast of electric jazz fusion, while Side 2 opener “Funky Honky” is both funky and, well, honky, in a loose white boy kinda way.  Poor Richard (real name: Richard Smyrnios) was reputedly offered a major label contract based on this, but he turned it down because he didn’t want to work for “the man.”  And that’s truly the move of a funky honky.  He did, however, remain Poor Richard.

HEAR IT!

PLEASE NOTE I NO LONGER SHIP TO ITALY DUE TO A CORRUPT POSTAL SYSTEM (THERE, NOT HERE).  BUYERS FROM ITALY AGREE TO PAY FOR GLOBAL PRIORITY MAIL INSURED ONLY!

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Media mail shipping with delivery confirmation starts at $4.00 in the US, with each additional record only $1 additional shipping.  Overseas shipping has, unfortunately, gone way up in the fast few months, which translates to $15 for the first LP to Canada ($3 each one thereafter) and $24 for the first LP everywhere else in the world, with each add'l LP an extra $5 (so it pays to buy more, nudge nudge wink wink).   I accept payments through Paypal. 

I try to grade as best as I can, and I list as many blemishes/imperfections I can find (writing, ringwear, scuff marks, etc.) – Also, please note that I DO listen to these albums – I may not listen to every track, but my grades are based on LISTENING, not just looking at it, since chances are you’ll be listening to the record you buy, not just looking at it.  Most of the albums I sell are the ones I’ve enjoyed for years – and I treat my records with kid gloves.  But sounds speak louder than words, so check out the sound clips below – they’re from the actual record you’re bidding on. 

SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

Listen, I buy a bunch of records too (when I’m not getting outbid at the last second, which is more often than not) – and I know what it’s like to get a rare, one-of-a-kind album packaged dangerously in a flimsy bubblewrap package.  I hate that too.  So rest assured, I ALWAYS package albums with stiff cardboard reinforcements, same for 45s.  And yes, the records are removed from the sleeves (for albums).  I ship out once a week, every Friday, because I have a regular day job.  But I’d be willing to give that up if you’d all be so kind as to bid my items up to stupidly high amounts. 

 For more security and international tracking, you may request GLOBAL PRIORITY MAIL - but bear in mind the cost of this service is upwards of $30.  For expensive items, however, it may be well worth it.  Unfortunately, there isn’t a cost-effective way of tracking parcels to foreign countries yet, and shipping times vary depending on your country’s postal system.   Italy in particular seems to be really bad at delivering packages quickly, or delivering packages at all, now that you mention it.  I will always email you when your package ships, but once it’s on its way, please don’t ask me when it will arrive because I don’t know.  If the world’s postal systems can ever agree on a universal tracking system that’s affordable, I’ll be the first to use it.

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…

I will always leave positive feedback for successful transactions, and would appreciate the same in return.  All I ask of you is the following – please pay for your items within 14 days of the close of auction.  Compared to other sellers, that’s a generous amount of time, so if you don’t pay within 2 weeks, then I have to assume something’s wrong.  You’ll get an Ebay payment reminder at that point, and possibly a decapitated horse head in your bed.  If, after 30 days, you still haven’t forked up the cash, I’ll relist the item and yell at you if I ever see you in town.