Grateful Dead

It was definitely electric ( and acoustic), what an absolute blast! French's Camp is up in the Redwoods right next to the Eel River. Garcia played a great show, and it was one loose scene. Definitely the coolest place I've ever seen a show! Big Fun!

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I think DaveRock is right - Discogs would be one of the better sites to sell the items one at a time, to ensure that items are sold for their proper (ie - rare, collector status, condition, etc) value. Selling to a marketplace vendor, such as the ones on Amazon, would likely pay for the whole, but not take into account value for rare pieces. Discogs recently did some upgrades (they said in a mailing) to ensure their system was secure; PayPal is a requisite.
I’ve wondered about the same thing, too, as my brother in law passed a few months ago, and he had a pretty decent collection, so his widow is wondering what to do, and I’ve wondered what I’ll do to sell my modest collection - I’d certainly look into Discogs, but it will take some work and some time to sell a collection. You’re a good man for helping her out, good luck!

Derek Trucks playing with Phish would have been epic. I’m hoping the Sirius channel replays it again.

Edit - Proudfoot - Dennis certainly knows a thing or two about collections, and may have some great ideas. Put up the Dennis Bat signal, and see what he says.

I've never done it online, but I have bought a few ( and then some) off discogs, which lists private sellers. It looks as though it might be quite secure site for sellers, too - especially if they have quite a few items to sell.

You have seen me post about my late friend Craig. He had many official releases and box sets of GD. I got his bootlegs and his widow kept the official stuff.

She is interested in selling some.

The question is...

Where would be the best place to offer it all up? eBay comes to mind, but there must be other places to sell it for a good price.

Any insights on this are appreciated.

There was a split in England, from about 1969 to 1972, between "albums" bands and "singles" bands. Bands who had hit singles were considered to have less artistic merit than those who had hit albums. Slade were firmly in the singles band category - along with T. Rex once they'd gone electric. Albums bands - some of them, like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin didn't even bother with singles in that time span. Singles bands were deemed to be for teenyboppers, or worse...girls.
Occasionally, a heavy band would have a hit single - Hawkwind had one. But they always professed to be embarrassed by it, saying it wasn't typical of their work. Even though it was. And they wouldn't play it live until their popularity started to slide a bit.
It seemed to end, this way of looking at things, with David Bowie, Roxy Music, Rod Stewart/The Faces, Mott The Hoople and a few others who were good in both formats. These bands and artists seemed to have less to do with the late 60's culture than pure albums bands.

....it really doesn't get any better than that in my book. Trey is an outstanding guitar player, but Derek is on a whole nother level. Freakin' goosebumps.

Slade were a great singles band for a few years, I really liked them as a 12 year old but I think an album of their stuff might be pushing it a bit. Comic glam. Noddy Holder did have a phenomenal voice. I think they were from Wolverhampton, same neck of the woods as Robert Plant. Their Christmas song ' Merry Christmas Everybody ' is by far the best Christmas song ever produced and the royalties from it has made them rich men, it's omnipresent for a couple of months in the UK leading up to the end of the year.

I saw the John Cipollina-Man tour at the Southend Kursaal Ballroom Dave. All I remember about it is my mate throwing up over my shoes. We'd taken something that didn't agree with him.

Never owned anything by them but enjoyed their early singles once they’d abandoned the skinhead phase. Unfortunately, for me at least, their name is forever associated with the Xmas song which seems to be playing on a loop in every shop that I go into in the run up to Christmas. Over the years I find that I just don’t want to hear it again.

I noticed a short article in my newspaper the other day saying that a study had identified that machines could identify Recaptcha items faster than humans so they’re not very useful anymore.

:)))