This is one of my treasured vinyls from when I grew up in New Zealand
I LOVE music, all music but its now time to find a new home for these records.
I am hoping this vinyl will find it's way to someone who also appreciates great (or quirky) New Zealand originated music.
This vinyl was last played about 30 years ago (until today) and then put away, bought over to Australia and then put away in safe/dry storage once again (upright)
My background is technical, particularly relating to the professional music/audio industry and because of this I give a LOT of detail about what I am offering.
Prior to advertising this vinyl, it has had a standard wet wash & vacuum and dry.
The vinyl is first visually inspected and then played ENTIRELY. None of this "played the first 30 seconds" stuff, what good is that!
Visual inspections can be deceptive, the only real way to judge a record is to actually play the whole record entirely (unless still sealed of course)
In 1975 a bunch of Dunedin based musicians get together and created the wildly successful Mother Goose.
Crazy dressers but during this period of the 1970's a number of bands followed the "dress sense" to make themselves stand out from the crowded music market e.g Split Enz, Zoot etc
Great classic rock with some psych rock in the mix - their cover of Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones) is absolutely outstanding!
Mother Goose - Don't Believe In Fairy Tales
Mushroom Records (Australia)
Cat# L37147
Matrix: A side (etched): SIDE A SMX55541 8A (stamped) STERLING
Matrix: B side (etched): SIDE B SMX55542 8A (stamped but not well) STERLING
Australian release
1979
Cover is in good - very good, front and rear panels are clean and substantially unmarked BUT definite edge wear. Light wear to the opening edge but the spine has seen better days and there is a seam split in the centre of the spine. No tears and no writing.
New plastic inner sleeve
Vinyl is in good (minus) condition, inspected under a white halogen light source, I can see quite a few very light to light scratches and scuff marks but none appear to be likely to cause serious problems. Vinyl surface remains shiny not dull.
I then played both sides entirely, and during the quieter sections of music I can hear surface noise - it is not of a very high level but higher than "normal". Clicks/pops are not frequent and are of a very low level (probably drowned out by the full on rock) - NO mistracking. After 40 years and a lot of play, this vinyl still sounds GREAT!
New outer protective plastic sleeve
Tracks: Living In A Silent Movie, Saving For A Rainy Day, Alice (It's Up To You), Once Upon A Time, All The Kings Horses, Paint It Black, Taking A Chance On You, Soliloquy, Don't Believe In Fairy Tales
