List of 45s that were used for target practice, thrown in a lake etc.

The Sloths' guitarist threw away a box of as many as 100 copies just a few years ago...

The Excels threw dozens of copies of Let's Dance on Gibson into a lake.
 
my dad was pals with the Boys Next Door/Four Wheels and he told me they, he and some of their pals threw a bunch of their Delaware 45 into a lake one night while camping out/partying. threw them out frisbee style one at a time in a competition to see who could fling the farthest.

Of course, this is the same guy nicknamed "Surf" by his fraternity for deciding it was a good idea to go surfing on Lake Michigan in March late one Sat night with a metal ironing board!!!....ahhhh, golden ale delusions!
 
Sound Of Imker's "Train To Doomsday" was never sold in the the record shops, the company (Philips) refused to distribute it. The band took all the records (1000 copies) home. They were sold locally or at gigs, but most copies were used for frisbee purposes.

BBTD/Erik
 
Though not left to destruction by human hands, most of the very short pressing run of the Circus on Offe was destroyed in a rare West Texas flood a few years back. And a hurricane seems to have wiped out what little stock might have remained of a much sought after and rarely heard south Texas rarity.
 
Westex said:
Though not left to destruction by human hands, most of the very short pressing run of the Circus on Offe was destroyed in a rare West Texas flood a few years back. And a hurricane seems to have wiped out what little stock might have remained of a much sought after and rarely heard south Texas rarity.
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That reminds me...1000'S of Frantic/Vardan 45s, master tapes, memorabilia floated away in the mid 80s flood in Linda, Ca. (45 miles north of Sacramento) They were in a shed in George Martin's (owner of Frantic Records) sisters backyard. Boxes of Drusallee & Dead, Boy Blues w/pic sleeves, Psycho, The Styx, acetates etc. All gone!!! :(
 

Several stories surround Rockabilly 45's also. Deacon & The Rock & Rollers, dumped most of the 5000 ordered into the Ohio River, after hearing the single, and apparently Deacon also found his girl with a band member. Jack Lane (Yolo AZ) trashed all copies he had, he said it was a terrible take- The Alabama Kid found religion, and Cees Klops found the family, went to their house and apparently they handed him a shovel and told him to go dig the boxes of 45's up (!) mostly all the labels were destroyed and the most famous one is Dick Tacker (Kingston-PA) where he would drive up & down the strip in Phila, tossing his 45's at pretty girls!
 
Back in the early 70's Fleetwood Records had a large sale then deposited all remaining stock into a landfill...I spoke to Pat Costa of Onyx Records shortly after he threw out all remaining stock and master tapes prior to moving the studio to a larger facility.
 
Here's a personal "dumpster story"...
When I purchased the Fine Recording Studio remains about 10 years ago, I was only interested in garage records and tapes, which received my most scrupulous attention. I had absolutely no idea whatsoever that soul 45s had any value, or that there was such a thing as "northern soul" collectors.

There were a few soul 45s released on Fine, the Soul Brothers Six and The Darling Dears in particular. Also a record by a Fine subsidiary label Coy, by The Vel-Tones. I found a few boxes of each, in mint condition*. I kept about 5 copies of every non-garage 45 I found, and tossed all the extras into a huge dumpster that we always have for rubbish at our factory. I filled up the 20 ft dumpster with all the slimy stinking trash from the Fine studio remains, which was mostly destroyed by water damage. Or not garage, and therefore no good.

That weekend I happened to be browsing a bookstore, when I picked up a book of Goldmine record values. At the front of the book was a list of the "Goldmine 100 rarest records of all time". In the list was The Vel-Tones on Coy, which I remembered I had thrown into the dumpster.

So, I went straight back to the dumpster, in the middle of a rainstorm, and plunged headfirst into the huge trash bin, frantically digging in the piles of lice infested slimy junk. I had to completely empty the dumpster to get to the boxes of 45s which were at the very bottom, of course. It took all day to rescue every last 45. Nothing at all escaped!

All of the copies of The Darling Dears (on Flower City) and Soul Brothers Six (on Fine) 45s that have appeared on eBay over the last 10 years, came out of that dumpster!

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=darling dears&pagenum=1&incldescr=&sortord=adate&thumbs=&currsel=2

*correction - I only found a couple of mint Vel-Tones, the rest were water damaged. Soul Brothers Six and Darling Dears were all mint.
 
My favorite "45 depletion" story via NW Buckeye: The Tremors had just received their boxes of the "Wondering Why" 45s and placed them in their vehicle along with their equipment (I think), in readiness for the next gig. Someone stole the vehicle in the meantime, took it for a joyride, and then smashed it to smithereens in an accident. Nearly all of the 45s were in pieces. Oh, the humanity!
 
Wasn't there a story about the Cliques "So Hard" on Custom? Something about the band members taking unsold copies, painting them gold and giving them to friends as their "gold record"?
 
I remember someone here said that some of the Savages 45 on Chriken were thown into a lake over a dispute with their manager. Can anyone confirm this?
 
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