The Lords - She’s Mine (Vance)

Al.Burnett1966

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Heard a lot of interesting things on the forum about that ultra rare single (including shooting copies of it!) but still no way to hear it yet.

Someone spoke on the forum about an upcoming comp that would include it.
Is it still in the works?
 
Very few known copies exist (maybe two or three?). Anyway, I have a copy and it's so hacked that it's barely listenable. It was submitted but could not be comped due to the extreme low fidelity. If a better copy existed, it would have been comped by now. Forum member Frantic may have information pertaining to the reason why this 45 is so rare. From memory, it's the usual "skeet shooting" story. Or maybe they were thrown into a swamp and alligators ate them?
 
I wish I was an alligator then! Could you share a sample of your copy just to have an idea?
I think I read on the forum a mint copy had been traded but still sounded pretty bad from what I can recall
 
Is this the Vance label from Oakland CA? I have a 45 on it by Gold Standard, "Talkin' 'Bout Love" that is a low-fi garage/psych masterpiece which I've never seen mention of online (it's not in Discogs or youtube) - were the pressings on this label extremely limited?
 
Is this the Vance label from Oakland CA? I have a 45 on it by Gold Standard, "Talkin' 'Bout Love" that is a low-fi garage/psych masterpiece which I've never seen mention of online (it's not in Discogs or youtube) - were the pressings on this label extremely limited?
The Lords single is particularly rare because the copies were destroyed by the band that considered it sounded too bad. Several copies of The Real Thing single on the same label turned up but it's still rare.

I've never heard of the Gold Standard, could you share picture and/or samples of it?
 
Very few known copies exist (maybe two or three?). Anyway, I have a copy and it's so hacked that it's barely listenable. It was submitted but could not be comped due to the extreme low fidelity. If a better copy existed, it would have been comped by now. Forum member Frantic may have information pertaining to the reason why this 45 is so rare. From memory, it's the usual "skeet shooting" story. Or maybe they were thrown into a swamp and alligators ate them?
I sold Mark my copy years ago. I remember it being very clean (not hacked) but since it was a awful press, its barely listenable. The band told me 50 copies were pressed (I think) and they used them for skeet shooting. Killer track that can't possibly ever get a decent remaster.
 
I sold Mark my copy years ago. I remember it being very clean (not hacked) but since it was a awful press, its barely listenable. The band told me 50 copies were pressed (I think) and they used them for skeet shooting. Killer track that can't possibly ever get a decent remaster.
Wow, a killer!! I'm dying to hear that, even a bad pressing! Would you have a transfer?
 
As we're on the track of Vance Records (Oakland, CA), here's a little list of the garage singles on the label. All of them appear to be very scarce, and pretty decent stuff overall, though none of them seem to have surfaced on anything:

- The Lords "She's Mine" / "Goofy Foot" - DV-0064 (196?)
- The Miller's Tails "Tell Me" / "Blue Is The Wind" - DV-0090 (196? -same cat# as the Real Thing)
- The Real Thing "Creator Of Love" / "I Don't Need You" - DV-0090 (196? -the songs were copyrighted in summer 1966)
- Gold Standard "Love Is Everywhere" / "On The Road Again" - DV-00135 (1967)

I would be rather curious to hear how the Miller's Tails one sounds like. A NM copy was sold on discogs in 2022.
 
All of the Vance singles are listed in TBM (at least the online version) with band cities & release dates. All are rated except the Gold Standard. The Miller's Tails 45 is rated at 4.7/4.0. The Lords 45 is rated 6.0/3.3. My guess is that The Real Thing is the most common, as it is the only one I have. it is rated 5.7/2.2.
 
I sold Mark my copy years ago. I remember it being very clean (not hacked) but since it was a awful press, its barely listenable. The band told me 50 copies were pressed (I think) and they used them for skeet shooting. Killer track that can't possibly ever get a decent remaster.
My copy shown below. Possibly confused with a later copy that I didn't buy? I have some kind of recollection about turning down a second better condition copy because it still sounded bad?

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My copy shown below. Possibly confused with a later copy that I didn't buy? I have some kind of recollection about turning down a second better condition copy because it still sounded bad?

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it's coming back to me now, I sold my really clean copy to Barry, not you. I did offer it to you but you weren't a fan of the quality, plus it was unknown at the time and sold for a lot...I can't even remember if I took a shit today. hahahaha. The above copy is 1000% not the copy I had.
 
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someone told me that you have a label, what is the name?
Maybe you're thinking about Sold Out Records? I've created it for my own recordings but for now it's as much a label as the more obscure "Not On Label" self-produced 7" of the 60s!
On the other side I'm working with Sunnyboy66 Records for a compilation but I'm not the label owner