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Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEMRc5SKGiM

Incredibly rare folk psych album. Rene Records R-1141

Sold at ebay auction back in 2009 for US$308.

I have a HQ mp3 folder of this. Ask if wanted.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi,

Just read that you have mp3 files of LP Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Please will you send me them?

That would be great, Thanks, Bob


I have a lot of similar stuff - do you have any particular wants?

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Bob. It's only 192kbps but sounds great. I've emailed you.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Steve,

LP received and downloaded - nice and easily..

Thanks very much for that. Really good of you.

Let me know if there's anything you are after......

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

At the moment I'm heavily into the loner singer/songwriter stuff from the 70's

I don't suppose you have any of the following LP's/files/mp3 or whatever do you?

(All U.S. I think):-

Dennis Stoner - Dennis Stoner 1971
Eleanor Wallace - Songs Of The Middle Way 1966
Paul MacNeil - If It Rains 1974
Milton Kelley - Milton Kelley's Home Brew 1970
New Day - New Day 1976
Steve & Ed - Dream Song 1975
Mason Creek - Songs For A Rainy Afternoon 1970
Mik & Jaris - I 1972
Keith Streid - It Wasn't Meant to Be 1974
Joseph Brunelle - Round To It 1981
Eric & Ruth Ryan - First Abum 1972
Ron Anderson - Easy Street 1979
Sam Signaoff - Blue Duck Fly To North Country 1971
Mark Jorg - Come Home My Son 1970
Prentice & Tuttle - Prentice & Tuttle (First LP) 1971
Barbara Muller - Double Premiere 1964
Homecoming - Homecoming '70's
Touchstone - Tarot 1972
Gary & Allen Porn - Creekside
Jordan & Anderson - Edges Of Love 1974
Varela - Varela 1977
Jon & John - Jon & John 1974
Blackbird - Blackbird 1974
Blue Cliff Ensemble - Blue Cliff Ensemble 1979
Bluebird - Country Boy Blues 1980
Bluebyrd - Bluebyrd '70's
Bondsmen - On The Move 1964
Christopher & Isabella - Christopher & Isabella 1966
George M. Jones - George M. Jones 1978
Dave Nordin - In My Mind 1971
Don Daly - Matilda 1971
Echoes & A Dream - Echoes & A Dream 1973
Eric Relph - Pretty Darlin' 1978
Four Of Us - Illusions Of Hope 1972
James Hersch & Tim MIller - Butterman's Ball 1971
Jim Spencer - Landscapes 1973
Kindred Souls - Kindred Souls 1976
Mark Winokur - God Fearin' Man 1971
Milkwood - Another Sunday 1979
Millard & Dyce - Millard & Dyce 1973
The Music Makers - Prince Taryn Of Ewar 1972
The New Troubadours - Winds Of Birth 1974
Omega - Omega 1969
Patterson & Pults - Grand Tetons 1977
Rex Richardson - Crescent Phase 1980
Rick Penta - Hit The Road 1977
Roy G Biv Quintet - Roy G Biv Quintet 1969
Sharda Brody - Reed 1970
Touchstone - Runes 1978
Waterfall - Comin' Down 1974
Windwords - Shootin' The Breeze 1979

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

hi there! just saw you have mp3's of this album..would LOVE to hear. possible to email? thanks so much.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Jess,
Sure thing. Please be patient as i'm moving home on monday so i'll be a bit busy. I'm also not in good health and i'll need to find it. if i don't send it in a week, please remind me!
Cheers,
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

thanks so much steve! appreciate and can't wait to hear it. feel better!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Jess.
You got it.
His acid song 'the superlative life is free' is lovely.
I think he does a really nice, respectful rendition of Dylan's 'it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry'. As did both Leon Russell and Jerry Garcia!
Love 'n' All Good Things,
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

so grateful! thank you beyond for sharing this one-cannot wait to listen all day. all the best...

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Good luck with the move and hope your health stays as good as possible Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi, I’ m interested in the Graham James What is me LP files. Can I have the mo3 files for my personal usr ? I have several items from your wants to rip from vinyl. Thank you. Best wishes. Ezio

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hey Ezio - I sent you the album via mailbigfiles.com ... please take it soon, or the link will expire!
Cheers,
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Can I please have Graham James' mp3 folder? Thanks so much!
I have over 30,000 albums and over 40,000 singles from the Sixties and Seventies, will gladly share.
Pete

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Just sent you it, Pete, via mailbigfile.com. Let me know you got it OK.
Enjoy!
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

love to hear it:smiley:

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

No, not here yet.
But thanks anyway, will keep you posted!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Just got it, thanks a million!
Where can I send you my latest record list so you can pick the ones that interest you?

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Pete
Just got it, thanks a million!
Where can I send you my latest record list so you can pick the ones that interest you?
Hey Pete! I've emailed you so you have my email address.
Good to know it reached you and even better to receive a thanks for me sending it.
Anyone who just asks and gets anything from me and doesn't even have the common decency to say 'thanks, Steve' can expect nothing from me ever again! Might sound a bit strange to some of you - well, good! I'm strange to many people and I'm pleased to be so. Basic manners, decency and mutual appreciation and respect between people means a lot to me.
Peace 'n' Love, everyone!
:sunglasses:

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

You are strange because you expect some decency, like a simple "thank you"???
Then I'm glad you are strange because so am I and so are lots of other people who offer services and take time to please others without expecting any material reward.
Yes, Steve, I have your e-mail and will send my list real soon.
Thanks again!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Dawn [deedee],
Delivered to your email address on the wings of an eagle [well, actually by mailbigfile.com].
Enjoy!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Great lp. Thanks so much for what you have done for all of us.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hey man, can I get these mp3's as well? Been searching for ages since I heard it on Sludgy McSludge's radio show.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hiya Steve,you're spot on mate,theres been many times in the past I've sent cdrs by snailmail to people all over the globe,particularly with the private comps I made,at my own expense,and believe you me some of it was expensive to send,i didn't mind and it was my choice to do so,but unbelievably some people who asked for copies,i sent stuff out to them,i don't even know if they got them as I never heard from them again ever!!Some not so much as a thank you,i got a kick out of sharing music,but as is often the case,greed can take over and total ungratitude started becoming the norm,this was in the early days when cdr sharing etc was common place,at that time I didn't have my own computer,so I used my then girlfriends computer to make my comps and copy cds and print artwork and tracklists,then send out to folkl who had requested stuff!I even got messages from the other side of the world complaining the cdr aint playing properly,can you send another!!!Really!!I just spent £4 sending what I did!!!It got to the stage where I just stopped!!Too many people with eyes bigger than their bellys!!!Could never get enough!!!!Greed is a terrible thing!!!At the end of the day,you work out the genuine people who like you for who you are and not what they can get out off you!!!!!!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Touchstone

http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2018/10/touchstone-runes-1978.html

Get down onnit!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Can the recent people who commented here confirm they'd like this. I lost it and found the album again, so James W, I see you'd appreciate it.
Stuart mate, thanks for your solidarity on my views about ungrateful swines. Do you want the album again?
And dear young Wallace. Wazza? Sure I love that Runes album, but are you trying to enlighten me about a connection there with Graham James or you just had some kinda brainstorm?
If it's the brainstorm, just remember after the brainstorm comes the calm.
If you want the album, let me know!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Steve: the Touchstone is on the poster's wantlist.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Steve! I do! Please and thank you sir!!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hello Steve,thank you for the kind offer.But no thank you,i'm sound my friend.Yeh when I wrote that about ungrateful people,it really hit a chord after I read your post!!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

The zip folder of the album is on it's way to you James. Sorry for the wait. It should be with you as a link in an email from mailbigfile.com in about 10 minutes. Enjoy!
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Steve. Would you be so kind to share this Graham James treasure with me too? It would be much appreciated! All the best

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

On it's way to you, Luis, as a zip folder. It'll be in your email inbox in about 15 mins, sent from mailbigfile.com
It's only a live link for a limited time, so please take it asap.
Cheers,
Steve.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Thank you very much for sharing, Steve. Just received and enjoying it already.. Such an artifact!! Again, very grateful for your kindness sharing and taking the time to do this. Giant hugs!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

I'd also love to hear the Graham James.

Dunno Bob is still on the hunt for some of those albums he listed but I do have these:

Dennis Stoner
Jon & John
Bluebird - Country Boy Blues
Eric Relph - Pretty Darlin
Jim Spencer - Landscapes
Windwords - Shootin' The Breeze
Millard & Dyce

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Josh,
Sorry I never replied sooner. I need your email address to send this too you!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Here's Patrick Lundborg's review of the Graham James LP from "The Acid Archives":

"This 1970s folk/s-sw LP opens promising, with an energetic Bob Edmund-type folkrocker, followed by "The Superlative Life Is Free", a memorable acid casualty testimony in the Dave Bixby vein. Unfortunately, that's about where the good stuff ends to me, as the rest of the album is basically a Gordon Lightfoot-flavored folkie-busker excursion with flat, deadpan vocals and mediocre songwriting.

OK, "Take Me Home Little Mama" could have been a nice flowing rootsy folkrocker a la Drendall-Thrower, if sung in a less mannered style. James can't decide if he's an acid hippie or a manly Lightfoot / Leonard Cohen type troubadour, and ends up in a useless spot inbetween. For those who consider Dino Valenti a genius (mainly Dino himself), this album may be enjoyable, but I'd rather put on Michael Dobbins. James' guitar strumming and vocals dominate, with light rock backing on a couple of tracks. There's some bluesy moves, including a Dylan cover. The guy traveled a lot and thanks a bunch of people across America for getting the LP made.

Some trustworthy parties rate this album higher than I do."

I'm about to have a listen to it for the first time myself right now... It'll be exciting to see if I agree or disagree with Patrick! :)

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Lyniz.
You said you were exited to be about to hear 'What Is Me' for the first time and I was looking forward to hearing your views and still am. I hope you don't misinterpret the album in the same way that I think Patrick Lundborg did.
To say things like after the 2nd song "the rest of the album is basically a Gordon Lightfoot-flavored folkie-busker excursion with flat, deadpan vocals and mediocre songwriting." and "I'd rather put on Michael Dobbins" to me shows what absurd views he has. Don't get me wrong [as other do], but I think he'd have been better suited listening to Michael Dobbins and Gordon Lightfoot whilst reviewing Nike trainers or Asda bargains of the week rather than albums he doesn't understand.
He's perfectly entitled to hold his opinions - and I'd defend his right, just as I'm entitled to think he's a fool and to speak my mind. And to mention Leonard Cohen and Lightfoot in the same sentence as if they are in any way somehow similar is laughable, as in "James can't decide if he's an acid hippie or a manly Lightfoot / Leonard Cohen type troubadour". That smells of ignorance and inexperience to me. Only straight outsiders called us 'hippies'.
I don't know much about him except he wrote things, but I suspect he aquired fame and probably a comfortable lifestyle just by writing stuff, but I really doubt the man's credibility. I may be misjudging the man - if so, I'm sure other UKPDF users will be keen to let me know - but people who only seem to have a second-hand or very weak experience of psychedelics really are rather limited in their ability to say much of value about things beyond and outside of the box they live in and they should know that. Honest ones do know and say so.
Anyway, that's my views on his views!
What do you think about the LP now and that 'review'?

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Steve,unfortunately Patrick lundberg is no longer on this mortal coil, he left us a few years ago after acid archives volume 2 book was published. So he won't be able to explain why he thought like he did about this album. I personally didn't know him but he was well known in psych music circles and did publish a few books one on the psychedelic experience and the history of psychedelics etc which was very well received from reviewers and readers alike . He wrote many reviews, many I disagreed with and he rated the cold sun album very highly where I just thought it was an ordinary psych album with weak vocals,but that's music for you, we all hear things differently and can warm to an album or absolutely detest it!! As far as I know he was an experienced tripper and not a fly by night and from what i read totally understood what he was doing and how it effected him. He seems to have been a bit young to have been there in the 60s,so his use of the word hippies is outwith that text I feel. Music can cause split views, and maybe this is just an example, he obviously had no time for this album, and felt he had to write how he felt about it in one of his books, I wonder how many other music books on the sounds we enthuse about have even gave it a mention?he also championed many fine albums, from all over the globe, that was his job, imagine he liked and loved every single album he heard, you wouldn't take him seriously, there must be albums you don't like Steve? That other people rave about. It was part of his job to write about them, so he did. Whether people agreed in what he wrote or not. It's all subjective really and I feel it's good to have different views and to read those different views. As for me I make my own mind up on what I hear and yes many years ago wrote about some of them in a UK psych fanzine . It was nowt personal to either the group,attiste or any other listener. It was just how I heard it!! That was all!! Patrick the lama had his own website etc which gave light to many albums that would never have been heard of otherwise, he wasn't all negative, this is just one of hundreds of albums he gave light to. Unfortunately his light went out far too young.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

If anyone knows Josh who asked me for a copy of this in early march, can they please ask him to check out my reply to his request. I've nowhere to send it to him! Cheers.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Steve,

Seems I got sidetracked because I almost forgot about my post — and the LP, too! I’ll give it a listen and return with my thoughts on it. :)

Regarding Lundborg’s review of the album, and his writing in general: I really liked his way with words and always found his reviews intriguing. Naturally I didn’t always agree with him, but that’s just the way it is with art. One man’s meat, etc. He championed lots of albums I’ve grown to love and some that I don’t think I’ll ever ”get”.

Reviews are good pointers, but I prefer to make my my own mind up. :)

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hey Lhynez,
Thanks for your valued comments.
You never got back with your own views on Graham James's album. So how did you find it?

I managed to upgrade my folder with a higher bitrate copy - 320kbps if anyone would like it.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi Steve--

Was just trying to get more info on the Graham James release and found this thread. Not sure if possible, but if a file is available I would dearly love! Meanwhile, gotta check out some more the UK Psych threads. Thanks.

Luke

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]



It'll be with you later today, via an email from mailbigfile.com
Welcome to PDFUK!
Enjoy.



Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

You've made my day, kind sir, actually, you've made my month. Thank you!!

Luke

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi, steve. I am very much interested with the copy also. Can you share it with me please? Thank you so much.

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Hi John. On it's way. Please check your email in about 10 mins!

Re: Graham James [LP 1974] What Is Me [private pressing USA]

Thank you so much, Steve. I got it. Much appreciated.