http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/08/entertainment1651EDT0700.DTL(09-08) 13:51 PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) --
This could finally be the Electras' breakout year.
Rare vinyl copies of their lone 1961 recording are fetching prices north of $2,000, even though the band tended to stray from the beat. Two separate CD versions of that same recording are being sold after some "Behind The Music"-style intra-band squabbling.
Of course, it's not musical chops that has renewed interest in this obscure garage rock recording; it's the bassist: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
"Their enthusiasm is only muted by the fact that they weren't that good," summed up Chuck Miller, an Albany-based columnist for Goldmine magazine who recently bought a slightly scuffed copy of the vinyl album.
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Of the 500 albums pressed, the few that have shown up on the market have sold for big money. Miller recently paid $800 to a dealer for a less-than-mint copy that has the name of an old St. Paul's schoolmate inked on the cover. Another copy sold this year for about $2,500, to the amazement of the old band members.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/09/08/entertainment1651EDT0700.DTLSo who has this album?