Hi everyone. Hope all is well in the vinyl community. As I have said in my introduction. I started collecting in the mid-70's and basically stopped by the late 80's. I have started up again around maybe 2006. Yeah, I know a long layover! LOL! Also, the fact that I have lost more than half my collection in that time. Even though at my highest point of record collecting I had no where near the size I see on some of you guys sites! Like FatBackFunk, Lazzerus, EoLoVoX, Vinyliciousness and DereckVon. To mention a few. These guys have are "All Out" To say the least!
"Back in the day" I had a little over 600 LP's not counting singles and cassettes. singles I probably had close to 600. Cassettes not much, maybe 200 or less. 8-Tracks I could count on one hand and have fingers left over! I HATED 8-Tracks!!!!!! (Oh, was that too rough?) I bought 8-Tracks when I really wanted an album and when I go to the record store, a few times that's all they had, just the 8-Track. On 8-Track I had Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love" album. Because I really wanted it and when I got to the store that's the only way they had it. :( Also, Boston's second album, I think it was called, "Don't Look Back", because once again that's all they had. So, I only had 2 albums on 8-Track. The reason for my utter disdain for 8-Tracks is two-fold. Well, actually maybe three-fold.
My first disdain for 8-Tracks is, when a song is long and it's the last song on "Channel One". First you get the "fade-out", then you get the "Whrrrr" sound the you get the "Click, click, click" sound, the you get the "fade-in". By this time you lost the "groove" of the song. My second disdain for 8-Tracks is that if you don't play them in a while they break. The third disdain is they were cumbersome to carry around. Well, lets just say I didn't like 8-Tracks. LOL!
Lets talk a little about collections. Once you get them home. You clean them up if need be.Then you would put them in those heavy, thick, cloudy bags. Which at the time you thought was the "Cat's Meow"! LOL! I used to buy these bags and when I worked for some of the record stores around the neighborhood. I used "borrow" their bags. I like the LP bags with the flap and I used to have the flap at the top and yes, that meant taking the whole album out of the bag. Which isn't bad, because you always looked at all the photos and read all the liner notes and all the credits, over and over again and again! LOL! Am I lying?? LOL! Not only did I use the flap I also "Scotched Taped" them closed! Now, I'm hearing in the vinyl community of these "Blake" bags. I've seen the reviews by DereckVon, Lazzerus and a few others and man they do look good! So eventually I have to get those.
So, the style of old and new record collecting has come down to Thick, heavy, cloudy bags to clear, shiny, I gotta get me some Blake bags? Is that what it has come to? A part two of this tomorrow will be how I catalogued my albums, when I had them.
Also, on a closing note. Of course "back in the day" I was mainly a "Rock Head". But, now I'm getting into Jazz. Both listening and playing. I play a bit of Jazz guitar. Anyway, I have to contact Teddy of Vinyliciousness about getting some Jazz! I have started a small collection this far. But I need that to grow! So, anyway, bye for now, peace be with you and may you always find the hidden track!
Half-Baked Wax
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