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But I want more!

I have, maybe 50 or so original Blue Notes (I really have no idea)...many later issues and even more reissues from OJC on up to the more expensive reissue companies. I am satisfied with having the music, I really am. BUT it is so neat holding old Contemporary LPs, and Blue Notes, and early Verves, Emarcy, etc.

I love having all the Jazz titles I own...about 2800 on my spread sheet (3000 is probably a quite conservative estimate taking in 2 LP sets and box sets). That many of them are Columbia and other "heavy" publishing companies doesn't bother me...it's all great music. BUT I want it all!

I also know that I'll never have it all, but if one has no dreams and aspirations concerning his collection (or life, of course), then the collection is dead. Growth is part of collecting; there's always copies of things that could be cleaner than the ones I own. Finding jackets with less wear, or earlier pressings is a kick, too. To own ONLY the rare LPs would be a rather boring collection for me, but again, holding an old Blue Note or Contemporary or ??, knowing I found it by getting off my duff and LOOKING for it, makes it very special. Almost my entire collection was derived from yard sales and flea markets!

Anyone, as long as they have the money, can get on-line and get anything they want. Not many have the desire to lie on their stomach, on a dusty floor, under a rickety table stacked with books just to look at a box of 25 LPs. Not many have knelt on partly frozen ground during a rain shower in the middle of May at the first yard sale of the season, just to look at a few thousand LPs and grab "the good ones" before they were ruined by the rain!

Or, I could have sat in an office while my secretary made calls to people I needed to speak with while I ordered LPs from a used record dealer. I never had an office, unless you call the desk at the front of a 400 foot warehouse an office. And that company was as likely to have a computer as I am to have dainty feet.

I don't put down the office guy, you do what you have to do to get what you want. It's just that knowing how hard I worked to get those records, getting up and out to yard sales before 6:00 and still NEVER late opening the warehouse, are memories that make having this collection special.

Jeez, I always give you more than you ask for and try to bore you to death! Motor mouth and motor-fingered! One day I'll learn to shut the f*** up!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!


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