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About four weeks ago, I was in a Wyoming antique shop, digging through stacks of LPs. Another fellow had stopped in to join the owner for a cigarette and coffee. He saw me digging and struck up a conversation about records, vintage audio gear, etc... Also mentioned that he had "1,400 Jazz records" that he had no interest in keeping or listening to. So we exchanged phone numbers and week later I called to arrange a visit to his place, 100 miles from where I live. Knowing of his keen interest in vintage gear and having mentioned speakers in particular and "swapping", I loaded a very large pair of speakers in my truck and made the drive. The speakers were exactly the sort of thing he was looking for. The LPs were in 17 boxes sitting on the floor in his music room/man cave. I spent about ten minutes looking at a few dozen LPs pulled at random out of three boxes. I saw a lot of 50s/60s Jazz LPs and virtually everything was very clean, VG+ to NM vinyl. My gut told me that it would be a great score, with many rarities and 'gems' to be found. We maded a quick and easy deal, me trading the speakers and cash for the LPs.
On my return home six hours later, I set up temporary benches in my shop building and did a rough sort Jazz A-Z and everything else A-Z. At this point, I've cleaned about 450 LPs on my RCM and placed into new poly inner and outer sleeves. There was about 75% Jazz, 15% Soul/Funk and 10% everything else. Here's a few still photos of first-time spin of a few records and I'll include a link to a YouTube video I posted. Note that it's a long video at 86 minutes but will be of interest to fellow crate diggers and music lovers.
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Congrats, seems like a good score. I scored a classical/opera lot in a local thrift for a mere 30 euro. That's like 10 cents per record. I'm still cleaning records, 7 a day... They came out good though, cleaned on my Okki Nokki RCM.
"The torture never stops"Greetings Freek.
Real nice!
If that's electrical tape on those covers don't even waste time trying
to remove it unless it's a VERY DEAR copy. Most irritating PIA tape to
remove. Took me THREE HOURS over a couple days to satisfactorily
remove such from a 10" LP years ago. Once I committed to it I couldn't
stop, but I would (and have never) bothered again.
I'll never figure out why people do that.
At least it's black; I've seen red, which looks worse.
Great score!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I'll send you an updated wantlist incase you got any doubles.
P
Can I have some of your luck?
Nice job!
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
n/t
I have a DIY RCM. Here's a link to the YouTube video detailing it:
nt
Nitty Gritty 3.0, and I was done for the day.
1,300 records is a ton of work.
I once bought a collection of 400 disks and it took me more than 2 years to deal with it all.
nt
nt
We're all jealous!
Do you really have room for all those? Maybe there are community colleges with jazz programs in your nieighborhood?
If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
I do actually have room for a helluva lot of records. My studio/man cave is a 600 square foot converted two car garage with ten foot ceilings. I just bought plywood to fabricate another 80 running feet of shelving for LPs. I also have a 30 x 50 foot shop building and small storage shed.
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