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About a year ago my sister's boyfriend told me about a huge stash of vinyl that his uncle had collected, and as far as he was concerned I could have it all. I took the 3-4 hour trip and checked it out and was utterly disappointed. Of the 1000-2000 records I found maybe about 20 that were worth taking, the rest was all '60s stuff that my parents would like. There was nothing with any kind of life to it. Even the Sinatra albums were all just mush, and I'm not talking about the vinyl, but the music itself. All slow stuff, strings, schmaltz, just awful music. The only bright spot were the Elton John records, which were totally out of place in the collection. Oh, and Kansas, Dust in the Wind. I had the feeling that maybe somebody else had already gone through it and taken all the good stuff. No 50s or 60s jazz, just Perry Como, Dean Martin, Montovani strings, and stuff like that.
But then my sister told me her ex had left his collection behind at her house when she got divorced. Since she was there with me when I looked through that collection above she knew how disappointed I was. She said I could have those, since that would be more my generation, but then said maybe she should check with the ex. I didn't give it much thought after that, but she's coming down to my house this week so I asked. She said she had two boxes and I'm welcome to any or all of it since he never took it. (it was a messy divorce.)
I'm hoping this time I'll score something worthwhile. My fear is that it'll be good music, but a lot of duplicates of what I already have. After all, classic rock lives on playing the same 100 or so cuts that we all had.
Follow Ups:
So my sister's boyfriend is here today and I played an Elton John album from his stash. Apparently, I wasn't the first person to go through the collection, but nobody else wanted anything either. Also, his uncle was buying these records in bulk on ebay, cataloging them, and then trying to sell them back as individual finds, except that he had a hard time selling anything as there isn't any demand, as we can attest. He had heard that vinyl was making a comeback, except that it was the hipster crowd that was buying it, not 90 year olds.
I am to the point I would not even bother to go look at some 'collection'.
The owners/holders have such high hopes, and it turns out to be dumpster filler.. Nearly every time.
And even the times a few LPs might be worth a quarter, or a buck. Usually they are still scratched up enough to not be worth the bother anyway.
I still wait for MY TURN to find a pristine and huge complete collection of 50's and 60's Jazz. A complete collection of Mercury Classical on the side.
And the: "Please, just haul it away... Here is a Twenty for your trouble"
In my dreams.
To make the trip.. and sometimes even fork over a few bucks you don't even want to.. just to get something for the effort.
It happens. You kiss a lot of frogs when scoping out used collections.. but we all dream of that "Porche Speedster sitting under a tarp in the barn" so to speak.. Haha.. I barely do the go see thing anymore.. as most collections wind up being big disappointments.
Break a leg on the new supply.. and post if any winners were found.
But in records analogy it's often a 1977 4-door Maverick.
You may have to flip through 100 or so Mantovani, Sing Along With Mitch, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, The Lettermen, Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Christmas, Christmas with the King Family, Christmas with everyone else, etc. for each good one, but there probably will be some good ones.
And if you're willing to flip through 1,000 or so, you may even score a rare and valuable one. I've pretty much retired from flipping through LPs at this point, so I'm leaving all those rare ones for you! Good luck!
You forgot the Jim Nabors.
My list could have continued much longer. Jim Nabors, Robert Goulet, Barbra Streisand, The Kingston Trio, cast albums for The Sound of Music and The King and I, Mario Lanza and Lawrence Welk, to name some more.
Yep, all of the above. And this guy was collecting these on ebay.
There was a yellow sticky on every record too, with the condition, year, other info.
I took every Sinatra record, but they were all slow stuff, nothing up-tempo. I've listened to Jonathan Schwartz do his Sinatra show over the years, and I at least appreciate some of it. But these records are the ones that make me dislike him.
It was for the old, uncool people from the 60s, and I'm an old, uncool guy now. Our parents had terrible taste. Different eras I guess.
At least Babs is from my neighborhood.
Oh man... the insipid strings... No wonder they thought rock was devil music. If anything comes from Satan it's that bland torturous 60's schmaltz. And, of course, Jim Neighbors' producer and whatever executive greenlit those albums...not to mention the sheeple that bought them.
Must .... play.... Jim....
Must... play... Jim...
Wait, did you go through the same collection I did???? ;)
Yes, it was all that. And the few that I did take were in pretty bad condition too. A few others I found that day - McCartney Ram, The Doors, Steely Dan Pretzel Logic, Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle orchestra.
Not a total washout, except they are all in wretched condition.
People think of I have LPs so they are great why? Because they are LPs of course I have had people just hand me a bundle of records and I say no thanks and they get insulted like I have to take there records so I am the bad guy right? You should see some of the amps people think I would want get lost take your crumby LPs and garbage amps and go to the dump which is what most people do is figure oh give them to him save us a trip and gas and time. And I was being polite when I said those words. Experienced too many times.
Kindablue
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