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This clip is an absolute must see, dont tell me you know your vinyl till you see this guy.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRR67RawozQ&search=VINYL
thanks to fremmy for the url
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This was kinda sad to watch. The guy is simply a fanatical collector who has latched onto records. Did you see what he apparently plays them on in the background? Soundesign's finest!-Bry
Queensryche after the other guy kept saying "Queensritchie". That was very funny and awkward. He has a manic quality that seems to really need for you to believe him. But I'd like to see where the rest of the records are. Even the guy in Vinyl Junkies who was a former record exec with 100,000 records had everything in a warehouse. It would be really hard to hide a million in a residential space.
at 10 tracks per record...
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ocd
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One million LPs at about 40 minutes each (IF he's just counting LPs, which, since there's a bunch of 45s in the clip, he's not)...Let's say 300,000 LPs at 40 minutes each. That's some 12 million minutes. There are 1,440 minutes in a day (24 hours). So that's 8,330 days or some 22 years. That doesn't even factor in sleep.That's doable I suppose...
Add in 700,000 45s at 6 minutes each and that guy doesn't really seem to have much time for much else, let alone having a smoke. Pride of ownership I guess. Some people think I have a lot of records. Some 4,000 LPs and a couple hundred 45s and 78s. AND a thousand CDs. Somehow I've managed to listen to them all at LEAST once...
Then again, my math may be worse than his...
"Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best."
-Frank Zappa
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The range would be over a hundred Million $ US, to the other extreme which would be bearing pretty serious expense and hassle finding someone willing to haul them all to a landfill that would accept them, the appropriate permits and or licensing.The value would be based on rarity and condition i.e. not Mass
or volume.Regards FredJ
I say 'show me the money'.
All they really show in this clip is a room full of non-plasti-sleeved K-Tel and other garbage-league stuff.What is it about this that makes me think he's got no Verve or Bluenote but every single epic moment in the careers of Journey and Styx, Neil Diamaond and Neil Sedaka ?
A non-starter, thriftshop-dregs kind of collection, in my opinion.One man's treasure is another man's ....... dumpster !
J.
He's guessing he's got a million. Okay-right.Also, his supposed encyclopedic knowledge of his vinyl comes down to one lp that he hand picks! And his contention that there are only four bands that begin with 'Q' is laughable.
Maybe the movie presents him in a better light, but from this clip the guy's a bullshitter and first-class whacko.
...between this guy and us!It's kind of sad, actually, that here we are, basically saying "gosh, glad I'm not THAT kind of geek!" It's very high-school, don't you think?
Here's a guy who, for whatever reason, has a hobby and digs it. It doesn't harm anyone and gives him joy.
Just think of the auction when this guy goes!
My $0.02, since everyone else is chiming in...
Tom
YIKES. I couldn't watch the whole thing, it creeped me out. He doesn't listen, doesn't care for, doesn't enjoy the vinyl. It's THE SILENCE OF THE RECORD.
he plays his records every night, but he said he has lots of foreign ones in the corner still in the plastic, but he doesn't listen to them. ( I believe he mentioned Japanese. hehe maybe he'd like to trade some of them )
hehehehe
(nt)
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ggg
nt
It sounds like the guy has no life outside his records!
If I had more money, I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LP's!
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Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Had I known, I would have tipped with one of my unwanted records instead of a buck.
just like the rest of us here! (-:
nt
The THE? (-:
/nt\
Close to the Edge, down by the river....
-Ray
I file Jethro Tull under J; Procol Harum under P.I file Neil Young under Y; Joni Mitchell under M.
Where do I file Gentle Giant?
No, that's not my real question.
Rather, where do I file Steve Miller Band?
This has put me at a complete standstill. I'm afraid to leave my fetal position in the corner. I'm giving rock n' roll a whole new meaning.
Please sumbody, HEP ME...
axolotl
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Close to the Edge, down by the river....
-Ray
Also, I do put A Perfect Circle and A Flock of Seaguls under "A".
The is not alphabetized but a and an ? Never thought about it...
This guy looks like he smokes all the time. Do you?
i quit again for at least 3 years this time.
no pot in 20 years, either.try this, smoke a cigarette outside an Eckard drug store. then go in and take you blood pressure. you'll quit too, maybe.
~Slainte,
The OMalley
Hi.I travel thousands of miles every year on business (+little leisure, mainly audio).
When I was Brisbane, Australia, the manufacturer owner offered me cigars, so I learnt to smoke cigars. In fact, I learnt my first golf lesson in the Royal Automotive Golf Club 3-hour driving west of Melborne as the international manager of Dow Chemical Australia, my supplier, was a golf 'maniac'.
In China, a smoke addicted country where everybody smokes EVERYwhere, I got to behave friendly, & bring them tons of smokes
as courtesy gifts. Needless, I got to go non-stop smoking like those businessmen there.To do busines in Japan too, never refuse a smoke when you're offered one or many. Or you look like pretty alien to them.
But truly I hate smoking. Back in my Great White North homeland here, I never touch a smoke.
c-J
I am an American teacher... What did I miss?Phil
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Hi.millions & trillions are still smoking ?
Knowing is so much easier than doing it right.
c-J
...I smoke about a pack of Camel straights a day, much to my doctor's (and kids') chagrin. =:-l
too late. Smoking, my doctors say, was the primary causative factor in my stroke. A hard lesson.
HenryA 12-gauge shotgun is the ultimate arbiter of disputes - G. Gordon Liddy
By "anything else" I assume you mean “wacky ‘baccy”.Teresa
Well, actually I inhaled quite a lot but I just kinda grew out of it. I found it incompatible with other stuff like passing exams, skateboarding and conversation - It did improve music though - particularly Dub, Pink Floyd and The Osric Tentacles as I recall.
I said "had", in my late 40's I actually had to learn how to study for a test as my photographic memory now comes and goes and usually at the wrong time and the wrong stuff. Studying is hard! I often wonder if I had not done drugs if my photographic memory would still be intact and I would have never been forced into learning how to study.But back to high school it was party all the time, I skipped school but only on days in which there was "study period". My one rule was I would NEVER, NEVER skip on test day! Basically I read the material once and took the test and aced it! Straight "A’s all though high school.
No I gave up drugs for the same reason I gave up cigarettes. Price increases. Cigarettes were 35 cents a pack when I started when they went to $1.00 a pack I quit! Pot was $5.00 a "matchbook" when I started, $30.00 an ounce when I quit. They priced me out of both markets.
And no needles, tubes, lines etc.I will admit to a glass of wine however. Well more than one in a lifetime?
You really got around.
Really!
One 12 x 12 room will hold approximately 448 lin ft of shelving @ 7 high around perimeter and 2 rows 8 ft long in the middle. No allowance has been made for doors or windows. 13,334 divided by 448 = 29.76. That's how many 12x12 rooms 1 mil records would need for storage.I want to see his collection instead of hear about it. THAT would have been more amazing. I can only imagine what 45 rows of records, srtretched up and down the length of a football field might have looked like. Do the math. 13,334 divide by 300ft (the length of a football field)= 44.44
For reference, I'm figuring 75 albums per ft.
I only use my gun whenever kindness fails
Collecting crap purely for the sake of hoarding. String is probably easier to deal with.
My reaction was the same as yours--"Your collection must take up a lot of space."His response? He's never lived anywhere where he had all his records with him. Apparently, his collection was scattered over several locations.
Cheers,Ivan
"What's neo-realism?" "No money."
...some in the front bedroom, some in the rear bedroom, some in the living room, some in the dining room/kitchen, but none in the bathroom; yet.
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
i am probably butchering this, but i remember Stephen Wright deadpanning that he had the largest seashell collection on the planet.you may have seen it, he keeps it scattered on beaches all over the world.
The doctor is IN.
of the "million" LPs, there are 999,900 that will never be played.And what are LPs for, if not to be played, listened to???
HenryA 12-gauge shotgun is the ultimate arbiter of disputes - G. Gordon Liddy
> > of the "million" LPs, there are 999,900 that will never be played.Look at his analog rig to the left of the screen, and it suddenly doesn't seem so bad.
-Bry
I haven't a clue but it must be 1000s of millions.That guy is without a doubt the Jim Carry of the Vinylophile world but nevertheless a VERY interesting person with an unusual talent.
I thought it very interesting. Why all the bitchin'? (I don't mean you Henry)
Cheers!
A while ago I thought someone posted an article that said there are estimated to be 10 billion records in the world, ones that would be playable and are not in landfills. Many are still hiding in attics not doing a thing. That's a lot of lp's.
Thats from the movie Vinyl. The whole movie is worth viewing, some really sick puppies!
I must see it :)daniel.
Or are simply INSANE?Hey! LISTEN instead of watching someone listening.
This is not the NBA playoffs or World Cup Soccer.
Or is it?
Wow. As described, a must see...
Uh Oh. That's five
I only use my gun whenever kindness fails
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But Patti Quatro goes in the "Fs."
"There's too many groups with 'The'."Tom
At just after the 2:20 mark, he says, "But I never play them."At the very end he did mention listening to some records, though.
The cigarette thing made me feel bad for the records.
Yup, it's amazing what the combination of OCD and the vinyl gene can accomplish!
A million records...when he dies, I bet his family gets 80 bucks for it! ;)
And he's created the world's perfect asylum; one filled with (possibly) every song ever recorded on vinyl. Wow.Tom
OLLY
Or maybe it was all in jest????What say you JD?
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Tom
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