Interesting, Barry. Thanks for all that. I suppose the trust I was talking
about extended to those who like records, who could be bothered or had the
time to listen to music in that format and who were still fascinated with
the packaging and product in a ‘fan’ sense. Dealing with serious record
sellers is a different thing I think. No doubt there are and have been
dodgy and even dodgy bearded traders. Such people are unlikely to be caught
out or called out in the sense of getting a police record as you raise,
Doug but they blot the trust copybook.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 at 3:39 am, Barry Alpert <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I started seriously collecting vinyl LPs when I began graduate school at
> Stanford University and began to access the large number of sophisticated
> record stores scattered throughout the whole San Francisco Bay area. Wish I
> had made more effort to get the album jackets autographed. I "trusted" the
> reputations of the "scouts" and dealers from whom I later acquired signed
> Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, & R.E.M. items. Those items
> turned out to be as stated. I learned not to trust a significant percentage
> of the "operators" within the record business.
>
> My best collection consists of writers reading their own work on vinyl,
> perhaps led by Kerouac's first three 33 1/3 records in the
> original editions.
>
> I no longer have a working record player to start my "music twirling".
>
> Barry
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:40:51 +0000, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Bill thanks always had a beard myself! (well when adult) yes had a thin
> >out of vinyls then the cassettes (granddaughter asked what a cassette
> >was!!) and lurking the loft those v78s
> >
> >gosh how expensive it was those days-cheers P
> >
> >
> >On 14/02/2018 06:12, Andrew Burke wrote:
> >> Bill - I'm a biased reader, having had a beard since I was very young!
> >>
> >> Recordings: you mean cutting a disc? or recording anything with the
> >> equipment of the day? CDs, videos, etc.
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >> On 14 February 2018 at 08:28, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bill, I find this one pretty real and well done. Musings make sense
> and I
> >>> hear you.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Used to trust instinctively
> >>>>
> >>>> any bloke with a beard
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Couldn’t imagine any
> >>>>
> >>>> such guy in a suit
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> working for the man
> >>>>
> >>>> This is before hipsters
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> whose beards today seem
> >>>>
> >>>> like a lot of work
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Now that trust applies
> >>>>
> >>>> to anyone with records
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> hipster or not
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone who cares
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> to take their music twirling,
> >>>>
> >>>> inscribed in groove
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> set on a finite journey
> >>>>
> >>>> warrants benefit of doubt
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> bw
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
>
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