Huh. Fair enough, Pat. I did say ‘used to’. There’s a local nutter in
Hepburn Springs who sports a raggedy beard and overalls and spouts the most
spurious pile of poisonous to whomever will listen. He - and others - have
brought beards down a tung or two.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 at 9:11 pm, Patrick McManus <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have even known
>
> dodgy and even dodgy bearded
>
> poets!
> On 14/02/2018 21:28, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > 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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