a blog for those who never gave up their turntables or records
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS features articles that don’t fit comfortably into any of the other categories.
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FOR THOSE OF YOU with an interest in collecting, the Record Collectors Guild website is a forum titled Ask Neal Umphred. Anyone can ask me anything and as I am often an absentee landlord, others may answer the question in my stead. [Continue reading]
I JUST STUMBLED over this on Facebook and I wanted to post it here immediately sans commentary. This is a lesson that EVERY one of you wannabe recording artists should watch until it is burned into the deepest recesses of your lizard-brain: a brief description of the managerial problems faced by a rock and roll band …
If you don’t know these articulate lecturers, they are Mark Volman (the hair) and Howard Kaylan (the beard). [Continue reading]
AT THE WOODSTOCK Music & Art Fair in 1969 we all back to the garden (and the mud puddle). Just the name conjures images in most people’s minds—regardless-of age—of youth innocence joy music color summer even of endless horizons and possibilities. [Continue reading]
FAKE AUTOGRAPHS on rock & roll memorabilia being sold at charity fundraisers sounds like the act of a misanthrope or even a sociopath more. Cheating folk who are spending money knowing that it will go to help others is rather dastardly. [Continue reading]
I MOVED FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO CALIFORNIA in 1978, ending up in Napa. It was a nice little city that more or less served as the northbound gateway to the wine country. I immediately made friends with the owner of the city’s only used-record store, who I will call Haitch. [Continue reading]
THERE IS SOME CONFUSION regarding the use of certain terms for buying and selling records that is rampant on the Internet! It is also true at record stores, record collectors conventions, and through the mail using self-published sale lists, ads in magazines such as Goldmine—but not to the degree that ones encounters it on the ‘Net. [Continue reading]
BUYERS AND SELLERS of collectables, whether records or record related memorabilia or bloody Beanie Babies, often fail to achieve their goals of financial success because they do not understand a few basic concepts concerning the nature of a collectable—any collectable. [Continue reading]