A friend, knowing I'm a vinyl guy, asked me to come over and go through his collection to help figure out what to do with it. Flipping through stacks of records is why I go to record stores so I said, "Sure".
We spent what could be described as all day, going through a large wooden box of LPs, one by one, checking the condition of somewhere between 300-400 of them. The covers showed their age, having been stored at times under sketchy circumstances, but the discs within were often very, very clean.
I divided them into "Dumpster", "Thrift Store", "Record Store", and "Mine". I found a few bucket list original copies I never thought I'd own, in particular, Billy Cobham's "Spectrum". I loaded up my car taking them all with me, got over $100 in record store credit, and took care of the rest.
From 1924, the premier release of "Rhapsody In Blue", featuring an arrangement by Ferdie Grofe, who you probably know from "The Grand Canyon Suite", and (The Composer at the piano).
Sal said he'd be back tomorrow.
I always enjoy filling in. Cheers!
-BBJ
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Seeing the RCA label reminded me -
Years ago I did a job for the executive producer for the RCA Red Seal division (classical). He was a 13 time Grammy winner.
In lieu of payment I asked if I could pick out records, all factory sealed. Walked away with @ 30.
He had been in a power pop band The Balloon Farm which achieved some notoriety in his younger days
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