ONE DAY....... One day.... well, except i would only buy music that i like... i.e. 70s/80s new wave & post punk. and, y'know, some 80s pop, 70s glam rock, industrial, etc. i just wanna go to this guys house.. i mean its like a record store
this fellow has over 3 million LP`S & out of all those , guess what LP shows up at 2:36 in ?! [Thanks to Tom Conway for bringing this STORIES "AU" sighting to my attention!]
(4:03) I have Betals - Rubber Soul in vinyl. I bougt it in pawn shop for $15.00 when I whent home to look at it and play with it I found that it has some writing on the jacket and the sleve and I found out that the record has has been stolen from a radio studeo. And I'm not kidding or blowing smoke(lyeing, don't know what I'm taking about ) I bleve that the album i have is werth $25.00 I think.
@PUK015 probably sold or given away by the radio station, not stolen. most commercial stations are owned by large media companies now and no longer use vinyl at all. smaller stations (college & independent) often have severely limited storage space and need to purge old records that they no longer play. "rubber soul" is a great album, but a vinyl LP of it has little practical value to most radio stations anymore.
@filibusted Plus he said Rubber Soul was "semi-rare." Not at all. I have to say I was a little disappointed that when asked about what record he'd want to run out of a fire with, it's one that's only worth a few hundred dollars. He has one of, if not THE biggest collections on the planet, and no Blue Note jazz from the 50s that routinely fetches well over $1,000 on eBay? That's just one example, but just saying it seems to imply he has a lot of fairly average records. Does anyone know otherwise?
@JasonsVinylObsession Well... but the guy asked something like "In your opinion, what's your diamond" ... the older a guy gets, the less he cares for what other people view as valuable and the more he cares for what he finds valuable. Becoming rich is a young man's game. Being content is an old man's game & this guy is 70. Maybe he's proud that he owns so many of them... or maybe he has strong memories of acquiring them in his youth. You just never know.
@rlholo True, true. I took the question literally. If he meant his response to be about sentimental value, then I totally understand. However, he did mention dollar value on the record, and I don't recall anything about sentimentality, which makes me think he meant his response as to monetary value. I have no qualms... his collection is awesome, it just struck me that he didn't have more jaw-dropping items to show in those rows and rows of records.
@rlholo Just watched it again... He was actually asked about the value, so never mind on that point. Maybe he was coming from a place of sentimentality. Anyway, it's just something that struck me.
@JasonsVinylObsession He's just a guy that likes to collect a lot of music, good or bad, rare or common. I highly doubt he actually knows every artist in that library of a collection. He just buys everything he can.
@rlholo Just watched it again... He was actually asked about the value, so never mind on that point. Maybe he was coming from a place of sentimentality. Anyway, it's just something that struck me.
Pongamos que todos los discos que tienes sumen un total de 1 millon de horas de duración, eso significaria que deberias estar escuchando 114 años musica sin parar para escucharlos todos.
@pablos778 Muy interesante su pensamiento sobre la cantidad de discos ,las horas y años tras años para escuchar ellos... que cosa! Espero que este archivo pueden sobrevivir, si no es compra de un solo persona, quizas hay 60 inversionistas con 50 mil dolares cad uno? Viva los discos de acetate!
yo i feel sorry for him and the only thing i can say is most of the people who appreciate this cant afford it and the ones who can afford this dont want it
I work as a professional forensic audio engineer and am fairly surprised to see how much of the, "archive" is stored and how he handles the materials with his bare hands, casually allowing the dirt and oil from his fingers to contact the media. Not a single roll around trolley in the place, either.
@audiolabguy I agree that he handles the records wrong(a true archive of any kind requires the use of gloves, no exceptions). Likely the trolleys/carts were parked in a side work room where sorting is done. I've worked on many documentaries (mostly shooting film not video), and it's common to prep a location before shooting. If for no other reason, they may have parked the carts out of view to allow for easier dolly or SteadiCam shooting. Perhaps the Smithsonian will buy this archive...
@ToiletBomberAlpha In my opinion, the archive is worth more than the sum total of the estimated re-sale or the current collector's pride guides. The Archive as a single item is easily worth that $50 mil, even though there were no bids at the $3 mil asking price. When I see the silly blin-bling cars & cribs of today's big music stars, it's is absurd that none of them are educated nor cultured enough to value The Archive. Perhaps we need 60 serious investors, at $50K each...
@HunterMann - I want to write a longer response, but all I can is that I agree with you completely. There is apparently so much material in that archive that's no longer available commercially, wasn't put to CD and especially digital formats. Don't flame me for being a liberal here, but I really think losing what is in this archive would damage what's left of American culture.
@ToiletBomberAlpha You are right that it may be a further loss for American culture, not that the entire archive is only American music. Perhaps organizations like the Perringer and Ochs archives will join together to raise the money to save this collection. It is so much more than just Paul's legacy. Some of the music may be in the public domain now, most of it copyrighted. Hard to do all of the licensing to make it available to the public in an archive/library.
record drama,i feel for this cool old cat.i feel this could easily happen to me if i had access to all he's had access to.i wouldnt be able to stop,i know that much.
...sorry, but this collection is a joke. The owner is unfortunately completely delusional. Warehouses like this exist all over the country. There is a reason why it has remained unsold for so long.
@dimebagdave77 I agree. In fact, it's a bit insulting to his legacy for them to lump him in with all of the disfuncional hoarders by calling him a "pack rat". That really blows! He is an archivist. There is nothing physically "pack ratty" about his archive. Notice that we didn't see any old food or a million cats hanging around. The man was serious, though I wish he'd handle the records with gloves on.
Sadly, most of the 16-25 year olds don't have a clue about the value of this archive.
@knewknew I doubt that there are warehouses full of hand-picked LPs and 45's. Remember, most of the archive is single copies of records. It's not a warehouse with 6,000 copies of the same John Denver or Carpenter's LP. What surprises me it that vinyl collectors like Eddie Vedder and Neil Young have not bought this archive.
I know an old DJ in the Caribbean who has about half a million LPs in his home archive. When a collection gets that big, it requires a staff to keep up with it.
will someone please step up and buy this collection... If nothing else the National Archive should step up and but these... The National Archive said a few years back that only 17% of the music from the late 40s to the early 60's are on CD... We need this collection...
If he ran for president, I would vote for him for the simple fact our president would be the coolest man in history.
blitterboy99 2 days ago
I wonder if Paul knew a Jim Danas of Queens, NY, who was another avid record collector.
AudiophileTubes 1 month ago
wow it's so amazing
mnc000 1 month ago
ONE DAY....... One day.... well, except i would only buy music that i like... i.e. 70s/80s new wave & post punk. and, y'know, some 80s pop, 70s glam rock, industrial, etc. i just wanna go to this guys house.. i mean its like a record store
JohnnyLovelyMusicVid 1 month ago
@ThePentagram9 and A Day In The Races :)
strahm998 5 months ago
His collection is valued at $50 Million GEEGEE
jelnunez 5 months ago
this guy is not a pack rat ...hes a muthafuckin LEGEND!!!
kotep777 5 months ago
this fellow has over 3 million LP`S & out of all those , guess what LP shows up at 2:36 in ?! [Thanks to Tom Conway for bringing this STORIES "AU" sighting to my attention!]
kidlloyd 7 months ago
(4:03) I have Betals - Rubber Soul in vinyl. I bougt it in pawn shop for $15.00 when I whent home to look at it and play with it I found that it has some writing on the jacket and the sleve and I found out that the record has has been stolen from a radio studeo. And I'm not kidding or blowing smoke(lyeing, don't know what I'm taking about ) I bleve that the album i have is werth $25.00 I think.
PUK015 9 months ago
@PUK015 probably sold or given away by the radio station, not stolen. most commercial stations are owned by large media companies now and no longer use vinyl at all. smaller stations (college & independent) often have severely limited storage space and need to purge old records that they no longer play. "rubber soul" is a great album, but a vinyl LP of it has little practical value to most radio stations anymore.
gangpill 4 months ago
I give this show concept a thumbs up.. the host is a bore
filibusted 11 months ago
@filibusted Plus he said Rubber Soul was "semi-rare." Not at all. I have to say I was a little disappointed that when asked about what record he'd want to run out of a fire with, it's one that's only worth a few hundred dollars. He has one of, if not THE biggest collections on the planet, and no Blue Note jazz from the 50s that routinely fetches well over $1,000 on eBay? That's just one example, but just saying it seems to imply he has a lot of fairly average records. Does anyone know otherwise?
JasonsVinylObsession 3 months ago
@JasonsVinylObsession Well... but the guy asked something like "In your opinion, what's your diamond" ... the older a guy gets, the less he cares for what other people view as valuable and the more he cares for what he finds valuable. Becoming rich is a young man's game. Being content is an old man's game & this guy is 70. Maybe he's proud that he owns so many of them... or maybe he has strong memories of acquiring them in his youth. You just never know.
rlholo 3 months ago
@rlholo True, true. I took the question literally. If he meant his response to be about sentimental value, then I totally understand. However, he did mention dollar value on the record, and I don't recall anything about sentimentality, which makes me think he meant his response as to monetary value. I have no qualms... his collection is awesome, it just struck me that he didn't have more jaw-dropping items to show in those rows and rows of records.
JasonsVinylObsession 3 months ago
@rlholo Just watched it again... He was actually asked about the value, so never mind on that point. Maybe he was coming from a place of sentimentality. Anyway, it's just something that struck me.
JasonsVinylObsession 3 months ago
@JasonsVinylObsession He's just a guy that likes to collect a lot of music, good or bad, rare or common. I highly doubt he actually knows every artist in that library of a collection. He just buys everything he can.
squezey1 1 month ago
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@rlholo Just watched it again... He was actually asked about the value, so never mind on that point. Maybe he was coming from a place of sentimentality. Anyway, it's just something that struck me.
JasonsVinylObsession 3 months ago
For the love of god, put your records (at least the valuable ones) in sleeves.
BriFlores123 11 months ago
I just hope record-rama doesn't become a record-drama ;)
J4DR4N 1 year ago 2
Imagine how many Turntable stylus's you'd go through! I'd be fraid my turntable would catch fire trying to play them all!
raymondleeleggs 1 year ago
Pongamos que todos los discos que tienes sumen un total de 1 millon de horas de duración, eso significaria que deberias estar escuchando 114 años musica sin parar para escucharlos todos.
Obsesión no devoción.
pablos778 1 year ago 2
@pablos778 Muy interesante su pensamiento sobre la cantidad de discos ,las horas y años tras años para escuchar ellos... que cosa! Espero que este archivo pueden sobrevivir, si no es compra de un solo persona, quizas hay 60 inversionistas con 50 mil dolares cad uno? Viva los discos de acetate!
HunterMann 1 year ago
yo i feel sorry for him and the only thing i can say is most of the people who appreciate this cant afford it and the ones who can afford this dont want it
gorrilatape 1 year ago
@gorrilatape im 12 i want it but i dont have 3 million dollars or any where to put them
MyGenSucks 1 year ago
@MyGenSucks who cares if you are 12
vinylgal89 1 year ago
@vinylgal89 i was saying that because i wouldnt ever be able to afford it ever especially this age (well im 13 now)
MyGenSucks 11 months ago
I work as a professional forensic audio engineer and am fairly surprised to see how much of the, "archive" is stored and how he handles the materials with his bare hands, casually allowing the dirt and oil from his fingers to contact the media. Not a single roll around trolley in the place, either.
audiolabguy 1 year ago
@audiolabguy I agree that he handles the records wrong(a true archive of any kind requires the use of gloves, no exceptions). Likely the trolleys/carts were parked in a side work room where sorting is done. I've worked on many documentaries (mostly shooting film not video), and it's common to prep a location before shooting. If for no other reason, they may have parked the carts out of view to allow for easier dolly or SteadiCam shooting. Perhaps the Smithsonian will buy this archive...
HunterMann 1 year ago
He lost credibility when it was discovered that he seriously overstated the value of some of his discs.
DivineTrash81 1 year ago
@DivineTrash81 - Did he overstate the value or did the Library of Congress? I was under the impression it was the Library that gave that number.
ToiletBomberAlpha 1 year ago
@ToiletBomberAlpha In my opinion, the archive is worth more than the sum total of the estimated re-sale or the current collector's pride guides. The Archive as a single item is easily worth that $50 mil, even though there were no bids at the $3 mil asking price. When I see the silly blin-bling cars & cribs of today's big music stars, it's is absurd that none of them are educated nor cultured enough to value The Archive. Perhaps we need 60 serious investors, at $50K each...
HunterMann 1 year ago
@HunterMann - I want to write a longer response, but all I can is that I agree with you completely. There is apparently so much material in that archive that's no longer available commercially, wasn't put to CD and especially digital formats. Don't flame me for being a liberal here, but I really think losing what is in this archive would damage what's left of American culture.
ToiletBomberAlpha 1 year ago
@ToiletBomberAlpha You are right that it may be a further loss for American culture, not that the entire archive is only American music. Perhaps organizations like the Perringer and Ochs archives will join together to raise the money to save this collection. It is so much more than just Paul's legacy. Some of the music may be in the public domain now, most of it copyrighted. Hard to do all of the licensing to make it available to the public in an archive/library.
HunterMann 1 year ago
i envey this guy this guy is awsome.
musicman257 1 year ago
record drama,i feel for this cool old cat.i feel this could easily happen to me if i had access to all he's had access to.i wouldnt be able to stop,i know that much.
dimebagdave77 1 year ago
...sorry, but this collection is a joke. The owner is unfortunately completely delusional. Warehouses like this exist all over the country. There is a reason why it has remained unsold for so long.
knewknew 2 years ago
what is that reason?why do u think its a joke?i know he's a little eccentric but i feel he's a kindred spirit to me.
dimebagdave77 1 year ago
@dimebagdave77 I agree. In fact, it's a bit insulting to his legacy for them to lump him in with all of the disfuncional hoarders by calling him a "pack rat". That really blows! He is an archivist. There is nothing physically "pack ratty" about his archive. Notice that we didn't see any old food or a million cats hanging around. The man was serious, though I wish he'd handle the records with gloves on.
Sadly, most of the 16-25 year olds don't have a clue about the value of this archive.
HunterMann 1 year ago 5
@HunterMann I do!
TheAmberClock 1 month ago
@HunterMann I'm 14 and I know this collection is godly. This guy is legendary!
crazyweirdomimicers 4 days ago
@knewknew I doubt that there are warehouses full of hand-picked LPs and 45's. Remember, most of the archive is single copies of records. It's not a warehouse with 6,000 copies of the same John Denver or Carpenter's LP. What surprises me it that vinyl collectors like Eddie Vedder and Neil Young have not bought this archive.
I know an old DJ in the Caribbean who has about half a million LPs in his home archive. When a collection gets that big, it requires a staff to keep up with it.
HunterMann 1 year ago
will someone please step up and buy this collection... If nothing else the National Archive should step up and but these... The National Archive said a few years back that only 17% of the music from the late 40s to the early 60's are on CD... We need this collection...
noknife83 2 years ago
Please! Anybody! Take care of this archive!
Ranckow 2 years ago
@Ranckow I'd volunteer 3 months a year to help run the archive.
HunterMann 1 year ago
That man is 70?!?!?
Amazing. Doesn't look any olde than 50.
TheBeanycecil 2 years ago 10