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Trailer for Joe Bussard: King of Record Collectors

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2006

This is from a featurette produced by Dust-to-Digital for the DVD Desperate Man Blues.

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  • I think this guy is great, opinionated isn't a bad thing!

    I think in those days the records wern't worth as much, you know? like when he gave $1 to the guy with the blind blake record he could have given more, but it probbably wasn't worth the big big money it's worth now. Plus he didn't have to give that woman the $100, so ya know

  • he's an opinionated old cuss,but he knows his stuff and i like him.

  • I want to hate him, but I can't XD I'm so jealous!

  • @Etcher nah dont think so

  • @123jlp His myspace is written in the first person so I'm pretty sure he does give a darn.

  • @Etcher his family/ relatives put up the stuff online, joe could give a darn

  • I think Joe is a very lucky man to find a Blind Blake Paramount for $1. As lucky as he is I guess I am as unlucky. 3 decades ago I paid hundreds of dollars for a copy of Paramount 12650 in a mail auction. It was graded as in Ex+ near mint condition. Only the guy never sent me the record. He said he "misplaced " it. That is one 78 I really wanted and I have not seen one for sale since.

  • I agree, I definitely thought it was kind of douchey to give that guy with no paint on his house a dollar for the Blind Blake record. Personally, I love all that old music but I don't love it cos it's old or because its hard to find. I love music, not archeology. I respect those who do find rare stuff but I don't understand their sometimes selfish nature or their feeling as if they are a part of the creative process of something just because they "found" it.

    And Etcher is right as well.

  • Most of these people with collections like that are silver spooners. Nobody with a regular job can find the time to search. Nowadays most of the collectors with such 78's are loaded.

  • Joe is a living legend but he strikes me as a bit of a crotchety old boy.

    He loves ranting on about how shite music is these days when that's a pretty obtuse opinion for a record collector to have.

    There's a correlation between his approach to old 78s and the attitudes of folks who collect rock, hiphop, funk, soul, reggae etc. except the latter wouldn't just write off 'modern' music the way Joe does on his myspace, website and vids on youtube.

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