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What else do you collect??
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20 hours ago, Robot Man said:

This thread has been quiet far too long.

Anybody else collect records?

I buy them more for the covers than the records themselves - does that count? Mostly 50's stuff that winds up hung on a wall for a while.Stuff like June Christy and Chubby Checker. Sinatra too, as well as soundtracks and oddball stuff like Hawaiian or Polynesian-themed covers. 

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I like old magazines dating to the mid-1800's. They can be quite ornate with decorative logos and mastheads. Most of the surviving magazines from that era are in hardcover bound volumes, where the cover and ads were often discarded in the binding process. Magazines with their wraps intact, as the covers are called, are pretty uncommon in most cases.

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10 hours ago, Cat-Man_America said:

Also, I collect the best quality & rarest classic rock grey market soundboard recordings. Note: 80's era CDs, prior to being remastered with added tracks, often sound much better.  Remastered CDs from the mid-90's on frequently suffer from compression that "brick-walls" the sound for limited resolution playback in cars and/or Walkman players.  Note: Early CDs were actually manufactured to higher tolerances to compete with LPs.  Early CDs, with pre-emphasis flags, often sound nearly as good, occasionally better than the original vinyl LPs when played on better quality home stereo systems today.

That's a pretty interesting bit of technological history. I'm not surprised that many of the early recordings were superior: it's just part of the "cheapening" process that seems all too common. I lack Jo Stafford's perfect pitch, so I wouldn't notice anyway.

P.s. Where's the Sabbath?? :baiting:

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7 hours ago, PopKulture said:

That's a pretty interest bit of technological history. I'm not surprised that many of the early recordings were superior: it's just part of the "cheapening" process that seems all too common. I lack Jo Stafford's perfect pitch, so I wouldn't notice anyway.

P.s. Where's the Sabbath?? :baiting:

LOL! I have most of the early albums ...the first five anyway... on Japanese SACD, and even a tour program from the mid-70's, having seen them three times on two different tours (twice with Van Halen opening). (thumbsu

 

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15 hours ago, Cat-Man_America said:

Also collect original art (paintings especially)...

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Whoa... now that is one heck of a treasure! The other ones are really cool as well, especially the Giancola. Congrats on some really fine pieces.  :foryou:

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On 11/28/2018 at 3:26 PM, Cat-Man_America said:

I collect ...and enjoy listening to... early CD pressings.  Among those I've acquired are Japanese pressings of The Beatles' Abbey Road (Toshiba/EMI Odeon black triangle), the Canadian first pressing of RUSH (s/t first album et al early albums on Anthem), Queen's third album Sheer Heart Attack (first Japanese pressing Toshiba/EMI '87), Pink Floyd DSoTM (Harvest Black label) and so on.  

Also, I collect the best quality & rarest classic rock grey market soundboard recordings. Note: 80's era CDs, prior to being remastered with added tracks, often sound much better.  Remastered CDs from the mid-90's on frequently suffer from compression that "brick-walls" the sound for limited resolution playback in cars and/or Walkman players.  Note: Early CDs were actually manufactured to higher tolerances to compete with LPs.  Early CDs, with pre-emphasis flags, often sound nearly as good, occasionally better than the original vinyl LPs when played on better quality home stereo systems today.

Early RUSH (Anthem & Mercury Atomic)

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More selected RUSH, including rare 70's soundboard recordings from shows which often better official live releases of the era...

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My favourite band !!!!!!!!!! I'd love to get my hands on a Time Machine soundboard recording !

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1 hour ago, fishbone said:

My favourite band !!!!!!!!!! I'd love to get my hands on a Time Machine soundboard recording !

The Hemisphere's tour soundboard recording "Brainwaves" from Tucson is absolutely the bees-knees.  Killer performance, recording and mixing, IMO.  That's the CD on the lower right.  If you come across this two disc set, I'd highly recommend snappin' up that puppy.

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1 hour ago, Ltpink2002 said:

 

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Mucha was utterly masterful. Would Art Nouveau have existed without him?? Perhaps on the merits of artists like Cheret and artisans like Tiffany, sure, but it would be much diminished in the rear-view mirror of history without his genius and contribution. As indispensable as Picasso or Braque is to cubism, so too is Mucha to Nouveau. 

When I first saw his work as a kid, I thought "hey, this guy's art looks like some of the more ambitious stuff Barry Smith is doing." I got it sort of backward on that one - that his stuff looks like Smith's.  :makepoint:

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Man oh man... my tongue is on the floor! Most of these cretians have no idea what they have just witnessed.  Amazing collection of only the best of the best. I'm obviously a toy guy too so I get it. I've been selling off a lot because I need to down size. Sold all my Marx playsets except for two space ones.

And, a MAD Straightjacket  (worship)  I have collected MAD stuff my whole life and never had one. I think the only authorized MAD piece I've never had.

I bow at your feet!

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3 hours ago, adamstrange said:

You look like you have too many of those.  Probably need to cull a few. (:

They may look the same from the boxes, but actually each has something unique about them like parts that weren't in other playsets. I have started selling a few of them though.

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5 minutes ago, Ghastly542454 said:

They may look the same from the boxes, but actually each has something unique about them like parts that weren't in other playsets.

I figured that was the case.  There are almost always variations that no one but the specialist is aware of. 

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