Archive for the ‘Collecting’ Category
Afterglow! Jazz Radio at Its Best
Although I’ve ripped a large part of my collection to various internal and external drives, mostly for backup reasons, I don’t listen to it much on my PC. Considering the time I spent tagging the mp3, mpc and flac files and organizing my wave and CD image backups, I think I’m wasting too much of [...]
Bands I Useta Like
[Disclaimer: If you are easily offended by (mild) graphic violence, tasteless details and a load of swear words, please abstain.] The other week I wrote the first part of my “Guilty Pleasures” series (more coming soon) and while surfing the Net around that time I also came across a site that showcased a number of [...]
Jarle Vespestad: Musician
It has become far too rare a thing nowadays to be able to study three outstanding, highly-trained and eminently soulful musicians practicing their craft in front of an appreciative (but small) live audience. I treasure these moments, of which I had many these past twenty-five or thirty years, and tonight I was given the opportunity [...]
Do you make backups?
If you are into collecting music as I am, there comes a time when you notice that some editions you managed to snatch up somewhere along the line have either disappeared or have reached a price that is simply unacceptable. If you regularly scout around the Internet looking for the rarer editions available in either [...]
Invest into decent gear!
As I’ve mentioned a million times around here, I frequent quite a lot of music forums and sites, trying to stay up-to-date as much as I can. These sites don’t only deal with content – the music bought, collected and played – but also with the presentation of it – the gear used to actually [...]
Collect LPs …
I don’t know about you, but I got rid of a very large part of my LP collection. Not only have I reduced it by about 80%, I’m still currently planning to go even further and to only keep a fraction of what I once had in my possession. Basically, I have decided to keep [...]
Status Quo
Most people outside of Europe don’t get it and now that I think of it, most people in Europe don’t get it either, but those who do probably feel like members of some sort of secret society or cult, forced into the underground by ignoramuses that jump at every chance to trash one of my [...]
Guilty Pleasures: I
Being a frequent visitor of various music forums, especially those of the jazz kind, I know it’s best to keep one’s mouth shut when it comes to guilty pleasures. It won’t take long until people virtually leap at you once you have admitted to liking one or t’other band that does not fit the forum’s [...]
Where Are the Beatles?
[This post has been updated with the April 7th, 2009 Apple Corps press release. See the end of this post] It’s become a standard method of irritating all the members on your average music forums and a way of getting April Fools’ Day in early: Mentioning, announcing or just bringing up new Beatles remasters in [...]
Don’t Make Me Bleed!
When the age of the remastered CD dawned, I immediately jumped to attention and started replacing some of my favourite CDs with the new versions, no questions asked. You know, the ones with all those stickers attached to them announcing that what you once had sucked and what you now bought offered superior sound (usually, [...]