Big Beat Steve

Boy, do I hear you there! Agreed with you all the way. Improving a not so great-sounding reissue with something sonically more palatable is fine, but the lengths that some audio nerds go to about minute, miniscule "improvements" and then proudly proclaim what they have been able to "dump" .... Reminds me very much of some self-proclaimed music "connoisseurs" at our high school back in the latter 70s when (remember?) "quadro" was all the rage for a time and touted as replacing stereo once and for all, and these "connoisseurs" went all crazy about whatever quador platter they sumbled upon. Never mind that even better record shops carried something like different 20 LPs with true quadophonic pressings at a time at best, so actually a dismal selection. But what did they mind .. "it's quadro so it's got to be the ultimate in liostening experience", regardless of the crappy music often pressed into that format. Anyway ... Personally I do consider myself a collector and don't mind being called one, though when I see what true collectors (-cum-historians-archivists) accumulate I bow my head in shame and resignation ... So let's say most of us "collectors" probably are and remain in the "searching" phase and are collectors with a comprehensive collection in rather specialized (sub-)fields or their actual field of collection only.

He can be googled (he was a major name among Swedish modern jazz trumpeters). He was very short indeed. I remember a photo of the Staffan Abeléen group (apparently used for publicity purposes to) on the bandstand where Abeléen (the "other" horn and therefore front man) stepped off the bandstand and onto the floor, apparently to make Färnlöf look less short.

I wonder if any of those whose height has been mentioned here have ever shared a bandstand with Swedish trumpeter Lars Färnlöf in the 60s or 70s. THAT would have made questions of being (bodily) tall or not appear VERY relative.

I must admit that before this thread came up I had never realized the face of that 2nd tier actor often seen in 60s movies or series belonged to the one I had often listened to on that 10-inch Urbie Green Vanguard LP or on his excellent Jazzwave LP on Jubilee, etc. Quite a run ...

"Big" or "tall"? I understand there is a difference there in (U.S.) English

It was meant to be.

Question (again) of personal tastes, that's all. The kind of discussion that will never lead anywhere.

I do wish you luck and I think I understand. My collection is sizable but no doubt smaller than that of MANY around here but purchases have slowed down because the threat of running out of shelf space is looming (I'd rather not tell how I freed up vinyl shelf space close to 2 years ago to ease the problem for a few more years, hopefully ). But I've begun downsizing in my "other" collecting area (classic cars - mostly 50s) and have passed on a few car books and magazines and have started downsizing my spare parts stocks. Still only a drop in the bucket but a start in an ongoing effort ...

I know there are (probably plenty of) records/recordings in my collection that I will never play again before I leave the building - but of course I don't know today which ones they are (though they ARE accessible like the rest) so they are keepers. (For the foreseeable time being, anyway ) If you keep a checklist of the records you have played and scribble the dates you played a record on the inner sleeve you are not a collector (nor even a real music enthusiast) but a bookkeeper and bureaucrat, in my view. I must admit it keeps baffling me how often I read around here (from US forumists, in particular) that they cannot access this or that of their records to check this or that detail "because they are in storage" (and, as was hinted at between the lines, seem to have been so for quite a while in some cases). "In storage" being something that sounds like "in a lockup storage box" to me. Is that a way to really enjoy your records? Or are you intent on providing stuff for an upcoming episode of "Storage Wars"?

Might this be him?? No, it's not. Google "Zero Freitas", everyone. Makes us all realize that whatever we have accumulated our collections are just small fry and we are all perfectly sane and restrained to a maximum.

I think the eyewitness accounts of all that would fill a book or a lengthy thread.

Don't worry ... "Kartoffelpüree" is perfectly understandable even in Germany. Same for "Möhren" & "Karotten" (both understandable too, but in fact down here in the South we call them "Gelberüben"). But "Paradeiser"??? Or "Zibeben"?? And as for "Spritzer", I was under the impression you call them "G'spritzter"? Like UK and US English: Two countries divided by the same language.

Mashed, i guess?

I remember from my contacts with U.S: soldiers on post here in the mid-80s there was one Master Sergeant whose tour of duty in Germany was about to end in a couple months time and he regretfully told me he had decided to stop drinking German beer ("Löwenbräu" - the GERMAN variety - was one he loved in particular) for his remaining time here because otherwise he'd be unable to adjust back to what he'd be served back home in the U.S. (and he pointed out that German "Löwenbräu" and U.S. "Lowenbrau" had nothing much in common except the name). I understand things have changed since but still ...

That's it, Priceminister is the name under which it is still known there. Sorry I can't priovide the info you specifically want as whatever I had heard about sales on this site came from various contacts in France who bought there and always were quite satisfied. But that won't tell you much as these were domestic transactions. I've checked the site here and there for reference through the years and find that the range of prices for a given object often is ENORMOUS. Some offers are very good, other prices are just KRRRAZY.

Do we know what's outside the picture? Unfortunately the picture that came up online was as small as you see it here so you cannot make out much. Does anyone have any idea of the size of the collection of Chris Albertson? His memorabilis alone must be mindblowing. Hope it all finds a good new home/caretaker. As indicated by himself in his "Bulletins", the collection of Hugues Panassié amounted to some 20,000 records (no details on the 78s-to-vinyl ratio, though). After his death in 1974 it was preserved intact and not dispersed and was later (probably after the death of Madeleine Gautier) donated to a municipal library near his home town. Some use seems to be made of it (including access for researchers) AFAIK but even under these ideal "inheritance" circumstances it had remained inaccessible for quite a few years after it was passed on to the municipality (to the dismay of the Hot Club). The collection of researcher and author Johnny Simmen from Switzerland was also donated to a jazz foundation (in Switzerland) and therefore preserved as a unit.

Rakuten crops up in the www address of the PRICEMINISTER selling platform. Is that what you are referring to?

Like I thought ... yours IS huge ...

I'd rather think it is a "mutual self-help group" thing to find comfort in the fact that others ARE more obsessed than yourself or to find out what forms the details of this obsession can take. BTW, if Scott Yanow's collection is only triple the size of yours, then your collection must be awfully enormous too.

A friend (waaaay more FB-obsessed than I had imagined, though I ought to have known) on his first-time visit to my place took a pic of the vinyl wall in my music room (he's a collector himself, though on a smaller scale) and POW, there it was up on his FB page. Needless to say, the immediate comments of his frineds were "What? Who? Where??" So I had to admonish him to take iz easy from then on. But your idea of using the replies here to convince your wife of whatever you feel necessary to convince her of is VERY laudable (I guess most of those around here will sympathize with you). I used the photos shown here ... https://thevinylfactory.com/features/crate-diggers-interview-mats-gustafsson/ to make that point with MY wife. And if that doesn't help with yours too, how about this?

Decidedly Tineye worked better in this case than images.google did. Thanks, Brad (and Sonnymax too). I just tried Tineye on some other photographs (that I had wondered where the poster had dug those up) and obtained quite instructive results. So it is now bookmarked.

I found Bertrand's question to be quite innocent and appropriate. Wonder who's condescending here. To further the knowledge of Bertand and me (and whoever else who'd been wondering ), maybe Kevin Bresnahan would like to chime in once more to tell how HE did the reverse image search to end up NOT on that Japanese picture gallery site but on IMDB (unless he had already had a clue this must have come from that particular flick).

Bertrand isn't the only one who would not have known this instinctively (yes I admit as much ...) so there is no reason to be so smart-aleckish about such a simple and honest question, erwbol (thanks, Brad, for your reply, BTW) You must be typing awfully slow ... FWIW, I did follow Brad's hint but still this isn't that straightforward. I did copy the URL on images.google.com (using the procedure described here for a PC: ) https://uk.pcmag.com/how-to/71657/how-to-do-a-reverse-image-search-from-your-phone and sure enough the very same photo came up on some Japanese site but sort of difficult to decipher and will lead you only to another photo gallery, hence a dead end. Not THAT fast ...

Going on in more than the occasional discussion here already ... How many "name" musicians have I rubbed elbows with after-hours? How many festivals have I attended (festivals abroad counting double)? What unreleased tapes inaccessible to common mortals among jazz listeners have I laid my grimy hands on? With how many musicians/bands have I achieved my completist goal of their recorded opus? Who has visited the farthest away B&M record shop in search of that elusive item? On how many live gigs have I ruined everybody else's view of the stage because I have jumped about and around and across the stage firing away with my camera? (and so on and so on ...)

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