Mats Gustafsson's vinyl collection!

[JSngry]

Well, ok. Brian Wilson loves you. But that's enough afaic.

[JSngry]

http://www.reelmusic.com/

[David Ayers]

You can keep the reward I'd just as soon stay...

 

(ok you heard that before)

 

I once owned this:

 

 

 

[clifford_thornton]

Beach Boys Love You is a good record.

Pet Sounds, Smile, All Summer Long -- wonderful music.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, it's pretty hard to deny the quality of that work (and I do prefer the more arch sonic explorations of P.S.). It's not teenybopper pap... or at least not all of it.

[David Ayers]

1 hour ago, rostasi said:

I still do! - and I have the t-shirt as well!

Seriously. I do.

 I'm liking what I'm hearing...

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

I have the poster, also designed by Dean Torrance.  it was a hundred dollars.

 

[corto maltese]

11 hours ago, l p said:

what they love, like almost all other successful rock, pop, and country acts, is that they make a good living because the unsuspecting public is too lazy to search for real music, and instead have to be satisfied with whatever is thrown at them through the radio, mtv, and movie soundtracks. and all the money probably makes them think that they do have talent.

OK, so Mats will plead guilty for possession of that "Smile Sessions" box set (although the defence will emphasise that a certain Dutch dealer has been offering copies everywhere for ridiculous prices).

But he's not too lazy to search for real music, on the contrary, he's playing real music himself.

 

[Big Beat Steve]

12 hours ago, l p said:

 

ok. but if you're not sure, i can send you this beach boys hits compilation that i had when i was a kid... it made me hate them forever.

 

I admit I had understood you exactly the other way round. Bashing Little Richard and going all excited over the Beach Boys - another one of those who can't praise "Pet Sounds" enough. (iIt CAN happen .... )

 

Anyway, greatness is in the ear of the behearer - always, and "tin ears" are not always where those who use that term to bash others' tastes think they are.

Edited February 10, 2017 by Big Beat Steve

[David Ayers]

7 hours ago, rostasi said:

One of our cats is named Lux.

 

it's all coming out now...

[Royal Oak]

There was a racing greyhound at our local track many moons ago, named "Lux Interior", owner was a Cramps fan, unsurprisingly.

[OliverM]

Every now and then I need to watch those Little Richard live sessions, they are so incredible!

I wish some of the rarer records of Mats' collection were more widely available. On a saturday I will track some in the vinyl archives of the Musical Mediatheque of Paris (public library), I've been meaning to do this for a while. One can listen to them on location.

[Jazzmoose]

Interesting.  I'm with lp on this one; you couldn't pay me enough to listen to the Beach Boys.  And if I'd heard Dickie Dale or the Surfaris in the past month, I'd probably kick you in the nuts for suggesting such a thing.

On the other hand, the Cramps are fine...

[JSngry]

I had a person I regularly played EAI-ish type music with tell me one day that they hated the Beach Boys because they used major 7th chords, and this person hated major 7th chords period. Keeping in mind that this was a very skilled, trained, experience, and usually astute player, I allowed him that as an earned quirk, but...really?

 

[clifford_thornton]

7 hours ago, rdavenport said:

There was a racing greyhound at our local track many moons ago, named "Lux Interior", owner was a Cramps fan, unsurprisingly.

that is AWESOME.

[Dmitry]

2 hours ago, rostasi said:

 

Also, we've been taking care of a "porch kitty" and when our "Lux"
gets all worked up about his presence outdoors, we just explain to
him that it's his friend "Lux Exterior." 

Yeah, but can your pussy do the dog?

[clifford_thornton]

b/w

hello Jazzmoose!

[lipi]

9 hours ago, rostasi said:

I've no problem with surf music - especially
the grittier forms of both early and ultra-modern styles (volumes
of really fine compilations exist!).

Names/labels/links for said compilations, please? I would like to explore but know not where to start. Especially interested in earlier things.

[Big Beat Steve]

46 minutes ago, lipi said:

Names/labels/links for said compilations, please? I would like to explore but know not where to start. Especially interested in earlier things.

There were several CD series (but you would have to check availability and search a bit - some will probably be OOP and only be available secondhand):

- The Birth of Surf (3 volumes) on the (UK) Ace label (a label that spells quality)

- Rare Surf (6 volumes)

- Lost Legends of Surf Guitar (4 volumes) on the Sundazed label

 

Experts of early surf will probably be able to give you more information.

 

[lipi]

Great, thanks! Amazon seems to carry most of these.

[Jazzmoose]

21 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

b/w

hello Jazzmoose!

Howdy!

[ombudsman]

I've spoken to Mats at shows. His tastes are pretty broad. As record collections go, I've seen many large ones and many that focus on free jazz but I would rank his as among the most interesting. He has many titles that you just don't see, they're on a whole different scale of scarcity than what makes up a typical good jazz record collection.

One thing I love about visiting another collector is once in a while when they pull out something that is completely out of the blue that has a good story behind it and is in a style that I appreciate or even specialize in, but I just wasn't aware of. In a good collection you might expect to find just a few of those, but even just one is something to be savored and remembered.

For example, to a fan of free jazz or experimental music, I used to have about 6 of those, but now due to some unlikely reissues it's down to maybe 3 or 4. I love those so much more than a shelf of original Blue Notes or modern 45rpm pressings. My tastes being what they are, I can tell it would take considerable time to go through all the ones just of that type that Mats has.

[Kurt Anderson]

On 2/2/2017 at 3:12 PM, rostasi said:

I wonder if what we're seeing is all of it.
I mean, if you take a tape measure and
approximate the number of LPs/feet or
meters, it seems that he could give an
estimate. Like his areas of interest tho.

A simpler way is to count the number of records beginning with "B" or "H" and multiplying the result by 26.    Words beginning with "B" or "H" each constitute about 1/26 (3.84%) of the total amount of English words.  (H = 3.75% and B = 3.86)

The beginning letters of proper names are not distributed the same as the beginning letters of English words generally,   but I like this crude and simple method.