Has the bottom fallen out of the Mosaic market?

[jazzbo]

"Domination" fell in the domain of another record conglomeration at the time. I really find myself less and less interested in Nelson arranging as time goes by. His playing though is something to marvel at. 

[Tjazz]

So somebody is selling MP3 on ebay.   He sold a couple of Maynard sets for $250!!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MOSAIC-COMPLETE-MAYNARD-FERGUSON-ON-ROULETTE-5-TRACKS-AND-BONUS-DISCS/333420443354?hash=item4da16836da:g:M9sAAOSwVXdcN5z1

[Brad]

10 minutes ago, Tjazz said:

So somebody is selling MP3 on ebay.   He sold a couple of Maynard sets for $250!!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MOSAIC-COMPLETE-MAYNARD-FERGUSON-ON-ROULETTE-5-TRACKS-AND-BONUS-DISCS/333420443354?hash=item4da16836da:g:M9sAAOSwVXdcN5z1

He’s making copies of the set. That is an unauthorized copying. FWIW, I’ve reported him. 

[David Ayers]

He still has a photo of genuine(-looking) Mosaic discs, though. Chancer. 

[king ubu]

Perfectly legal in Trumpistan, I guess?

[Rooster_Ties]

48 boxes, 43 booklets, NO CD's...  

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MOSAIC-LIMITED-EDITION-BOX-COLLECTION-48-Boxes-43-Booklets-NO-CDS/254443225084?hash=item3b3dff7ffc

[jazzbo]

I can see this happening. If I were to pass this week and my wife were to have to deal with my collection she'd see the discs first and sell those and then later find all the boxes and booklets in storage. . . .

[gmonahan]

Just now, jazzbo said:

I can see this happening. If I were to pass this week and my wife were to have to deal with my collection she'd see the discs first and sell those and then later find all the boxes and booklets in storage. . . .

Yeah, I've actually written a letter for my heirs as part of my will pointing to the need to put them all together!!

 

 

 

gregmo

[Big Beat Steve]

@jazzbo &gmonahan: You never refer to the large booklets (not the small session detail listings inside the jewel cases) when you listen to your Mosaics? And even put them out of reach in "storage"?

"Storage wars" fare one day, maybe, then?

[Brad]

My Mosaics are all together. 

[sidewinder]

Wasn’t there someone on the Board who had many of their boxes destroyed due to a youngster using them for Playtime construction projects? 

[gmonahan]

1 minute ago, Big Beat Steve said:

@jazzbo &gmonahan: You never refer to the large booklets (not the small session detail listings inside the jewel cases) when you listen to your Mosaics? And even put them out of reach in "storage"?

"Storage wars" fare one day, maybe, then?

The booklets are all shelved right next to my recliner! But they are separate from the cds, which are shelved with all my other cds in alphabetical order. The boxes, on the other hand, are in my storage shed! So the three components are in different places--only slightly different for cds and booklets.

As Danny Kaye used to say, "Get it? Got it? Good!" 

 

gregmo

[Big Beat Steve]

Good. Makes sense for the booklets but a pity for the boxes. Be sure to keep the rodents out over there. 

[felser]

18 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

The booklets are all shelved right next to my recliner! But they are separate from the cds, which are shelved with all my other cds in alphabetical order. The boxes, on the other hand, are in my storage shed! So the three components are in different places--only slightly different for cds and booklets.

As Danny Kaye used to say, "Get it? Got it? Good!" 

 

gregmo

Speaking of Danny Kaye, my favorite thing I have ever seen on network television is this episode of the 80's Twlight Zone, called "Paladin of the Lost Hour".   Based on an award-winning Harlan Ellison story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_of_the_Lost_Hour

Closing narration is :

 

“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, time carries away the names and deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. A blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk.”

OK, back to storing your Mosaic sets, or lamenting that they aren't selling on demand at $200 anymore.

[Misterioso]

54 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Wasn’t there someone on the Board who had many of their boxes destroyed due to a youngster using them for Playtime construction projects? 

Ouch

[Daniel A]

1 hour ago, Misterioso said:

Ouch

 

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Wasn’t there someone on the Board who had many of their boxes destroyed due to a youngster using them for Playtime construction projects? 

As I remember it, it was one box (Andrew Hill?) used as a drawing board for the kids in the backseat of the car. Then, suddenly, the box was gone. 

[jazzbo]

3 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

@jazzbo &gmonahan: You never refer to the large booklets (not the small session detail listings inside the jewel cases) when you listen to your Mosaics? And even put them out of reach in "storage"?

"Storage wars" fare one day, maybe, then?

Honest to gosh I avoid blows to the head and brain cell destroying things and I have a pretty darned good memory, not "photographic," but pretty darned good. I read those booklets a few times before storing them, and I remember what I need to from them. I do on occasion pluck a few out to peruse while going through the sets, they are in climate controlled storage and in a cabinet I can access easily.

[Chuck Nessa]

Only in America.

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, Daniel A said:

 

As I remember it, it was one box (Andrew Hill?) used as a drawing board for the kids in the backseat of the car. Then, suddenly, the box was gone. 

That’s the one I was thinking of, Daniel. The Hill box - yikes !

[David Ayers]

Some of my Mosaic jewel cases are a bit scuffed. Some of the inserts have kinks and fingerprints. I’m a bad bad man. 

[mjzee]

2 hours ago, David Ayers said:

Some of my Mosaic jewel cases are a bit scuffed. Some of the inserts have kinks and fingerprints. I’m a bad bad man. 

You a badass!    Do you also throw out OBI strips?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, mjzee said:

You a badass!    Do you also throw out OBI strips?

I always threw out obi strips. In fact, for my first purchases of TOCJ CDs, I pulled out the staples from the booklet and threw out the Japanese liner notes and just kept the folded up paper with the English liners.  I don't do that anymore, but at the time, they just made the booklet thicker and harder to pull out so I got rid of them.

[David Ayers]

2 hours ago, mjzee said:

You a badass!    Do you also throw out OBI strips?

Um...

 

Perhaps weirdly, I had kept all the OBIs from the Conn series (not in a climate controlled cabinet), then on a whim threw away HALF of them. And kept the other half. Why?

[Brad]

5 hours ago, David Ayers said:

Some of my Mosaic jewel cases are a bit scuffed. Some of the inserts have kinks and fingerprints. I’m a bad bad man. 

Jewel cases are easily replaced. I’m anal about getting rid of scuffed ones. 

[mjzee]

17 minutes ago, David Ayers said:

Perhaps weirdly, I had kept all the OBIs from the Conn series (not in a climate controlled cabinet), then on a whim threw away HALF of them. And kept the other half. Why?

Obviously symptomatic of a deep ambivalence: resentment towards having to keep them, vs. worry about ramifications of discarding them.  This can be treated, however!  Just make an appointment.