Mats Gustafsson's vinyl collection!

[clifford_thornton]

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hello Jazzmoose!

[rostasi]

  On 2/10/2017 at 3:32 PM, Dmitry said:

Yeah, but can your pussy do the dog?

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 I have that t-shirt too! (it gets comments!)

[lipi]

  On 2/10/2017 at 1:46 PM, 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!).

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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]

  On 2/10/2017 at 10:56 PM, 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.

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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.

 

[rostasi]

Yes, all three of those recommendations are excellent starting points!

[lipi]

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

[Jazzmoose]

  On 2/10/2017 at 3:32 PM, clifford_thornton said:

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hello Jazzmoose!

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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 8:12 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.

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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.