Steven J. Gross
Well-Known Member
I have to kind of strain my memory on this.... This all transpired between 1972-73 when I was 12 to 13... As I started taking my filmmaking seriously I had pulled several of my parents albums form their collection and used them to play along with. my films... I know they had Herb's Lonely Bull, WC&OD, SotB and S.R.O.. From the BMB they had For Animals Only and maybe one other early one. And I believe they had one of the first two A&M Sergios... My paper route money from age 12 to 15 funded both my filmmaking AND my record collecting. In Canoga Park there was a great little new & used record shop that had been around since the 1950s called "Pal's Records." One day my dad took me there and I remember buying six albums, my first purchases of records with my own $. Used records were either $1.59 or $1.89 at Pals. Those first six (all used, of course) were (IIRC): Herb's Ninth, Sounds Like, Going Places, and BMB's Watch Out and Heads Up and the Something Festive compilation. The following Christmas my parents got me Brass Are Comin' and Volume II. I later bought (new from Pal's) BMB's Rides Again (the only thing besides Greatest Hits still in print at that point). Shortly after that I remember buying both Solid Brass and Summertime, new, at K-Mart, as well as Herb's and BMB's Foursiders, followed shortly by the excitement of the new TJB's You Smile, The Song Begins.
--Mr Bill
Did you ever see this thread Bill? Hey Mr. Bill, A Blast From Our Past!I have to kind of strain my memory on this.... This all transpired between 1972-73 when I was 12 to 13... As I started taking my filmmaking seriously I had pulled several of my parents albums form their collection and used them to play along with. my films... I know they had Herb's Lonely Bull, WC&OD, SotB and S.R.O.. From the BMB they had For Animals Only and maybe one other early one. And I believe they had one of the first two A&M Sergios... My paper route money from age 12 to 15 funded both my filmmaking AND my record collecting. In Canoga Park there was a great little new & used record shop that had been around since the 1950s called "Pal's Records." One day my dad took me there and I remember buying six albums, my first purchases of records with my own $. Used records were either $1.59 or $1.89 at Pals. Those first six (all used, of course) were (IIRC): Herb's Ninth, Sounds Like, Going Places, and BMB's Watch Out and Heads Up and the Something Festive compilation. The following Christmas my parents got me Brass Are Comin' and Volume II. I later bought (new from Pal's) BMB's Rides Again (the only thing besides Greatest Hits still in print at that point). Shortly after that I remember buying both Solid Brass and Summertime, new, at K-Mart, as well as Herb's and BMB's Foursiders, followed shortly by the excitement of the new TJB's You Smile, The Song Begins.
--Mr Bill
I have also weeded out a lot of duplicates. In my case, I was looking for better playing copies of records, only I never got rid of the lesser copies. As for CD vs. LP, I still may keep both versions. For something like Herb's recent remasters, I only need the high-res downloads and I'm good. (I also bought the remastered LP versions that were released at the same time.) Keeping the Herb Alpert Presents CDs or those really old releases from the late 80s makes zero sense to me--they don't sound as good, and they waste precious space. I'm not obsessed with different masterings, mono vs. stereo, different pressing plants, etc. I've always seen myself as a collector of the music, not of physical versions of recordings. Just point me to the best-sounding version and that's my keeper. 
, so those aren't even worth anything. 
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