[78-L] Huh?

[Thatcher Graham]

Speaking as what apparently qualifies as a young collector here...We are 
the exception, not the rule.

I find that music collectors just a bit younger than me don't even know 
78s existed.
Or if they do, don't understand the different between them and LPs. 
having never played records of any kind, they recognize them by diameter 
not material or playing speed. My interns abstain from physical media 
entirely - downloading and sharing digital media exclusively.  They see 
our hobby as a novelty.
The genre of music is not the obstruction. They just have no connection 
to physical media.

Personally I am fascinated most my early rock n' roll recordings which 
are (for the most part) neither rare nor hard to find.
No that it's the entirety of what I find interesting, but it's the music 
of my fathers youth and not my own.

-- Thatcher 





Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> How many of this demographic will be able to toletate the ubiquitous
>> efforts of Henry Burr et al; keep in mind that the accepted jazz 
>> recordings
>> of that period were sold in minimul quantities...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>     
>
>
>
> You're missing the point,  which is that collectors come to the music from a 
> variety of perspectives.    There are younger (under 40) collectors who are 
> fascinated by many early recordings,  which might include those of Henry 
> Burr.
>
> And so what if it doesn't?  Do we say that scholars and collectors have no 
> interest in English literature of the 1920s and 30s because novels by Hugh 
> Walpole no longer sell?  In his time,  Walpole was as popular a novelist as 
> Burr was a recording artist...now I'd say there is less demand for Walpole 
> books than there is for Burr records.
>
> And what exactly do you mean by "accepted jazz recordings"?  Ones which have 
> been tested and  passed by the USDA?  Is the Whiteman Victor of "Lonely 
> Melody" with a fantastic Bix solo not one of the "accepted" disks?    It 
> certainly wasn't sold in any sort of "minimul" quantities,  or minimal ones 
> either.  I'll bet you have more than one copy in your milk crates right now.
>
> And...how do you figure that a budding record collector has only the two 
> choices you mention,  i.e. collecting early records by Burr and others or 
> going after expensive,  much-in-demand  jazz records which were issued in 
> small pressings?  That leaves out a lot of interesting music available on 
> records which don't cost an arm and a leg (unless arms and legs are only 
> going for a few bucks each these days).
>
>
> Comment sa va (as you so often say yourself)!?
>
>
>
> Taylor
>
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