The biggest collections I missed (and couldn’t have stored anyway) were Tom Chandler with 1.5 million, Music Man Murray with 1 million (both collections purchased by the Brasillian collector Zero Freitas ( https://thevinylfactory.com/features/inside-the-worlds-biggest-record-collection-an-interview-with-zero-freitas/) and Michael Lane with 250,000 mint condition classical 78s. I live in the Los Angeles area and have had access to garage sales and collections over the years. I stopped looking for at least a decade and built up my CD collection because they now sound like great analog (especially the Living Presence, Living Stereo and Jazz CDs I’ve purchased). I don’t read books as much as periodicals such as Films of the Golden Age, Chocolatier in Desserts, Moment, Fortune, Westways, Smithsonian, Absolute Sound and Stereophile as well as two daily and one weekly paper. I also still work about 25-30 hours weekly, do the shopping, financials, etc. The LPs worth $50+ in the Tom Null collection were pre-purchased by a local rare record dealer in a package deal although I still found some which he didn’t know about among the 200,000 remaining. I read that Freitas now has at least 8.5 million records.
Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer
I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.
Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.
Mike
- ...
- 177 posts total
- 177 posts total