Enough Is Enough

Introduction

This is just a piece I have been considering for a few days because I feel I have finally completed my vinyl record collection. Although the reality is that I will still buy vinyl, CDs and the odd download which I will burn to CD, it just that I have finally got hold of all the vinyl albums that have difficult to get hold of presentations.

That is also not to say that I will find something that I was unaware of and then will go chasing after that one.

I was thinking that this would be a Confessional piece, but as it's about by vinyl record collection, it will go in the Vocal Beat Community.

So What Completed My Collection?

It was a copy of the orginal cover "Electric Ladyland" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I will share the Discogs listing. Note the cover features many naked women holding copies of the band's first two albums. Jimi didn;t like it at first but then said he was cool with it.

Many record shops refused to stock it, or sold it with the cover inside out or it brown paper bags. The music within is still superb and my favourite song inspired this story:

The take on "All Along The Watchtower" combines the talents of two musical genii , Dylan wrote the song and Hendrix took it to heavenly levels.

So How Did I Get To This Situation

I ditched my vinyl collection and moved to CD when my daughter Juliet (Aged about 3) showed me what she could do to a vinyl record with the turntable arm and needle.

In the new millennium I started my vinyl cllection because there were records that were unavailable digitally, and the first was "Mau Mau" by Earle Mankey (ex Sparks guitarist). I still don't know it is available digitally.

I need to buy a record player so bought a briefcase style one with and MP3 recording option like the one above, adequate but not the best.

My friend Marek pushed me to get a real record player, and my son-in-law Mark told me to not buy anying made after 1990 as they had built in obsolescence so I bould the one that you can read about below, and it sounds amazing, and is still going very strong.

I then started recreating my teenage record collection that you can check out here:

This one shares some of the more out-there designs of records that I have added to my collection.

In the main story image there are a few of my interesting album covers.

For "Thick As A Brick" the Jethro Tull version, the band took longer to create the broadsheet newspaper sleeve that the did to write and produce the actual album.

The Bob Marley one (which is not actually credited to Bob Marley but The Wailers featuring Bob Marley) had to be produced by hand because there was no mechanical way to connect both halves of the cover together, so when the initial 20,000 wer produced they changed the cover to a simpler version. A little more info in this piece.

The Horslips one, "Happy To Meet...Sorry To Part", I just saw at a record stall and bought it immediately. I could have got it cheaper on Discogs, but this is why, while I say my vinyl collection is complete, it is probably not.

I'll close this with another expensive but excellent album that took a lot of effort to track down:

Conclusion

I hope you have found something to interest you in here and the linked articles.

Thank you so much for reading.

The music is appropriately "Too Much Ain't Enough" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.