Vinyl fetishist

Moved all my records to crates last night... I think the hit-to-miss ratio is pretty good i. Just look at the first ones in each bin (startng at top left, clockwise): Fuzztones are garage rock, Toots and the Maytals are old-school reggae, Mad Parade are 1.5-generation punks, and ABC are classic new wave. Not a bad sampling of what I was into from high school through the advent of DVDs. I totally forgot that I had some signed records, too. These are from way before GR, showing that I'm more of a fan and collector of culture than a journalist or critic. Not to suggest that I don't have taste or standards.


Exene is not only one of the first individuals you think of when it comes to L.A. punk, but she also might have the best penmanship. (Penpersonship?)


This is from an REM in-store in the Valley in support of Fables. Stipe and Peter Buck used ball-point pen, so you can barely see their signatures and sketches.


I know Marky didn't drum on this album, but I'm not complaining. Even atheists agree that The Ramones are gods. (Also, I'll run into Tommy one of these days.)


This is a real time capsule of what was hot in the early '90s: Grand Royal Records and 90210! This was signed at the X-Large store in Los Feliz, and the Australian teen was backed by The Spinanes.