Please adopt me Mr. Duke.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:19 PM Subject: (313) vinyl addiction was re: More new purchases and fuller reviews of last weeks stuff
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:25:45 -0500, "Thomas D. Cox, > Jr." wrote: > > > no matter what its still a better addiction than drugs > > or drink or > > gambling : ) > > i justify my record collection--(and it is not easy in > the face of friends, fiance, and parents who, every > time i move, plead: "andrew, why don't you get rid of > the--at least some--records!" moving for me has always > been about two steps: #1: a load of all the records, > #2: a load with everything else :))--with the legacy i > want to leave my children (don't have any yet, but in > the future): i want my daughter(s) and/or son(s) to > grow up listening to stevie wonder and mantronix and > public enemy and juan atkins and etc etc; and i want > them to have the records (and my 1200s) when they're > old enough and hopefully they'll pass the records (and > the 1200s) on to their kids when that time comes and so > on and so on. heck, 99% of these records don't even > exist on cd, and that alone makes them unique. i > worked at a music store for a couple of years a few > years back (we sold new and used cds) and it was a very > very sad thing to see that the majority of the people > had collections (judging from what was sold) that were > all UNunique ie one averaged person's collection was > very similar to another's and if you had 10 collections > in front of you, there would be about 90% crossover > between them. i want a unique musical environment for > my kids growing up. (i had to grow up in a house with > abba, fleetwood mac, supertramp, barbra streisand, etc, > etc; i don't mind fleetwood mac and supertramp, but to > this day, listening to abba and barbra streisand make > me gag! i still remember the day clearly when i was > babysitting--probably aged 16 or so--for a family one > night and i dug through their record collection and > came upon early genesis, tangerine dream, and frank > zappa records. wow! what an ear-opener after all that > abba and barbra i had been inundated with whilst > growing up in the duke household!) i look forward to a > day in the future when my kids are looking back on > their childhood and talk about growing up in a house > where good music was always being played--and on > record, not CD--and talk about stevie wonder, > mantronix, public enemy, juan atkins, et al to their > classmates and do it with JOY, not with the sad > remembrance of being inundated growing up having to > listen over and over to something like the 00's > equivalent of abba or barbra. so i feel my collection > is not just for me now, it is also for the future--my > future family's future--and to perpetuate the future > memories of these artists. > andrew duke > > Jason Trenholm was born 31 August 1969 and died > 1 January 2004. We met when we were 5 years old; > he was my best friend for the next 29 years.***** > Andrew Duke releases out now: > Take Nothing For Granted http://cognitionaudioworks.com > Environmental Politics http://and-oar.org > Sprung http://bip-hop.com > http://warprecords.com/mart/music/release.php? > cat=BLEEP12&fc_type=CD > *Canadian electronica album of the year nominee* > More Destructive Than Organized http://staalplaat.com > Highest Common Denominator http://pieheadrecords.com > Physical and Mental Health http://dialrecords.com > 74'02 (split with Hypo) http://tsunami-addiction.com > http://cognitionaudioworks.com
