Sideshow Bob Has 11,901 GD Cassettes !

What have I created?!

he also had a very important engineering job in case you didn't hear...

Pave the planet

sounds like a hoarding problem

Good Work!!!!!  I'm LMAO!  Meanwhile I sit here listening to Miles Davis albums on You Tube as I have nothing that works to play back the cassettes.  Or DAT's.  Or Digital PCM's.  Or Beta/VHS videos.  Or my vinyl records.  But I don't have a sbd of Saratoga '83 so no one is gonna be breaking in to steal anything anytime soon.

Any GD/JGB/Dead related stuff I have has long since been surpassed by what's out there on Archive/etree/sugar megs/etc.  My old school taper buddies are trying to get all our aud recordings of non-GD, which we have quite a few of, onto Dime A Dozen before the tape turns to dust.  Several dozen have already been uploaded, more every few weeks.  Those guys mastered everything before 1989, as they owned the mic's, I used to just help.  The only masters I have are after I bought my mic's (AKG 451's) in Oct '89 onward.

I'll try to post some pictures.  Yeah the 11,900 number was a joke based on Johnny D's 119 #, it's far less than half that in reality . . .

& oh yeah I retired now so I'm not very important anymore.  All the jobs I was managing are stuck in the run around now.  Guess I can be proud of that . . .

Yes hoarding & using up the planet's resources for self centered indulgences.  But that's how it was back in the day.  I got caught up in the frenzy, what can I say.  It's all very well organized & documented, if a bit dusty:

Had to break into 3 parts to fit w/in 1k x 1k size limit:

photo's go from right to left, on east side of rec room basement.

It does not make me happy thinking about what my 457/401k/IRA's would be like if I'd invested instead of pissing $$$$ away on this "hobby".  But those are life experiences I'd not really change one iota.  May seem to the rest of you "normal" folks like something a real basket case social neurotic/psychotic might do, but tape trading & taping required A LOT of social networking & really helped me develop social skills, believe it or not.

...also EVERY dresser drawer you see is full of them too, all organized, there are so many...everywhere you turn ...there are more ...lol !  The first time I went there I was amazed and that he had built all the shelves too. 



I told him he was right to not have had children as these/this hobby were his children :) ( In a kind way I mean that, he knows)...and jlp knows, she lived it with him...what memories they have of that time together taping. I love hearing the stories ...wonderful and funny !

Impressive to say the least, but w drawers...im only seeing 11, 899....

That's an awful lot of tapes, plf will not be happy. Nice organization though.

I really appreciate the map globe. I'm going to ask for a nice one for Christmas.

Damn. That's one hell of a collection, SS.

Where's your Darth Vader chair?

I work with teenagers who used to be labeled "Asperger's Syndrome", something I believe our Mr. Bob has alluded to in the past.

Those photos are EXACTLY what I would expect my students basements to look like.

Almost overwhelming. Everything VERY organized, VERY extensive. Everything just exactly perfect.

And I bet you don't REALLY want to give all that up, do you Bob?

nice sideshow.

what's in the laterals? more tapes or posters?

I like Mr. SideShow.  He is a cool Zoner fellow,  and I've camped out and had Lunch with that Guy.  His Crazy engineering Tales are quite entertaining.

It is great that he has amassed such a Tape Collection,  and offered to share with other Zoners. 

Mr. SilentMark turned me on to his Maxell  Archive, and I have been listening,  one Tape at a Time.  Thanks again, Mr. SilentMark 

My belief is that those two fellows would get along great,  and have lengthy discussions regarding microphone angles and Magical cable displacements.
They are both Civil Engineering types with Tapir Backgrounds.  A million great Ideas to share regarding Tapir strategies.

Nice organization though.<<

I'n envious of that.  I have stuff that's 2-3 deep, depending on the storage.  As a result I only play cassettes grabbed randomly.

Sideshow states:

"Any GD/JGB/Dead related stuff I have has long since been surpassed by what's out there on Archive/etree/sugar megs/etc. "

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Sideshow do you have any masters or shows that have not gotten out to the community...Especially JGB?

Do you have a list?

Did you make those shelves yourself?

Thanks.

-p

Yes probably quite a few GD/JGB masters but doubt they'd be of much interest to anyone - mainly from less than ideal spots made w/ less than great mic's (nak 300's prior to Sept '89, AKG 451's after that).  Anything I have of interest to anyone would most definitely be non-GD, & we're working on getting it all onto Dime . . .

Yes my list was all detailed about mic source, generation, location, etc, it's probably somewhere on a 3.5" floppy disk, not sure if I have a printed copy laying around somewhere.

Yes I built all the shelves myself, I'm going to donate them to the college radio station where I may be dj-ing soon.

You guys think this is nerdy/Aspergers, wait'll I unpack my HO Scale model train collection.  I scratchbuilt many bridges, buildings, etc, when I was 11 - 12 -13 -14 years old.

Also several parties have "raped" my collection over the years, even before the CD/internet era, so a lot of my stuff may already be out there.  That's how the JGB shows I did tape that were better than anyone else's (Providence 91 & 93) ended up in those "tour collections"

No means no.