Vinyl People from Howard Silver on Vimeo.
I started collecting records when I turned 11 and I have never looked back. The very first piece of vinyl I bought with my own birthday money was Billy Joel "Glasshouses". There was definitely something empowering about being able to contribute to the Saturday morning record sessions conducted by my father on his direct drive Marantz turntable. I remember being mesmerized by the tiny reflective balls illuminated red by some mysterious light source emanating from the insides of the turntable. I imagined them as little blobs of oil out of the lava lamp my uncle Victor had in his apartment years ago. The weekend play list my father spun was seemingly endless, especially if we had company. It was a toss up if you really were trying to nail down a genre that was my father's favourite but it teetered between Motown and Rock Latino most days but in the evenings he slowed it down for the ladies with some Sergio Mendes and Sad Bastard Music that they listened to in Ecuador lamenting their lost loves and such and such.
I have currently amassed a collection so incredibly huge and ever propagating that it has moved into the realms of insanity but I am always looking for more.Enjoy the video.
now fudge yourself
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