March Madness! The Most Vinyl Community-ish Video Ever. Gear Talk. Purging. Record Collection Tour. 

Well that was the fanciest room tour I have ever seen with color and graphics and then even arrows. I am voting this video for a VC award next year for best use of technology in giving a room tour. I’m pretty sure that is a category. Very enjoyable Jon. Glad I’m not an audiophile and I’m also totally clueless and could care less. Amen

Fun video and you touch on a lot of challenges many record collectors face. I have decided to do more listening rather than buying records. As you say, there's a lot of records that just sit on the shelf and are never listened to!

Pack Power!!!!!! My favorite team was the 73-74 era with that first national championship. My Dad took us to see games when Thompson and Towe were freshman and couldn't play on the varsity and those Freshman games were so good. But the next year we couldn't go anymore because it was always a sellout. As for your collection, very impressive organization, but those visual aids were just you showing off!!!!! Or maybe it's just the boomer in me that makes me jealous of your skills. I completely understand your gear perspective. I like used gear because I can get better equipment cheaper, and have the time to work on it when I can and when I can't I have the retiree benefit of flexible time to get it to the repair guy. If you were to start a tag now that would be a mind blower so yes, please do one, hopefully a quirky, random one. Take care my friend, and go State!

DJ Burns 🔥 is the star 🌟 of this tournament & a joy to watch. Duke V Houston was like 80's basketball 🏀. It will be must see TV 📺 tonight & tomorrow , South Carolina will likely take out Caitlin & Iowa. Swans & Slowdive later this month but Masters ⛳️ is first. " Hello Friends "

Yeah, when it comes to gear an old Vinyl sage in the nineties told me ‘when you get to a sound you are happy with..stop’ that was pretty good advise. I’ve probably bought 5k albums over fourty years and never spent more than £150.00 on a set of new speakers & £200 on an amp...btw I’m down to about 1500 records now...still to many. I think 750-1000 is the maximum Really. Great video btw. 😊

Loved seeing the Record Collection with the overlays - so cool.

Wow. Long Winters mentions bring a fella back a LOOOONNNNGGG way. Fun stuff. I remember they used to get played all the time on Jon In The Morning on KEXP. Enjoyed!😁

Loved this one. I’m with you about curating a collection. Let’s face it, streaming is always there if you get an itch and need to hear something you may only play once every 10 years. Loved seeing how you organize things. Congrats on upgrading your system. I hear you about not wanting to be an audiophile. I don’t consider myself one either, although we recently upgraded our turntable and now I start to see the speakers as being inferior. Ugh. It’s a no-win situation to always chase something.

Loved this one. Great intro... I think $30's to $40 is becoming the new standard. : / Have The Long Winters on the playlist now. You are right about the record collections that are beyond 2000, but I can't find myself purging in the near term. Also, that room tour was terrific. Thanks for sharing.

I am sorry Jon. I cannot watch this video. I thought that you were another proud audiophile like myself. 😎 Just kidding. Nothing against audiophiles. Everything is OK by me. There is no rules when it comes to record collecting. But like yourself. I dig it simple. Love the way that you did the colors on the different pods and boxes Jon. A solid collection. You got me again. First check out this evening will be Long Winters. Thanks Jon. Your editing was supreme~ Rob/Boston

Flashy video with top drawer Space Invader graphics, Jon. When you decide to go full diamond marimba on us, 'I am f***ing clueless' would be a great new channel name.

Cool graphics. Checking my mailbox everyday for my Zep boot. Cant wait!!

Jon, oh hell yea those Klipsch are awesome. I love ole school Klipsch, so to get those 800F ‘s half off. You got a steal my friend. I bet the sound is mind blowing. Great video. Loved the outlining of the collection. It is great you can hone your collection down. I can binge but I can’t purge. Peace ☮️ Namaste 🙏 the Zonkman

A man after my own not terribly handy heart. The main reason I wouldn't get a U-turn is that I'd have to install the belt myself. Nope. Forget it. On a side note, though I'm a bit older than John, I'm not anywhere near as grey. However I've never been able to grow a decent beard so there's always trade offs. Great video.

Echo this Jon, as I have banged-on about this subject too for the past year or so. I'm not far from my first goal of getting below 2,000 records. After that maybe I'll go for 1,500...2024 so far has been 25 records in and 80 records out. I'm quite ashamed about the 25 records in. I'm not a gear-head thankfully. I also don't have a clue about basketball. However the cricket season has just started over here and that is exciting. Also my football (soccer) team is in a final at Wembley tomorrow. Look forward to a mid-year tag...Hope you and yours are well, cheers Dale

Heck yeah the long winters… I don’t always kick myself for not buying records, but somewhere around the time of the ultimatum ep barsuk issued a tlw box and I wasn’t super into them, but felt I should get it and I didn’t and I wish I had. They also did that death cab one that they royally f’d up and i wish I’d gotten than one too. Saw these reissues for their albums and got a bit of sticker shock at the price, but yeah I’ll probably end up buying at the least this one and the ultimatum. Always like your honesty and realism in your videos.

So glad you like the Klipsch speakers (I know you said audiophiles kick rocks and don’t come in here lol)

Nice upgrades. I agree, you can keep it simple and things will improve dramatically. You basically upgraded the two most important parts of the chain, the entry and the exit point. Klipsch is always good indeed. As for purging, I don't disagree and have always done it (selling on discogs) but lately maybe less. I'm one of those 4000 plus records types you mention here, but I do listen to records all the time when possible (and I don't have kids which does help in terms of free time) but I absolutely agree that there are records which I rarely play.

I’ve been stressing this point about buying, buying, buying!!! It finally hit me!!(hard! Like a hard rain that I felt falling lol😯😬🙄) I realized even-my lil humble collection and the years I have left(that’s even taking my youthful life into the late 80s) I just don’t have enough time to appreciate them all, but!!! I desire too....when I ask some of our brothers here....when do you find time to listen to all these you buy??? I never get an answer....really like the tour brother J🙏🏻🎶

Hey now Jon I’ll be back, but not sure I ever told you my cousin Max Perry was one of the assistant coaches from the Jimmy V years...I’ve seen the ring up close and personal.....to be honest I told my uncle Max(big Max😊lil Max’s pop....that is the gaudiest ring I’ve ever seen 🤔😯☺️🤭.....go Pack!! Yes I’ve been a Boiler fan since the 60s....family kinda over rides it slightly....I know my pop 🙏🏻RIP would kinda like me to pull for him and NCST....he played in the late 50s....rock on Jon!!!

What you lack in gear knowledge you make up for in high-tech video transitions and graphics. The purge is strong with you it seems. It is something I can admire though I don't think I want to chop mine very much, or any more than I have. I'm at 5500 or so. My saving grace for having a "library" is doing a weekly radio show so I definitely pull a lot of older records on a weekly basis. But yeah, it does strike me there are many I will never hear in full again. Long Winters...a band I checked out briefly for a time but never got too deeply invested in them. I know I had that CD but I think I ended up keeping the New Pornos cds in place of this, mining similar territory. I like that samples way better than I remembered though.

Now, not knowing a thing about basketball, and being utterly confused by US college sport, I don't know if their are many Wolf Packs in the sport? I ponder this as I have a track on a German compilation of rare groovy country, funky R&B and odd garage 7"s called Funky Country, which has the track Fast David and The Wolf Pack by The Embers. It's an instrumental tune from the B-side of the single, but the A-side, featured on another comp from the label, called Fast David and The Wolf Pack pt 1, has vocals about this basketball player. The lyrics don't really give any clues as to who this is and where, but it does mention teams coming from the city to try to teach "us country boys" a lesson. North Carolina? Check out the tune, I'm sure it's on RU-vid. Cheers - Hedley

50 records is a "trim, don't take any off the top" a real PURGE is 50 to 90 percent of a collection. Purge is going to the very top on my next overused VC words list

Duke?? Loved Dean☺️😇

Roderick’s “Roderick On The Line” weekly pod is fantastic. Cool vid. 👍🏻

Waffle House Slicin’ Dicin’ Smotherin’ Twangin’ and Coverin’

Unfortunately, this is not one of those extraordinary things

“…buy vintage shit…” shush your mouth. 😊 And Go Pack!