It started with a babysitter. In 1969, my parents went out of town and left me and my brother with one of my father’s graduate students. I...

Tommy Artwork autographed  by Daltrey It all happened between 1969 and 1971 for me . Tommy, Woodstock, Live at Leeds, Meaty, Beaty Big And ...

Just holding an LP by Pink Floyd immediately takes me to a very special place. From my first experience with them, they have been the exempl...

Famous Flying Eyeball by Rick Griffin Poster from the Denver Pop Festival June 1969 Final show by The Jimi Hendrix Experience To  m y mind J...

Within my first two years of being in business I got two big introductions to Blue Note records. The first came when a guy named Bob came ...

I’ve never been motivated by autographs. Whenever I meet famous people it rarely occurs to me to ask them to autograph something. Not everyo...

My dear friend and former employee Peter Fast used to say “You CAN tell a book by its cover.” When it came to records we both firmly belie...

Iconoclast, auteur, philosopher, social commentator, genius. My relationship with Frank Zappa began, like it did for many, in 1969...

Since my earliest days as a record collector, my obsession with the art form has extended to the artwork on the covers of the records I love...

One of the very few modern psych bands of the 1980’s worthy of the title were English band Spacemen 3. In 1990 when they broke up, guitarist...

For me it started in the very early 1960s. A relative had a summer rental on Long Island, and we spent a couple of lazy weeks on the East Co...