The Italian Prog Appreciation den

Most of it all is attributed to being a naïve stupid youth and going through many different phases.  Actually some of the moves were part of the calamity (seemed to be the best word). 

On one move in the 80’s, the movers lost one box of vinyl albums, which the reimbursement was a joke.  So a few years later during another move, I decided to carry the albums myself in the pickup truck.  Once our destination was reached, I discovered a rope had broken and a couple of boxes were missing, one of them were more vinyl records.  So somewhere on the Pennsylvania Turnpike albums must have been strewn all over the highway or became part of the woods and is now become mulch.  Anyone who has traveled that highway knows about the infamous potholes in the road, so that must have been what happened.  That left about one box of vinyls left and the beginning of Cassettes and CD collection.

The last box of vinyl records is where the wife compromise comes into play (sorry no favors being withheld stories).  Being only a couple of years in marriage, I traveled out of town quite a bit for work and the wife was left to manage the home nest (Pierre should like the nest reference), which was not large in those days so space was at a premium.  So when out of town, she said she wanted to get rid of a few things for more space and I no longer had my record player by then, she wanted to get rid of the last box of vinyl records, being a young dumb husband, I said yes since I was more into classical music at that time and did not think vinyl would be worth much anymore.  A regret that still haunts me...

One final calamity involved part of the CD collection after yet another move.  It seems someone mis-labeled the contents of one of the boxes and later we donated it to charity thinking it was something else.  So hopefully somebody is enjoying those CDs.  I still suspect her to this day on that box labeling, I think she is jealous of my music.

Anyway, everything is triple backed up digitally now on separate hard drives, even what CDs I do have now have been converted.