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Nothing Ventured

The wave towered over me. Then the sound filled my ears. Not the calm breath of the waves;  but it was surf music. I was maybe 3. Song names and artist names were beyond me. There was only the blue-green wave and the twang of the guitar. 

I have chased music all my life. Just had to figure out the tools. The record player and the giant speakers taught my first lesson: pressing buttons was joy.  In my pursuit I learned in about records, tapes, CDs, mp3, flac, streaming, Napster, torrents, Winamp, VLC, blanks, CD-R/RWs, compression, bit rates, conversion, transfer, backups, VPN, networking, impedance matching, DACs, amplifiers, calibration, ARC, fibre, buying, licensing, and streaming in approximate order. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCmXGJXblY

I discovered that they were called The Ventures by accident. Late in the college years I watched Pulp Fiction and wanted all the music. This one wasn’t quite home but it was the right street. It was surf music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ65e9QHRMY

The hunt was on. Only a notion of the song and the confidence that I would know it when I heard it. I didn’t know the name of the album only that it had a big wave on the cover. It took me the better part of 6 months, on slow DSL, trawling all the sources I knew. Listening for that drum fade-in. Then one day I found it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6V50YhyAQ

It’s been decades since the record player stopped spinning. I’ve moved a dozen times, the records were lost. I am the default A/V guy and love the role. Now I live in one of the surfiest places on the planet, the current still pulls but I walk, don’t run. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW21rcHiVU0

#audioGear #audiophile #californiaSurfCulture #childhoodMemories #DSLInternet #memoir #musicBlog #musicCollecting #musicDiscovery #musicHunting #musicMemories #musicNostalgia #musicTechnology #personalEssay #pulpFictionSoundtrack #retroMusic #soundtracks #surfMusic #theVentures #vinylRecords

Finally cleaned and pushed a small project: Awesome List Of Music Retailers.

A collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

https://codeberg.org/jasonnab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

Upstream:
https://git.nabein.me/docs/plain/Audio%20and%20Video/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers/

#Datahoarder #music #MusicCollecting #DRMFree #codeberg #AwesomeList #AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers #datahoarding

Finally cleaned and pushed a small project: Awesome List Of Music Retailers.

A collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

https://codeberg.org/jasonnab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

Upstream:
https://git.nabein.me/docs/plain/Audio%20and%20Video/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers/

#Datahoarder #music #MusicCollecting #DRMFree #codeberg #AwesomeList #AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers #datahoarding

Finally cleaned and pushed a small project: Awesome List Of Music Retailers.

A collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

https://codeberg.org/jasonnab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

Upstream:
https://git.nabein.me/docs/plain/Audio%20and%20Video/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers/

#Datahoarder #music #MusicCollecting #DRMFree #codeberg #AwesomeList #AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers #datahoarding

Finally cleaned and pushed a small project: Awesome List Of Music Retailers.

A collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

https://codeberg.org/jasonnab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

Upstream:
https://git.nabein.me/docs/plain/Audio%20and%20Video/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers/

#Datahoarder #music #MusicCollecting #DRMFree #codeberg #AwesomeList #AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers #datahoarding

Finally cleaned and pushed a small project: Awesome List Of Music Retailers.

A collection-in-progress of online stores offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats.

https://codeberg.org/jasonnab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

Upstream:
https://git.nabein.me/docs/plain/Audio%20and%20Video/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers/

#Datahoarder #music #MusicCollecting #DRMFree #codeberg #AwesomeList #AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers #datahoarding

I’m going through the long process of sorting through my digital music collection now that I have it all on one server. It’s devastating to find out a program I used to use resized most my cover art to 500x500px and I don’t have backups for a lot of it. I’m devastated but undeterred.
#Music #Albums #MusicCollecting

I’m going through the long process of shutting through my digital music collection now that I have it all on one server. It devastating to find out a program I used to use resized most my cover art to 500x500px and I don’t have backups for a lot of it. I’m devastated but undeterred.
#Music #Albums #MusicCollecting

I’m going through the long process of sorting through my digital music collection now that I have it all on one server. It’s devastating to find out a program I used to use resized most my cover art to 500x500px and I don’t have backups for a lot of it. I’m devastated but undeterred.
#Music #Albums #MusicCollecting

I’m going through the long process of sorting through my digital music collection now that I have it all on one server. It’s devastating to find out a program I used to use resized most my cover art to 500x500px and I don’t have backups for a lot of it. I’m devastated but undeterred.
#Music #Albums #MusicCollecting