In the mid to late 1990s I was deeply into Pink Floyd. I think we had dial up internet at the time, but I found this website pfroio database. I remember spending hours printing off all the bootleg CDs that were listed there with some reviews and I put them all in big a 3-ring binder. I would take that binder with me to record shows and stores trying to track down certain bootlegs. I'd save up some money and try to score some of the finer bootlegs. At $20-35 for a single CD and $40-70 for a double it got to be expensive fast! Finding one of the rarer ones was really rewarding experience. Of course I was trading cassette tapes at the same time. So my shelves filed up quick with PF bootleg CDs and tapes. As the years passed my obsession with Floyd faded, but once torrent downloading became a thing it reignited the passion and I downloaded probably hundreds of shows and remasters, all of a sudden...everything I could never find or didn't know existed was right there in front of me. So in my life I would say that I have had two major major Floyd obsessions. It is in hibernation now, but this is the closest thing I would say I've ever been to being a completist of anything. I do like to collect things and have various collections that come and go with time and interest.

I tried for quite sometime to acquire all the Allen Woody Gov't Mule SBD's.

the band has never been the same. Miss that guy.

John Steinbeck. Everything he wrote.

And Vonnegut too.

For years I read/collected nonfiction books about the old west. Got dozens of them. I was born 100 years too late. I shoulda been an old west cowboy.

🙁

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I went through big collecting jags for anything by Tommy Bolin, Steve Hackett, and Mick Taylor. Lotsa good stuff.

I tried for quite sometime to acquire all the Allen Woody Gov't Mule SBD's.

the band has never been the same. Miss that guy.

Same with me.

Still love them and always will but it is a different band minus Woody.

I collect early 1900's northwest Montana professional photographs, mostly Glacier Park and Flathead Lake. Kaiser, Hileman, etc. The detail on the old B&W's, one can magnify glass look at. I just scored a 1910 photo of Kalispell, from a hill, that has my house in it. Took me a long time to find it with a glass looking.

Before the TTB, I was a collector of Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's Soul Stew Revival and somewhere have the following shows:

06/08/07 Paolo Soleri Ampitheater
06/09/07 Paramount Theatre
06/13/07 4th & B
06/15/07 Ford Amphitheater
06/22/07 Oregon Zoo Ampitheater
09/03/07 Jazz Aspen Snowmass CD
12/27/07 Florida Theater CD
12/28/07 Count de Hoernle Amphitheatre
12/31/07 Fox Theatre
04/12/08 Spirit Of The Suwannee Music Park
07/28/08 Humphrey's
08/01/08 Hampton Beach Casino
12/31/08 Fox Theatre

John Steinbeck. Everything he wrote.

And Vonnegut too.

For years I read/collected nonfiction books about the old west. Got dozens of them. I was born 100 years too late. I shoulda been an old west cowboy.

🙁

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Nice stuff!! I do have a good lot of books that I don't think I can ever part with. One of our children moved out a few years ago, and I am in the process of turning that room into a library with all of our books and periodicals. Reading only.....no electronic devices allowed!! 😛 😛 😛 😛 😉 😉

Jim Harrison is one of the authors I have all of his stuff.

I collect early 1900's northwest Montana professional photographs, mostly Glacier Park and Flathead Lake. Kaiser, Hileman, etc. The detail on the old B&W's, one can magnify glass look at. I just scored a 1910 photo of Kalispell, from a hill, that has my house in it. Took me a long time to find it with a glass looking.

That sounds very cool!!! I love old photos like that. Picture of history.