Pete’s been collecting records since he had two quarters to rub together and has over 5,000 albums–mostly classic jazz–and like a lot of music snobs, he loves vinyl. He thinks that somehow it sounds better. I think he likes the way it spins on the turntable and the ritual of gently dropping the needle down to make it play. There is also the look and feel of the album covers which he actually reads–in detail. You can learn a lot about music this way, and he certainly has.
Pete is by nature a collector of old stuff. (If he were an animal, he’d be a hermit crab, finding some fascinating, abandoned piece of junk and moving in). But he mostly loves to collect great songs for us to play.
Here’s Pete with the first album he ever bought, “Boss Beat” by the great drummer Sandy Nelson, which, of course, he still owns.