We found the Dennis Coffey album, Finger Lickin’ Good on Westbound, in a collection that came in today.  I kept it, rather than sell it.  I was hoping it would be more Scorpio-like, but it was a little disco-y for my taste.  Side 2 is better though, more funkish and featured more of Dennis’s guitar.  Overall it’s still good.  Did you know that Dennis Coffey was one of the original Funk Brothers?

We once had a Dennis Coffey and Lymon Woodard Organization LP but we sold it - I doubt if we’ll see it again.  We haven’t gotten this one before so I thought I’d better keep it.  Justin got to keep a rough but playable Contours first album in exchange.  We also got to draft some records on yesterday too - some reggae and sowetto albums.  So I got to add to my local section, my funk section, and my reggae section. 

When is a record collection complete?  Justin and I are pretty selective these days - but we do have a gazillion records at the shop.  Still, it’s never enough.  The new records I brought home will get filed away and then I’ll want more.  It’s always the thrill of the new find, of the new collection.  I wonder when I’ll stop and say - that’s it - no more records!  Probably half of my records at home I’ve listened to once.  It is nice, though, to browse through and say, oh yeah! and put something on that I’ve forgotten about.

I do keep it under control though - it’s more fun to add to my collection little by little and be fairly selective.  That way each record means something.  That’s something we always hear when buy a collection - “there’s a lot of memories in there.”  Some people have a hard time parting with them - other people just want to get rid of them. 

So when is a collection complete?  I guess it’s when the desire and interest fades away.  There’s just too many possibilities of undiscovered and hard to find music to have a complete collection of anything.  And there’s so many different ways to go about record collecting - I go after genres and certain areas of interest - but there’s others who collect labels or artists.

I guess the whole fun of record collecting is that it isn’t ever complete.  Maybe when the interest stops, that collection is then complete.  And it becomes complete when the interest stops.

I know mine isn’t complete yet so I’m still having fun.