I have been very busy these last few weeks traveling to view record collections from the boiling hot and smog-bound Hemet to beautiful mile high Idylwild and so on to fog-bound and chilly Pacifica just south of San Francisco with a trip to Los Angeles thrown in for good measure. The results are a severely [...]

It is with great sadness that I have to report that friend and fellow record nut (collector extraordinaire might be more accurate), Brooks Berdan, proprietor of Brooks Berdan Ltd in Monrovia, California passed away on July 8th. I have fond memories of digging through crate after crate of records at the Pasadena swap meet (back [...]

OK, so it’s not quite a torpedo and it’s nowhere near as heavy as it looks, but this big ‘ole thing turned up at Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks recently and via the bush telegraph, Tom Petty found out they had it in stock and bought it for his own collection of memorabilia. Pictured here [...]