Yes.

I mean, uh, he may have.

Chris is banned.

Don't you mean "European radio show CD releases"?

So, another typical day at IMWAN.

I’d like to speak hypothetically about myself for a moment, if I may.

If I was walking down the street and came across a rattlesnake and a bootleg CD on the sidewalk....both of them would bite me before I knew what either of them were.

For Jimmy I’d like to offer a non answer.

I believe he may have told me that he redirected all his bootleg buying money into his concert ticket fund. I definitely know that his personal ticket and merch buying practices kept Steve Forbert’s career churning for many years.

The Alan response version of THE LITTLE MINI JIMBO DROP!

This pic was in the can before Alan posted this to JFL.





He finds “The Meaning Of Life” CD ROM game? And “The Sea Tiger” written by Terry Jones? He was a MP devotee.

Also check out that Talking Heads box.

And how young is Chris Cornell on the cover of that reissue of Soundgarden’s first release?

And I believe that Dave’s picks counts as an “authorized” Grateful Dead bootleg!

The Boo Radleys I put in because they’re called the Boo Radleys.

Neil Young heard you knocking at “The Cellar Door”!

Posted this to JFL too!

Talking Heads box is great, but some have issues playing and/or ripping the DualDiscs... YMMV

i remember when dual-discs first came out and they were getting stuck in car CD players.

the small amount of thickness caused a whole of problems.

DualDisc was a great concept but terrible in practice. I only have one (The Last Great traffic Jam) because it was never made available as a CD only set.

THE GREAT UNBOXING LITTLE MINI JIMBO DROP!

This one is cool because I found it in the state where it looked the way Jimmy first got it unopened.



What could it be? I might need some “Help” opening this.



The sealed “Help deluxe limited edition DVD box set”! Too cool for words.



Unbelievably awesome contents I’ll probably never see because I’ll leave it sealed! It feels like I was the first to unbox its mystery contents.

JIMBO LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION UPDATE!

Today was a back breaker. First loading the truck up with supplies from Lowe’s. Then moving the rest of the boxes out of the library to clear the space for the next phase of construction. Subsequently fighting nightfall to rearrange stereo placement (etc) to make room for the supplies. Finally unloading the truck and placing the wood (and various sundries) back in allowing room for a workspace.



I’d say in about two or three weeks there’ll be another 18-20 feet of shelves.

Oh...AND NOTHING WILL STOP ME!

So impressive, Jack! True brotherly love.

Jack,

Just curious ... do you expect that the 18-20 feet of new shelves will be enough for the rest of the collection, or is this just an interim step in a larger plan? If it's the latter, where do you go next???

I'm feeling a little nervous about Jack's answer to Spiderboy's question and am picturing a warehouse much like the one at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

First of all. Thanks Jay, Spiderboy and Momo for the nice words. You are all great. Always feel happy hearing the thoughts of our IMWAN family.

Here’s the cheapo floor plans.



Imagine the rectangular outlines being the floorboards for perpendicular 8’ tall double sided shelves which will be attached to the unit lining the wall. I’ll build until the whole collection is displayed.

It’s all “weird scenes in the goldmine” right now.

Of course! That's brilliant. Not to be overly dramatic, but this "shrine" to Jimbo is really on its way toward being a fitting tribute to the extraordinary man he clearly was. And not only that, be he obviously had one of the best brothers ever.

I once asked Jimbo how many CDs he had that he hadn't listened to.

I don't remember his answer, but knowing Jimbo, he probably said something like "A lot."

THE PROBABLY NOT LISTENED TO A LOT JIMBO DROP!

These pix represent Jimmy’s insatiable desire to own full catalogues of CD compilation series. I don’t think he listened to 90+% of these discs. Likely bought used. Probably did listen to the music, though, on other items straight from the artists. Which he also owned.

(The same likely holds true for the music on his hundreds of unlistened to Movie Soundtrack Albums)

I didn't realize there were so many of the New Wave Hits. I may need to beef up my collection.

jack,

are you going to seek out the missing pieces?

renny

I’m thinking that many more are gonna be unearthed as we open up more boxes. But after that it may be fun to search out the rest of each set!

I don't know about that...I once posted a playlist in a thread and he immediately identified it as "disc one of (whatever comp it was - I've forgotten by now)". I realize he had damn near a photographic memory, but he had to have listened to it at least a few times to jump on it like that!