Once you get one, you have to get them all...

A MID CONSTRUCTION JIMBO DROP!



Been a working on prep for the build and these cool boxes kept building up.

PIL and Ian Dury And The Blockheads?

Tower Of Power......funkalicious!

King Crimson is now on my son’s playlist. Not Schizoid Man but In The Court Of The Crimson King.

ABBA up against The Beasties, Green Day AND George Carlin?

And three easy Stool Stumpers.

Smashing Pumpkins is obvious to me, but I don't know the other two.

Very nice. Btw...the “Tower Records” is just written on a CD clear protective sleeve. Not the box itself.

is that a zz top special edition or ozzy osbourne.....i seem to recall both of them having a package similar to that.

Very nice work. Renny is masterful in his CD identification skills.



I like the way this opens like an accordion also. No metal hinges. Very fun to have this one.

Any takers on the third one with the green rubbery stuff on it?

A little crunch on the edge but still wickedly cool. In the mono version, no less!

THE GREAT JIMBO DROP OF QUESTIONS!

Can’t find any info on this other than it seems rare. But it’s really cool looking.









It says it’s released from Minotauro in Italy and only limited to 500. Not listed on Discogs. Wait...is this a flipping’ bootleg. I’m still so green at this.

i'm not real good on boots either jack, but if it is, it looks like it is professionally done for sure.

how does it sound?

Gonna listen when I get home from changing a dead battery out in my sons car. Hope it sounds as good as it looks.

THE FAMOUS JIMBO MULTI PURCHASE JIMBO DROP!



In this one box there were no single purchases of any artist.

Five Stones.

Five Queen

Four Prince.

Four Reggae/Zydeco artists.

And throw in a couple each of Renaissance and Return To Forever.

The time to buy it is now hen you see it. And the more re the merrier.

Just listened to “Speed King” right into “Ricochet” electrifying vocals by Ian Gillan to the max.sounds great.

as this thread goes on i am beginning to wonder how on earth jimbo was able to find something if really wanted to hear something.

and i know he could because he used to make CDR's for people, so that makes him even more amazing.

I have a few of those and they are all unique. I heard stuff I'd never heard before, mixed in with familiar stuff.

The boxes don’t seem to be packed in any particular order (alphabetically) so I also wonder how he would know what’s in each box if he was looking for something. I know the boxes ended up in a storage facility after Hurricane Sandy back in 2012 but did he have these boxes in his room at one point? I don’t even know.

Somewhere around ‘89 they turned the garage into his CD library. A bit of a mixed set of shelving but lined up in rows. There was a small desk where our Dad wrote and recorded his own 40s style tunes. All the CDs were available. Later he did have a few boxes for the oldest stuff that made their way onto the stairway landing. Maybe ten. All the vinyl was in more proper shelving in his room. Then all the floor space was piled over knee high with newer arrivals. Only a narrow little pathway to his bed remained. He knew where every disc was and would show me all the coolest stuff when I’d come in from California.

The problem was that there were three steps down into the garage room so it filled up with water during hurricane Sandy. That’s where all those CD cases came from. Holding around 5K CDs which all play great. Just lost the covers. But they had to redo the whole first floor from the sticks up. That’s when everything got boxed up, like you see it now in the pictures, and put in the storage facility in Rockville Centre. All climate controlled housed inside in a warehouse setting. Mick recruited all his buddies from the LBPD and they crushed it in one day.

Jimmy had a memory like three elephants, Jerry Lucas and The Amazing Kreskin all rolled into one! Trust me he knew where everything was. Very few doubles. It was all in his head.

He did always seem supremely confident on what he owned. If you asked him did he have this or that, he wouldn’t ponder the question, it usually was in the affirmative.

I can't explain it, I just know it happens. I'm kind of like that, although as I get older, a little less so. I used to take great pride in never accidentally buying a duplicate from my collection - but it happened a couple years ago.

I used to work with a woman who was a neat freak. I am not - I used to clean off my desk once a year whether it needed it or not. There was rarely a spot of clear desk. And it drove this woman nuts because she sat next to me. She kept asking her boss to let her clean my desk up (there was no divider between us). Finally my boss said, "Look, when I ask you for something, it takes you 20 minutes to find it. When I ask him for something, his eyes glaze over, he reaches out and grabs it. It works for him. Leave it alone."

yeah at one time I was able to remember where every CD in my collection resided despite the sheer number of CDs. They are all over the place in shelves, inside cabinets or in my two closet's that are dedicated to stuff. But these days with many things in boxes in my basement and on shelving down there it’s impossible to remember where everything is now. Now when I look around I surprise myself.

Jimbo would admit to me that things for him were out of control too when I would complain about my predicament. Yeah you have a problem he would say.

This is interesting. Found this article in the newspaper.





Jim loved Weird Al and tried to not miss any tour.

Me and him immediately loved Goodbye Yellow Brick Road cover to cover and saw Elton’s tour supporting the album at the Nassau Coliseum.

Putting these two things together would have tickled Jimmy no end!

THE AFTER THE SPRING CLEAN BREAK JIMBO DROP!

The library was unavailable last week as we did all the yard care prep work for the coming of the beautiful spring and summer outdoor family fun.

Like testing the pop up screen house.



Today’s Drop is heavy on genre compilations and movie soundtrack selections.



There’s a few nice disco titles that we could’ve used for last weeks JFL. Looks like a two volume “Studio 54” set.

Jim was a fanatic for the old school prog rock as UK’s “Danger Money” with the Wetton, Jobson, Bozzio line up would signify. Jim and I did see the band in NYC with Bruford and Alan Holdsworth wihich was pretty mesmerizing.

Of course Jim would add a heavier component with “UFO” to keep this Drop rockin’!

And since we’ve been relegated to the basement SRV and KWS are our Rippers On The Rig. (Albeit a tiny ZT Lunchbox rig. But it does have awesome sound and cranks!)

What on earth is the New York Yankees greatest hits...and volume 2 yet?