Welcome to my nightmare, er... blog

Hey, my name's Jeff, aka recordlad, aka rebelboywonder, aka the lardlad, aka Jef Leppard...

Anyway, since I was a kid I've always loved vinyl. I used to look at the grooves of my Van Halen albums and try to understand just how the music got in there.

Since then I've read about the process, but it still seems like more goes on than just the technical aspect of it, it's like something else goes into the grooves than just music.

I never liked the way Metallica "and Justice for All" sounded until I heard it on vinyl with my headphones on. On a CD it was just music, but with the headphones and the needle in place it was like I was in the room with them as they were playing it.

So as you may have figured out, this is a blog about vinyl. Not just vinyl, but the different aspects of collecting it.

The dank sweaty thrift shops we scour, the snobby record store clerks we endure, and the time we spend going through a box of 45's just to find that one gem.

So hopefully you'll enjoy some of my posts, and maybe see a bit of yourself in them, and if you have a great find that you want to share with someone, by all means send it in! TTFN, Jeff