About The Author

Born 1969, started to make music at the age of 5, first drum lessons at the age of 10, first contact with Punkrock and first band at the age of 14, first appearance on record at the age of 18, quitting the scene at age of 23, opened first record-store at the age of 27, closed record-store at the age of 33, NLP-Master at the age of 40. In the meantime settled down, married, got children, bought a home with woods and garden, first contact with ZEN by self-teaching from books in April 2009. Doing Zazen almost every morning since then.

I started to collect records at the age of 14 (okay, there was that BONEY M-LP at the age of 7 or 8).
My first “Punk”-record was a “collectors item” (that’s what the sleeve promised), the “on Stage” LP from THE EXPLOITED on red vinyl. Poor sound quality, dumb lyrics, stupid drumming…for me that was great! It was 1984, Punk died just some years ago, when I began to think that this thing called punk, that scared me since I saw the first punkrockers in 1977/78, was much more cool than anything else.

My collection has changed through the years. I sold “bad” records to get money to buy “good” ones, just to remember some years later that it was vice versa. So I had to find that old records again. Hunters and collectors, just like our forefathers. How dumb!
That happened several times. Oh, how I do I regret selling all my METALLICA records a few years ago.
There are still some treasures and pearls in my collection. And inspired by several other blogs I decided to share them with you. Whether they have the same meaning to you, you can figure out by yourself.