HERE WE GO AGAIN! PUT SOME LOUD ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC ON AND KICK BACK FOR A BIT. AS MY STORIES ARE TOLD, I FIND MYSELF REMEMBERING THINGS THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN. BESIDES ALL THE JUNK AND TRASH THE FH BROUGHT IN HUGE AMOUNTS TO THE VARIOUS PROPERTIES WE HAD OVER THE YEARS, SOME OF THE THINGS WERE, WELL (I'VE GOTTA SAY IT) THEY WERE PRETTY COOL ITEMS. THE ONE THING THAT I ALWAYS ACCEPTED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO BITCHING WAS ALL THE STEREO EQUIPMENT HE FOUND. WE ARE TALKING THOSE HUGE OLD SETS THAT WEIGHED A TON, BUT WERE CLEARLY SOME OF THE BEST STEREOS EVER MADE. THERE WERE SPEAKERS AND TURNTABLES (BEFORE CD PLAYERS FOR THOSE YOUNG‘UNS). THERE WERE TONS OF ALBUMS, TAPES AND EVEN REEL TO REEL'S WITH TAPE STILL INTACT. IT ALWAYS AMAZED ME HOW MUCH OF THE MUSIC THAT WAS BROUGHT HOME WAS ROCK AND ROLL. WHO WOULD THROW MUSIC AWAY? IDIOTS AND INSANE PEOPLE I'M SURE! FOR WHATEVER REASON, THEY CAME TO MY PROPERTY READY TO BE LISTENED TO AND VERY MUCH LOVED. ONCE THE FH BROUGHT HOME A COMPLETE LP COLLECTION THAT WAS MOSTLY EUROPEAN MASTERED AND IF YOU REMEMBER LP'S, THESE WERE THE COUPE DE GRAS OF RECORDINGS. THEY SOUNDED BETTER, AND USUALLY HAD EXTRA SONGS THAT THE US EDITIONS DID NOT HAVE. I PARTICULARLY ENJOYED THE REEL TO REELS THAT SOMEONE HAD TAKEN THE TIME TO MAKE A MIX COLLECTION I HAD SOME VERY COOL COLLECTIONS. I HAVE EVEN FOUND CASH HIDING INSIDE LP SLEEVES THAT SOMEONE HAD MISPLACED OR FORGOTTEN THAT THEY HAD STASHED IN A PARTICULAR ALBUM SLEEVE! MORE THAN ONCE, I FOUND KUSH AND OTHER ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES, WHICH WERE WELL USED AND MUCH APPRECIATED BY US. BUT THE REAL PRIZE WAS THE RATHER EXTENSIVE DIVERSITY OF MUSIC. THE FH EVEN FOUND AN OLD GRAMOPHONE, COMPLETE WITH SETS OF VINYL’S THAT WERE THE PREDECESSORS OF LP'S. THESE INCLUDED BIG BAND MUSIC, JAZZ, THE CLASSICS AND THE BLUES. SINCE I AM NOT ONLY A ROCKER, I AM ALSO A PURVEYOR OF MUSIC OF ALL KINDS THESE FINDS WERE INCREDIBLE. SO MY HOUSE WAS ALWAYS ROCKING AND I MEAN ALWAYS! WE HAD A GOOD TURNTABLE SO I WAS ABLE TO ENJOY THE LP'S, BUT AT THIS DAY AND AGE, YOU CAN FIND THESE THAT AREN’T WARPED BY THE SUN OR SCRATCHED SO THAT THEY WERE UNPLAYABLE AND MOST TURNTABLES HAD NO STYLUS OR IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE ONE, IT WOULD USUALLY BE ONE THAT WASN’T AVAILABLE TO GET. LIVING OUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF FAHKING NOWHERE, THERE IS SO MUCH DUST;, AND SINCE WORKING TURNTABLES ARE VIRTUALLY NOT WORKING YOU REALLY HAVE TO BE DILIGENT IN CLEANING THESE SO THAT THE QUALITY OF MUSIC COMES THRU. OF COURSE NOW WE COME TO SPEAKERS. AT ONE POINT I HAD A WALL OF SPEAKERS, 12 FEET HIGH AND AS LONG AS THE EYE COULD SEE. NOT ALL OF THEM WERE WORKING SPEAKERS, HAVING BLOWN OUT WOOFERS, TWEETERS AND WIRING PROBLEMS. I ALWAYS COMMANDEERED THE WORKING ONES AND SET THE SYSTEM UP. I USUALLY HAD A SYSTEM THAT HAD SPEAKERS IN EVERY ROOM, HOOKED UP TO THE TV AND OUTSIDE SO YOU COULD ENJOY THE MUSIC ANYTIME AND EVERYWHERE! YOU CAN IMAGINE MY NEIGHBORS, PISSED AT THE JUNK, EVEN MORE PISSED WITH THE LOUD MUSIC, TO THEM I SAY FAHK YOU ALL, I NEVER ONCE PLAYED MY MUSIC AFTER THE 10 PM CURFEW, BUT I DID HAVE NUMEROUS VISITS FROM THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY USUALLY ENJOYED THE MUSIC AND GAVE ME A WARNING. BUT I NEVER CAVED, I WAS A ROCKER, LOUD MUSIC IS OUR LEGACY. IN THE YEARS I’VE BEEN LIVING IN THE FAHKING MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, I HAD RECEIVED A GRANT TO REMODEL THE INSIDE OF MY HOUSE. SINCE THE GRANT RAN OUT (DUE TO THE FH HAVING THE EPA DOWN ON MY ASS DUE TO 3,500 USED TIRES, ON MY PROPERTY) THE MAJORITY OF THE GRANT WENT TO REMOVING THE TIRES, (WHICH TOOK 12, FORTY YARD ROLL AWAY DUMPSTERS) WHICH TOOK OH ABOUT $7,500.00 OF MY GRANT. BEFORE I RECEIVED THE GRANT I HAD A REOCCURRING NIGHTMARE THAT MY YARD WOULD EVENTUALLY LOOK LIKE THE PICTURES MY DAUGHTER HAD FOUND ONLINE OF THESE HUGE TIRE PILES AND I KNOW I WOULD DEFINITELY BE IN JAIL FOR KILLING HIM WITH TIRES IF I HAD NOT GOTTEN THAT GRANT. BESIDES BEING PISSED BEYOND THE NORM FOR ME (IN REGARDS TO HIS HOARDING) THE KICKER TO THIS STORY, YEAH, IT GETS WORSE, IS THAT THE FINE FOR HAVING THIS AMOUNT OF TIRES ON MY PROPERTY WAS (GET THIS) $500.00 PER TIRE FOR EACH DAY THAT THE TIRES REMAINED ON MY PROPERTY!!!!!!!!!!!! SO THAT MEANS THAT THE INITIAL FINE WOULD HAVE BEEN $175,000.00!!!! I WOULD HAVE JUST THROWN MY KEYS ONTO MY YARD AND MOVED TO COSTA RICA! YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW PISSED I WAS, BUT LUCKILY THE EPA GUY, WAS A DECENT GUY AND DID NOT GIVE ME A VIOLATION FOR THE TIRES BEING ON MY LAND EVEN THOUGH HE COULD HAVE. IN FACT HE ALMOST LOST HIS JOB BECAUSE HE DIDN'T. SO THE TIRES ARE GONE, THE JUNK IS NOT, IN FACT IT IS GROWING, STILL. ONE GOOD THING, BESIDES THE SOUND SYSTEMS I HAD OVER THE YEARS, IS THAT I AM STILL ROCKING AND MY TINMAN IS GETTING A GREAT, DIVERSE AND TOTALLY AWESOME ROCK AND ROLL EDUCATION THANKS IN PART TO THE FH-HE LOVES ROCK AND ROLL AS MUCH AS I DO, AND WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD THAT COMMON GROUND SO DURING THE CHAOS OF HIS MASSIVE COLLECTIONS I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WORSE THAT I DID. SO WHILE I BLAST A BLACK MARKET RECORDING OF A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT, CIRCA 1982, (RECORDED FOR ME BY A GOOD FRIEND AND SUPREMELY APPRECIATED!) JUST TYPING ABOUT THE JOURNEY WE MADE TOGETHER AND ALL THE STUFF THAT ENDED UP ON MY PROPERTIES, I REALLY FEEL FREE AND HAPPY AND NOT ANGRY ENOUGH TO GO GRAB MY GUN AND SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD. IT WASN’T ALL BAD. SO I LEAVE YOU NOW, YOU ROCKERS, YOU ROLLERS, AND I MUST SAY THAT I AM SO, THANKFUL TO HAVE YOU TO SHARE MY CRAZY MEMORIES WITH. JUST THE PLAIN FACT THAT I CAN SAY EXACTLY WHAT I WANT, WHEN I WANT AND YOU ALL ENJOY IT THAT IS SUCH A GREAT WAY TO DEAL WITH THE HORROR…..AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL HELP YOU TO KNOW THE WARNING SIGNS IF YOU SHOULD EVER ENCOUNTER A HOARDER IN YOUR MIDST. . REMEMBER, TIN MAN ROCKS, BECAUSE I ROCK! I AM THAT FAHKING CRAZY ASSED RED HEAD, JULES