![]() On this set, the Clovis and New York discs got a lot of play from me. And so, for me at least, the boxes don’t come out very often. You have to be in the mood for plenty of whatever artist you’re listening to, because your favorite songs are probably spread all across the set. Just getting the box out, getting the discs out – it’s a whole process. Everything or nearly everything is there. The value of box sets, of course, is that they’re a deep dive. ![]() The Buddy Holly box set has a big “scrapbook” of news clippings and photographs. Like Eddie Cochran, it’s just remarkable how much music he created, and how much range he had, in such a short span of time. These six discs were, I believe, everything he had ever recorded in the studio. This incredible box set takes a chronological/geographical approach, following his development from western music to his early rock and then The Crickets and his incredibly influential hits. But his recorded output was actually voluminous. In terms of original albums, there were only three, really. I knew his hits, I knew the many many covers of his songs throughout the ’60s and ’70s. This was on sale there – I seem to recall it was something like $25, which wasn’t nothing, but it was also SIX discs. So apparently I got to that point in my record collecting, a good five years of serious collecting, before I bought a Buddy Holly record. I don’t know how long Spectrum was in that building before it relocated to the Schine Student Center in 1986, and I’m not sure I’d even have remembered it was ever there except for a couple of key albums I bought in that location that always stay with me. (Today the building is called the Slutzker Center for International Services, which is 100% of what I know about it.) It’s probable that the move was necessitated by the construction of the hotel, which opened in 1985. There was a cafeteria of which I have exactly zero memory, and there was a bar there that was renowned for catering to the Lacoste shirt set, meaning I never ever went there and neither did any of my friends. That building had previously been called the Student Center, which wasn’t really what it sounds like it had meeting rooms and was used for occasional functions but most students probably never set foot inside it. There was a weird moment when Spectrum, Syracuse University’s student-run store that included Spectrum Records, moved out of the ramshackle University Avenue building that housed both it and all of student government (where the Sheraton hotel is today), and moved into a building at the end of Walnut, on the west side of the park, right by Bird Library. The place I bought this box set, for whatever reason, really sticks in my mind. And they’re something I rarely break out. (In fact, I’ve got to double back and talk about Willie Dixon, whom I did miss). ![]() Wow, I came close to completely missing this because the box sets are off on another section of the shelves. ![]()
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