Rolling Stones, The/Expert Profile

Expertise

I'm here to help answer your questions about official vinyl record albums by The Rolling Stones. All US and UK pressings and most others from around the globe. With guidance from a personal database of every conceivable official pressing of US LPs for public use, promotion-only, and unissued projects, as well as all original UK stereo and mono issues through 1969. Feel free to request information about any aspect from basic identification to thorough evaluation and everything in between such as country of origin, date of release, approximate valuation, matrix information, stampers, mothers, codes, re-issues, alternate pressings, alternate takes, best press sources, alternate sources of particular songs, and whatever else for both covers and discs. Answers are honest, legitimate and are almost always based on information gathered from my own collection. Expect no plagiarism and no fabricated facts to cover-up lack of knowledge. If I don't have the answer for you, I'll give you another source to review or offer a quote with proper credit.

Experience in the area

20 years collecting Rolling Stones records from around the globe. I own hundreds of variations of album covers and discs, many which are otherwise unidentified in other sources. My public online articles, reviews and overviews have been quoted and otherwise referenced in countless websites (including this one by other 'experts').

Publications

Rolling Stone (letter), Reader's Digest (quoted information), Acclaim (quoted information), Boston Globe (quoted information).

Education/Credentials

The best record-collecting education you can get is by talking to people from all walks of life. Listening and sharing. I live for it.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

No matter how much one knows, there is plenty to learn and I am eager to do so. The learning and discovery never ends and only with communication can anyone achieve greater knowledge. I enjoy sharing what I know and learning what I do not.