12 LIFESTYLE
SANTA ANA COLLEGE el Don/eldonnews.org • MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
LEFT / A group
of record fans flip
through boxes
of $3 records
at the Greater
Orange County
Record Show.
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ABOVE / Collector
and record dealer
Lin Holland checks
the condition of a
Doors album.
RIGHT /
Vendor Robbie
Pettersen poses next
to his table of music
memorabilia.
their expertise with the next generation. For locals, the record show
offers the benefit of being able to see the condition of records before
you buy them. “We have the advantage of face-to-face,” Brunner said.
After almost 20 years, Robbie Pettersen is a veteran record show
vendor. As Pettersen continues to unpack, he reveals a box full of
unopened 8-track tapes. “This is the rarest stuff I have.”
Craig Doucertte, who has been selling records at the show for nearly
a decade said the show has gained a younger audience. “Younger and
older people are coming,” Doucertte said.
The truth in his statement is proven almost immediately, as two
younger collectors approach his records and strike up a conversation
with him.
Brunner has also noticed the recent influx of young record collectors.
“[Young people] want the same things. They’re not experimenting with
music,” he said. “They want Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. There’s other
good stuff, but they don’t want to take a chance.”
But Brunner gives twenty-somethings the benefit of the doubt.
“They’ll get there.”
For youth who are willing to take a chance, the record show is
a treasure trove. “It’s tons of fun, there’s tons of crazy stories and
different music,” says Wyatt Starr, 23, who represented Fullerton’s
Burger Records at the show. To give an example, he picks up a copy
of Shake, Wrestle ‘n’ Roll by Exotic Adrian Street and the Pile Drivers,
explaining, “He was a wrestler, and he decided to make a glam album.”
Although the record show stays open until 3 p.m., Holland leaves
after about an hour and a half. He didn’t find his Doors album, but he’ll
be back in a few weeks to thumb through more albums in more dusty
crates, hunting again for that elusive record. When he finds it, there’ll
be something else he’s digging for. It doesn’t get old.