[HN Gopher] Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection
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Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection
Author : mellosouls
Score : 29 points
Date : 2025-05-16 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bobacollection.staxmuseum.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (bobacollection.staxmuseum.org)
| xnx wrote:
| ~35,000 records is an astoundingly large collection, especially
| for a focused collection. A huge number of these must be one-of-
| a-kind that would have been forever lost without the work of this
| collector.
| kasey_junk wrote:
| Bob was a software engineer and a good one. I worked for him for
| a few years and really miss him.
|
| Numero group released a curated single record of the sort of
| thing he collected that I strongly recommend
| https://numerogroup.com/products/eccentric-soul-sitting-in-t...
| speedgrafic wrote:
| Very cool. The Stax Museum is absolutely worth a visit if you
| find yourself in Memphis.
| cenazoic wrote:
| It really is! We were there one afternoon when a high school
| choral group was practicing (the museum does a lot of outreach
| through the Stax Music Academy) and visitors were encouraged to
| sing along. It was truly magical.
|
| If you're lucky, you can also catch the Rev. Al Green leading
| his Full Gospel Tabernacle Church service.
| fourgrant wrote:
| Jeff Kollath - Stax Museum curator - guested on WYXR's Box of
| Records this week playing two hours of 45s from the collection:
| https://www.wyxr.org/box-of-records - May 13th episode.
|
| He will be back in June for another two hours.
| kasey_junk wrote:
| That was a nice show.
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