“What’s in your collection?”- Co-owners of The Gold Pan Record store share the favorites of their personal collections after one year in business.

So a question I’ve always had as a record collector is “What’s in the collection of those lucky dogs that OWN a record store?

This year me (Brian Lee) and my buddy Matt Sands started “The Gold Pan Records & Recording” in our small town and a year later I realized it would be fun to answer the question for a few of you guys (and for me to see how crazy Matts collection was! since I hadn’t ever seen it.) We both had pretty heavy collections when we started and I hope they will continue to grow, but here are a few things we’ve found along the way this year and a few we’ve had since before the store. So if your’e as dorky and into this stuff as we are here we go… Starting with Matt-

Wild Butter? Not sure how they settled on the name but you know, it’s Art right? 1970 Folk-Psych

One of Van Morrison’s lesser know albums, Hard nose on the Highway.

An original copy of Nico, Chelsea Girl and Stooges, Fun House

A love Supreme by John Coltrane and Five Leaves Left, one of Nick Drake’s few masterful albums.

Phantoms divine comedy part 1- Rare, Doorsy Stoner Psych.

The Pretty Things- An early pressing by one of the kings of garage rock.

Two pretty rare birds… Cake- A Slice of. -female pop-psych, and The Count Five Psychotic reaction.

Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica, a legendarily tortuous session by Beefheart at their rarest and weirdest.

The Savage, and Morgen s/t.

Morgen s/t- Matt calls this his best find ever at 25cents. Psychedelic goodness. Also, Matt and his wife’s daughter is named Morgen!

Sapphire Thinkers-from within.

Eternity’s Children s/t- Rare and fine… Glorious pop Psych with some amazing fuzz moments.

Where did it go?… The sign that you’re starting to have a good record collection.

Wool- Self Titled. Funny right?

The Velvet Underground with the banana sticker peeled. Sad but rad.

Blow Your Mind- Freak out party- The first side of this one explains how to have your own “freak out party”, second side has the music for it.

A signed Daniel Johnson LP- One of Matt’s early “expensive” records he had to get online.

Nuggets Lp and cd box set- The gateway for many into the deep world of Psychedelic and Garage music.

The Racket Squad-Corners of your mind- garage rock, with some sweet fuzz guitar.

Bluesy rock by Smoke-S/t

The Id-The inner sounds of – Radical, deep Psych.

The Bagatelle-11pm Saturday- Maybe they named their band after their bedtime? Amazing cover for a mediocre funk-soul album.

The Heads- Heads up. 1968 stoner rock.

H.P. Lovecraft- Psych-acid heavy dutyness.

Alright, Brians turn-

The Shadows of Night- Back Door Men, and Fallen Angels s/t -Psych Garage.

Found this Karen Dalton LP in a garage in southern IL. I ended up paying the guy a bit extra since he saw the look on my face when I spotted it… I’ve got no game face!

Funkadelic- Maggot Brain- Psychedelic funk-soul.

David Axelrod- Songs of Experience. An original pressing of this heavily sampled instrumental funk, Definitely my most exciting find of the year.

Robbie Basho-The Grail & Lotus – Found this for ten cents with a bunch of classical records, it’s a rare acoustic psych record with some morricone-esque whistling.

Two pretty rad soul, funk comps Pulp Fusion- Evolution and Soulin 1

Steve Reich Music for 18 musicians- Droney, repetitive, and beautiful.

Drum Suite by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers- A gift from my friend Andrew Staff. -Cool, instrumental afro, hard bop, jazz.

L.C. Good Rockin’ Robinson- Ups and Downs.- A have a bunch of blues stuff but this is one of my favorite covers.

Dorothy Ashby s/t- Jazz harp…

Robert Johnson- a gift from collector and friend Kevin Leitheiser, Sonny Stitt- Only the blues- Jazz, hard bop. Emmylou Harris’s gospel masterpiece bought at our friend Jeremy’s record store, Dead Wax in ST. Louis.