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Hi there!
Have you ever thought what will happen to your collection after your death?

reggae museum

Yes. I have given it consideration.

I have kept all the record mailers that my vinyl came in so that Laura can have a massive ebay sale. I have asked that the collection doesn't get sold as a job lot to a dealer.

It would be a shame to break it up, but I hope she can be guided by a roots-archives expert, to help her realise the full value of the collection.

It could bring her in more cash than my life insurance!

If by then, she doesn't need the money then she's been instructed to donate the money to my favourite charity.

But there's a possibility my youngest boy may want to inherit them. He's only 13 but he's already picked up on the lovely sound quality of vinyl and likes reggae music. He asked me if I would build him a retro hi-fi set up for his room. So perhaps a Leggo Rocker the 2nd is in the making?

My boys (age 7 next week and 2) might like to have my collection too - the older one really likes ska and the younger one just likes seeing the records go round - he calls them "circles". The older one thought Dennis Brown and John Holt's "Wildfire" which I was playing a lot recently was a bit soppy though!

build a coffin out of them,@ that point i really dont care.

i agree with bill, when your dead it doesnt matter, they are only material possesions that you cant take with you when you move on from this world.

My will states that my music collection will go to my son. However, I might change it if he keeps on complaining every time I play my records. How someone who listens to Hip Hop can say Reggae is boring beats me.

Regards

Rob

greg wrote:i agree with bill, when your dead it doesnt matter, they are only material possesions that you cant take with you when you move on from this world.

Sure, that's true. But I'll still try to take Leggo Dub with me

But joking aside. If you have family, you need to look after them even when you are dead. That's why I've talked Laura through how to get the maximum returns on disposing of my records after I've gone to my next birth.

Greetings


I have thought about this question before.If i have a son/daughter one day hopefully get them into the rastafarian faith and then they could have all my albums.

But if that does`nt come about then hopefully Jah will let the right person come across them so they can enjoy and cherish them as much as have.

Respect and guidance,

Rasta

It's a grim subject but something I admit to thinking about occasionally. With me, though, it's because I have nobody to consider or worry about after I've gone. So although I can understand the view that it doesn't matter to us then, it's a shame that nobody will know what to do with my stuff.

There's no reason why it needs to be kept together as a collection, but I doubt that whichever distant relative gets dumped with the job will have a clue how to separate the £££s EBay material from the dross. And the local Charity shop isn't going to want a room full of reggae so it will probably end up being thrown away - unless I get sufficient warning and can handle my own estate.

When my father passed away I had a similiar problem, but with a big collection of Art books rather than music. On that occasion I donated them to the local educational library, but I can't see them wanting so much reggae either.

VC