Ep221: Van Halen Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records with Mike Kassis
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Van Halen is one of the most important American rock bands in history. Today we talk through some of the most desired vinyl collectibles with Michael Kassis, author of "Underground Van Halen Vinyl" and discuss the white wales of the Van Halen and vinyl collecting community.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:50.8 | and refresh your vinyl collections. Seems easy, don't it? Well, that's because it is. |
| 0:56.1 | And with that, let's start this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide. Do you listen to and |
| 1:02.2 | collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast made |
| 1:07.3 | for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of |
| 1:11.6 | them all, Nate Goyer. Well, hey everyone, it's Nate here. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for downloading. |
| 1:17.4 | Thank you for enjoying and subscribing to the Vinyl Guide podcast. This is the podcast for |
| 1:22.9 | vinyl record collectors and music fans. And this week we are talking all about Van Halen, |
| 1:29.2 | the bootlegs, the collectible vinyl, and heaps more with Mike Cassis, a serious Van Halen |
| 1:34.8 | collector who has some of the rarest Van Halen vinyl in existence. And it's a pretty incredible |
| 1:40.8 | collection. Mike walks us through his prize possessions, how he got them, and we talk about the Van Halen |
| 1:46.9 | Collectors community and even some of the vinyl records and Van Halen doodads that all of us can |
| 1:52.4 | keep an eye out for. |
| 1:55.5 | Now, I want to be absolutely clear on this point. |
| 1:59.3 | I love Van Halen. I absolutely adore that band. They were the |
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