{"id":9246,"date":"2007-12-03T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:00:21","slug":"profile-lance-wille-record-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/03\/profile-lance-wille-record-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Lance Wille, Record Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Born<\/strong>: October 19, 1963<br \/>\n<strong>Education<\/strong>: Art studies at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL<br \/>\n<strong>Avocation<\/strong>: Fairview resident Lance Wille is a busy man with diverse interests. He maintains a hand-cranked letterpress studio. He plays drums with underground legends Reigning Sound. He&#8217;s married to renowned local artist Sue Million. And he has an extensive collection of LP records.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/lance_wille_photo.jpg\" alt=\"lance_wille_photo\" width=\"221\" height=\"325\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/> What&#8217;s more, rather than being a mere collector, he actually listens to those records. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got [turntables] pretty much everywhere that I am,&#8221; he explains. He has a record player in his downtown art studio where he &#8220;listens to most of the records,&#8221; plus a &#8220;turntable at home, and I&#8217;ve got a little portable one at my office job that I play when I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he rarely listens to CDs: &#8220;I have one CD player, and my car has one, but I really don&#8217;t listen to much other than records.&#8221; Lance first got into music by listening to his older brother&#8217;s Deep Purple and Rick Derringer albums. &#8220;We got an offer to join the Columbia House Record Club &#8212; &#8216;eight records for a penny&#8217; or something,&#8221; he recalls. &#8220;The first record that was actually mine was <i>Endless Summer<\/i> [1974] by the Beach Boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, he got rid of a few records and added many others. Lance&#8217;s collection now numbers well over a thousand vinyl discs. He and Sue &#8220;married&#8221; their record collections before getting married themselves; Lance jokes that this let Sue know that &#8220;a commitment was involved.&#8221; Their vast collection spans rock, country, New Orleans R&amp;B and soul.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the greater &#8220;warmth&#8221; of vinyl, Lance values the sleeve graphics on those old records: &#8220;That was half the allure when I was a kid: looking at the album art.&#8221; Lance knows how much records weigh: he joked to a fellow collector, &#8220;remind me to be out of town if you move!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/lance_wille_reprint.jpg\" alt=\"lance_wille_reprint\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" border=\"1\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: October 19, 1963 Education: Art studies at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL Avocation: Fairview resident Lance Wille is a busy man with diverse interests. He maintains a hand-cranked letterpress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,41,73],"tags":[2477],"class_list":["post-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","category-interview","category-vinyl","tag-lance-wille","cat-27-id","cat-41-id","cat-73-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}