Our entire Norton archive went underwater, including all of our correspondence, photos, documents, reviews, master tapes, ephemera, posters, including at least ¾’s of my vintage paperback collection (several thousand books) and virtually all of the old magazines and fanzines which went back to the 1940’s, again, numbering into the several thousands, interview tapes, 25 years of correspondences with Norton artists, original photographs, original rock n’ roll and movie posters, Norton business records, family items, furniture, musical equipment, my Del-Aires-owned 1962 Slingerland drum kit (Ironically we have just released the Del-Aires LP, after years in the process–!– I’m goint to drag the kit out of the swampy rubble today, having set it to drain last week.
Oh Mann…
Das ist nicht nur ein schrecklicher persönlicher Verlust, das ist weitaus schlimmer, denn darunter sind viele einmalige historische Quellen.
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Ohne Musik ist alles Leben ein Irrtum.