Vinyl (records)

I was cleaning a "catch all" room with my 24 yr old daughter.....

I found some 45s and said OH MY GOD.....Records!!!!!

She said.....
WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL!!!!!!????
I told her about 45s and then we found some 33s!!!!

she asked me if they needed 2 record players or if they could be played on the same one

:( :crazy: :crazy:
It bothers me these kids have no idea what a record or record player is.....
I remember playing the records and trying NOT to make them skip when I danced in my room......

how sad....

good thing I didn't find any 78s!!!!!!


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I have a over couple thousand vinyl records, including hundreds of 45s. I still play these records.

Good stuff.

...the best part, is my 17 year old invites her friends over and they go through my 45's and albums just like I used to with my friends. It's sort of funny to watch, my daughter has listened to my stories about each one and I hear her sharing them with her friends.

I have passed the torch...

Cheers :toast:


Edit....must conjugate verbs :grr:

I've often wondered who used the tall 45 adapters that fit on the entire spindle (shaped kind of like a zippo lighter) and who used the little curly shaped 45 adapters that fit into the 45 and stayed there. I always preferred those, but I can solve that skipping problem. Tape a quarter to the tone arm and set the record player on a pillow on the dresser somewhere away from where you are dancing. :P It stops quite a few skips.

curly ones
I had a few so I could change the records quickly.....

aaahhhh the good old days........

I remember putting a penny on the needle if it skipped!!!!!
and the little square 45 player you could carry to your friends house!!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

lost

I twas a small red square shaped record player. My mom told me I wore out 10 of those when I was a toddler. It's amazing how the technology has changed, just in the last 10 years or so. I never thought CDs would reach a point where it looks like they will be replaced. Now, with DVDs, it's looking that way. It just astonishes me.

I still have a few 45's. I used both the curly 45 adapters and on one record player, I used the bigger kind. That one would hold (9) 45's up in the air on the spindle and when one record finished playing, it would move the tone arm over, then drop another record on top of the one that just played. Then the tone arm would come back over and play the next song.

Meh, technology changes.

but I remember buying my first "stereo"
and trying to figure out where to put the speakers!!!!!!
as much as I remember buying my first VCR and CD.....
When I was growing up this WAS technology.......


lost

It's also a great way to buy a lot of jazz for not too much money.

has it really been that long, i guess i has, vinyl went out in the early 80's

i still call a group or performer's cd, an "album"

the thing i miss as much as all of what you brought up was the cool album covers, not tiny CD stuff, but big cardboard album covers

:pals:

:hi:

I still sit and look at the covers and yeah, I call cds "albums"

They have some nifty frames for them too.

Cheers :toast:

I say

Did their new album come out!!!???

I get some weird looks......

My D is NOT interested in vinyal....
she is SO spoiled......
It started with the free downloads a few years ago.... not to mention
the internet....


instant gratification....


lost

:D

Before several dozen moves in a 20 yr period, and then the loss of literally a houseful of cool stuff, i had hundreds of LPs and singles, including everything from Winnie-the-Pooh to Edgar Winter (my 45 of "Frankenstein" was the first record i ever owned) to Alice Cooper ("Billion Dollar Babies" and "School's Out", which my uncle gave me when i turned 7) to autographed colored-vinyl Misfits stuff that i bought while road-tripping with another collector friend.

My mom still has a few hundred old country LPs from the '60s and '70s, including a lot of Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, Porter Wagonner, etc... and they are all on beautiful shape. All i hope from her will is that she leaves me those, and the old wooden console stereo that she and my dad bought right before i was born. Playing them on anything else would be sacrilege

to Elvin Bishop - Fooled around and fell in love

on vinyl, oh those were the days.

Not that scratched either. I miss those days!!

The next song he played from an album - The Cars - All Mixed UP!!

:bounce:

I still have many, and play them all the time. They last longer than CDs. Who'd've thunk it?