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[Missk_2022]

Speaking of vinyl records, I recently bought a new turntable.
Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin the music from the 70’s was very good…

Isn't it sad the younger generation will likely never hear an actual record being played.....

 

[Missk_2022]

And it's snowing again..... I just watched the neighbors dog playing in the snow.....he is soooo dang cute

 

[Bambear99]

Speaking of vinyl records, I recently bought a new turntable.
Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin the music from the 70’s was very good…

There’s so much great music from the 70’s, including a ton of bands and artists that never broke through. I’ve bought quite a few records as blind buys that have turned out to be hidden treasures and some of my favorites now.

 

[Bambear99]

Isn't it sad the younger generation will likely never hear an actual record being played.....

My kids grew up in a house full of records and record players. I also took them to drive-in movies every summer. They grew up thinking that those things were all normal and what everybody did. It wasn’t until they were teenagers that they grasped how records and drive-ins weren’t the norm.

 

[NightOfPassion2]

Isn't it sad the younger generation will likely never hear an actual record being played.....

We dragged out a record player and a few dozen records just before Christmas..was really fun...connected it to a powdered speaker

 

[Bambear99]

We dragged out a record player and a few dozen records just before Christmas..was really fun...connected it to a powdered speaker

Several years ago, I bought a crate full of Christmas records for $25. There were some great one in there. We pull them out every year and play them.

 

[thør]

I got carded a few weeks ago buying wine! I had a hat on so my hair was covered. The Grey's would have definitely given me away!

Here, you’re carded to make sure there’s no yellow stripe on your driver’s license. If so, you’re banned from purchasing alcohol due to a DUI.

 

[Wonderer67]

There’s so much great music from the 70’s, including a ton of bands and artists that never broke through. I’ve bought quite a few records as blind buys that have turned out to be hidden treasures and some of my favorites now.

If anyone likes old school metal, a few bands that never made it, but should have.

Sir Lord Baltimore and Granicus.

 

[Wonderer67]

We were supposed to get 1-3” of snow. Ended up getting 11”!!! (West Jersey)

It was the lightest and airiest snow I’ve ever seen tho, it was like shoveling and snow blowing air! Easy clean up.

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[oxbowguy]

We were supposed to get 1-3” of snow. Ended up getting 11”!!! (West Jersey)

It was the lightest and airiest snow I’ve ever seen tho, it was like shoveling and snow blowing air! Easy clean up.

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You guys have seen more snow this winter than we have in MA. Last three storms that hit you didn't give us thee inches total.

 

[SmokingFap]

Wind chills in the 20's is perfect winter weather......

For polar bears.

 

[Bambear99]

If anyone likes old school metal, a few bands that never made it, but should have.

Sir Lord Baltimore and Granicus.

I paid through the nose to get my hands on that first Sir Lord Baltimore record, but it was well worth it.

Buffalo’s “Volcanic Rock” is one of my holy grail records. I’ve never seen it in the wild in the states or England. I suppose I’d have to go to Australia to find it.

 

[Bambear99]

Leaf Hound is another one on my wish list.

 

[Wonderer67]

Leaf Hound is another one on my wish list.

I don’t wanna derail the thread, so I’ll IM you more.

I have two copies of that Sir Lord Baltimore record. I got a used one that was scratched to shit at a flea market in the 80s. Somehow, I found another really good version about 10 years later. I don’t know if it was an original, pressing or repressing.

I got the whole thing on CD as well, and it has their first and second records on it. Totally amazing!

I liked that Buffalo song! Wow. Not as much lead hound. Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Casey]

Just saying hello. Youth is definitely wasted on the young. Took a long time to understand that truth.

 

[Gamine67]

I also took them to drive-in movies every summer.

We used to go behind the drive-in, park and then walk across a field where someone dragged the backseat of a car and watch the movie.

You couldn’t hear anything but there was a lot of Clint Eastwood sneering in spaghetti westerns so sound wasn’t needed.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Blackberry Smoke. I just collect records for my enjoyment

We were supposed to catch Blackberry Smoke last night in CLT, but our youngest was sick and wife had to sell tix

 

[Missk_2022]

Here, you’re carded to make sure there’s no yellow stripe on your driver’s license. If so, you’re banned from purchasing alcohol due to a DUI.

Where is that? I assume not us....norway? Sweden?

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Where is that? I assume not us....norway? Sweden?

I think Alaska.

Driving is considered a privilege, not a right. It's conditional on the regulations of the State DMV. If they say you can't have a license to drive if you've got a DUI, they can prohibit alcohol purchases.

 

[Bambear99]

Like a lot of us boomers, I regret parting with all my classic records, my Pioneer receiver, my BSR turntable and my Alpine speakers that got me through high school and college. That said, I used to stack two or three records before going to bed. Like maybe Exile on Mainstreet, Quadraphenia, and a little Jonny Winter or Blind Faith to cap it off. Problem was those disks landing on top of each other created scratches. The popping sound on some of my Dead albums that I listened to over and over again began to sound like an extra percussion section, as if Micky Hart and Bill Kreutzman didn’t already have that covered.

I’ve had to explain to my kids why some double albums have sides 1 and 4 on one disc and sides 2 and 3 on the other. The concept of stacking records and then flipping the stack is pretty foreign to people new to vinyl, because I don’t think that style of turntable is very easy to find anymore. Probably for the best due to the scratching like you mentioned.

 

[Lilianna23]

Here, you’re carded to make sure there’s no yellow stripe on your driver’s license. If so, you’re banned from purchasing alcohol due to a DUI.

Smart!

 

[slim00069]

Middle of the US.

Western Mass

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

My kids grew up in a house full of records and record players. I also took them to drive-in movies every summer. They grew up thinking that those things were all normal and what everybody did. It wasn’t until they were teenagers that they grasped how records and drive-ins weren’t the norm.

Drive ins bring back memories. As most drive ins were going out of style, there was one that only opened Saturday night for families and we took the kids with us. They would fall asleep in the car and we enjoy a movie without babysitting. Now you can get a big screen TV and do this at home.

 

[Missk_2022]

Drive ins bring back memories. As most drive ins were going out of style, there was one that only opened Saturday night for families and we took the kids with us. They would fall asleep in the car and we enjoy a movie without babysitting. Now you can get a big screen TV and do this at home.

We have a drive in that actually is still open in the town next door!!!!

 

[Missk_2022]

Good morning everyone!!