Today I listened to side one of Peter Gabriel’s So album, and side 1 of Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door. I had been gifted an inexpensive turntable and it was the first time I have played vinyl in at least two decades.
On the same token, if I meet people with more musical overlap on the Venn diagram, I’m never fan enough or weird enough or my collection is too shallow. I like what I like, and deeply so. But on that front I don’t feel like I’m part of a community.
If there was a Venn diagram of the music I listen to relative to almost anyone I know, the overlap is low. I’m not proud of this, but it’s a real thing. I’m super interested in learning more about new (to me) music and artists from others, but I don’t know many people who feel the same way.
Found more of my record collection, tonight. Last vinyl I bought in 2005 was all together. One of the albums, released in 1982, appears to be in original shrink wrap.
Connected a working turntable to my system, only to spend about a half hour attempting to coax the amp to use analog RCA inputs over HDMI. In these days of complexity, I needed to have the TV monitor on so I could see the settings menu. That operation not available on the front panel or the app.
Finished reading: The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness 📚
Now I will have to wait for the next installment. This has been a very enjoyable series, so far. If you’re the sort of person who would be interested in witches, vampires and demons then I say 5 stars, would recommend.
Amazing. After several weeks, Keybase let me know they verified me on Reddit. That wasn’t working for quite a while. Makes me wonder who or what was the problem.
I feel like an adult! In my fifth decade of life, my vinyl is no longer in crates.
It is officially 56 years since I took my very first breath
A Turntable Tale of Woe
I thought that it was just the stylus that my kid broke on my turntable. The record player sat idle for years as a result. I bought an upgraded stylus, which arrived today. However, after re-situating items in my setup to connect the ‘table, and pulling a crate of records out of storage, I learned the drive belt was wrapped around the gears in the mechanism under the platter. Unwinding the belt and returning it to its proper position was too little, too late.