August 12, 2003
The Record Player
Posted by Jess in
Day to Day
Between my friends, neighbors and family, lately there’s been a lot of talk about childhood memories, and old family photos emerging that have not seen the likes of daylight in, oh, say 25-40 years.
In talking with my neighbors, the subject of record players that we used to listen to when we were kids came up.
Something that I found absolutely fascinating:
Every single one of us used to think that the band was physically STUCK inside that record player somewhere, and that they played for us every time we dropped the needle to make the music come out. If we started the song again, the band HAD to play it again for us.
I can even remember the mental imagery I had when I was a kid… picturing the band somewhere in a big void, playing. Actually, my mental imagery looked a lot like the famous video of the Beatles playing on the Ed Sullivan show. I must have seen it somewhere and the image just stuck; I certainly wasn’t around for that!
Unfortunately, I was around just in time for Solid Gold. ;-)
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