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blacknapkinsblacknapkins Posts: 2,177
edited August 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I just came across this story ...

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2071033.html

I'm looking through a box of *my* mother's records ... Bing Crosby ~ White Christmas ... red vinyl opera records ... Jerry Lee Lewis ~ Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On ... Sixteen Tons ~ Tenessee Ernie Ford ... Hound Dog by Elvis Presley. I used to listen to them when I was a kid (I always wanted to listen to EVERYTHING) and I can't say she took very good care of them, but they still play today. I can totally see the value in having the soundtrack of your parents' lives. I can only hope that someday my kids appreciate all of the music I've collected.
"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best."
~ FZ ~
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i have my folk's lp's as well....lots of sinatra, big band...first 10 years of my life was spent listening to that....listening to them takes me back to when i was a kid :mrgreen:
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    norm wrote:
    i have my folk's lp's as well....lots of sinatra, big band...first 10 years of my life was spent listening to that....listening to them takes me back to when i was a kid :mrgreen:

    I came across in my mother's attic some 8-track tapes she had of the one and only James Brown. No player to play them on though. My daughter already listens to most of the music I listen to, no rebelliousness in her at the moment. Just to tell me turn it down Dad. :)

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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I too got my dad's collection of vinyls. Lot's of classic rock (Clapton, Stones, Zeppelin, Leon Russell, Skynyrd), and just a good variety of some 60-80's music.

    He had the first album of a guy named Leo Kotke....damn, that guy plays some cool instrumental guitar.
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    old records
    I've replaced my parents music that I listened to as a child from the 30's 40's 50's with CD's and my children grew up with as much of that music as with what was current for them at the time
    My daughter has dibs on the very old stuff and my son his dads collection from the 70's 80's.
    Music hand me down are as precious as pictures, filled with memories.
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    dcfaithful wrote:
    He had the first album of a guy named Leo Kotke....damn, that guy plays some cool instrumental guitar.
    Damn, I had forgotten all about Leo Kottke. He's been around forever.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    whoprincess wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    He had the first album of a guy named Leo Kotke....damn, that guy plays some cool instrumental guitar.
    Damn, I had forgotten all about Leo Kottke. He's been around forever.

    It is such an interesting record. My dad always tells me about how he got to see him here in SLC at the Capitol Theatre, and went out the next day and bought his first album. He's so proud of that story, lol.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    My parents had some cool stuff that I've pillaged... Lots of classic rock vinyls... Rolling Stones, Beatles, CSNY, Hendrix, Zeppelin, etc...

    My Dad has some cool reel-to-reels that I used to like to listen to when I was a teenager... those were my first experiences with people like Miles Davis and Cheech & Chong.
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    dcfaithful wrote:
    whoprincess wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    He had the first album of a guy named Leo Kotke....damn, that guy plays some cool instrumental guitar.
    Damn, I had forgotten all about Leo Kottke. He's been around forever.

    It is such an interesting record. My dad always tells me about how he got to see him here in SLC at the Capitol Theatre, and went out the next day and bought his first album. He's so proud of that story, lol.

    His "6 String, 12 String" album is the stuff of legend. I've never chased it down but it's always mentioned by great guitarists and in acoustic guitar type lists.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    DewieCox wrote:
    His "6 String, 12 String" album is the stuff of legend. I've never chased it down but it's always mentioned by great guitarists and in acoustic guitar type lists.

    Yeah, that's the one! It's awesome! You should give it a listen sometime, if I remember right it can be found on iTunes...but it sounds just so much better on vinyl.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    DewieCox wrote:
    His "6 String, 12 String" album is the stuff of legend. I've never chased it down but it's always mentioned by great guitarists and in acoustic guitar type lists.

    GREAT record. my father in law got me in to him. awesome stuff.
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