yeah, I was one of those kids… pt. 2

click here for pt. 1 Anyway, my love affair with music through the medium of vinyl just intensified with age. By the time I was 12 I owned the original box set of Jesus Christ Superstar. (Look, this was a pretty big deal… at least I thought so when I was 12.) Now you have to understand that the edgiest musical I had heard up till this point was West Side Story… so this was …

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yeah, I was one of those kids…

… who wore out the grooves on the record with repeated playing. Some of you are blinking blankly after reading that. Oh forgive me… remember those black disks of vinyl that you played on something called a phonograph? Yes, those curiosities from… what? No, it’s just a nasty rumor that Nero was playing one while Rome burned… or that it was popular during the black plague. Anyway, as a child I recall the first EP …

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