That Moment when a Silverfish remembers History
There are many many of these moments in history during my life... most of them more on a side line, since i never really cared much, if it wasn't about music, the key to life. Enough going on in my personal life and there was never really enough time for being interested in some Mainstream-Media-Whatev's...
The ones i can remember a bit more then of others where:
- The first human on the moon in '69 (first time i was allowed to watch TV)
- Nelson Mandela becoming President (since catholic school made me aware, i was interested in why there was all this injustice happening in Africa)
- 9/11 (Managing an internet center at the time with a huge TV screen, couldn't miss that one)
- Hurricane Katarina (because some friends where in the area at that time, they where lucky enough)
...but all these moments weren't really important to my personal life. I was mostly into music and what was happening there. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, the beginning of Disco in the seventies, Funk, Blues, Jazz and so on. That was MY 'focus point' in Mainstream Media.
Brought up in a noise carpet of classical music of my fathers collection, i started had to start playing wind instruments in school. No choice! Then, to get that classical stuff out of my only eight years old ears, i started recording music onto tapes from billboard radio shows. Which some of them i dealt also at school.
With 12 i became a DJ 'by accident', when i found the whole collection of 'The Beatles' in a cellar clean-out of our local youth center. This found was also the reason the town did spend some money to get us everything we needed for our own 'disco', right there in the same cellar. Long story short: in the years to come i became a collector of vinyl. 45's in the beginning, to the 33's with time. With eighteen i had already a 'big' collection and that's when it happened...
That Moment In Music History
...when in 1983/4 Sony and Philips 'brought' us the Compact Disc. This medium definitely changed the history of music and my way of being a DJ... for sure.
Right away everyone was taking the piss, telling me: Hahaha, all your vinyl is worthless now and you have to change and buy everything again. Ha! I was like, WTAF! What to do now?! Though since it took a while until folks had the money to go and change the disco equipment to the new standard, i went on with my vinyl collection.
It even came to the point i realized that i actually need to hold on to it, the quality of the sound was simply too good compared with that digital sound... and yep, i was right, some folks where even asking especially for me as a DJ later, because i had that vinyl. Also bought me all i needed to assure that i will always be able to party on with it. I knew in my guts that Vinyl will never die. It even has had a few comebacks until today...
Why am i writing about this...
It's all my MadBrother's fault. He posted the Silverbloggers Chronicles Prompt #18 today and made me right away remember one of the most impressive moments in history, to me anyways.
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