Back to the Days of Future Passed
The days of future passed. If that strikes a note with you, it might be because you're old enough to remember the Moody Blues 1967 concept album, generally categorized as "progressive rock" and certainly a win for the band. But it also might be that you're young enough to have had life mostly digitized for you, and you've wondered if you might not like going back to some of the old-style technology. Not so very long ago, a teen I know asked for a record player - as in, turntable. It had been so long since music lovers had walked away from that, moved on to cassette tapes, then to CDs, and, finally just to audio files, stored as we wished. Somehow, the more "physical" quality of the vinyl record "grooved" with young people, and they became interested. Whether it's richness of the sound quality, the ritual of dropping the record on the turntable and the needle into the groove, or the fun of leafing through a rack of albums to find the music ...