Subj : Re: the best vinyl record stores in Toro
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Jul 17 2023 15:09:38

On 17 Jul 23  20:52:24, Ward Dossche said the following to Nick Andre:

WD> Exactly ... we early had good stereo radio via the cable-TV network, I
WD> listened to AFN (Armed Forces Network) and they featured Wolfman Jack. It
WD> would be a while before "American Graffiti" introduced him to mainstream
WD> Europe. I'm guessing that was before you were born .. ? .. You missed-out o
WD> lot of the good stuff..

I'm familiar with Wolfman Jack, yes that was before I was born.

My introduction to "good stuff" as a kid was in the form of badly scratched 
and abused K-Tel albums.  I think in Europe they were known as Ronco albums?

These were bargain-basement advertised-on-TV collections of 50s/60s/70's music
usually 3 minute snippets, many songs crammed onto one side of bad quality
vinyl. I had also inherited a few shoeboxes of badly abused 45's from an uncle
who was killed in a grain elevator farming accident in the 70's.

But to a young boy who could not afford a massive record collection those 
cheap throwaway vinyls were a real treasure of music, which I then began to 
dig deeper into the artists, albums those songs were from. Discovering more
treasure from there...  and working my first part time jobs to be able to
afford a very decent Hifi setup. And the 20 megabyte Tandy hard-drive...

Nick

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