Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 11, 2012

Oh, fine. Make ME feel doddering… ;-)

Wow!!! Long time since I’ve heard that! Techincally though, we CAN still call these things records.

its ok marigold…i find myself saying that more and more often these days….heavy sigh….

GASP I never knew the mythical record store actually existed, guess its common for a unicorn to know such things.

I supose Marigold can spin records on her horn.Maybe she can use that magic text channel to upload tunes.From my experience, concerts where the best place to relate to music, especially small informal ones.

I miss record stores. Although they didn’t have many records for sale when I was buying—cassette tapes were where it was at…

I suppose Marigold is like Llewellyn?

I guess Phoebe doesn’t know what Record Store is.

Waterloo in Austin is still considered a record store, I believe.

The coolest record store I remember was Toad Tape in Oden, Utah. “Where Riverdale (Road) meets Washington (Boulevard) and just goes crazy.”Of course, Marigold is so old she remembers when wax cyllinders were “new-fangled”.

Two words, Phoebe… “Miles Davis”.

Ha! I’ve had those senior blank-stares too, and I’m only 45 :)

Me too, Mari-G. Me too.

Marigold isn’t a big sister. She’s Grandma.

What the iTune generation is missing is being able to SELL your records when you were broke, or just tired of a particular album. Kind of hard to sell a download.

/Sometimes/ there were multiple grooves per side. Monty Python made one, just because they were Monty Python, and my parents had a “horse race” LP (with an auto race on the other side) that had six different grooves with six different endings, so you could bet on it. (The announcer on both sides was Henny Youngman.)

And then there were the Cook Binaural records, that had an outer half and an inner half, to be used with a T-shaped arm that played both halves at once. It lost out to the stereo system that put both left and right in a single groove that moved in two dimensions, since the stereo system played twice as long as Cook Binaural did.

Just call quadrophonic “Dolby 4.0”. ;-)

I’m old enough to remember the tail end of 78, and I’ve owned plenty of 45s and 33 1/3s. (I’ve even been exposed to 16 2/3; I had a blind teacher.) I remember wire, reel-to-reel, RCA’s failed 1/4-inch cassette, the Phillps 1/8-inch cassette (including the CrO2 and Metal variants), 8-track, and 4-track. I had a Palm that was audio-capable, and I’m on my third iPhone. I have an iPad, too, and my sound system can also take an SD card.

Here’s something for you. For a few years, the CD-ROM drives of personal computers included an audio mode and a separate headphone jack just for playing CDs, instead of going through the computer’s audio system as is done today.

I think she knows very well what a record is.