Thank you to everyone who turned out for the inaugural Tuesday Night Vinyl. As one guest said, “this is like book club, but for records.” Exactly right. That was precisely the intent and as soon as our group gathered at the studio tonight, we all felt that.
This program is about connectedness. It is about how music that has meant something personal to us can be communicated to other people.
We heard stories about unlabelled mix tapes that friends gave us when we were younger in the 1990s. It was pre-internet and it took us two or three weeks to figure out that the song we loved was called Sober by Tool.
There were stories about the first time that we purchased a Santana record with babysitting money and heard Soul Sacrifice. What year it was. What we were doing then. How long it has been. Why the songs still resonate with us.
We heard stories about how Space Boogie by Jeff Beck was written.
We heard about a juke box that used to be in our high school back in the day where students would play Limelight by Rush four times in one lunch period.
We talked. We heard one another.
Next month, we will do it again. Stay tuned.