To Soothe the Savage Breast
Oct. 9th, 2012 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lweBetween 1966 and 1982 I bought a lot of LPs. A lot of LPs. I took good care of them, too, so as of 2009 I still had pretty much all of them, as well as a dozen or so that Julie added when we got married. I stopped buying around 1982 or 1983 because CDs were invented and I thought it was obvious that they would replace CDs, but I didn't actually get a CD player for a few years.
From 1985 to the present day I bought a lot of CDs -- more than 400, I know, because I completely filled two 200-slot carousels and had lots left over.
Somewhere in the last few years, no later than 2009, I switched to playing music on my computer. I ripped all my CDs, bought an external hard drive so they'd all fit.
I had bought CDs of most of my favorite albums, and sold the LPs of those to a local collectors' shop when we moved to Takoma Park in 2009.
But now I'm working on making MP3s of all the remaining LPs, the ones I did not have on CD, with the idea that when I'm done I can get rid of the turntable and stuff the records into a box in the basement storeroom, clearing a little space in my office. I'm using freeware called Audacity, which works pretty well.
I hadn't played some of these in a very long time. Most of them I hadn't played in twenty years. These were, after all, the albums I either never cared for enough to get on CD, or couldn't find on CD. It's a sort of musical archeology.
I've been reporting as I go on SFF Net, in a thread called "Listen to the Music," but I don't seem to have many readers there anymore, so I've decided to post about it here, as well.
I've just finished transcribing Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, which is pretty good.
So far, the one that most had me wondering how I could let it gather dust so long is Gris-Gris, by Dr. John, then calling himself the Night Tripper. I love having that one back, and have been playing it a lot.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, on the other hand, probably wasn't worth the effort. Carole King's Tapestry was also slightly disappointing.
From 1985 to the present day I bought a lot of CDs -- more than 400, I know, because I completely filled two 200-slot carousels and had lots left over.
Somewhere in the last few years, no later than 2009, I switched to playing music on my computer. I ripped all my CDs, bought an external hard drive so they'd all fit.
I had bought CDs of most of my favorite albums, and sold the LPs of those to a local collectors' shop when we moved to Takoma Park in 2009.
But now I'm working on making MP3s of all the remaining LPs, the ones I did not have on CD, with the idea that when I'm done I can get rid of the turntable and stuff the records into a box in the basement storeroom, clearing a little space in my office. I'm using freeware called Audacity, which works pretty well.
I hadn't played some of these in a very long time. Most of them I hadn't played in twenty years. These were, after all, the albums I either never cared for enough to get on CD, or couldn't find on CD. It's a sort of musical archeology.
I've been reporting as I go on SFF Net, in a thread called "Listen to the Music," but I don't seem to have many readers there anymore, so I've decided to post about it here, as well.
I've just finished transcribing Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, which is pretty good.
So far, the one that most had me wondering how I could let it gather dust so long is Gris-Gris, by Dr. John, then calling himself the Night Tripper. I love having that one back, and have been playing it a lot.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, on the other hand, probably wasn't worth the effort. Carole King's Tapestry was also slightly disappointing.