It was more than just the music. It didn't matter if they were singles (45s), LPs or double.
It didn't matter how long they lasted.
 
There was nothing like the excitement of getting a new record. It was like a special gift that just kept
on giving. I still go out and open a box and just thumb through pulling one out and think about it and the time I had.
The girls loved their 45s and it was a treat to hang around in their rooms letting them spin those little gems and asking if I had heard it or could play it on me guitar...
Yeah it was a great time and many times that albums played all day and all night. Sure glad I was there for it.
 
Skynyrd- One More For The Road
Santana- Moonflower
Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Stones- Exile On Main Street
The Who- Quadraphenia- Live At Leeds
Zappa-Freak Out
Clapton- Layla- Wheels of Fire
Harrison-All Things Must Pass
DP-Made In Japan
 
And how cool were the colored doubles, red and blue Beatles? The white White Album? Friggin' great.
 
Well it's early and I have coffee to enjoy. Maybe they're dead...but there is still a lot of life in the ones I own and I guess those that think they're dead just didn't live through those years. Maybe they can find life in CDs or downloads but I'm sure it'll never be the same trip as when vinyl was the media.
 
 
 
 
 

i buy albums, on vinyl even, more than anything else the last 4 years or so, and they're usually very nice objets with coloured heavyweight vinyl, nice packaging, great smell, etc, and a recent stat said in the uk vinyl sales are the highest for donkey's :-)

spacey
...
It was more than just the music. It didn't matter if they were singles (45s), LPs or double.
It didn't matter how long they lasted.
 ...
And how cool were the colored doubles, red and blue Beatles? The white White Album? Friggin' great.
... 

I think that's one thing I miss the most for today's music and musicians. But the example I had, tells you what "today's" sensibilities are when it comes to music and some artistic this and that. The idea I had proposed for the Coffee House Band on its first song, was outright rejected ... and it wasn't even about an "image" for the band. It was just ME ... trying to elevate the music to an artistic level ... that OBVIOUSLY ... was not there!
 
Well, hell's bells ... it wasn't there on the majority of other stuff, either, in those days!
 
Today, folks (specially here!) don't think in terms of having a friend painter, artist, writer, idiot with them ... look at this board and its members, and the only friend they want and have and discuss is ... yet another program and whatever else they can add to it!
 
And that's the difference. They will take a suggestion to add a note from another guitarist, but if the same suggestion came from someone that is not a guitarist, they will say that you are not a musician ... and have no idea what it might sound or not with that one note in there! Many of us, and you as well, Spacey, are dreamers, visualists and creative folks that don't stop on a nickel! There's more to life! A lot more! And having that chance and opportunity to appreciate it ... is priceless!
 
 

Moshkiae
 
 
They will take a suggestion to add a note from another guitarist, but if the same suggestion came from someone that is not a guitarist, they will say that you are not a musician ... and have no idea what it might sound or not with that one note in there!
 

Mosh, I can't say I agree with that. I think musicians listen to everybody and it becomes information that they will process along with everything else in hopes that they can create. In the end they (we) have to make the call and lay down what we "feel" is good.
The reason I can't say I disagree with you is because there are people that listen but may not hear what is being said. It happens. Happens to us all. I can't say it happens because of one being a musician or not.
 
 

spacey

Moshkiae
 
 
They will take a suggestion to add a note from another guitarist, but if the same suggestion came from someone that is not a guitarist, they will say that you are not a musician ... and have no idea what it might sound or not with that one note in there!
 

...
The reason I can't say I disagree with you is because there are people that listen but may not hear what is being said. It happens. Happens to us all. I can't say it happens because of one being a musician or not.
... 
 

It's not meant to sound bad and "wrong".
 
I guess that I look at the Coffee House as another place where you can have tea and crumpets ... opppssss Bapuy is gonna kill me! ... coffee and crumpets! ... where one can openly discuss their art and it helps give them an idea to improve it as such. But it is scary, for example, if someone makes a suggestion on my work, and I don't understand, I normally ask, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong!
 
But, what's the point of ANY friendship, if we can not help/suggest/try different things?
 
Just another kiss?

In my very humble opinion, not all advice is good advice.  An artist will receive all kinds of advice from a wide variety of sources.  If they tried to follow them all, they'd never finish anything.  Most of the musicians I have known personally were willing to consider advice regardless of the source.  A good idea is valuable because it's a good idea, not because of the person who offered it.  In my experience, somone with a signficant degree of skill or expertise in my particular artform will often provide very detailed and precise advice based upon their experience.  Someone without these skills may have a broad idea, but may lack the language or detailed knowledge to convey their meaning.  Good and bad ideas may come from either source. 
 
Whenever I have a discussion where someone says, "There are no stupid ideas," I have to bite my tongue because I just thought of 17 of them.  Of course there are bad ideas.  That's why the good ones stand out. 
 
The artist must choose whether or not to follow a piece of advice.  It is, after all, their work.  When an artist chooses not to follow someone's advice, it only means that they disagreed and chose to go their way.  That's what artists do.  That's what drives some of us to create our own stuff.  We play the songs and styles we want to hear.  We write the stories we want to read.  We paint the pictures we want to see.  It's not because we're too arrogant to listen to other people tell us what they want us to do.  It's because we have our own vision for our art.  In the end, isn't that what we really want from an artist?

Bristol_Jonesey
I'm more or less on the same page as Strummy here: many of my early double LP purchases were live offerings:
 
The Song Remains the Same
 
Live & Dangerous
 

 
Oh yeah, now we're talking Col
 
From my own LPs, I'd have added these double live albums:

• Iron Maiden - Live After Death (1985)
• Judas Priest - Priest...Live! (1987)
• Motörhead - No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith (1981)
• Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo! (1978)
• Status Quo - Quo...Live! (1977)
• UFO - Strangers In The Night (1979)
• Whitesnake - Live...In The Heart Of The City (1980)

Three single live LPs come to mind that would have made excellent doubles had they included all the material they later made available on the reissued CD versions:

• Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East (1979)
• Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed {Pt1} (1982)
• The Stranglers - Live [X-Cert] (1979)

When Tull brought out their 'Bursting Out - Live' double album I took the day off college to listen to and absorb it, poring over the photos and liner notes. I miss all that magic.
 
 

but what have you bought in the last couple of months?

lawp
but what have you bought in the last couple of months?

Me? Willy Porter's 'How to Rob a Bank', Joe Bonamassa 'Live at The Royal Albert Hall' and Julie Fowlis 'Uam'. All great, but there's nothing like settling down with a gatefold sleeve