A blast from the past! What blew your mind?

SolidSqual

Believe it or not this phonograph was the first piece of gear on which I listened to Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon for the first time! I was 5! This player was meant for me to listen to Sesame Street Sing Alongs, but somehow I managed to find my Dad's old LPs while in the attic and well the rest is history . . .

I was rockin' out hard in true mono glory! Back then, there was nothing better than a system that could be packed up and carted around the house like a briefcase!

wingnut4772

OMG. I so had one of these! I am old!:eek:

dorokusai

Nothing like playing DSOTM for a 5 year old....kinda like taking your 11 year old to see Andy Warhol's Frankenstein.

SolidSqual

I just called my mom and she still has it! I might have to bring it to a Polk Fest when I get around to attending one.

Ron-P

I had one as well.

John in MA

Never had one. I owned a couple portable radios when I was a little kid, then my first "hi-hi" experience was an old Panasonic receiver and a couple of no-name speakers from a church sale.

rskarvan

When I was five, I listened to Karen Carpenter on one of those.

I-SIG

My little sister and I had one. Thriller got played a lot on that thing!

Wes

strider

That was my first experience with anything that played music, I think I was 5 as well. Juice Newton, The Chipmunks, and Kiss were in constant rotation. Good find, Solid Squal!

I ended up re-wiring the tonearm and replacing the stylus with a piece of dried macaroni frrom art class. Really opened up the soundstage.

tonyb

while listening to dsotm,the smell of fresh baked cookies filled the air
from his Easy Bake Oven........soon after.....Barbie and Ken joined in.....:).

Joe08867

I remember listening to DSOTM in my mono record player while watching Somewhere over the Rainbow. Who else thought Dorothy was hot???

steveinaz

I used to jam "Puff the magic dragon" on one of those....

jflail2

Hell yes. I remember listening to Rhinestone Cowboy as a kid on one of those. My friend loooooved that song and would play it over and over and over and over.....

bobman1235

Kind of unrelated, but nostalgic vinyl - I remember me and my cousin, when we visited my grandmother, used to hang out in her basement, which was finished and had one of those huge console sound systems with a turntable built in. We used to listen to what I can only assume were our parents' old Beatles vinyl. I most specifically remember Let It Be (the song), because it was on a translucent green 45. To an 8-year old that was awesome.

BaggedLancer

I had one of those fisher price things, it was my uncles. Only the cool kids had one of those.

Jstas

I got one of those! I also found my record collection too! Everything from the Teddy Bears Have a Picnic to Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem!

Yeah, I remember listening to DSOTM too. Plus my dad dropped The Beatles "The White Album" and "Sgt. Pepper's..." on it for us. Had lots of Motown too. That little record player rocked! You could change the speed real easy too. If you got bored, you just jacked that baby up to 72 and all of a sudden you had Alvin and The Chipmunks sing Pink Floyd or The Beatles!

Hours of fun! Hours!

Marcas

Wish I could say I listened to something cool on mine. From memory, it was mostly Elvis. I thought I was cool when I moved up to Shawn Cassidy. Aaaaahhhhhhhh.

SolidSqual

Speed control? I thought Mom had purchased the table with the optional Chipmunks feature . . .

AndyGwis

For my 9th birthday (I think) I got sony walkman from my parents. My cousins gave me vanilla ice and MC Hammer. A few years later, I think I got my first portable CD player and Stone Temple Pilots Core. I wore that CD out.

jgido759

My first venture into "hi-fi":



Panasonic SG-330, powered by 6 "D" cell batteries. Many hours of Alice Cooper's "School's Out", Deep Purple's "Machine Head", and "Led Zep IV"

SolidSqual

Wow, makes the fisher price look like yesterday's news.

Systems

I was too old for one of those. My sisters had one though. Dad's stuff in the den sounded better, but my a$$ was stinging every time I touched his stuff.....LOL