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On the Beat: David Menconi on music

News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.

The vinyl frontier

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See, vinyl! It's like that table over there, only much smaller and it makes noises like that. Oh, never mind, you'll catch on when the next vinyl revolution hits.


-- Chris Stamey at Carrboro's Open Eye Cafe Saturday night, pointing at a round table immediately after trying to replicate the pops and scratches of a stylus on a vinyl record with a guitar pick on a microphone, at the end of the song "Broken Record"

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I love vinyl. So far, I

I love vinyl. So far, I have about 13 boxes of 33 1/3's, 10 boxes of 45's, and 3 boxes of 78's.

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About the blogger

David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. He has a masters in journalism from the University of Texas and a B.A. in English from Southwestern University. You can find more of his writing here.

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