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And then came down Mosaic...

Tomatos don't grown well on stones.

At that point I could use my baseball bat and, later, my shovel.

Yeah and Keith Richards could drain my home bar in a zoom.

Actually I don't won't the fu***** Rolling Stones in my living room, nor the Berliner Philarmoniker, I just want to play my loving records, if you understand what I mean.

When ever ads told the truth?

Thanks! I have a record shop that it’s cool about vinyl I’ll try to check the cover out of this Lp.

If the guys at BN are smart yes though they reissued as 80 anniversary series.

Don’t get me wrong I think MM are the best sounding BN in this galaxy IMO Nevertheless I sold most of them when I had originals not because originals sound better but only because snobbishness is stronger then audiophilia in my medical report.

Yes, but as plan B.

I missed the MM back then, now is beyond 100 bucks, btw I hate 45 rpm records I go regularly to gym, no need to flip the record every ten minutes. Mono originals are 400 bucks and beyond, apparently there was only one japanese reissue, other BN's had been reissued three or four times in Japan.

Always wanted a vinyl copy of Herbie's Inventions And Dimentions, never found a reasonabled priced japanese copy, forget about the originals, they were expensive 15 years ago, now they are among luxury goods like Rolex or BMW convertible. Any experience with the BN anniversary reissues?

Actually in Rome there are very few cocktail bars, fuc**** pretencious and expensive, where the barman poses like a Beethoven of the cocktails. The last shelters are some of the bar of luxury hotels.

Yeah, I had to get the tube for a bottle of dry vermouth. I am getting nostalgic for the British Empire where you could have a great Martini in every good bar of the colonies.

Three supermakets and a wine shop in the city center and they don't stock Martini Dry. I already accepted the tragedy I couldn't find a decent cocktail anywhere but home, Spritz mania killed the barmen, but I'd never thought I'd have to take the underground to have a Vodka Martini on my sofa.

If it's true that Laugh Lots, Live Longer, Mr Jones did a better job then my doctor. Thanks!

If someone at Mosaic had an engineering degree back then my box sets would still be pristine. Back in the days of classical box sets the only "mosaic like" boxes were canvas panel, I have some Deutsche Grammophone sets that are still one piece.

The jewel case became matte and scratched after ten times you play the cd, are fragile as hell and the "artwork" of the cd is just like a small photo of a painting, you can go to an art exhibition or a museum and look at the real thing on you can buy a catalog from Amazon. You could put a record's cover in a frame and you have something worth to look at on your wall. Anyway I never bought a prerecorded cassette in my life, since they weren't cheaper then records. I tried to expand the "nostalgia" issue you raised. And yes like JSangry, I did not dump my old records, I started to buy all those "Complete Recordings" box sets that were really something back then. What I found irreplaceable about cd, after they discovered how to do a mastering in the digital domain, are those box sets of Armstrong, Bix, Ellington and the 78 rpm and shellac era.

I wouldn't too much blame nostalgia because, cassette a part, it has a lot to do with collecting and therefore preserving valuable stuff, think about ancient books or postcards for example. I think that collecting and listening to old records has an implication in preserving our cultural heritage, what about if all the Blue Note records were dumped in favour of downloads? The art of Reid Miles would be just a tag on the screen of a digital streamer or an illustrated book forgotten in a library. I have a young friend who's a designer, he buys records, mainly reissues, for covers. Maybe all these is nostalgia but exposing young people to the art and beauty of the past it's some sort of an investment for the future. And yes, the very very few times I spot a classic Porsche 911 Targa or a Citroen DS around the city, I don't think "look at the bastard who burns the planet" but I think "Those damn guys knew how to make a wonderful car!".