Is there a market for these old 45's?
Considering how many great ones I lost... maybe not?
But I still did have lots, and I infected the [what I considered to be] famous Al's Bar in Downtown LA with the singles I had left, and sang LOUDLY along with some songs in the daytime when there weren't some nascently famous bands playing at night, getting be 86d by the owner. The bartender loved me, though, and all my beers were free, and even though I was kicked out, I was ALWAYS there... because I lived upstairs. I married that bartender and am repaying all those beers for forever now, though...
She's impossible, but I obviously love her since it's been like 3 decades now and all. Almost.
Congrats, I got lots of old 45's and many old tubes. Wish I had a market for them instead of them getting thrown away some day.
Oh man, I just met the McArthur base museum guy who is restoring the entire old bunker radio room system. He has an entire ROOM filled with awesome old spare vacuum tubes and is getting everything running again! Speaking of tubes. TUBULAR, man.
Remember the tube testing thing at Thrifty's? Good times. Dad fixed several TV sets using that thing. And then he build a better one than what we had, because he was fucking handy like that. He tried to teach me, but the stereo I built under his tutelage caught FIRE. derp. Turns out it was a REALLY bad .. thingy. Not a resistor... it looked like a pez with wires coming out of it, shit, maybe it was a resistor. It was at fault and not really me, but I felt pretty defeated for a time and just focused on internal combustion engines for awhile... GOOD FUCKING TIMES!!!
Al's bar?! that place was great (from what i foggily remember) - worth driving back to downtown for after we moved.
I bet we ran into [or possibly fought] each other back in the day! GOOD TIMES!
I used to drive out there to poach bands for my place until my place shut and then I just moved there to die.
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