photo by Stephanie Bassos
Our fearless leader and frontman Matt Kerstein recently sat down and wrote a few thoughts on what is our favorite music format. The essay was posted at The Vinyl District earlier last week. Along with alluding to some of his favorite albums, Matt also offers a peek into his system for hiding all sorts of odd and ends (spoiler alert: most things ended up in Beethoven’s Second Symphony). Below are a couple quotes from the writing, but it’s a great read all the way through. Many thanks to the folks at TVD for posting.
Brighton MA: The TVD First Date
“Guess there’s no real way to talk about loving a Beethoven record these days without sounding obnoxious. I used to stash all sorts of things in my vinyl collection. Beethoven’s Second Symphony was a main hiding spot. No one would ever put on the Second Symphony. Not in a million years.
“Thinking back on it now I should have had more of a system. You can’t keep everything in the Second Symphony – the vinyl packaging is big but not that big. All love letters should be kept in the Joni Mitchell Blue album…”
And maybe the more important point here…
“Putting your album out on vinyl feels to a lot of musicians like the only true closure to the horrifically rewarding experience of making an album.”
Amen.
