Used vinyl

My sister was in a “clean, sort and toss” mode the other day and found a box of vinyl records carefully stowed away in a plastic storage bin. Since she no longer has a turntable, she brought them over to me. Of about 20, I already owned six (Loggins and Messina On Stage, The Association’s Greatest Hits, a couple of John Denver albums and some others), which was a surprise. But there were Led Zep IV (aka Zoso, among other names), a couple of America albums, three or four contemporary 1970s Hawaiian albums (basically soft rock with steel guitar) and a dozen miscellaneous others.

After a minimal cleaning with an album dust catcher I put Side One of the Zep album on (Black Dog, Rock and Roll, The Battle of Evermore and Stairway to Heaven) and discovered it played beautifully on my 8-year-old Audio Technica turntable. I cranked up the volume to play it through my 42-year-old Pioneer 88 speakers and it’s plenty loud.

Have I got a cool sister or what?