Displaying vintage Items in your home, such as old records, has a mind expanding effect. It connects your environment to the past and the music makers of yore, in an age where everything is stored on your phone, and your perspective shrinks to only digital, this broadens your perspective on history. These cool, fun conversation pieces get people talking about the fascinating subject of music, which makes the world better everyday. In Studio City, Los Angeles, two weeks ago, I visited Freak Beat Vinyl Records, and if I wasn’t riding a bike, I would have missed it, it is so small. But the generous collection of music nostalgia and memories inside could fill many hearts. It makes you appreciate the vastness of the world’s music collection, which you could never listen to in one lifetime.
Two middle aged men behind the counter know their stuff and happily assist you in flipping through the bins of the last traces of physical artwork of vinyl albums and cd’s and cdd’s. What is a cdd? I had heard of laser discs, but this is a special type of laser disc plays video and analog and you insert the disc into a machine to play it. I bought the Elvis Viva Las Vegas one, as it was the first Elvis movie I saw on TV as a kid that had me smitten with Elvis. Cdd is an obsolete technology that makes you wonder what the creators were thinking when they made it. The man at the counter was overjoyed to explain the whole Cdd phenomenon to me. It is like a cool piece of art to me.
I don’t even own a turntable, and I also bought Elvis’s Christmas record from 1970 to display around the Holidays. My mom loved those songs, and she is no longer living, and it reminds me of her and her and my love for Elvis. Seeing a few items from your childhood honors your memories. Mixing the old with the new broadens your thinking beyond being stuck in today, to a wider perspective about different times than right now.
When Gary Vee and Joe Rogan make a video or podcast in their offices, they have a mix of vintage and modern items to add visual interest, but also to connect their audiences to history, to expand their minds on different topics, and spark memories of songs and experiences and toys from different stages of their lives to create fond memories.