… go ahead, play it again!

Another Wordstress prompt? NO!

I was searching for something… a Van Morrison song. Misty Eyes. A friend wanted me to hear Van Morrison’s harmonica solo on it. I thought I may still have it as a 45 in box out in the garage. Had I still possessed my CD and LP collections, I may have have even played heard the tune recently enough to recall it. Those days are gone. Now everything’s been dumped into a stream.

Oh, sure, it’s true that I can still collect some or all those albums again, but I’m done with that. LPs aren’t just albums anymore; now they have become cherished, classic-vintage vinyl investments. People purchase this stuff to play on cheap Crosley players from K-mart, or they invest a couple of thousand dollars for pseudo, near top-of-the-line, high-fidelity multi-component systems.

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Given a whim or or a whole lot of patience, I would do the latter, but I won’t. It’s too late. Been there, done that, and I don’t have time to spend repeating lost hope any more than I already do. Whatever. I’ve had enough of it. I simply wanted to give this Van Morrison tune a listen (a spin) and hear the harp solo my neighbor thought I would enjoy.

At this point, I was going to pitch readers a long tale about how difficult the search for this, the song. Of how many six-digit secret codes I faultered and failed to remember before I could fix passwords and open this or that app. Of what a pain finding songs was. Then, there was dealing with the cranky keys on my laptop, and what all more the issue is of just opening Google. It all took me over an hour.

Then came lunchtime, when I usually try to abandon or quickly complete trivial stories like this. And too, this post is getting long-winded. As you know by now, many of my followers are haiku and tanka devotees. I’m grateful when one or two of them can read more than 157 words.

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After I’ve spread all of this bull-pucky thorough and thick, the truth of the matter is, that, just after my friend recommended the song, I simply Voice Googled Van Morrison’s Mystic Eyes’s and listened to it a couple of times. Yes, the song did have some really great harp sections. Then I connected to Morrisons Greatest Hits album and enjoyed them all! I thought of, I even considered downloading Spotify, but then remembered the box of problems Pandora gave to me.

My suggestion is to run over to your local Tower Records and buy every Van Morrison LP album that they have on vinyl, CD, cassette, then, you should stream your media and save your excessive collection of hard copy so you can sell it back to some newbie collector in twenty years.

Just remember, while recording artists will always appreciate your patronage of their art, they make more money from t-shirt sales at concerts.

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