Awesome article and so very true. There is no comparison between analog and digital and growing up with a brother who is 7 years older and started his vinyl collection in single digits really taught me a lot. It is no coincidence that so many older artist listen to and have huge vinyl collections.Bonamassa brought back a lot of great memories and 70% of what I know about music and film I learned from my brother. I would just get an album and play the hits and my brother would always be playing all these great cuts I didn't even know the name of. Then he taught me the proper way to listen to an album just like Bonamassa described, which I am sure he learned from his father. Though they do take up a lot of space vinyl albums were great, with all the classic covers and on occasion little surprises that came inside.The only downside to vinyl is having to keep getting up as JB explained and the dreaded scratches that come with age. Guys complain about the price of guitars, my brother shows me turntables that go for 100K and up! I still get a kick thinking of Jimmy Page in It Might Get Loud in his record room as that is how the middle floor of the house I grew up in looked like, as my brother had all the walls lined up with custom made cabinets full of his albums. I totally understand everything JB was talking about and can remember learning all the songs on the early Beatle albums as all you had to do was pan the speakers all the way to the right and you would get all the guitars while the vocals were all in the other channel. Back in the early 70's my brother was in a bad accident and wound up with a nice chunk of scratch for a 21 year old back in 74. He went out and bought a 3K stereo system which was unheard of back then and the whole neighborhood used to come by to hear it. I was 14 with a $50 Tele knockoff, some small bootleg amp and a Wah pedal that also had a Fuzz built in it. I remember my brother was going away for a few days and I had the middle floor all to myself. Then I had a brainstorm that my guitar would sound a lot better played through his amplifier then my crummy amp, so I plugged in my guitar and I was right. I could hear my friends in their yards yelling for me to make it louder a they really couldn't hear so I dimed it lol. The only thing I heard after 5 seconds was a big BOOM, and I immediately felt the cold sweats come over me. I couldn't get the amp back on and when I took off the speaker covers I was close to shock seeing that I blew the woofers and tweeters right out of the speakers! Lets just say I took a lil vacation myself lol. All jokes aside almost 40 years later and he still never let's me forget my Pete Townshend moment. Well I can laugh about it now.
