What do you miss from your youth?

If only those 70's recordings had the fidelity of today's.

 

Oh, but they did. 4 track 16 IPS reel to reel with a tube type Macintosh amp and Klipsch speakers. Master vinal discs which were played once, taped, and then stored. I remember when CD's first hit the market. The sound was too precise. They didn't sound real. Guys, draftees, bought big stereos over seas and shipped them home. The guy I grew up with sent 5 systems home from Japan. 3 of which I sold for a nice profit.

 

Ahhh, a Mac amp with tubes. 12AV7, 6HF8 triodes. Transformer coupled. The best mellow sound. Reel to reel....how I wanted one of those.

 

I miss kindness and love...

 

Real, local newspapers.

Trying to read the Sunday paper on an iPad is just nowhere near the experience.....especially with the comics...

 

Watching leggs in pantyhose, specifically Mom and grams considering they'd have no dress or skirt on

 

My three story high school way back when the girls wore garter belts and stockings and had to climb the stairs. Quite educational.

 

I remember back in the day when weed was around $350.00 a pound. My friends and I would pool our money and buy a few. We use to use double albums to break them up and sift all the stems and seeds out.
I grew up along the I-95 corridor in a town which was the midway point between Fla.and NY for drug trafficking up and down the east coast. Back in the 70s where I lived there was no shortage of acid, weed, ludes/reds and any kind of speed/black beauties you wanted.
I'm up in Wa state now and there's a weed store on just about every corner. I do miss the days of buying a nickle or a dime and walking around with it rolled up and tucked in my sock.

 

I was able to acquire multiple cameras, stereo receivers and lots of other equipment on an R&R trip to Tokyo. I bought them for fellow soldiers in my unit and had them shipped to our home base. Everything arrived perfectly except for the Advent cassette recorder I bought for myself. Some low life in the Army mail system stole it and when I raised hell with all of them, CID arrested the guy. My cassette recorder was 'small potatoes' compared to all the stuff that guy had stolen. He got 20+ years in Leavenworth, KS.

 

[QUOTE="lkabong, post: 9578863, member: 333442"Everything arrived perfectly except for the Advent cassette recorder I bought for myself.[/QUOTE]

I miss Advent speakers, they sounded great.

 

I have a nice big pair of old Technics in my office and some Boston Acoustics in my workshop. There will be no bluetooth junk boxes. Wire. Amplifier. Heat. Speakers.

I believe in copper.

 

I miss how easy it was to have sex with someone.

 

My favorites: The Byrds, The Yardbirds, Lynard Skynard, ELO, CSNY, Paul Butterfield, Moody Blues, Styx,
Foreigner, The Highwaymen, Alan Parsons Project, John Barry

 

I miss my idealism