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Home For The Holidays? Check Your Old Attic For Hard To Find Music
by Nick Law - December 17, 2008

Like many people in America this Thanksgiving, I took a trip home to see the family, watch some football and eat endless amounts of food. I think finally, almost an entire month later, I just may be ready for a salad.

I woke up from my food come late Thursday night/Friday morning on the couch in my parents’ living room. The TV had been left on and Letterman was doing his tired routine of guessing which pie his mom had baked this year. Click.

Since I wasn’t tired, I decided to venture upstairs to the attic to see what I neglected to take along on my big move to the city last August. I typically do this every year when I’m home and I didn’t think anything could top the stash of Playboys from 1973-1978 that I found last year.

What I found this year was just as good; possibly better depending on how you want to look at it. Hidden under a pile of blankets and one random lampshade was a collection of our family’s old LPs. I thought my mom had sold them years ago, but here they were. All of them!

Most were copies that you could pick up in any used record store. Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and my own personal favorite Sports by Huey Lewis and the News were among some of the more recognizable names.

I was amazed at some of the rare music in the collection, however. Hard to find records were sprinkled in every now and then. Some of it music that I never even knew my parents listened to. I sat in awe as I examined The White Album by The Beatles, still in almost mint condition. I searched all over for a record player when I found Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash. Here all along I had always thought my dad was an REO Speedwagon fan. Johnny Cash? Are you kidding me?

When I found In A Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly, I decided that maybe it was best to let the past be the past. I took my copy of Sports back of course, but I think I learned something about my parents that night.

The next morning, I was tempted to say something at breakfast. Something along the lines of “I never knew you guys were so into Fleetwood Mac,” came to mind, but I decided to let it go. Like with so many other people, these used records stood for something different with my parents. They represented a time in their lives when they were younger.

In a way, I kind of wish I hadn’t found them. But hey, what do you expect? When you find a stack of soft-core 70s porn the year before, you’re bound to go exploring every year from that point forward. Plus I had to make sure that they never ended up selling Sports in a garage sale. How would I have gone on?

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