1975 was a far better year for music (and drugs, and fucking) than any year thus far this milennium. Which is saying something.

Jon! You were fucking in 1975? I'm ten years older than you and I turned fifteen in '75, which would make you... an incredibly advanced kindergartener, even for those days. I tip my hat, sir.

My husband is practically vibrating with excitement in anticipation of getting the new Born to Run set for Christmas.

eatitlive, I assume you've already tried eBay?

1975 was a great year, cos that's when I was born too. wheeeeee!

Yeah, ebay. Seems like shipping speakers would be a bitch. I've been watching craigslist for stoop sales, and whatever.

My yearly southern odyssey begins next week. Hoping to hit some thrift stores. By my calculations, Rocky Mount, NC, is the US city most likely to have nice old speakers. Right off 95, too.

I want to know about the calculations that lead you to Rocky Mount, eatitlive! Seriously.

What I've noticed lately is those big speaker cabinets--they look like sideboards--are hot, hot, hot.

I don't see "It's Raining Florence Henderson" on that list.

I was released in 1963.

It's just a hunch about Rocky Mount, not having been there before. Looks like a moderately sized city, close-but-not-too to the Triangle. If it's like other places I've been in the Carolinas, there should be an aging population and maybe some retirees -- a necessary ingredient for good thrift stores. Do you have a field report, sully6?

In other news, my quest for classy looking cabinet speakers has lead me to WoodCentral. These are the men of WoodCentral.

By saying "men" and not "peoples" I meant no slight to Jennifer, Helen, Janic, and Barb on that list.

But Evergreen Bob can go miter himself. I hope he gets a splinter.

No field report, I was just curious what led you to Rocky Mount. I've got family in Asheville I'll be stopping by to visit this Christmas and my brother spent a lot of time in Greensboro and High Point when he was in the furniture business.

I've definitely noticed an influx of retirees to Asheville. In fact, last time I was there I got some hate from the locals on the assumption I was one of the jerks who was moving to the area and driving up land prices. Anyway, good luck with your search. I would be curious about an update.

The Atlanta Craigslist has gotten a lotta love, incidentally, from antique furniture buyers. (I guess many of the dealers are accustomed to shipping stuff to out-of-state buyers.) I'm not sure about vintage stereo equipment, though. I figure I'll check out the former when I'm down there later this month.

Get Dancin' - Disco-Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes (#10)

oob-ba, oob-ba, oob-ba-ba, get dancin'! : >

(a wonderful year--i was in 5th grade, and the highlight was a trip to Boston for my cousin's Bat Mitzvah--we bus stop'd, and continental'd and ...)

You guys are nuts. 1975 was just about the final straw for me in terms of horrible music... trapped in high school with every station on AM Radio playing that list of godawful dreck... Elton John inescapable, Boston everywhere, the Doobie Brothers relentlessly pulsing out of every speaker... it was about that time that I abandoned popular music entirely, and didn't come back to the fold until I heard Making Plans for Nigel on the BBC World Service and figured that mabye, just maybe, it was safe to listen again.

You guys are nuts. 1975 was just about the final straw for me in terms of horrible music...

jokeefe, I was just a kid then, but let me tell you this: Boston, Elton John & the Doobies at least had talent. Hell they were fucking auteurs compared to the dreck that dominated the top 40 in the 80's and now. And you all got to smoke dope without the War on Drugs hovering behind your every move, and because it was that sweet interval between the daw of the Pill and AIDS and political correctness you got to bareback fuck with impunity. So, quitcher bitchin'.

what was great about am radio then was that they mixed it up--you'd get a Tony Orlando song, then Fly Robin Fly, then Kiss, then Elton John, then Barry Manilow...