“I loved listening to vinyl from the get go.”
“Growing up, my parents had a pretty decent vinyl collection. When I was a toddler, cassette tapes were the norm for listening to tunes in the car, but we primarily listened to vinyl at home.
When you’re only a few years old, putting on a vinyl LP seems magical, almost ritualistic. LP’s are huge for a 4 year old. You remove them from a massive, colorful sleeve, place them on a turning wheel, put a microscopic needle on a fine, black line, and BOOM… music appears.
Some of my favorites growing up were The Beatles (their earlier stuff at the time), Billy Joel Glass Houses, Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Buddy Holly, Elvis, and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA. My parents tell me I used to pick up a broom stick pretending it was a guitar and sing and dance to Richie Valens’ “La Bomba.”
It’s funny how the world went from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to virtual computer files and came back to vinyl. Maybe there is something magical about it. Anyway, I still listen to many of my parents records. I’ve been quietly borrowing them from their basement for years.
Stealing? No. Preserving the past for the sake of the future? Yes.”
—Jeremy Fury
Jeremy and The Harlequins’ debut, self titled EP is available now.
