I hate the past. To me, the past is something we should learn from but never return to. I have no desire to return to the days where gay and the r-slur were every day jokes and and “Tits or gtfo” was a common reply to women on the internet.
But I love old machines and gizmos. I love gears and levers and buttons. I love things that clunk and whir. Vinage music boxes, Clockwork toys and VHS machines that sound like they’re trying to go into orbit when you rewind a cassette. I’ve always liked old stuff for as long as I can remember.
Is it nostalgia or just autism? Is it something I should be ashamed of?
Have you ever seen someone play a theremin? Such a weird and cool instrument
The first time I saw someone perform with it was at the movies. Jimmy Paged used it in Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same concert documentary. I was perplexed and I had no idea what he was doing. That was the mid 1970s so there was no net or google to explain. I must’ve been years before I learned what the hell it was. Youtube uploads are shit so I used vk.com. For anybody that doesn’t know - that site has regular hq movies too.
01:56:40 https://vk.com/video313620_456239469
I used vk.com just the other day to watch a few minutes of the famously bad Ishtar to check if I should download it. I hoped it was so-bad-it’s-good but I expected it just really, really bad. After ~5 minutes I could tell it was awful.
Later in the video - he uses an E-Bow to make the pedal steel sound like a Theremin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bRnMfp5XU&t=1220s
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: