MONO(phonic) Memories part 1

What does it remain of the 1-way slimline speaker and the old-fashioned 60's record-player, when the common technology in use was so limited but the charming sound so peculiar ?

What does it happen to fantastic pick-ups and splendid speakers of the 70's which design and elegance were mixed to the deep realism of the sound, which fleshy frequencies spread around our primary senses without blasting ears away by a murderous high-wattage.


What do we say about the perception of a common music-listener (who didn't know the meaning of virtual or virtuality at all, as we intend it today) ...?

How many regrets for those LP sleeves and covers, ungenerous with credits, but so pictorial and pleasant.


And what about ... the mysterious nebula surrounding all the record production smart world of those days, from simple performers to producers via great professional sound-engineers? Have we received some inheritance from them, at the beginning of the new century?

Us, young fellows and music lovers of those times, we eagerly breathed in, trying to glamourise and to sophisticate things, looking for fascinant and genuine stuff, always craved for something new and different.
This mood was always supplied by an unceasing curiosity, constantly fed by pop and rock albums since 1962 until 1976, unprecedented era in all the popular music history of the XX° century.