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   On 17 Jul 23  20:52:24, Ward Dossche said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   WD> Exactly ... we early had good stereo radio via the cable-TV network, I   
   WD> listened to AFN (Armed Forces Network) and they featured Wolfman Jack. It   
   WD> would be a while before "American Graffiti" introduced him to mainstream   
   WD> Europe. I'm guessing that was before you were born .. ? .. You missed-out o   
   WD> lot of the good stuff..   
      
   I'm familiar with Wolfman Jack, yes that was before I was born.   
      
   My introduction to "good stuff" as a kid was in the form of badly scratched    
   and abused K-Tel albums.  I think in Europe they were known as Ronco albums?   
      
   These were bargain-basement advertised-on-TV collections of 50s/60s/70's music   
   usually 3 minute snippets, many songs crammed onto one side of bad quality   
   vinyl. I had also inherited a few shoeboxes of badly abused 45's from an uncle   
   who was killed in a grain elevator farming accident in the 70's.   
      
   But to a young boy who could not afford a massive record collection those    
   cheap throwaway vinyls were a real treasure of music, which I then began to    
   dig deeper into the artists, albums those songs were from. Discovering more   
   treasure from there...  and working my first part time jobs to be able to   
   afford a very decent Hifi setup. And the 20 megabyte Tandy hard-drive...   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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