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And zero microphones. OK, that was a bad joke, but I always think of that song when I say "turntable." For fathers day this year, I was given a new turntable. A Sony PS-LX300USB to be precise. This is the first turntable I have had since, I guess, the mid-1980's. I have been casually thinking about getting one for a couple of years. My son got a turntable for Christmas last year. Ever since then, I have thought more about it as I have bought three records since then. He will listen to the records in his room. I even went to the trouble of waiting in line at the latest Record Store Day to buy a record from Touche Amore . I bought a limited edition record from The Eradicator . Fortunately, each of those records was accompanied by a download code so that I could at least listen to the music that I had bought but had no other way to hear. The one record that I bought, that I knew my son would like, already had a legal download of, was American Football's first LP....

WOW! What an amazing weekend. First let's step back in time a bit. It was a Saturday afternoon, April 2 of this year. I was sitting on the couch watching TV with my wife when I decided to take a look at the email on my phone. One of the emails was from twitter with a collection of tweets that twitter thought I would be interested in seeing. One of them was from Thursday . I saw this tweet and could not believe my eyes. Not only were Thursday going to play again! One of the bands my son loves and introduced to me, American Football , was also going to playing a reunion that weekend. I literally got up out of my seat, knelled on the floor for a minute and was speechless.  There were so many other outstanding acts set to play that weekend that I knew I would not want to miss that weekend and my son would never forgive me if I were to not take him along. So, on April 4, I bought two tickets to The Wreckingball . Now we fast forward to the weekend of the festival. Sat...