Vinyl

Is it a chicken bucket lid? Is it a vinyl record? How about both?

Even diehard fans of HBO’s Scorsese-Jagger driven Vinyl knew that Season 2 would bring about some significant changes, but it looks like the record skipped after all. Despite setting a new showrunner after a formal Season 2 renewal, HBO has officially abandoned plans for Vinyl, effectively cancelling the prestigious flop.

Let’s face it, when Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger collaborate on a new rock drama at HBO, it’s getting a second season. Still, following an inauspicious start in the ratings, Vinyl has been confirmed for a second season to air in 2017, just one episode into its run.

HBO has been cranking up the Game of Thrones marketing early for Season 6, first a poster, then a trailer teasing Jon Snow’s return, and before 2015 is even out, we’ve been blessed with the first footage. See Dany’s new digs, and Cersei’s new ‘do in the first official Game of Thrones Season 6 footage!

The image you see here is a stock photo of the turntable I play my music on.  The VPI Scout is a top notch record player, and one of many available today, well into the 200os.  Who would have thought vinyl records would be a growing category in the music industry this far along?

I collect vinyl records.  I currently have approximately 3,000 of them, along with some 400 45’s, 78’s, and even over 100 Edison cylinder records which date back to the turn of the 20th century.