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USA!
by: freethinkerkeywest (M/Key West, Florida)
Long-Term Sentiment: Strong Buy
11/30/01 10:36 am
Msg: 29731 of 29772
So I did it.
I got the Sony Plug and Play cassette adaptor version for my car. My life changed
forever at 5:38PM last night when my XM service activated.
The first 20 minutes it was on, I sat in my car awestruck . . . tears in my eyes.
This, without question, is going to change the power structure of how we listen to
music, how we buy it, and how musicians will be paid for their creativity in the
future.
This is going to be the biggest story in the music/entertainment/media business for
the next decade, and, I firmly believe, this 21st century.
This one little device I have in my hand . . . the Sony Plug and Play . . . and the
XM service which it supplies . . . is quantum steps beyond the first CD player, vcr,
laser disc player, walkman, and turntable I owned.
This is a subversive weapon of goodness and light which must not fall into the
hands of evil bastards such as Viacon or Clear Channel so that they can destroy it.
This takes me back to when I was a poor kid in a very poor family in the 50's. My
dad worked three jobs when I was four years old. He scrimped and saved and
bought me a Japanese made transistor radio one Christmas . . . the kind with one
earplug.
That cheap transistor radio was my most cherished possession when I was a child.
That was the beginning of my love of music.
XM radio has brought me back to that 4 year old boy who laid in bed with his
earplug plugged in listening to Elvis Presley and New York Yankee games from
some far off AM station which faded in and out.
The magic of radio is back. And that is why I simply had to pull off the road last
night and cry.
I am sitting here, a 49 year old man, with tears in my eyes again.
I deejay for a living. I own 2000 compact discs and 5000 pieces of vinyl. I know
music. My work is love made visible.
If someone pointed a gun at my head and told I was being exiled to an island and
forced me to choose the XM and Sony, or my collection of music accumulated
over 45 years . . . I'd pick the XM system and the Sony Plug and Play.
I'm still in shock.
I woke this morning with new ears. I feel more ageless, wild and free than when I
was a 21 year old Army veteran tooling around Europe on a brand new Norton
motorcycle for one year after my discharge.
I sat at the Southernmost Point of the United States a couple of hours or so ago
looking out at the water . . . looking at the horizon towards Cuba 90 miles south of
me. I was soaked from a good run minutes before at the beach. I sat listening to
XM, watching the waves gently lap the shore. I changed the channels. I constantly
scanned the screen of the Sony for a new Artist and the title of a song. Frisson
injections would make me shiver when a new to me great piece of music came on.
And this happened a lot.
There I was, the only person out of hundreds of millions of Americans, sitting at the
southernmost point of the continental United States . . . alone with big ball of fire
rising from the ocean . . . and my fingers tickled the roller bar like a lucky roll of the
dice: XM was playing "Here Comes the Sun" on a channel I lucked into. It was a
moment of purist beauty. It was the most spiritual moment I've had in years. I felt
the Great Creator's hands and George Harrison's smile in the moment.
I am sorry I can't describe to me what has happened. Words really escape me. I
just had to try and share. Now I know where you earlier adopters of XM are
coming from: from another place . . . out in space.
That's all this 4 year old boy can write right now. I will try to do better in my next
post after the shock and numbness wear off.
I can't remember the last time I cried tears of happiness. I really can't.
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