Mom handed over her box of 45s when we were old enough to play them (and learned the hard way about vinyl handling)... so I grew up on a steady diet of Jan & Dean, Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, the Piltdown Men, the Ventures (those were dad's), Lesley Gore, Del Shannon, and all that stuff...

My brother and I had an ever-evolving turntable setup as our uncle would upgrade his stuff and give us his old stuff... then I started getting into speaker building... and then got right back out.

Bren R.