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With my post on Flexi-Discs still fresh in my mind, I recall just how awkward they seemed to be to get them to play back on the family record player. Getting the needle to stay on the disc in the first place seemed like a chore, but even when I did manage to get it to stay on the sound that came out of the loudspeakers was often muffled and distorted and not really very pleasurable to listen to.
Perhaps I just wasn’t very good at operating a record player, but I could play normal vinyl without much difficulty so maybe it was just our record player? How did you get on with the scourge that was the Flexi-Disc?
Could you play Flexi-Discs successfully?
I always played my flexi discs placed on top of a regular 45 record and got great results, you usually played then at 33 1/3 though. I think I still have a few now with my vinyl collection, give aways from metal weeklies “kerrang” and RAW (rock action worldwide) magazines, and one from Guitar world magazine a US magazine which was the best guitar magazine in the world. I have the Jan 1990 cover framed on the wal with Steve vai on it, it was full of 80s guitar legends and an article on making it big in L.A and a feature , on tour with Winger plus it had steve vai’s 10 hour guitar workout, it was the best issue ever.