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Sunday, November 8, 2015

I am thinking about how it is noteworthy, that I now remember very clearly, that I bought the record Harvest with Neil Young. I wrote about this record in the message November 4.

I came into the record shop, together with some of my friends. I had no idea of buying a particular record. We sometimes only went to the record shop to see what were there. The record Harvest was put out, therefore I saw it at once. The record was released February 14, 1972; therefore I think this was early in 1972. At that time, I still was 16 years old.

I got taken up with the elaborate letters on the cover, and I picked out the record and looked at it when I held it in my hands. The shop assistant said that 'that one is a good one'. I said that 'this one, I will listen to'. I went to the counter where it was possible to listen to the records with headphones, and the shop assistant put on the record so I could listen to it. I had not been interested in Neil Young earlier. It was the cover which had attracted my attention.

Typical the shop assistant moved the pickup from song to song, so I faster could listen to all of them. And I think that happened this time also. I said to my friends, that 'this one is a good one, I buy this one'. I showed the cover to my friends, and looked at the back of the cover also, and said when I smiled, that 'they play in a barn'. I had been much in contact with farming all my life, and I liked that picture also. I could identify myself with that image.

At home, I put the record on the turntable, moved the pickup to the outer edge of the record, and let it down on the record. The record started to play. I thought the record was distinctive in a fine way. The music sounded with a great musical depth. This record become something calm and interesting for me, like something, which is much in a soft way. I never got tired of listening to it. And now and then I listened to it. This record was different from the others, in its own special way. I thought that it gives peace and quiet.

The more I get in contact with the records I had before 1976, the more I get in contact with the person I was at that time. Now it is as if I am just have been in that record shop and bought this record.

David H. Hegg