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My first MD player

Great memories. Sony MZ-R50.
Back in high school my friend John showed me his cool MD player he got from HK. I had to have one too. It was way smaller than a CD player and had tons of skip-protection. Bought one in Japan during my home stay in Ishigaki-shi. I was dumb and bought an optical cable to try to record stuff, but stupid me, I couldn't figure out why the optical cable wasn't working in the stereo mini-jack. I bought a bunch of MDs (even the cool clear cased ones) and started making my own mixes from CDs I would rent from the music store there. Came back to the US and showed all my friends the wonders of Jpop and MDs. Some got really into Jpop and one guy even installed an MD deck in their car. I'll save the Jpop memories for another time, but I loved that MD player. Thought it was the shit with the remote that would display the tracks and the twistable knob to skip tracks. Would clip it to my shirt with the display facing out. Hot stuff.

Then one day in Japanese class my MD player was stolen off my desk. I was crushed. It was substitute teacher day so he didn't care about it. I thought I only had friends in that class but I guess that was the life lesson. Maybe the sub stole it. No idea. The MD loader mechanism was kind of busted anyway; and I hope whoever stole it liked the mix of Cocco, Speed, and Brilliant Green. Never bought another MD player to replace it though. My next music player was a Rio PMP 300. What an awesome piece of crap that was.

Speaking of my Jpop-crazed era; interesting factoid: "Rise" came from the name of a Speed album, my favorite Jpop group back in '98. 1998 was the best year of Jpop ever. Loved those days. EFnet #jpop #jpopmp3 #jrock and on and on

My favorite SPEED song "Alive"