Hey, everyone, it's Nate with a special edition of The Vinyl Guide. Today is November 15th,

2015. It's approximately 24 hours since the terrorist events in Paris, France left. I think the

death toll now is about 130, and unfortunately, a huge percentage of them were music fans that were caught up in the in the

Bada Klan event center watching a band Eagles of Death Metal this is a band that if this

activity happened in Sydney I'm sure I would have known a dozen or more people who would have been

in that event center,

possibly even myself, people who just went out to have a good time, drink a few beers,

see a great band live, and unfortunately, a lot of them, almost 100, I believe, at this point,

were killed in the process. And look, I know this is our

space to talk about records and vinyl and music and that sort of thing. And we will continue to do so.

However, today, rather than doing another episode, it just seemed a little bit out of place.

And like, I think we need to take a few more days to at least let the world come to terms about what's happened.

My experience in particular, yesterday I started hearing the news about some sort of terrorist activity in Paris.

I heard about a sports stadium and maybe 18 or 20 people that were killed.

And while that's absolutely horrible, it's not uncommon in the news, unfortunately.

I mean, there's mass shootings and there's suicide bombers and, you know, the number of 15 to 20 killed is unfortunately not uncommon.

And then when the news started coming in about the Bataclan concert venue and the band

Eagles of Death Medal that the gunmen had gone in and just started shooting people indiscriminately,

it really, really hit home because those are my people, that is my brethren,

people who go to shows and enjoy music, those people are like me.

And as I said, had that been Sydney, I'm sure that place would have been full of people

that I know and love, and possibly myself as well. So my heart really goes out to anyone who was

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