An old Soviet era bone record from Russia, circa 1960.

"Cut onto old X-ray films, they were the only way to distribute banned pop music to the downtrodden masses. It was extremely dangerous and just shows what theyโ€™d risk for the music."

  • Kev Moore

๐ŸŽถ Three Steps to heaven and Summertime blues by Eddie Cochran ๐ŸŽต

Info/credit from here:
https://bsky.app/profile/kevmoore.bsky.social/post/3mi44hgw44c2u

#Music #History #1960s

@Natasha_Jay

so I went looking to find out how they got the music onto the x-ray images and found this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_(recordings)#Production

@fritzoids
Fascinating isn't it? I never heard about until today.

@Natasha_Jay

it's great! I think "skilled conspiratorial hands" is an important thing to have around.