RE: RUBBER RING

[mozpistol]

everyone seems to have missed the real meaning-you must all be very young. the rubber ring is on the turn table of a record player, as the turn table is made from metal the "rubber ring" is on top of the metal turn table to protect the record from damage whilst your playing "rubber ring". if the song was to be written now it wold be titled "little plastic ring" as cd players wouldn't work very well with a large "rubber ring" in them. "rubber ring" also happens to be greatest song ever written. i often think of the voice in my head and think of it kindly.

[Pashernate Friend]

I thought it referred to one of those cushions you sit on when your piles are playing up...


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[carlos]

hmmm... i thought the "life-preserver" theory was pretty convincing...

...but your post gave me an idea. i myself have a technics 1200 turntable & yes, there is in fact a rubber DISC on top of it to protect the records. it's a "direct-drive" turntable, though. older & certain cheaper players use the "belt driven" system... & if you take them apart you do find that there is a large, thin, black RUBBER RING inside the player that actually makes the record go 'round.

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> everyone seems to have missed the real meaning-you must all be
> very young. the rubber ring is on the turn table of a record
> player, as the turn table is made from metal the "rubber
> ring" is on top of the metal turn table to protect the
> record from damage whilst your playing "rubber ring".
> if the song was to be written now it wold be titled "little
> plastic ring" as cd players wouldn't work very well with a
> large "rubber ring" in them. "rubber ring"
> also happens to be greatest song ever written. i often think of
> the voice in my head and think of it kindly.

[elbowless]

> everyone seems to have missed the real meaning-you must all be
> very young. the rubber ring is on the turn table of a record
> player, as the turn table is made from metal the "rubber
> ring" is on top of the metal turn table to protect the
> record from damage whilst your playing "rubber ring".

You mean a SLIPMAT? Yes; and it also seems to be a play on words, in that in the UK a "rubber ring" is a child's flotation device for use in swimming-pools. It keeps you from drowning, as does your favourite music during a difficult adolescence. elbowless!