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Post by Ras Berry on Dec 30, 2018 22:03:13 GMT
Sunday 10th August 1986I'd heard on Peel's show during the week that Steve's guest for that weekend's show was AMS so when the appointed day came I caught the train from Birmingham New Street up to Manchester Piccadilly, armed with my twin tape 'ghetto blaster' and a couple of Maxell XLII 90s, and recorded the show as best as I could. I recently passed these recordings on to Mr Binks, as part of his OTW archive project, and he's sharpened the sound up as best as he could and this is the result 
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Post by swamp on Dec 31, 2018 15:29:51 GMT
any chance ov u/ling somewhere other than mixcloud? the trubble wiv mixcloud is it dumbs down the files, so this 3hr show is 86mb @69kbs aac/m4a (which is great for streamin to phones). file size ov normal proportions shud be nearer 400mb @320kbs
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Post by Ras Berry on Dec 31, 2018 21:44:39 GMT
I have no idea about any of that stuff - if Mr Binks reads this perhaps he can help... It was never the best sound quality in the first place as I was wondering around Manchester trying to get the best reception. I ending up sitting on a bench in the middle of a large traffic island somewhere and even then it was fading in and out occasionally |
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Post by Jethro on Jan 1, 2019 16:03:05 GMT
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Post by swamp on Jan 1, 2019 20:44:31 GMT
many thanx |
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Post by swamp on Jan 2, 2019 16:52:14 GMT
It was never the best sound quality in the first place as I was wondering around Manchester trying to get the best reception. I ending up sitting on a bench in the middle of a large traffic island somewhere and even then it was fading in and out occasionally firstly - a pretty amazin effort to record the show. don't think i wudda bin so dedicated. secondly - the quality overall is prety good. after all, itz an FM rec, so don't cum more lush. as for the phasing, well i reckon it makes sum ov the trax sound better. kinda like a sherwood fx, hehe very interestin recordin wiv sherwood obviously desperate fer dosh. also interestin to hear differences in sum trax & differences in how stuff turned out. i never had much ovva problem gettin hold ov on-u records from probe in liverpool. ov corse, there was stuff i never managed to get hold ov, but most if not all ov that was re-released by efa
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Post by Ras Berry on Jan 2, 2019 22:02:29 GMT
I guess you could say I was mad fer it! It's funny how PIAB2 was the thing that was being obviously plugged but it would be another two years before it was released (a grand tradition they uphold to this day!) I never had much of a problem getting the records either (in Birmingham) but with the advent of me getting my Young Person's Railcard in the mid '80s (50% off the fare in those days) I travelled more and more down to London on a Saturday, when finances would allow, and that opened up a whole new world of record buying. The usual routine was the train from New Street about 6.30, arrive in Euston about 8:30, walk down Tottenham Court Road, ogling all the gear in the hi-fi shops on the way, bacon sarnie at a little Italian place down a side street somewhere, then into the West End. Do the majors on Oxford Street then down Berwick Street and Dean Street and then out to Ladbroke Grove on the tube for Dub Vendor, which in those days was kinda underneath the station entrance, so you could feel the bass as you came out onto the street, then up to Rough Trade on Talbot Road. Home in time for tea, £30-£40 lighter, with a bag of records about 2" thick Ace times! |
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Post by Jethro on Jan 2, 2019 23:09:21 GMT
Yeah we'll never see times like those again ...
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Post by Ras Berry on Jan 3, 2019 22:49:39 GMT
Did we ever do a London vinyl spree on one of our meet ups? I can't remember... Glasgow and Manchester, of course, including one that took in... Bolton? |
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Post by Jethro on Jan 16, 2019 19:29:15 GMT
Yes we did go to Bolton.
We definitely met up in London a couple of times maybe I guess for gigs and Walthamstow and stuff, I can't remember that we did much record shopping, but who knows?!
Not really anywhere much to go in Glasgow now. Echo on Byers Road was the best place for out there CDs, long gone, never heard why. Only really a couple of proper "independents" now, but I don't go into them unless I've a reason.
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Post by Ras Berry on Jan 16, 2019 21:39:10 GMT
Same at this end. Swordfish in the city centre and I think that's about it. Though I haven't been in the centre of Birmingham for probably five years so that situation might have changed. There is The Polar Bear in Kings Heath - about 10 minutes drive from me - that's a small but decent shop I remember a Bolton shop - they had a running joke involving Skinny Puppy I seem to recall |
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Post by Jethro on Jan 20, 2019 20:22:29 GMT
Can't remember the joke, but yeah there were about three shops on the same street from the same chain in Bolton. One had primarily CDs, one was I think more vinyl, perhaps in a basement, and one might have been a bit in the way of merchandise, T shirts and stuff. Or maybe more rock-oriented. X Records, that was them! Only one shop left now I think ... recordshopcity.co.uk/shop/x-records/ |
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Post by swamp on Mar 2, 2019 16:39:59 GMT
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Post by Ras Berry on Mar 2, 2019 22:07:55 GMT
Thanks for your continued good works! |
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