Of course!

The ‘holy grail’ recording must be the session that they did backing ‘Wally’ from Rory Storm & The Hurricanes on a set of standards whilst out in Hamburg. Pete Best didn’t take part, but the Hurricane’s drummer […]

I was on Counterpoint a few years ago. I have enough classical knowledge to get by, and enough of almost everything else too. My only sore point being show tunes!

I sales through the heat. I was ahead at the […]

One of the Sea Hornet variants was really ugly – it had a second cockpit built behind the main one for a radar operator, topped with a small teardrop canopy, and an extended thimble shaped nose to hold the radar.

The Hawker Hurricane was effectively a monoplane development of this design, which is especially noticeable in photographs of the prototype Hurricane.

I was in a nearby pub a couple of years ago when their new quiz started – hosted and set by the ‘know-all’ who sat at the bar most nights. Every question apparently came out of his head.

I witnessed the first […]

Bought just the one, and as several photographs inside were printed reversed, never bothered with one again.

I recall my sister picking up a program in the mid 1980s outside a gig that was obviously […]

An update, if anyone is interested.

I looked at my iPhone last night and noticed something like 3GB of Other / Documents & Data that I couldn’t account for. The lost data didn’t appear to be associated with any […]

Nothing new.

I used to own an LP of computer generated music – Computer Experiments Volume 1, credited to Synergy, a pseudonym of keyboard player Larry Fast.

Here’s one track.

It’s just gone past 3,000,000 votes. 👍

The march stopped over here on Monday night. I know someone who works in one of the hotels that some of the party stayed in overnight – he’ll probably spill some beans when I meet up with him this weekend.

Other than the Dennis The Menace Fan Club and the Airfix Modellers Club (membership gave you a badge and a current catalogue) and the Atari VCS Owners Club, I can’t recall joining anything.

Never even bothered […]

They were playing ‘William It Was Really Nothing’ in our local branch last week.

I’ve heard some other oddities in there over the past few years too – ‘September Gurls’, ‘The Ballad Of Easy Rider’, ‘Peg’, […]

Session recordings weren’t the only means of playing music on air that circumvented the ‘needle-time’ limitations – there were also actual records that also counted.

New releases were exempt if their playing […]

A few years ago, when looking for something else, I came across a website dedicated to some obscure band active from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s or so. Despite releasing several singles during this time which […]

I came here to post the same. Odd things from the past that no-one seems to remember.

I’d love to see the low-budget Australian sci-fi series that got mentioned a few weeks ago – just to see if it is really as […]

More late period Beethoven is his ‘Grosse Fuge’ – originally a movement for one of his late string quartets, it was found to be too challenging for the listener, so was replaced with another movement. It also […]

I can think of five other major iTunes bugs that have yet to be fixed – one which I first encountered back in 2006. That affects the renaming of files on a mass import – the first files to be imported don’t get […]

I remember having those precise symptoms with iTunes a few years ago, but can’t recall how I managed to fix it. Suffice to say I don’t have the problem now.

One possible cause is that back then I ripped […]

Mention of The Police on another thread brings up this, from Andy Summer’s band back in 1967.