Some of the albums and singles I have picked up on my recent local digging trips, pics & vids in comments.
Recent Vinyl Finds (again)
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Some of the albums and singles I have picked up on my recent local digging trips, pics & vids in comments.
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OK, I’ll admit I picked this up for the cheesy sleeve, it was very cheap and turns out to be actually quite nice background muzak in a jazz stylee.
I saw this on a stall at the big car boot (Scotland’s largest I understand) a few weeks ago but he wanted a fiver for it, I was back there yesterday and he let me have it for £2, so I was pleased as it’s rather good, as you can hear below. Not to be confused by the title of the same album released by Queen that year, it must have caused no headaches in record shops in 1976.
Another car boot find, but this one actually was a fiver. It’s got several Zoo Records tracks exclusive to this release which has never been re-issued on CD so I had to have it.
That’s a definite curio, and on my wants list (but not wanted enough to pay the £70 asking price on the ‘cogs).
Paul Keogh, guitarist on the Day At The Races soundscape LP, has played with just about everyone:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/345026-Paul-Keogh?superFilter=Credits
Mike Moran has certainly got around a bit:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/253111-Mike-Moran?superFilter=Credits
And Alan Tarney, from the same ensemble and possibly best known as Cliff’s 70s and beyond guitarist, also has a staggeringly long history:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/122232-Alan-Tarney?superFilter=Credits
Amazing range of sessions these guys have done!
more info on the Lake Placid LP
A Day At The Races – there’s some well known names on there.
Mike Vickers, Hugh “Baker Street” Burns, Mike “Rock Bottom” Moran, and Alan “We Don’t Talk Anymore” Tarney
I’m a sucker for odd private pressings and this one is quite unusual, it also came with a programme and booklet for the 1972 event.
Soundtrack to the great Liam Neeson movie from 1990.
7″s
One of only a handful of records released on this independent label, I assume this was released circa 1981 when Bobby died, not sure what the GBTP flag stands for on the rear of the sleeve.
Not having heard of Chris Rayburn before I just assumed it would be a fella singing but how wrong I was, a great tune too!
Bizarre 4 track UK EP featuring a weird mix of jazz, classical and dance music, with some backwards vocals in French thrown in for good measure.
I’m intrigued by the misspelling of Clontarf (a suburb of Dublin) on the Bobby Sands single. One side might be a typo, but it’s on both sides of the record.
GBTP might be God Bless
The Pope with a drawing of the Italian flag because the gobshite who first owned it didn’t know about the Vatican State.
Lovely field recording of ‘A Record Fair’ held in Glebe Park, Bo’ness, Scotland in 1968.
A sweet soul 45 from 1974 which turned out to be the only release by the band and the label.
Another sweet soul 45 but this one is from 1969.
Your other name is Jonny Trunk, and I claim my ten-bob note.
haha, yes Jonny is a friend but he has a LOT more LP’s than me so he wins any competition on the collecting front, however… I do have more flexi-discs than him , probably the largest (and one of the daftest) collections in the country.*
*Scotland
Definitely more than me I bet and I have a lot.
LPs that is I only have three flexi-discs and they are useless components of box sets I have
I have Komakino by Joy Division. Got it for free in Probe records in Liverpool 1980. Pete Burns may well handed it to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komakino
I got ten quid once for the flexi that launched the Pegasus label.
Muscular rock from Three Man Army, an Atomic Rooster track and a track from the Welsh boys called Big Sleep. The best track however is a Ricotti & Albuquerque number from their album ‘First Wind’, which I also have.
I flogged it when I first bought a serious turntable. Flexi-discs? Expensive cartridge? Shudder!
I did a few mixes featuring some of my flexis, recorded on an old record player: https://www.mixcloud.com/Tak_Tent_Radio/skylarking-wobbly-sounds-a-flexi-disc-mix/
I also contributed many from my collection to the official bible on the subject.
https://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/books/wobbly-sounds/