Simon T

When Keb put it his copy on tape for me, I seem to remember it being a Trident Studio EMI disc that Ady C had done him of a tape he had turned up, but that may have been something else. I presumed they called it the Fabulous ImpacS because the Impacts record 'My Baby'? This was ebay late last year, about $1500 in the end?

My endearing memory CH (apart from being stopped, having the car searched by the DS) was sitting in the bar having a nice cup of tea when a bloke opposite started to pull something out of his pocket which I thought was a hanky. Out popped this white plastic bag which split cascading about 300 little white ephedrine tablets all over the place. Offer to help pick them up, grab a handful? No I sat there like a tit and finished my tea as nowt had happened!

I have four of them on tape, I'll put them in the sounds gallery.

Thanks for jogging my memory, I've been trying to figure out what it was for ages, been converting an old Robin tape to CD.

No. Might have been the last one on that particular layout with the word Victor instead of Nipper and the Gramaphone, otherwise I've no idea.

Probably a problem with the way they are being encoded when turning the recording (.WAV) file into an mp3; the site only like them in certain formats for 'streaming' otherwise they play a bit 'pink & perky'!

Carl Fortnum has had one for ages.

I would have said £10,000 at least, maybe £30,00 plus a frank wilson

Because I've had a 'boot' for 22 years (according to the Ovenchip) and I'd like to see the real thing. Apparently, the 'originals' with the correct matrix numbers cause multiple orgasms upon being played out, whereas the boots (I've only ever heard played a couple of times back -in -the- day) lead to an instant outbreak of genital herpes!!!

Holy st. James!, WOTS THAT ALL ABOUT?! link

How many 'Embers' are there? I presume the ones on MGM & JCP are not the same group?

Please could you put up a scan of the "original"

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I'm doing you a couple of CD's of 70's & 80's L.P. tracks and twelves this weekend.

I've seen it between £40 & £60 in recent times. You might be able to pick it up cheaper on UK London label

Good point, it may well be cured by reducing the burning speed down, especially if your PC is a bit on the slow side. Most burners burn the CD at the slowest speed necessary. The black CD is written from the inside out (oposite to a record!) and the inner part of the CD is revolving at a slower speed than the outside edge, therefore when you are writting at say x52 (the physical maximum speed) the first few tracks are written at about x 16, the middle part at x16 - x32 and only the very last couple of tracks actually reach x52 speed; that's probably why the tunes get worse from the middle to the end. Good idea to invest in some decent quality blank CD too

Most CD burners nowadays have a "buffer under-run" facility built in to slow the burner down while it waits for data from the hard drive; coupled with the fact that blank CD are all quite high speed (at 16 x) you shouldn't really need to slow the recording speed down. However, if you HD is heavly fragmented you could get problems. I would de-frag your HD and remember to close down any other programmes when burning the CD, PARTICULARLY your screen saver - if this kicks in during the burn processes, it often cocks things up big time!

Is your deck earthed? (probably via your amp, so check it's earthed too) Best thing to do is to buy a re-writabled CD for your stand alone CD recorder (to keep costs down) and record your records through your hi-fi. Then 'grab' (Audiograbber is free) your compiled CD to your PC and use a programme to amplify, de-hiss, de-click etc the tracks individually(cooledit is great and can be found on tinternet). You can then 'burn' the track to an ordinary blank CD to play. Takes a bit of time to tart the tracks up, but well worth it in the end - that's how I did that midtempo swap CD for you.

Gerri Thomas - Look what I've got Playthings - Surrounded by a ray of sunshine Flirtations - Little darling

Also told, they also had a girl on the drums called Honey who they got (part) of their name from!

Honeycombs - Have I the right somebody told me the singer is Denis O'Dell i.e. Denis Dell of Better Use Your Head Fame. (Pete S. to confirm?)