Woodbutcher

The levels of torture that americans inflicted on themselves aurally back then in order to try and avoid setting their eyes upon coloured singers never fails to amaze me. Just how desperately bigoted did the record company executives have to be to sanction a steaming pile like that ? But fair play to them for being inclusive enough to let the "special" little cousin to join in on the vocals.

The new drama "Untamed" with Eric Bana and Sam Neill is very good so far. (two episodes in) Set in Yellowstone Park amongst the sumptuous views it offers it's a visual treat as well as a drama.

Quick heads up to anyone in the market for a vinyl press , a bunch up for a no-reserve auction on the 25th in Acton , NW10. No vinyl cutting lathes unfortunately which was something I was hoping to see ... I assume this is from the old "Broadcrest Ltd" plant that subsequently became "Phoenix of Vinyl Ltd" ... ? https://gjwisdom.co.uk/2025/07/on-line-auction-contents-of-vinyl-production-business-friday-25th-july-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLleEBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBXNHVKb05hdVRGWnhUMDVoAR4zgrgtizECnOGUtGv_cDRw2Ytpv1cfUq-1K2ewH0GiRe2nYz7qnLLTYmpTEA_aem_mZSkFZ7nOfHIG0N4SEX0tw https://auction.gjwisdom.co.uk/auctions/catalog/id/313?order=lot_num

Got bored waiting for a call so knocked up this quick animation of the last seven days worth of my solar discs.

Acetates are literally 'cut' individually on a lathe basically , no multiple copies from stampers , exactly the opposite in fact as the stampers are made from the acetates.

And have them spread all over the internet willy-nilly , nah. I've waited forty-odd years to do something with them so a little longer won't hurt.

Hi Andy , I'm still deciding what to do with them , along with all the others of bands from those years that I was shooting while most on here were doing Wigan , like SLF , Motorhead , The Undertones , 9 Below Zero , Siouxie and the Banshees , Toyah , Echo and the Bunnymen , The Cure , Gang of Four etc etc. I'm still trawling through the negatives making hi-res (3600dpi) scans of everything , it'll be a while whatever I do as there's loads of rolls to go through. Some were recently used in a film by Brandon Spivey called "Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum)" which is doing well across Europe at the moment.

Happy hunting. I don't have any acetates but pretty much every single and album I have is fully autographed after the thirty-odd times I saw them live between '78 in Cambridge and '82 in Paris , as well as umpteen of the photos I shot over the years ...

I know there are some on here like me that started their musical journeys in the late seventies and also like me have a interest in a broad range of genres. There are some real treasures on offer here from a man that had a heavy influence on the ears of many folk so I thought it worth sharing the link for any of the less aurally blinkered members that might be interested. https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/details/a259-the-john-peel-collection/?au=205&fbclid=IwY2xjawLcMkpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHhFoOYsW9sPNx1bHEL9Nj1K5bxpcNUCot9zlRr0Rq75Hgh2BXErbHkeiaNZZ_aem_wQqTiNMHd9l1lrvO16kL4A&pp=96&so=0&pn=1

That doesn't finish until the 23rd ...

Lovely to see the font change , it's miles better , thank you Mike.

At about 1:50 in the video she's on stage with the doo-wop group shown in your photo , comprising one black chap and three white fellas so I'm not sure where your statement fits.

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So it has changed then ... previous to the fiddling it has always worked as Zanetti has instructed in the OP , as in clicking on the image automatically opened the full size image link in a new tab and as you hover the cursor over the image the '+' sign shows and the next click opened the full version , as it always has every time I've posted the results. Right clicking now works so thank you but there's certainly been a change somewhere and it's not my browser or OS.