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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5385 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got Microdisney's Crooked Mile on vinyl in Andorra in 1988 for the equivalent of about £2. Listening to much Microdisney lately reminded me of this. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 762 Registered: 10-2006 |
Not quite to the subject, but it reminded me of when I went into a second hand record shop in Regensburg a few years ago and the owner took one look at me and immediately reached over and put Focus 3 on his record deck... the first album I ever bought, the one that really got me hooked on music... very spooky. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2177 Registered: 10-2008 |
As a young teen our family spent a dreary week in a caravan in a dreadful seaside town in Scotland called Stranraer, truly the pits of the earth! My time there was brightened though when I bought Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow by T Rex, and Young Americans by David Bowie in a furniture shop of all places, which also had a small record section! A town this backwards would never have had a record shop! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5390 Registered: 05-2005 |
That is indeed spooky Stuart. Kevin, I don't know Stranraer, but I know Oban and I think it is something similar. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 763 Registered: 10-2006 |
I seem to remember Oban as quite a lovely place, Padraig! I think they have gone overboard on some tourist items (don't they have a piper out in a fishing boat in the bay at sunset in summer to "pipe down the light" or something?)But it's in a beautiful setting up the West Coast. I think, from reading J Coe and his contemporaries, that wet caravan holidays were responsible for spoiling a lot of places for a whole generation! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 765 Registered: 10-2006 |
It wasn't a great album, but I remember walking out of Gamla Stan in Stockholm one day and popping into a small record shop that had a basket of singles without their central spindle hole...is that possible?... and going cheap. And of the bunch I bought, one was Right here; but I couldn't play it for a month or two till I went to see a mate in Gothenburg who had both a record deck and some kind of gizmo you could place in the centre to accommodate the spindle... To be honest, I never liked Right here that much, but the B-side included When people were dead, and when I heard that, I knew I'd found a band to love... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 501 Registered: 03-2007 |
Something like this? I remember them well. http://www.tshirtgrill.com/details.aspx? ID=25072&CAT=39 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3146 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, do you mean that the singles had no hole of any sort or had a giant hole? For whatever reason, 45rpm 7 inch records in the U.S. normally had those gigantic holes. Record players came with adaptors for them. I remember seeing a few dedicated record players for singles. They were automatic. You would stack up a bunch of singles on it and it would drop and play one at a time. Coincidentally, some co-workers brought up this very subject a couple days ago. None of us had any idea why singles had these giant holes while LPs had the small ones. I remember a lot of U.K. singles which had the sensible small hole but also cut-outs in case somebody wanted to adapt the record to the U.S. standard. I also remember the adaptor that Hugh's link shows on the T shirt. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2179 Registered: 10-2008 |
Purely a guess, but were the giant holes maybe there so they could be used in jukeboxes? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3147 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's as good a guess as anybody's Kevin. It would make for a good explanation why the British record companies had the perforations to permit conversion of their singles to the large hole. | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 39 Registered: 06-2005 |
I had the hardest time finding a copy of Spring Hill Fair because it wasn't released in the US. Around 1989, I had plans to drive to Ohio to see a concert. The night before, I had a dream that I found a copy of Spring Hill Fair in an out-of-the-way record store. As I was driving through tiny Oxford, Ohio, I saw a record store down one of the side streets and thought, "Damn! That's the store that was in my dream!" I went inside and, sure enough, there was a copy of Spring Hill Fair on vinyl. It was the only copy I ever saw before I had internet access. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 766 Registered: 10-2006 |
More spookiness! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1725 Registered: 08-2006 |
Greg, Oxford, Ohio is where I went to college and was home to three or four quite outstanding record stores back at that time (I graduated in '88). In fact, I picked up my first GBs record (Before Hollywood) at one of them. |