By now I had progressed to a Hi-Fi system: A Garrard SP25 MK 11 deck
with a Shure M55 E Magnetic cartridge -the e stood for elliptical
which meant that it really gave good cross talk results on the old
stereo. I had a Teleton transistor amp and this time I set the system
up in my parent's kitchen where it was a damn site warmer than the
bloody backroom. *

Same cartridge (I think - it was certainly a Shure eliptical), Garrard
SP25 MKIV deck, Amstrad 20W channel amp (it was a lot of power then)
and Wharfedale Denton speakers. Got the lot for my 21st birthday. I'd
long left home, so there were no parents to moan at the volume. Still
got the Wharfedale speakers. Was a fan of The Kinks & The Who, but was
never a Mod, eventually became more of a hippy. Went to the early
Cambridge Folk Festivals, saw the Fairports etc.

Still love seeing live music.

Graham
Penzance

On Mar 5, 8:20*pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
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On Mar 5, 5:31 pm, "Will Hand" wrote:
Mods, Teds, Rockers it's like watching an old black and white telly on
here
ATM :-)

FWIW I was a long-haired Status Quo fan in my youth. Had a fondness for
the
hippy culture but never became one and never really entered into glam
rock.
I was a rebel though, still am :-)

Will (born 1952)
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"Ron Button" wrote in message

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I was the Original mod !

RonB
"JPG" wrote in message

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Ron Button wrote:

To us Mods queing outside the Tottenham Royal ballroom in a our
bumfreezer
suits,

You mean Teds (Teddy Boys), surely? *Mods were about in the 60s, my
teenage years.

Martin

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Well Will I'm the same age as you and unless you mean early Status Quo
-Pictures of Matchstick men and Ice in the Sun -then that would be
right for mods and rockers. Status Quo started as a Mod band all
suited with Francis Rossi sporting a mod hairdo and a mustache and
made LP's at 29s and sixpence. A few years later as the 70's started
bands like Status Quo started taking themselves far more seriously and
recorded Albums -as opposed to LP's - and usually concept Albums and
instead of performing shows they did Gigs ........man

The mod ran from about 64-69 usually until the rocker's caught them.
As for cold weather related stories well the Beatle and Ready Steady
Go always provoke fond memories of those cold sixties. I can clearly
remember on a cold early December * Saturday afternoon in 1963, *just
getting to my local record shop in Lordship Lane Dulwich in time
before they closed, to spend my saved pocket money to purchase 'With
the Beatles' . *I can also clearly remember how bitter the wind was as
I stood and waited at what was then a very lonely bus stop, eager to
get home and play the record. *However I was very disappointed when
upon trying to play the LP, the opening tracks on side one and two 'It
Won't Be Long Yeah yeah' and 'Roll Over Beethoven ' had the needle
jumping all over the place despite the fact I had a three penny bit
piece as a tracking weight adjuster. *Suffice to say I did try half-a-
crown, which was a big old meaty coin, but still it wouldn't play. I
found out later there had been a massive production fault in the
pressings.

Second Beatle cold weather story was playing 'Rubber Soul on Christmas
day 1965 in my parent's back room, and boy was it cold. When playing -
the seemingly so adult in those days at the tender age of 13-
'Norwegian Wood' I can still remember smelling the pine from the
Christmas tree on the cold *chill *air as John Lennon crawled out and
slept in the bath. Oh er

So where was I? * Ah yes: Will I can't believe you can only remember
Status Quo. Surely you were a Beatles or Stones boy?

More a Beatles than Stones. Favourite track was "Get Back" IIRC it was
recorded outside somewhere? It all sounds so dated now and now I prefer the
Stones and more modern stuff like the Verve (the drugs don't work etc). At
Uni Pink Floyd were right up there (just behind Quo of course).

We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs, I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

Will
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We are a special generation Lawrence in that my children pinch my CDs,
I
would never dream of listening to the music my father liked.

That is so true Will now things are so different: Take my own
situation my daughter who is twenty and at Uni talked me into buying
three tickets to see Neil Young next Friday week at the Apollo in
London, that's two for her and her friend and one for me!!!! Yes she
actually is totally happy to sit there with her dad and listen and
enjoy music that she doesn't feel has to define her ,like we did. I
did invite her mother but her response was haven't I caused her
enough pain without her now having to endure Neil Young. Hey Gianna is
a big Neil Young fan I coulda invited her.
My daughter Amy also wants me to go with her to see Leonard Cohen as
a possible tour of europe is hopefully to be announced in a couple of
days.

So there you have it Will, Neil Young 62, Leonard Cohen 72 and me 55
mind you she is studying history ;-{

That is so true Will now things are so different: Take my own
situation my daughter who is twenty and at Uni talked me into buying
three tickets to see Neil Young next Friday week at the Apollo in
London, that's two for her and her friend and one for me!!!! *Yes she
actually is totally happy to sit there with her dad and listen and
enjoy *music that she doesn't feel has to define her ,like we did. *I
did invite *her mother but her response was haven't I caused her
enough pain without her now having to endure Neil Young. Hey Gianna is
a big Neil Young fan I coulda invited her.

Neil Young - now you're talking. 'After the Goldrush' is still one of
my favourite albums. - I didn't have you down as ageing hippy.

Graham
Penzance

On Mar 5, 8:45*pm, Graham Easterling
wrote:
By now I had progressed to a Hi-Fi system: A Garrard SP25 MK 11 deck
with a Shure M55 E Magnetic cartridge -the e stood for elliptical
which meant that it really gave good cross talk results on the old
stereo. I had a Teleton transistor amp and this time I set the system
up in my parent's kitchen where it was a damn site warmer than the
bloody backroom. *

Same cartridge (I think - it was certainly a Shure eliptical), Garrard
SP25 MKIV deck, Amstrad 20W channel amp (it was a lot of power then)
and Wharfedale Denton speakers. Got the lot for my 21st birthday. I'd
long left home, so there were no parents to moan at the volume. Still
got the Wharfedale speakers. Was a fan of The Kinks & The Who, but was
never a Mod, eventually became more of a hippy. Went to the early
Cambridge Folk Festivals, saw the Fairports etc.

Still love seeing live music.

Graham
Penzance

I'd moved on to the Wharedale Dovedales by 1971 and was happily
listening to Harvest that summer. My first trip to Perranporth was in
72 and wonderful it was. Turntable wise I eventually progessed to a
Linn Sondek but have to say I found that deck so overated.

On 5 Mar, 20:51, wrote:
On Mar 5, 8:45*pm, Graham Easterling
wrote:





By now I had progressed to a Hi-Fi system: A Garrard SP25 MK 11 deck
with a Shure M55 E Magnetic cartridge -the e stood for elliptical
which meant that it really gave good cross talk results on the old
stereo. I had a Teleton transistor amp and this time I set the system
up in my parent's kitchen where it was a damn site warmer than the
bloody backroom. *

Same cartridge (I think - it was certainly a Shure eliptical), Garrard
SP25 MKIV deck, Amstrad 20W channel amp (it was a lot of power then)
and Wharfedale Denton speakers. Got the lot for my 21st birthday. I'd
long left home, so there were no parents to moan at the volume. Still
got the Wharfedale speakers. Was a fan of The Kinks & The Who, but was
never a Mod, eventually became more of a hippy. Went to the early
Cambridge Folk Festivals, saw the Fairports etc.

Still love seeing live music.

Graham
Penzance

I'd moved on to the Wharedale Dovedales by 1971 and was happily
listening to Harvest that summer. My first trip to Perranporth was in
72 and wonderful it was. *Turntable wise I eventually progessed to a
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Ah '72, the great days of Skewjack

www.skewjack.co.uk/earlybrochure.html

Graham
Penzance

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:51:17 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Turntable wise I eventually progessed to a
Linn Sondek but have to say I found that deck so overated.

I had a Thorens TD150 for many years...

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

On Mar 5, 10:33 pm, Alan White wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:51:17 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Turntable wise I eventually progessed to a
Linn Sondek but have to say I found that deck so overated.

I had a Thorens TD150 for many years...

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:-http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

At

Alan
At the risk of someone screaming off topic: I had the Thorens 160
before purchasing the Linn, but I have to say some of the best sounds
I ever had from vinyl were from that humble Thorens 160 designed I
believe by Charlie Trayhorn now deceased for many a year. The Linn
Sondek was always overhyped (like global warming) by feint hearted hi-
fi journalist who became afraid of seeing the Emperor was in fact
starker's. It's gunny but there is possibly some parallel albeit on a
far smaller scale between GW and Hi-Fi or maybe a lesson in snake oil
selling. One such ethos in the Hi Fi guruism that spread in the
70-80's was that of mass loading of turntables, equipment and
rigidity were the utmost holy grail-crap the lot of it.

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:10 -0000, "Will Hand"
Will (born 1952)
A vintage year!
Robin ( September 1952)

On Mar 6, 12:43*am, Robin Nicholson
wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:10 -0000, "Will Hand"Will (born 1952)

A vintage year!
Robin ( September 1952)

Yeah Lawrence November 1752

I see no-one has mentioned Lonnie Donegan & skiffle.
Lennon, Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck came after.
Peter J


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On Mar 6, 12:43 am, Robin Nicholson
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:31:10 -0000, "Will Hand"Will (born 1952)

A vintage year!
Robin ( September 1952)

Yeah Lawrence November 1752