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Same here! But I have put a stop on vinyl buying, mainly for lack of space As for me - any more and the garage beckons.

Koo Stark Phillipe Starke David Starkey

Happy Birthday - and good luck with the appartment !

Great stuff. Should be compulsory viewing for political idiots and banksters.

Yeah, I have the other 2 Sandbrooks too. They are excellent. His next tome will be about the Callaghan era (74-79) apparently. No doubt to be followed by another behemoth about Mrs T ! Must pick up that Beckett book - have seen it in the shops. Oh hang on, this is the weather thread..

Back to the 70s ! Incidentally, if you want a good re-imersion back into the 70s crises (3 day week, power cuts etc.) I recommend Dominic Sandbrook's latest book (just reading it). Snow thawed outside for the first time for several weeks. Clear roads again !

Albert Mangelsdorff Bill Watrous Jiggs Whigham

Thanks - good news !

These numb-nuts just like posing with the bottles - you could have filled them with tap water and they would still have bought them. You did absolutely right - stick to the local real ale pumps. I think I'd put bloody Denmark high up there after all this factory Tuborg/Carlsberg sh*t they've dumped on us over the years. Since 1973 in fact.

Raggy Omah Omah Kayam Victor Kaiam

Kenny Dorham 'Afro-Cuban' (Music Matters 2x45rpm, mono). Awesome !

Your dad digs GMIII and Paul Bley??? NICE! No kidding. He must be unique !

Johnny Coles 'Little Johnny C' (BN NY USA, DG one side, mono)

Do you mean as a CD? It was originally on Transatlantic, a label I associate with folk music! Jazzscriveyn's site has a CD version mentioned as CD: TACD 9.00788 O - I'd assumed that was a Japanese issue. I'd like to see a good CD reissue - my vinyl is very crackly. Really shows through at the start of wonderfully slow Paul Rutherford build-up on 'Creole Love Call.' Edit: Seems 'Goose Sauce' and 'Mike Westbrook Live' are available on CD but only from Japan. I don't know 'Live' but 'Goose Sauce' is well worth paying import prices for. http://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk/mikewestbrook/mike_discog.shtml Yes, you are right - that one was on Transatlantic. It was the 'Live' that I was thinking of. Transatlantic put out a lot of folk, as you mention (Pentangle etc.) They also put out a lot of Prestige UK issues in the 1960s - taking over from after Esquire in the early 60s.

Much too young. RIP.

Nice one. That whole bill recorded live for Sonny Lester/United Artists on that tour - the double LP 'Jazz Wave On Tour' was the result (although I think the actual recordings were done on the Continent). Came out as a Blue Note as a result of Lester selling up I think.

Lord Flashart Blackadder Bob

The 'Love/Dream Variations' was put out by Cadillac Records I think (John Jack's imprint) along with another one I've yet to hear - 'Mike Westbrook Live'. Both of these have somehow eluded me - as has 'For The Record'. Good excuse for me to put on 'Tyger' and 'Mama Chicago' on the record deck today.

I use Soundblaster card from the LP12 and it works a treat. Graham Collier's 'Deep Dark Blue Centre' CD reissue came from this. The only initial problem I found was an EMC issue - occasional periodic pulse burst of noise onto the recording from what turned out to be the wireless hub. Turning it off sorted that out.

Billy Bremner (copyright - M. Python) Norman Hunter Garry Sprake

CDs 1 to 3

Basil The Rat Ratty Roland Rat

Captain Slow Jeremy Clarkson The Hamster

Merry Xmas to all...safe driving...keep warm !

Sgt Buzcutt Beavis Butt-head