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fergus wrote:

I used to have it on vinyl but literally wore it out. I used to replay sections of songs over and over as I tried to learn them off on the mandolin....not a very nice way to treat vinyl but I was the only one in my extended circle of musician friends who could play this music so it paid off!

The cover above is not the one that I have as mine is a much older CD issue. I do not know how many years I have it but I only noticed this mistake on the back of the CD today....

Wow! Well spotted Fergus; I must check my own Lp copy. BTW are we talking about the same mandolin I spied in your room upstairs? I was afraid to say something in case you started playing it ;-)

cybot wrote: .... BTW are we talking about the same mandolin I spyed in your room upstairs? I was afraid to say something in case you started playing it ;-)

No Dermot, that was my dusty bouzouki that you spotted....the mandolin has been buried in the attic for years!!!

fergus wrote:

cybot wrote: .... BTW are we talking about the same mandolin I spyed in your room upstairs? I was afraid to say something in case you started playing it ;-)

No Dermot, that was my dusty bouzouki that you spotted....the mandolin has been buried in the attic for years!!!

Ah, that's what I meant to say! So you must have been a terrific all rounder back in the day!
Still are, I wager :-)

cybot wrote:.... So you must have been a terrific all rounder back in the day!
Still are, I wager :-)

I lived, ate, slept and drank music 24/7 back in the day, Dermot, to the detrement of everything else. I was competent, no more, but very enthusiastic!!

fergus wrote:

cybot wrote:.... So you must have been a terrific all rounder back in the day!
Still are, I wager :-)

I lived, ate, slept and drank music 24/7 back in the day, Dermot, to the detrement of everything else. I was competent, no more, but very enthusiastic!!

That's all that counts in the end, isn't it?

cybot wrote: That's all that counts in the end, isn't it?

I had a lot of fun!!

On the old Lp spinner....incidentally a member of the band found the picture of the weeping child in the street!




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