Rock - what are you listening to?

[cybot]

On the tt, some of the most searing guitar ever burned to black plastic.....

an album that changed how I viewed music. A long long time ago.

For me it goes back to the very first time I actually stayed in Dublin when I started my Teacher training in 1976!! I was after reading an ecstatic review/reassessment by Nick Kent in the NME but I could not, for love or money, get my hands on the record. Tommy Tighe from Pat Egans promised me he'd try and get me a recording on cassette. I went in for months but still no tape (no surprise!). In the end I spotted an ad in the Record Collector and sent away for a second hand vinyl copy. Would you believe it arrived on the same day that Tommy "happened" to have the cassette for me! When I got home a few days later I literally tore the packaging to get at the precious vinyl! Thankfully it was an original, almost mint Atlantic copy with the purple logo, I think. It's currently the only copy I have of that album and every time I dig it out it always reminds me that dogged persistance eventually pays off and, of course 'ol Tommy....wonder what he's doing now?

[JAW]

[cybot]

Stange days indeed! I remember clearly the day I walked into Golden Disc in Mary St. beside the Alpha Bargains shop - at least I think that was the name of the shop! - and very timidly asked Gerry (who now works upstairs in Tower) would he play the album for me? The tiny shop was thronged at the time and as I stood there listening to Strange Days blasting around the shop I remember feeling totally captivated by the music, which was actually the very first time I heard the Doors! Needless to say I bought the album which was solemnly appreciated by the rest of the staff behind the counter. Now that I think of it, what a line up! Mark Prendergast was there. Declan Colgan was there. Gerry himself, of course. Mark became a journalist and sometimes contributor to Hi Fi Choice and others, who actually thanked Gerry in his book Ambient Century for all the tapes! Declan formed Venture Records and was in turn influenced heavily by both Gerry and Mark.....who in turn over the next couple of months influenced my musical direction which was to stay fresh and challenging to this very day....

[Ivor]

On the tt, some of the most searing guitar ever burned to black plastic.....

an album that changed how I viewed music. A long long time ago.

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For me it goes back to the very first time I actually stayed in Dublin when I started my Teacher training in 1976!!

Same era for me. I was struggling to "get" punk even thouigh a lot of my mates were listening to some serious stuff. Then I came across MC5 and Iggy Pop (raw power) and it clicked with me. Saw The Clash in Trinity and was converted!

I think Tommy can still be found underground. He was up until recently anyway.

[Ivor]

Fantastic album... it was Tom's birthday the other day too... and he's lost 5 stone! Down to a trim 20 now!

[cybot]

A belated happy birthday Thomas :-)))

[JAW]

Fantastic album... it was Tom's birthday the other day too... and he's lost 5 stone! Down to a trim 20 now!

Yeah, the joy and fun on it is infectious. Great musicianship as well.

[cybot]

an album that changed how I viewed music. A long long time ago.

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For me it goes back to the very first time I actually stayed in Dublin when I started my Teacher training in 1976!!

Same era for me. I was struggling to "get" punk even thouigh a lot of my mates were listening to some serious stuff. Then I came across MC5 and Iggy Pop (raw power) and it clicked with me. Saw The Clash in Trinity and was converted!

I think Tommy can still be found underground. He was up until recently anyway.[/quote]


That's amazing about Tommy! Still doing the rounds, eh? Never ever occurs to me to pay a visit for some strange reason! You saw the Clash in Trinity! That must have been some gig :-) The Punk scene completely passed me by unfortunately with the exception of the American guys and, to me, the greatest of them all.....WIRE. At the time I couldn't get enough of the German scene with the likes of Can, Popol Vuh, Amon Duul 2, Guru Guru and the usual electronic pioneers like Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream etc etc etc I used to have great craic with the guys in GD in Mary St. who were besotted with the scene and the avant-garde/experimental stuff too. They couldn't quite believe how my little head could carry so much info and to this day I'm still as enthusiastic about this kind of stuff as I always was, as you all quite know by now :-))))

[DaveF]

on vinyl...

[cybot]

For the day that's in it, original triple vinyl set on Atlantic......