Posts by Simon Grigg
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Could have been the wildlife
As I recall the national press had stories about bikie wars in Pons, around that time. I expected a bunch of Nortons or BSAs to push us off the road into some dark car park and, uh, maraud us or something.
Of course later I found out that Mt Eden was the really dark 'burb..
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So am I right in thinking that the 1987 Trax release was actually a different production?
That's my understanding but I think that it's all very gray. The song was a work in progress for some years, and like lots of the Chicago stuff was handed to DJs like Knuckles and Hardy on reel, with regular updates, so there are likely many versions. I have a copy on DJ International too, which is credited to Frankie & Jamie but sounds rather different, and a version on a European house comp from around 87 credited to someone altogether different, Jesse Saunders if memory is correct, which sounds the same as the Persona 12".
Chi-House dealings were at best always murky. Trax still exists, albeit in and out of court fairly regularly. There is a history of sorts here, albeit a few law suits back
And of course it was Larry Sherman, not Marshall..duhh
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copyright 1987 to Trax Records, according to the inlay I'm looking at.
That was the Trax release, as dodgy as just about everything else Marshall Sherman did..Roy Davis Jr. told me that he and Dj Pierre used to take home-demos in to work when they were stacking shelves in the Trax warehouse, only to find it pressed up a few days later, without them being asked. One of those was Acid Tracks. He was also notorious for using the cheapest recycled vinyl, so that you'd get bits of old labels poking out of the vinyl from time to time. My original copy of that record, bought in '87, has just that.
The original pressing of Your Love was on Persona in '86, but it existed as a reel for at least a year before that and was getting Knuckles club play.
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No doubt that has flavoured my paranoia. In the end it comes down to what feels instinctively ok, and what doesn't.
I grew up all over the country / world and at 11 was cycling through Upper Hutt, 5 km each way, along the Hutt Rd to school without a moments thought.
When I was 12/13 I was cycling and exploring all over the Manawatu and Rangitikei daily, long before being able to phone in, as kids are now. It wasn't unusual.
We moved back to Auckland when I was 14, in 1971, and I was warned by half the non-Jaffa North Island to be wary of something called Ponsonby . I remember driving through that first night utterly terrified that we'd be pulled aside and assaulted by the gangs and hoodlums I'd been told haunted the area.
It took me weeks to get over that.
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Well, since we're getting all Chicago on it...
They've got the year wrong though..it was 84 or 85. And poor Jamie Principal loses his credit?
Avatarred and Feathered?
Firstly, lovely to see you back here..any chance you could stroll over to Joe's and persuade him to emulate?
I worry about the rehabilitation of Roger Dean, post Cameron, since Avatar could only exist in a post Relayer universe. There are bigger things that should concern me, but this weighs....
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(for instance, designs that were too dark)
This would work then
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Yeah I thought that too. If you were going to choose a Pink Floyd cover there are much, much better ones. And I guess they didn't have the, ah, bollocks to put this on a stamp.
And I'd have rather had Heroes for a Bowie
No Roger Dean.....*
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The fab new UK stamps in all their glory.
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I'll cheerfully read Burchill writing tripe, because she does so in sizzling prose, is madly funny and will occasionally conjure a brilliant thought.
My favourite Burchill quip (from NME circa '78) was:
Absolutely the only records anyone ever needs to own are the first three Sex Pistols single.... and everything ever released on Tamla Motown.
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Haha Simon I actually recalled that as I was writing it, then doubted myself, good to have it confirmed! And Happy New Year, Sir.
And to you too.
For all that they deserve credit as one of the few places, pre-DKD, where you could buy a half decent coffee in the early 1980s. And they revolutionised the art of the sandwich in Auckland town.