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Post by Webmaster on Jul 15, 2008 16:33:25 GMT
Gentlemen...
Corroncho is, as spotted, a long term project involving Felipe (for these purposes) and his South American mate who owns the two bottom floors of the building where Felipe lives and works. This gentlemen, a sculptor of prodigious output (and a real ladies man if you know what I mean) was, for a time, Mr Chrissie Hynde. Together they comprise the Corroncho Brothers, two down and dirty gauchos with a distinctly earthy sense of humour.
Then...
Q1. Cornwall is indeed a fine place to be but I suspect the dining is more Rick Stein than Ginsters.
Q2. Not sure how I care how they pronounce it as long as the Yen stays in good shape and they cough up regularly.
Q3. You what?
Q4. I did advise Felipe (or is it Phil now?) that I don't get out of bed unless I need to write 100,000 words minimum so....
Q5. Ah yes, take the point but do the maths: first book 532 pages took 8 years, second book 700 pages took two years, revised edition of first book 716 pages took three months. I reckon the 53 rd book should be done in about 5 minutes (excluding breakfast and a few cups of tea)!
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Post by peterdewey on Aug 5, 2008 16:35:20 GMT
Hi Bill
Did I read somewhere that you were looking at the Reading 801 performance as well as the released one? It would be good to hear the performance of "I'll come running" as it was not played at the other show.
Regards
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Post by Webmaster on Aug 5, 2008 20:42:08 GMT
No recognisable recording of Reading exists AFAIK
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Post by peterdewey on Aug 6, 2008 22:27:04 GMT
I didn't know that! The track I mentioned was apparently on an Eno bootleg "Dali's Car", the rest of the tracks on that bootleg (which other tracks I have heard) being from an Eno & the Winkies performance.
Regards
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Post by Webmaster on Aug 7, 2008 7:19:58 GMT
Must have been them playing "I'll come running" as well cos we never played it.
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Post by barrydefoyle on Aug 7, 2008 8:56:54 GMT
I didn't know that! The track I mentioned was apparently on an Eno bootleg "Dali's Car", the rest of the tracks on that bootleg (which other tracks I have heard) being from an Eno & the Winkies performance. Regards I'm sure this was discussed some years ago on this forum's predecessor - the version of 'I'll Come Running' on that bootleg (sufficiently plausible-looking that it retailed in several major chains at the time) is clearly a BBC session recording, not live. So the listing info is wrong (quelle surprise !) There are in fact two audience-recorded live tracks on the disc - a 'Fat Lady' and a 'Third Uncle' (the rest are sessions). The live tracks sound subtly different in performance but authentically "801" to my ears despite the poor sound quality (and the key shift caused, no doubt, by battery operated recording equipment). I'm pretty convinced I can hear Lloyd's slide work in 'FL' and Manzo's soloing in 'TU' is unmistakeable (as is the bass playing, drumming and floating piano notes). Bill - didn't you mention a 'hooray-Henry' audience recording at some time ? This could well be it, given the irritating audience conversation ... Best, Barry
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Post by adams66 on Aug 8, 2008 7:36:31 GMT
A recording of the Reading Festival 28/08/76 gig does actually exist. It was shared a while ago on one of those torrent sites and although the quality is pretty rough, it's clear enough. Almost certainly the source of those rather distant sounding tracks on the Dali's Car bootleg ("Fat Lady" and "Third Uncle") it makes for a nice, if slightly muffled companion to the official 801 Live album.
Tracks played - Lagrima, T N K, East Of Asteroid, Fat Lady, Diamond Head, Third Uncle.
Short but sweet.
Bill, if you'd like a copy, please let me have a postal address and I'll stick a disc in the post to you. I doubt that much sonic magic could be performed on this recording - it's pretty muddy, but you never know. It might be a bit clean-up-able.
Cheers,
Richard
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Post by Webmaster on Aug 8, 2008 8:23:18 GMT
Richard, Will do. Thanks. Bazza The 'Hooray Henry' version was recorded at the only other gig (Cromer) where several Cambridge students parked themselves next to my tape recorder and shouted "Hey yaah" throughout the performance. If I could find the tape (missing for some time sadly) and apply the newly developed 'upper class twit' filter then we'd have a decent recording.
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