Glad you liked it, I still do amongst other Brisbane punk bands of the era...The Saints was another and several more of Punk genre note.
And yeah, simply mega sawing guitar sound...I reckon it's a cool recording overall...all the instruments have their own space and the vocal rawness completes the picture.
The recording sounds like it was done with pretty good gear actually, tape based of course.
On my good system Stamp Out Disco still sounds pretty good (good enough) as 192k Mp3 - razar- download.
At the time, our esteemed gerrymander state government used secret police and storm trooper tactics to keep a close tab/control on the local population, hence
YouTube - Pig City and Task Force.
A snippet of (anti) Disco era history 😎.
Dan.
They were plastic flower pots. Our Target store had dozens of them after the song broke out on MTV....you know when the M meant MUSIC, not Mindless drivel.
I could even listen to disco on those things.....NOT.
When I got "evicted" from public school in the 5th and 6th grade I had to go to a special school for misfits. It was a small private school which had limited land, so they stuffed about 15 kids into a VW Microbus and drove us to the nearby public park for recreation.
The driver would put on the WQAM, the local pop music station, so that we could all sing along. I think the only thing they played was surf music and the Beatles. I have two lasting memories from those bus rides. One of the other misfits decided that my singing sucked, so he whacked me in the side of the head with a baseball bat. I woke up in the hospital.
In another still vivid somber moment, we had just finished playing some softball, climbed into the bus to find no music playing and the driver crying. President Kennedy had just been killed.
I worked in a stereo shop in 1971 and 1972. Remember Olson Electronics. I ran the service department in the largest Olson's in the US. Largest because it was next door to the UM event ticket office (Miami Hurricanes football) and at the south end of Frat House Row. Lot's of daddies money flowed through that store, and unlike other Olson stores, we sold some high end stuff, Lowther speakers even. $650 in 1971 dollars!
As you said much of the mixes were poor, but a few had some good effects. I had a quad 8 track deck in my car. There was a Guess Who tape that would catch the stoners attention when voices kept popping up in strange places around the car. Procession on the Moodies "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" was another good one.
I will keep that one in mind. I have some of his other solo music and recently bought Hand Cannot Erase on Blu-Ray but my computer will not play it.
My 70's vintage Technics came with a plastic adapter. You put it over the center pin and drop the record over it, rather than inserting one into every 45 you own. I still have, and use that old turntable.
Barely enough for 1 single a week.
Those were the days.
(my son gives his away at KFC, or buys from the web without an eye blink : emotional poverty)
I still got a Technics SL-Q2 knocking about somewhere with a plastic adapter.
Only bought the Thorens because it came with very nice Audio Technica AT1010 arm. I always meant to get a SL1200 to mount it on but never got around to it.
Would have kept that Thorens adapter though.
(Oops! Sorry Dan, just noticed where you're from - 220V would actually be a bit soft down there, eh!)
Punk definitely gave the pot a stir, which is a good thing from time to time.
-- Jim
I'm usually always thinking about a lot of Rodded blue's stuff/sounds anyways,
And you wonder why I want to twist up a nice stick of some dank haha
And you wonder why I want to twist up a nice stick of some dank haha
Last edited:
This post has nothing to do with weed. I'm gaging the obscurity of an album that I think might be completely obscure, but is a desert island for me. Anybody ever heard or even heard of a group named "The Lodge", "Smell of a Friend". John Greaves and Peter Blegvad (with Anton Fier on drums.) I have quite a bit of stuff by these guys. Anton drummed for Pere Ubu, who put out some great stuff. "The Modern Dance" should be heard. John Greaves "Songs" should be heard. Lay some more suggestions back my way.
There is too much newer music that I would label disco to call it dead. Maybe it has just evolved a bit since "I'm Your Boogie Man." I will admit to liking a few songs from the classic era. George McCrae "Rock Your Baby." Maxine Nightingale "Get Right Back."
The thing about this thread that sucks is that now I have "Jive Talking" stuck in my head for the next hour. Painful.
I kinda feel sorry for you because when I think 'Disco' I hear Donna Summer's (well Giorgio Moroder really) 'I Feel Love' and I have no problem with that.
Sadly, I had to listen to "that" band back in the 90's, when they were backing up U2. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I kept thinking, why is this band here.😕
jeff
Judging by my experiences during a lengthy hospital stay I'd say Diamorphine (aka heroin).
It works as a painkiller not because it stops the pain but because it stops you caring about it.
Should work for Nickelback too. If not and you can't turn it off I suggest cyanide.
I record musicians. Occasionally they smoke weed in an attempt to capture something that is flying by. In my experience of 25 years this creative leap lasts for 10 minutes after which they inevitably suck, though convinced otherwise "in the moment". The next day on playback they are certain that "that can't be the take from yesterday"....it is. As regards the 10 minute window mentioned earlier, and potentially "getting back to it" they were unfortunately too stoned to remember how, nor attentive enough during its duration to make much good use of it.
Haha, you sometimes surprise me with your range of musical tastes....I didn't warm to that industrial noise clip you posted though.
There are some Aus vinyl music blogs/forums that transcribe and preserve early Aus stuff, of course no longer available by any other means.
Buried in these pages are gems...songs that I have not heard in four+ decades.
Interesting is that the production values and recording qualities still stand up to modern scrutiny.
It seems that early Aus recording studios were of high quality and knew their craft.
In my CD and HD collections are albums and tracks of just about every genre.
Just this week I bought a 2.4G wireless digital audio link.....thumb drive size USB transmitter and 30m range.
This link system has given my music collection a new lease on life...I can now run my lounge room A system from the sunroom laptop.
Yesterday I played and/or ripped a heap of stuff....wireless audio is highly recommended.
Dan.
That's OK sometimes a little agitprop is in order. Right now I'm listening to The Weaver's Reunion at Carnegie Hall (LP of course) not very industrial.
Yup. Just as a microphone diaphragm or phono cartridge could technically be used either way, weed seems much better suited for input than output. 🙂
-- Jim
Last edited:
How cannot I not enjoy something like Level 42 The way back home, without a good buzz on...At this very moment!!
----------------------------------------------------------Rick.............
----------------------------------------------------------Rick.............
The studios do a good job ... there was a pizza place opposite the Town Hall in Sydney, a well worn hangout - and they had a guitarist who did the classic restaurant background music thing, "Feelings", etc. Was impressed with his performance, and bought - shock, horror!! - his "privately recorded" LP - it was done by the local HMV whatever...
And found that this was a superb recording, the quality of it shone through brilliantly on the relatively average turntable setup we had at the time - easily way beyond all the standard album we had around - I took this particular piece of vinyl around to hifi shows at the time, and it sounded "amazing" on the better units ...
- Status
- Not open for further replies.