Crispycat Recordings: Another previously unknown difference...

Friday, November 23, 2012

Another previously unknown difference...

Playlist
Various - Proposed Covers Setlists
Glenn Gould - Bach Harpsichord and Viol da Gamba Sonatas
Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made
The Move - Message From the Country
Loudon Wainwright III - Album III
Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now

This morning, to my mum's to take her to "The Pain Clinic"...

Not some kind of torture chamber, rather a consultation as to how the huge amount of pain she suffers every day, despite already being on various different drugs, including morphine, might be further alleviated...

A good visit...

A nice lunch thereafter at The Steading by the ski slope, one of mum's favourite haunts...

Back home, working on the covers set, choosing songs and ordering proposed setlists to suggest to my colleagues...

Revamping many of the songsheets re changes made to keys etc to better allow reasonable singing to take place...

A pile of paper printed off...

Suggested setlists and rehearsal dates mailed to said chums for comeback - we play again on Monday...

In the evening, whilst Anne watched TV, I surfed and, having stated yesterday that there is not much on the net re our record shops which we ran from 1991 till 1998, I was delighted to find this article by Dave Bidini of Rheostatics in the Canadian National Post mentioning a day which seems to have had an effect on both our lives...

Dave came in to Reptile Records in St Mary's Street, to promote the band's gigs at the University on the Edinburgh Fringe and the new Rheostatics album "Introducing Happiness", giving me a free copy...

This is a quite brilliant album and can be picked up quite cheaply around the net - hugely recommended...

Anyway, Mr Bidini bought a few tapes...

Now, I discovered Rheostatics that day and have been a total fan ever since...

In turn, although I never knew it till today, 18 years later, Dave discovered both The Move and Loudon Wainwright III via our shop...

Yowsa!

Downloaded the album he reviewed in his article, as well as one from 1972, a big favourite of chum Rory Macrae back then - although Rory was unable to persuade me and the Forsyth twins to forgo T Rex and Chicory Tip for the Incredible String Band...

Still couldn't even now, although I do thank Rod for turning me on to Roy Harper...

Highlight of the Day : Discovering another previously unknown difference...

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