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albert 20th Aug 2016		TV Bullseye (1981 - 2006)	You can't beat a bit of bully. So often the top prize would be won, and then lost, "you get nothing for two in a bed" I think the catch-phrase was. In recent times there was a board game produced and on the back of the box it knowingly showed a sample of prizes you could have won, reliant robin, boat etc Still, Bullseye was far better than that duff Snooker game show which I can't even remember the name of.
albert 19th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.	Band listed as Heartbreakers [UK], surely a mistake. I have the remixed version of the LP from about 10 years ago, the notes state that the original LP has an appalling mix, but I don't own an original copy to verify that.
albert 19th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys	The Jimi puppet seems to be an imposter, Jimi was left handed.
albert 19th Aug 2016		TV Captain Pugwash (1957 - 1966)	It may not have been in the script but I think there is a slip of the tongue at 1.43 on the clip for the first episode.
albert 19th Aug 2016		TV H. R. Pufnstuf (1969 - 1970)	I can vaguely remember 'witchiepoo' as the name got re-appropriated to an old bat who lived in our area.
albert 18th Aug 2016		TV Krtek (1957 - Now)	Not a series as such, but enough episodes eventually had been produced to warrant the occasional short series on TV. Krtek has been made available on DVD in many European countries, but not Britain, the copywrite seems to be fiercely protected so there are no samples available on youtube (except for people reading from the books and a bad copycat Mole from Russia or somewhere). There is no dialogue in the episodes except for ow's, ah's, children's giggles, and sound effects, so the series has a universal appeal to kids (and kid-ults). The Mole and his friends are very cute and the animation simple and distinctive. EDIT: I managed to find a news item that includes short segments of the original mole and a rather depressing new mole (best skip the last bit): [YouTube Video]
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland	Further to my comment below I have found this 'blue text vs white text' article which further muddies the waters. However, they do make a point, which I should have remembered (since its a recurring argument), that when a 60s mega-artist released an album the manufacturers would have to have a huge stockpile built up ready for the day of release, and so inevitably there will be variations in the printing, and you may find that the actual 'first pressings' were in the warehouse right at the back of the huge stockpile and may therefore have only been finally distributed when the huge stockpile was exhausted. ...I have also noticed that the labels on one of my copies are actually stuck on the top of the pressing labels. I don't want to peel off a label to check what the label looks like underneath, I presume it is either a mix-up on sides A/D B/C, or if the song sequences are incorrect (which was also the reason for the overprinting of blue text on the 'rejected cover').
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland	There are many confusing variants on the original pressings of this LP. The originals do have larger pictures of Mitch and Neol, but even on the originals there are variants on the sizes, oh and the text is blue print over white. I have three or maybe four copies of this. I actually only wanted to own one copy but as I bought replacements in better condition the differences in printing were starkly apparent and I really do not know what is first issue. Plus to make matters worse, I was young and foolish and happily swapped covers and vinyl to get my best copy. Years later I read that when the LP was released, Jimi (?), was not happy with the mix or cut and so it was redone, [can somebody please confirm this]. The thing with the coupling of Side A / Side D and Side B / Side C was to do with marketing aimed at owners of those horrendous multi-stack record players, so you could load your player with both discs and it would play Side A, then drop the second record on top and play Side B, you would then have to flip over both records on your multi-stack spindle and let the player continue with Side C , Side D. .....apologies if I haven't explained this too well, maybe youtube has a clip showing one of these contraptions. Anyway the point I should make is Side A / Side D - Side B / Side C may just be a variant pressing and not necessarily denote 'original first issue' as some ebay sellers have insisted.
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced	The 1970s repress is in true stereo and sounds pretty good, well worth picking up. There are differences on the labels and quite obvious next to an original 1967 pressing, the music publisher is listed as "Interworld Music Ltd" and there is no triangle with "M 33" (or a stereo pressing would be "S 33"). The front cover is not laminated and has "Jimi Hendrix" added along the top. I am fairly sure that the first 1960s pressing was only in mono so if anyone is offering a stereo 'original' then you'd better check that its not a later pressing before parting with any ££££s.
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Live And Unreleased	This got withdrawn for some reason, luckily for me I got my copy before it got withdrawn. Note that it is a radio show with tiresome talk between tracks, but most of the music on the rare tracks is complete, as far as I remember. EDIT: apparently Sting and A&M got it withdrawn because of some unauthorised snippet/quote
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema La Horripilante Bestia Humana (Night Of The Bloody Apes) (1969)	Review This is just your average gorilla-heart-transplant-into-human-experiment-gone-berserk, with added female wrestling, rape, bloody murder and eye-gouging mayhem type of film. The DVD I have from Something Weird Video features the American version with real open-heart surgery inserts for added fun. Really, you cannot describe this film without it sounding like the sickest thing ever made, it might make you cover your eyes, it might leave you shell shocked for a while, it might even make you want to shower afterwards, but you cannot but laugh when the sickly kid transforms into mr muscle (with a monkey head) and jumps out the window for the first time. I would put a link to the trailer but it could cause offense. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema The Reflecting Skin (1990)	Review What is THIS! its a film about childhood, and about traumas, nightmares and hideous unseen danger, and what is real and unreal. If this was a conventional thriller, you would have the gang of sick hoodlums raping and killing around the countryside while being pursued by the one-eyed sheriff who dispenses justice in his own way. But instead we follow Seth, through the eye of the storm, the gang making fleeting appearances and looking cool, the sheriff appears threatening and brings torment and anguish in his wake. Seth is withdrawn, has a difficult mother and hero-worships his brother, he thinks his neighbour is a vampire and she plays along with it, he finds a mummified baby and believes it is an angel. There is so much strangeness this could be mistaken for a David Lynch film, but it is unlike any other, the photography is astounding, the soundtrack sparse and just right, if there is a film guaranteed to polarise an audience this could be it, personally I love it. 7 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema The Reflecting Skin (1990)	Rejoice, The Reflecting Skin has finally had a proper release on DVD, with the director's involvement, so throw away your video tapes and dodgy foreign language versions. (Note that the DVD extras prove that no frogs were harmed during film making). [YouTube Video]
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema Meet The Applegates (The Applegates) (1990)	A very funny film, I saw during its cinema run and I have it on VHS but its never been available on DVD (top of my wish list). Trailer here.. [YouTube Video]
albert 10th Aug 2016		Cinema Meet The Applegates (The Applegates) (1990)	Review When deforestation by humans threatens a colony of giant mantis-like bugs, the bugs plot to annihilate humanity with a nuclear catastrophe. Taking on human form and learning the ways of men the hyper-intelligent bugs integrate into suburbia to carry out their scheme but soon succumb to human ways and vices. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 29th Jul 2016		Cinema De Noorderlingen (The Northeners) (1992)	Review A droll black comedy about the occupants of a new housing estate by the edge of a wood, with a postman who steals people's mail and various jobsworths and layabout people. Quite good fun but like most of Alex van Warmerdam's films pretty much impossible to get on DVD. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
albert 9th Jun 2016		Magazine Spiral Scratch	100 pages. The London Collectors Shops feature lists 43 record shops, (most of which I had visited), less than 10 of these now exist. Other features include a 4AD feature without discography, The Mighty Lemon Drops, and erm actually not a great deal here, there are listings of records for sale.
albert 9th Jun 2016		Magazine Spiral Scratch	48 pages. Contents include a feature on Pop Will Eat Itself/The Wonder Stuff, Iron Maiden discography, a 10 page feature on The Prisoner TV series, another obsessive 'list of live performances' this time for The Smiths. What I find interesting when looking through these old magazines is the amazingly low prices that dealers were offering for purchasing major vinyl rarities off the unsuspecting public, at the time I bought the magazine I knew these were poor prices but looking at them today they are just plain ridiculous.
albert 9th Jun 2016		Magazine Spiral Scratch	36 pages. Includes a label discography for Music For Nations, an Ozzy Osbourne discography, quite a nice New York Dolls feature on 11 pages, and another obsessive 'list of live performances' this time for Siouxsie And The Banshees.
albert 9th Jun 2016		DVD Invaders From Mars [1953] - Image Entertainment	Great release of this film by Image Entertainment. I'm English and had seen the film on TV at least a couple of times, I was intrigued that the ending had been changed for the UK so specifically sought out this DVD when I came to add it to my collection. Happily you can watch either version of the film and now I think I prefer the original ending.
albert 9th Jun 2016		Magazine Spiral Scratch	28 pages. Contents include an obsessive Sisters Of Mercy 'list of live performances 1981-1985' with set lists where known (or copied off bootleg tapes possibly), A Creation label discography and a Sarah/Sha-La-La label discography, oh and a Primitives discography.
albert 30th May 2016		Live Music New Electrics @ The Camden Falcon	Quite a fab night, New Electrics did some great gigs in their day and Drop Bears were one of those rare bands where the drummer was the lead singer - and pretty good too as far as I remember.
albert 30th May 2016		Magazine Strangled	just found a fan's unofficial stranglers website that has everything you'd wish for regarding Strangled Fanzine.
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album Don Van Vliet And The Magic Band - Rough, Raw And Amazing	best to avoid anything on OZIT MORPHEUS label, it always turns out to be pretty rough and unlistenable.
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Clear Spot	The plastic outer wallet on the original UK version is very fragile, the edge welding is barely existent and I suppose most copies will by now have probably lost the strip that the flap tucks into. It is made out of brittle plastic, probably not PVC. The original labels have a different layout. The American version of Clear Spot has a PVC cover, the edge welding on that version is much more substantial, but being PVC I would guess that it will have fogged the vinyl record inside.
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request	regarding the padded silk cover: I now do remember exactly where I saw it - it was with a dealer who used to have a pitch at the London TUC Record Fair many years ago, his stall was behind/under the stairs (in front of the bogs), not a great pitch but his stall was quite large. And the record did indeed look genuine, the silk was in tatters as you would expect and the padding (I think it was cotton wool) exposed. I don't remember the silk being a lurid crimson colour like the one on the internet (which looks quite suspect to me), The one I saw had silk which I think it was very faded and may even have had a faded printed pattern, the dealer also pointed out some difference with the layout/printed images but I cannot remember now exactly what it was. The dealer did want a substantial sum, maybe £300, and I looked it up in the RRPG where it was mentioned 'matter of fact'-like, ...my opinion at the time was that 'it would turn up in better condition', alas it goes down as one of my could-have-had-it records (although I would still have baulked at the price).
albert 5th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2	Early pressings of the back cover have some text by Andrew Loog Oldham which was later removed. The first paragraph on column 2 should include the sentence "If you don't have bread, see that blind man knock him on the head, steal his wallet..." etc, as per the scan supplied by Graham7 ...do note however that the 'blind man' text isn't as rare as people might expect, the majority of the sales (for the red 'unboxed decca' label) probably have it.
albert 5th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request	The very very rare promo of this had a padded silk border with the 3D pic in the usual place, needless to say the only copy (s) I have ever seen had the silk in very bad shape.
albert 7th Aug 2015		Live Music The Beatles @ Empire Pool, Wembley	Full concert, they say, watch while you can [YouTube Video] ...Donovan makes a real ham-fisted appearance. then at about 1:39 in you get the full excitement of The ..shh, you know who.
albert 28th Jul 2015		Magazine 117	117 fanzine had a short run of issues, the last one I own is issue 8, I don't know if there were more. But it was very compact with the important info on what was good and not afraid to warn you about the rubbish being pushed as psyche 117 was named in homage to an obscure band that none of the contributors could remember nor find any info about, however thanks to the wonderful internet you can see and hear 117 in all their glory on this Pathe 'swinging London' newsclip (they are about 5 minutes in) as the soundtrack to a 'happening' created by Damon Albarn's dad!, enjoy: [YouTube Video]

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