Vinyl Albums - Comments by Ade Macrow

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Ade Macrow

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Ade Macrow 1st Feb 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten (1977)	Note how early Side One labels misprinted The Victory as The Vitory. Scanns added of these variations and all other inserts.
Ade Macrow 31st Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Ten Man Mop Or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (1976)	The late Tim Hart was responsible for the sleeve notes (and whatever he was smoking!)
Ade Macrow 30th Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Rocket Cottage (1976)	Note accidental repetition of credit on label for Orfeo/Nathan's Reel.
Ade Macrow 27th Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Tempted And Tried (1989)	The dullest, most unimaginative, no-thought-at-all labels and back cover. When you think of the artistic glories of, say, the classic green/orange butterfly Chrysalis design (sigh).
Ade Macrow 23rd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat (1975)	Just noticed how the spine has 'All A Round My Hat' on it! Also, does anyone know the purpose of the mysterious small black star right at the top of the spine (above the CHR 1091 catalogue number)?
Ade Macrow 23rd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Almanack (1973)	Thanks, Hawkmarty. Good to see both sets.
Ade Macrow 20th Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Alan Caddy Orchestra And Singers - Twelve Top Hits (1971)	Just noticed how the top of the spine says 'Golden Hour GH 523'! How bizarre! (Also has LP title at middle ad Avenue number AVE 092' at the bottom. The British release for Pye's budget-price series was a Various Artists compilation, The Hitmakers Present A Golden Hour Of The Best Of The Beatles Songs. In Germany, it was a Man compilation. I've come across/seen many mislabellings/mispressings before but a 'mis-spining' or 'dual spining' is a first. Presumably a consequence of both being pressed by Pye but still very odd.
Ade Macrow 5th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Live In Japan Spring Tour 1973 (1975)	Thanks, Graham. Lesson learned and I'll not bother in future. Much obliged!
Ade Macrow 5th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Live In Japan Spring Tour 1973 (1975)	"Silence is golden....". anybody got a rational explanation for the hiding and removal of images?
Ade Macrow 4th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Six Montreal Poets (1957)	You're right - coming soon. 'pologies for delay in completing the daunting task......
Ade Macrow 4th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Live In Japan Spring Tour 1973 (1975)	Puzzled as to why all the extras I've added have been hidden? Thought the idea was to have a complete record of any issue? Obviously not, then! And WHY have the two labels I carefully cropped to circles, as per 45 Worlds preferred style, been completely removed? I'm sure some Mod can give me a good answer......
Ade Macrow 28th Nov 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Live In Japan Spring Tour 1973 (1975)	Now added all the extra bits mentioned below, plus a translation of the sleeve notes kindly provided by a Japanese friend. Sure someone clever can 'stitch' together the images, which were too big to be scanned in one go by my scanner. And yes, the inner gatefold 'on stage' photograph really is that blurry!
Ade Macrow 28th Nov 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Live In Japan Spring Tour 1973 (1975)	Mine came with obi strip, lyric sheet (Japanese/English) and Donovan-cartooned white paper inner. At time of purchase - Christmas 1975 in Virgin Megastore, Marble Arch, London - this was by a long, long way the most expensive vinyl disc I'd ever bought. Albums were still only about £3.50 then and this cost me £25.00! (My weekly wages were only £35.00, to put it into proportion). Didn't regret the expense, though.'
Ade Macrow 28th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Mr. Mick (1976)	And Chris has a Mr Mick sleeveless pullover, just like the one on the cover, although he'll kill me for revealing that! Sadly, we are both a lot nearer Mr Mick's age than we were in 1976, too.
Ade Macrow 28th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Do The Stanley (1976)	Said unreleased song, Let There Be Lids, is a different version from that originally positioned on the B side of the withdrawn single. That, along with a studio cut of The Lyder Loo and various other pieces, still remains unissued and is unlikely to evrr see light of day now, even on a bootleg. The gig recorded at The Court Theatre, Liverpool and intended fir a 'live' album release in the Mr Mick era is another lost treasure.
Ade Macrow 28th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Mr. Mick (1976)	And, typically, none of the band can remember which member first had the idea of collaborating with Augarde. Each member reckons it was another, only for that person to claim it was somebody else. Rather like the story behind trying to ascertain the true writer(s) of The Lyder Loo!
Ade Macrow 27th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Below The Salt (1972)	Fair enough. Thanks for clarification.
Ade Macrow 27th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Mr. Mick (1976)	Good work, Chris.
Ade Macrow 26th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Mr. Mick (1976)	There have been four slightly differing CD issues of this concept album, all with additional songs or extended/new linking passages, edits, rearranged song order and more. A thoroughly detailed examination of all LP and CD variants was to be found in my Rhubarbarian 'Mr Mick' Special (issue #13, March 2002).
Ade Macrow 26th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Steeleye Span - Below The Salt (1972)	Presumably a single sleeve, not a gatefold, in States, Droid?
Ade Macrow 25th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Clogs (1972)	It was a fold-down poster, Hawks, and yes, it was included with first pressings on the album. It actually references material that never appeared on Peg or its earlier Pegasus incarnation. (The obverse of the poster insert is completely blank).
Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	Not quite finally. Lalena wasn't issued as a UK single, either. As with WYLLH and ETD, Pye allocated a number but nothing ultimately ensued.
Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	Finally, Season Of The Witch never saw 'single duty' either in Britain or America, making this original configuration of Donovan 's Greatest Hits a very odd and misleading item indeed!
Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	Wear Your Love Like Heaven was another USA single scheduled for issue on Pye - and again given a 7N 17xxx number but it too was cancelled at the last minute.
Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	In addition, further confusion was caused with UK buyers as EpistleTo Dippy was never even released in Britain (scheduled and assigned a catalogue number but pulled at the last minute), let alone a hit, unlike in the States, of course.
Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits (1969)	B3 Colours is also a new recording. Although not advertised as such anywhere on the labels or album cover, these 1969 Mickie Most produced cuts were a result of the legal imbroglio preventing the use of the pre-Most Peter Eden & Geoff Stephens material. CTW and C were stil licensed to Eden-Stephens' own Iver Productions. Iver had franchised these and the other 28 recordings that pre-dated Most taking over production duties to Pye in Britain and Hickory in America. These agreements were still in place when this album was released, thus necessitating new versions. It was still sharp practice from Epic, not to advertise this fact! Nowadays, it'd undergo the usual spin, being blurted out from a cover sticker or some such, as "with brand new recordings of Catch The Wind and Colours".
Ade Macrow 19th Aug 2017		Vinyl Album Wayne Nutt - Oil Field Man (1975)	Weirdly enough, having just read about the horrible Mr. Nutt in Allen Jones' 'Can't Stand Up For Falling Down' rock 'n' roll memoirs, I came across a copy of these album today. I didn't buy it.
Ade Macrow 18th Aug 2017		Vinyl Album Wayne Nutt - Oil Field Man (1975)	Yes but it was Wayne that everybody 'gushed' about!
Ade Macrow 6th Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Six Montreal Poets (1957)	More tracks (Side Two contents) soon....
Ade Macrow 5th Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Six Montreal Poets (1957)	I will add the other 42(!) tracks tomorrow.

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