Records, I think, still, Pat, thanks all the same. Connotations of accounts
and stores of information as well as the music contained therein.
Bill
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 at 8:26 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> thanks Bill your words about the poem I found interesting
>
> -one point crossed this poor aged mind is 'Records' a bit too direct for
> the title ?
>
> how about Vinyls cheers P freezing sneezing in London
>
>
> On 21/02/2018 21:39, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Thanks again, Sheila. Also, Patrick, Barry, Doug.
> >
> > Barry, I suppose I do celebrate the material, not perhaps as visually as
> it
> > seems to come across. The visual becomes an awareness. So you don’t
> > literally stare at the rotating disc each time you play the record. But
> you
> > know what is going on. You do look when you first buy, intently, and then
> > it becomes a recognition thing as much as a celebration. Remember
> playing a
> > pile of records, one suggesting the next until your lounge room or
> bedroom
> > is strewn with plastic and cardboard. In the washout later, maybe even
> > next day, you do the colour match-ups, the sliver slides and the
> re-storing
> > till next time. It certainly was an active process, playing records,
> > setting up for the aural plunge.
> >
> > Doug, I respect your Blue Notes, although I don’t have any. Atlantics I
> > just think of a swirling red, white and green label, Ahmet Ertegun’s
> wasn’t
> > it? But when I check my early Zeppelin and a Ray Charles, I am reminded
> > that before that the label was green with a silver band and a circular
> > silver swirl.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 at 12:18 am, Barry Alpert <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Bill,
> >>
> >> Your new version brings to mind the term "material culture".
> >>
> >> Watching the spinning label intrigued me largely if it were designed by
> an
> >> artist, though right now I'm only remembering collectible album jackets
> by
> >> Warhol and Dali. Detail printed on the label might determine whether it
> was
> >> truly the first issue or a reprint. If I could find my collection of
> >> "artists' records" I might be able to cite an "artists' label" I admire,
> >> but right now I'll mention ESP Records as a likely possibility (they
> >> definitely worked with colored vinyl in the mid-sixties & their
> operation
> >> has recently been revived).
> >>
> >> Barry
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:21:45 +0000, Bill Wootton <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Andrew. Sheila, I have toyed a little.
> >>>
> >>> Records 2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Who and Hendrix rode the transition
> >>>
> >> >from black to blazing red Polydor.
> >>>
> >>> Kinks got you going on the brash
> >>>
> >>> bright yellow and black Astor label,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> also home to fire-lighting Jim’s Doors
> >>>
> >>> and Matchstick Status Quo men.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Billy Thorpe‘s Aztecs, most people know,
> >>>
> >>> went crazy on orange Havoc records
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> and Sabbath sucked you into their Paranoid
> >>>
> >>> maelstrom on black and white Vertigo Swirl.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The Bobster and Simon and Garfunkel,
> >>>
> >>> The Man in Cash and Carlos Santana
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> all shared the apricot glow of dignified CBS.
> >>>
> >>> Stones Blue Decca’d before Sticky Fingering.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Beatles grey/black Parlophoned almost
> >>>
> >>> matching their suits before Appling out.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Shocking Blue Venused on Penny Farthing
> >>>
> >>> Tamla Motowns all glowed deep black.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Select from Spotify, tunes descend
> >>>
> >> >from the ether with no such associations.
> >>>
> >>> Select The Selecter on 2 Tone Records
> >>>
> >>> with the ska trilby and zoot suit image.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Labels. Covers. Trashy notes. Records.
> >>>
> >>> Get a grip on their substance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>>
> >>> 21.2.18
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 at 1:12 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Bill!
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrew
> >>>>
> >>>> <
> >>>>
> >>
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> >>>>
> >>>> On 21 February 2018 at 06:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks Sheila. You may be on to something with this suggestion. I’m
> >> not
> >>>>> happy with the ending yet either.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bill
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 at 7:52 am, Sheila Murphy <
> >> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Bill, I wonder what would happen if you started the whole piece with
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Who and Hendrix rode the transition
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> from black to blazing red Polydor..."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Bill Wootton <
> >>>> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Take your music groove-inscribed
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> for a multi-sensual all round experience.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hear the opening Claptonic bars of White Room,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> picture that black Polydor label spinning.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Know Who and Hendrix rode the transition
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> from black to blazing red Polydor.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Kinks get you going partly because you see
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> the brash bright yellow and black Astor label,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> also home to fire-lighting Jim’s Doors
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> and Matchstick Status Quo men.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Billy Thorpe‘s Aztecs, most people know,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> went crazy on orange Havoc records
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> and Sabbath sucked you into their Paranoid
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> maelstrom on black and white Vertigo Swirl.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The Bobster and Simon and Garfunkel,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The Man in Cash and Carlos Santana
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> all shared the apricot glow of dignified CBS.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Stones Blue Decca’d before Sticky Fingering.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Beatles grey/black Parlophoned almost
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> matching their suits before Appling up.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Shocking Blue Venused on Penny Farthing
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Tamla Motowns all glowed deep black.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Select from Spotify, tunes descend
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> from the ether with no such associations.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Select The Selecter on 2 Tone Records
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> with the ska trilby and zoot suit image.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Grab hold of record covers. Sniff.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The years of spin still available.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> bw
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Andrew
> >>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>>> Books available through Walleah Press
> >>>> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >>>>
>
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