Popular Post Seat68 Posted January 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2018 A comment yesterday to @chrisp65 made me think just how unlucky my vinyl/music have been over the years. At 17 I had everything stolen. I worked on a holiday camp (and did for the next 8 years) and one weekend I went home, the guy I shared a chalet with decided my sublime mix of Ramones LP's, Marc Bolan and Hendrix amongst others would be a great going away present for him. He nicked them all. I was gutted. A couple of years later, different holiday camp, still very young, after a very heavy night of alcohol, it seems and this was only via visual confirmation in sobriety, I used to keep my cassette tapes in a drawer, drunken me felt that drawer would be the perfect place to go for a piss. One very sodden version of Surfer Rosa by the Pixies amongst others. Only a fool would do that again. A couple of months later I did it again. Fast forward to 1992, I went to Glastonbury Festival, it was lovely, good lineup, sunny, but in Lincolnshire it wasn't so sunny, and this chalet (still at holiday camps) had a leaky roof, only a fool puts his stack of singles in a nice row on the floor. This fool had and they were acting as a lovely sponge, sleeves were screwed and after the fact seemed to be a rare mildew vinyl. 6 of The Wedding Present singles club amongst others, totally unplayable. 1995 and I leave the holiday camps. I am shacking up with the current wife. Foolishly we combine vinyl, thats a commitment, and it again lives on the floor. **** my hat, do I never learn. The washing machine left on one day whilst we are at work floods the ground floor, again, any vinyl that escaped the first flood goes the same way and the last 6 of the wedding present singles club join their mildewed brothers. All is quiet until we move house 13 years ago from Telford to Stafford, this coincides with my first day in a new job, so a company is employed to do the move. I didn't witness this but although told to support the bottom of a collapsible crate, the men did not. 250 CD's scattered over the rain sodden November streets of Stafford, because a **** idiot didn't supply a strong crate for them to be transported in. These days, my CD's and vinyl are all on an upper floor, away from any possible water, the important ones have been replaced and I choose to toilet in porcelain. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2018 What's a vinyl? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Nowhere near as harrowing as the @Seat68 story, I've mostly been quite lucky. I've lost a couple of odd things over the years, I strongly suspect individuals have 'lifted' individual records. I no longer have my first two Blondie albums or the original ELO gatefold Out Of The Blue. I wouldn't have thrown them away, but they've gone. Last year, I stored a lot of vinyl in a cupboard under a substantial fishtank. The tank bust and a lot of vinyl got damaged. Thankfully, it was mostly my wife's ol' shite, but a couple of mine got hit too. An early 10 inch Kinks record sleeve knackered, and my earliest Jam album, In The City, got a bit damp. As above, fuzzy mildew hit which it appears I've cured. A good clean and the record (at nearly 40 years old), plays like new. You can lift it to the light and see some mildew traces where it had been. But a careful headphone listen on a record bought in 1980 and played continually since, reveals no damage. Somebody once broke in to my car at a train station whilst I was in work. Went through my substantial piles of tapes, flicking each one to the footwell as they rejected it. Didn't take a single one. I had a mental image of them sat in my car, flipping through going 'no, no, no, nope, nope, no, yuch, no...' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 My friend Jon said he never borrowed my 7" of the colourfield thinking of you, I have a photograph from the night he asked if he could take it to tape, said record is in his hand. It has forever soured our friendship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: What's a vinyl? BBC used the plural 'vinyls' yesterday on News 24, and they expect a license fee. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: What's a vinyl? THAT is a vinyl. I'm sure the wav file is just as pleasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2018 50 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: THAT is a vinyl. I'm sure the wav file is just as pleasing. What's an Orchestra? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: I'm sure the wav file is just as pleasing. Picture disks are more for fans of the specific band rather than wider listeners. They don't often sound great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, Xann said: Picture disks are more for fans of the specific band rather than wider listeners. They don't often sound great. It's a 60's turntable and a 70's amp on a stand made of sawn down chopping boards and some Ikea kitchen cabinet legs. The room has painted plaster walls, and a plastic conservatory at one end and a drum kit with a snare drum that rattles along with anything played at volume. Sounds fine to me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2018 What's an amp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: What's an amp? This was an Amp. Edited January 5, 2018 by Seat68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: What's an amp? mine was £25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: mine was £25 What's a £? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted January 5, 2018 27 minutes ago, Seat68 said: This was an Amp. Looks like you got a good deal 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 21 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: What's a £? To be like a Lapal_fan, you must first BECOME a Lapal_fan.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 7 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: To be like a Lapal_fan, you must first BECOME a Lapal_fan.. You have to start liking the affluent area of Halesowen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: You have to start liking the affluent area of Halesowen? QUIET, COMMONER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 44 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: You have to start liking the affluent area of Halesowen? I read that first as effluent. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Can I ask has anyone used/or known someone that has used a hypnosis treatment and did it work or not for them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Demitri_C said: Can I ask has anyone used/or known someone that has used a hypnosis treatment and did it work or not for them? I've tried it. Didn't work. But I think it depends on exactly what you want from it and the kind of person/personality you have. I found I couldn't let my mind relax into it and found my wandering off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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