abel wrote:Hi Jim,
Superb picks.
Any recordings of the group?.
Abel
Hi, Abel,
There were some recordings, some made at Radio Merseyside, some made at Tin Pan Alley Studios in Denmark Street, Soho, and some made by one-time BBC producer Ian Grant at the Nashville Room in West London (for BBC Radio 2). At the time, though, the only sound-carriers of quality were the vinyl disc or (expensive) reel-to-reel tape systems. We certainly never had a disc pressed and although the recordings were made onto tape, I had no way of obtaining or maintaining a copy of them. Decent quality stereo cassette was only just about to become available, and I doubt I'd have been able to afford it even had I known of its existence.
Over the years, I've made several attempts to source the BBC recordings (which made for insert into a local C&W programme), but they are apparently missing from the archive. The later top man at Radio Merseyside (he must be retired now) was the producer/engineer on those recordings and some time during the 1980s, he told me that he thought a particular radio presenter had the locally-recorded country music archive at his home, but I never managed to contact him. This was before the internet, of course. Perhaps bassist Bobby (who had these pictures) knows more about it. I'd love to get hold of copies, it goes without saying.
Best wishes,
JimN