The good old days - Tascam 144

The good old days - Tascam 144
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The Tascam 144 4 track cassette recorder


‘Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn’ was recorded on a 4 track Tascam 144 cassette recorder – I had bought this in Birmingham – the store fleeced me with excessive repayments – they were expensive bits of kit and a … Continue reading →

The machine above was also used to record: Finish the Story, The Dancing Did, Blurt, This Window etc.

Radio play can be found here June 25th 2007 - recordings used off Tascam 144

Travelled to Dartington Hall near Totnes to do an interview on Soundart Radio 87.7 fm. This was a painless affair and I was made most welcome by the presenter - thank you Nell.

Playlist: This Window - 4 extracts from 15 Minute Wonders for ZH27 (USA):


1/ Goat
2/ Jig-Saw Man
3/ Procession With Crosses and Banners
4/ Rehersal 08-04-07
5/ Extract Mix - 2007 (not on album)


Playlist: Finish The Story

1/Apparently He Couldn't Hear Me (unreleased)
2/Trapped In The Hometown (first released 1990)
3/Solace (first released 1990)



Yes, the only thing that did get released was when Finish The Story was as good as finished – I’d walked off stage in the middle of a gig at the ‘AdLib’ and decided to call it a day (or was I sacked?). It had all got too much for me, all I could here was that fucking violin and I thought I’m playing bollocks? I can’t hear Garry, has Nicola done that bit yet? This sounds shit and I am disappointed. It was the last straw that broke…….besides. I was trying to hold down a job and I was in love. I’d reached breaking point. Nicola and I eventually put this behind us and we had a go at writing songs together. Zig Zag (magazine) offered Nicola a track on an album they were releasing in conjunction with Situation Two (Beggars Banquet) - we recorded a version of ‘Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn’ on the old Tascam 144 which I mixed onto a Revox PR9910 - that was released on ‘Gunfire and Pianos’ (like ‘Doorways’ a track recorded in a bedroom in Bromsgrove). Read more...

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