HW: Spirit/Damnation?

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One would imagine, listening to it again, that it was done as a convenient bridge between the two tracks, rather than belonging to one or the other. That way the whole of side 1 runs as one continuous piece. It was probably down to the cutting engineer who actually put the original break after the sirens at the start of the guitar riff of Damnation Alley. 

Incidently, the morse code in Spirit sends the repeated message 'SOS'.

And talking of engineers, does anyone else find that everything cut by Malcolm 'Porky' Peckham sounds OTT?  Even with a top flight pick-up cartridge, some of those Flicknife grooves are virtually untrackable without distortion.

Captain Bl at ck.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: J D 
  To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU 
  Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 11:02 PM
  Subject: HW: Spirit/Damnation?


  Hi,
  This is going to be a really pointless question, which I don't envisage anyone having the definitive answer to, but ......

  You know the sirens and explosions "between" Spirit and Damnation on Quark?
  Well, from the very first time I heard it over 20 years ago, I've always assumed that it is actually the start of Damnation as opposed to the end of Spirit.
  Numerous compilations have tagged it onto the end of Spirit, which I've always assumed is a fair mistake.
  However, for some reason I dug out Repeat Performance vinyl yesterday (the Charisma compilation from about 1980), and was surprised that they had done the same.
  Now I'm starting to think that if the original label has it as being the end of Spirit just 3 years after its original release, then maybe I've been the one getting it wrong all along.
  The sirens seem more in keeping with Damnation, but I think there is also Morse code included which kinda swings it for Spirit.
  Maybe it was purposely done to link the two songs with a bit from each, but I just find it curious that more often than not it is tagged onto Spirit than Damnation.
  Just out of curiousity really (as I say, totally pointless), but, which song do folks think it is part of, and why?
  Jez     
   
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