Off: CD Promo

[Colin Allen]

Back in the 1980s there used to be a record shop in Soho that sold BBC
transcription disks.  Curiously, some naughty  people issued audience
recordings on perfectly copied BBC transcriptions disk vinyl.  I have a
beautiful Led Zeppelin audience recording from 1975 which is on what looks
like a pair of genuine BBC transcription disks.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Off: CD Promo


> Paul Mather writes:
>
> > Lots of fans, including some Kollectors on this list, have bought
> > Hawkwind promos in their time.
>
> Guilty as charged M'lud and I'd like several other charges taken into
> account.  In fact had I not paid a large sum to a certain person for the
> Brian Matthews BBC Transcription Disc (still AFAIK the only one around?)
> then none of us would have heard the Maida Vale '72 versions of Silver
> Machine and Brainstorm featuring Lemmy.  Certainly I'm sure it was
> illegal to sell discs that were BBC Copyright, as well as music
> copyrighted to Hawkwind.
>
> I'm still cross about how it got bootlegged to CD for sale (a friend
> promised if I gave him a tape, it wouldn't go any further, and apart
> from Jill, that was the only tape of it around - even Bernhard didn't
> get a copy at the time, and we all know how persistent he can be ;-)
>
> I'm sure we'd all have preferred it to be on an official CD as was under
> discussion at the time (hell, I'd still like to see that, particularly
> if we could clip it with the video of that era that's said to be around
> sans sound) but nevertheless, I'm sure we'd all rather we'd heard it
> than that it was still in Mister BBC Transcription Disc's attic (is he
> still in business?)
>
> In short, a lot of strange stuff gets done in Records Land and as I've
> said before, if we're going to get all Police State about bad behaviour
> and disrespect, then there are people who are far more damaging to the
> cause we should be reserving our ammo for.
>
> In short, I again agree with Paul, even though that's twice in a single
> year.
>
> FoFP
>