Sunday 7 March 2010

Back on the Dahon today for a trip into town before clearing out the greenhouse: spring has arrived. While I was in town I picked up a vinyl copy of this at Monorail, and on vinyl it sounds great: everything went onto tape before it hit ProTools too. If you've already got one, you might be thinking that Gordon Ferries and I are starting to resemble one another: not so, the captions are the wrong way round. Ali was convinced that Coral and Tar should be 'just a B-side', but it's much better than that - I'm very happy to have my wee harmonium accompanying him discreetly on such a beautiful song at the end of the record. It's just a shame it was in B major and all my thirds are wide: I should have got Sam to speed the tape up and then played it in C.

Isn't this interesting?