Simon T

Good point, it may well be cured by reducing the burning speed down, especially if your PC is a bit on the slow side. Most burners burn the CD at the slowest speed necessary. The black CD is written from the inside out (oposite to a record!) and the inner part of the CD is revolving at a slower speed than the outside edge, therefore when you are writting at say x52 (the physical maximum speed) the first few tracks are written at about x 16, the middle part at x16 - x32 and only the very last couple of tracks actually reach x52 speed; that's probably why the tunes get worse from the middle to the end. Good idea to invest in some decent quality blank CD too

Most CD burners nowadays have a "buffer under-run" facility built in to slow the burner down while it waits for data from the hard drive; coupled with the fact that blank CD are all quite high speed (at 16 x) you shouldn't really need to slow the recording speed down. However, if you HD is heavly fragmented you could get problems. I would de-frag your HD and remember to close down any other programmes when burning the CD, PARTICULARLY your screen saver - if this kicks in during the burn processes, it often cocks things up big time!

Is your deck earthed? (probably via your amp, so check it's earthed too) Best thing to do is to buy a re-writabled CD for your stand alone CD recorder (to keep costs down) and record your records through your hi-fi. Then 'grab' (Audiograbber is free) your compiled CD to your PC and use a programme to amplify, de-hiss, de-click etc the tracks individually(cooledit is great and can be found on tinternet). You can then 'burn' the track to an ordinary blank CD to play. Takes a bit of time to tart the tracks up, but well worth it in the end - that's how I did that midtempo swap CD for you.

Gerri Thomas - Look what I've got Playthings - Surrounded by a ray of sunshine Flirtations - Little darling

Also told, they also had a girl on the drums called Honey who they got (part) of their name from!

Honeycombs - Have I the right somebody told me the singer is Denis O'Dell i.e. Denis Dell of Better Use Your Head Fame. (Pete S. to confirm?)

Maybe, anything is possible. The scans of the two coming up for sale in the last month are very, very shiney, like the Danny Woods, and no matter how much T-Cut and Turtle wax I might apply to mine, the kind of vinyl they are on won't glimmer like that!! Anyone know of anything mega rare on 'styrene' turn up recently (last 5 years) since Danny Moore?

The Masqueraders let the Prestatyn guys down with 2 weeks to go and were still saying they were coming on their own web site ! 12 to 1 Passport / Visa problems months & months before they were 'pulled' from the bill. Naughty! Over to you lot………. PS watch some outsider over-take the field and come in at 100 to 1 ! Lester Typton dueting with Otis Redding?

Cairos - Stop Overlooking Me c/w Don't Fight It - Shrine £ 3667 The Group feat: Cecil Washington - I Don't Like To Lose - Prophonics £ 2211. This has either turned up big time or are very dodgy!

The original acetate is very crackerly and someone had tried to clean it up digitally, but when you make a (low quality) mp3 of such a recording, you often get 'steel drums' - listen to the very end. Maybe we'll get there, Pete, before some turns up the masters?!!!!

Very catchy, singing along already, but not one for the 'wants' list.

One of my all time top wants, if anyone has it for sale, lot of pieces of silver waiting!

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I prefer to be sent or emailed a list (Pete S, Keith Williams, Chris Anderton, Shifty etc); listed by label is good as that's how I've always filed my records. I don't like it when people highlight the most expensive stuff as some of use are above the hype and don't like being 'told' what must be good because it's expensive! I don't go for the emails saying site updated (Dave Thorley, Manship, Henry Atkinson etc) because I'm lazy and can't be bothered to trawl through every record again to try and find what's new - you're losing sales here boys! And one thing that really pisses me off is when there's a list and there's several titles, Don Garner, Gene Toones, Frank Wilson etc (which they most probably never had) with SOLD at the end of them - if it's sold delete it!! And another thing that get's my goat, are lists that 'cycle' through the same titles over a year to make out that they have stuff for sale, just to be able to put out weekly lists.

Yes, nothing gets past you does it Pete! It accompanied a book about Jamerson called Standing in the Shadows of Motown; if you see one I'd snap it up.

It really is the bass line - James Jemerson playing his bass on ANMHE.

Are we talking abot "Your Love"? I only ever seen issues which have '60060 /A' scratched in the run-out

Take it away James Jamerson..........

Quote: "Motown might have helped me to gold-plate my horn, but they didn't teach my how to blow it"

Brenda

Barbara Randolph - When it rains it pours