{"id":1112,"date":"2004-10-16T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2010-03-13T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:46:44","slug":"weird-scenes-in-the-musical-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Weird scenes in the musical mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite LPs, way back when I was at school, was The Doors’ Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine<\/em><\/a>. This was a two LP best-of compilation of previously released tracks, plus one otherwise not-existing track. I recall taking this to school once … but not the vlnyl LP.<\/p>\n

Oh no. No way would I take vinyl there. Vinyl was precious. To be played only on turntables with good quality cartridges tracking two or less grams.<\/p>\n

No. What I took to school was an audio cassette recording I had made.<\/p>\n

Now, normally I was careful to make sure that each track fitted properly onto the tape. But, for reasons I have no hope of recalling some three decades later, I did permit one track to only partially record, terminated prematurely by the end of the recordable section of the tape.<\/p>\n

I write of this all these years later, prompted by listening to the offending track a few days ago some 35,000 feet above the central Australian desert on an MP3 player.<\/p>\n

As it happens, the cassette of which I’ve been writing was stolen at school, which is to say, during or before 1975. Since then I imagine I’ve heard said track more than a hundred times (it’s ‘Take It As It Comes’ from the band’s self-titled first album). Yet still, as that point in the track approaches, I find myself mentally bracing for the anticipated flutter as the cassette player’s head runs over the end-join to the tape lead-out. Strange how these things stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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