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I have been heavily into the music scene since birth and and the moment I realised I could hear fell in love with it.My earliest recollections were of tunes like Magic Moments and Catch a Falling Star by Perry Como - but the real breakthough came when I first heard Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens and at the tender age of 10 became a lifelong devotee to the twangy guitar,and spent the whole of my adolescence with a binatone 6 transistor glued to my ear and tuned into Caroline or London ,which was a bit of a problem at school ,but I overcame it by pretending to be deaf,and so as my academic life suffered my appreciation of the finer things in life grew with endless material that just seemed to arrive in a constant stream of pleasure - The Kinks The Who The Stones The Small Faces and of course Jimi (you may notice one obvious omission there,as they were widely regarded as a pop group and dismissed and derided).Life continued onward and upward and with help of John Peels radio shows I and later with help of certain mind altering situationsI was was sucked into an ever increasing spiral of depravity and exctasy (yes you guessed it I discovered Frank Zappa Life never really moved on after that Saturday afternoon when JP played Willie the Pimp,everything changed I was trapped in a world of Gumbo variations Utility muffin Kitchens,wandering across tundras mile after mile with bromadrosis with a catholic girl on my arm and some voodoo butter on my mind but there was no yellow snow coz it hurt when i peed.Of course there were the pretenders that came and went - Bowie,Roxy MusicThe whole of the Punk scene,even Talking Heads (the best band in the world ever,were only a methadone substitute.I must admit to having become a tad over enthusiastic by playing give me that blow job at full volume on a crowded Bank Holiday Beach though,but I didnt care.Then came video,what an invention to be able to see as well as hear to go from 1 sensory perception to 2 in a single bound was truely a divine experience.I started taping everything that appeared on the telly The Tube,OGWT et al and ammassed hundreds of hours of video footage and used it to great effect by feeding them through banks of TV sets around my flat,and used to throw parties where every room was filled with visual imagery.Not content with this I started experimenting with 2 and 3 machines and cutting clips together and overdubbing them.Some to good effect,some not.These are quite primitive by todays standards but they are mine and i'm proud of them,due to lack of decent technological advances in video my interest waned,and remained dormant really until computing caught up with my aspirations,and I could take my old videos and tart them up a bit,so I converted everything to mpeg in the late 90's and have had them sitting on hard drives since then - now things have got even better and I am rapidly converting these to the latest flash movies and slowly they will appearing on here. Well thats my life. thanks for dropping by,and if you,like me and still cherish the love and feel of vinyl why not have a look in my ebay shop its full of it,from 50's and 60's classics punk indie funk reggae and soul to the wierd and avant garde.