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lemonade kid
Old Love
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John9
Old Love
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 Posted - 28/02/2012 : 00:00:15
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My all time favourites in folk..... alongside the Fairports and the Pentangle. I saw the second lineup at Leicester University during autumn 1970....the same term that I saw Fotheringay and the Pentangle. Martin Carthy had recently joined...and Ashley Hutchings reprimanded those in the audience who seemed more interested in Newcastle Brown (a really popular beer back then) than in his commentary on the origins of the songs. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 19:59:42
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| Yeah..they certainly deserve a thread lk..one of my favs...have alot of their stuff....your best record? I've always thought "Parcel of Rogues" was a keeper.... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:02:02
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| and RIP Tim Hart founding member who died in Dec of 09... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:21:13
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Originally posted by rocker
Yeah..they certainly deserve a thread lk..one of my favs...have alot of their stuff....your best record? I've always thought "Parcel of Rogues" was a keeper....
All Around My Hat...Rocket Cottage, Storm Force Ten...hard to pick, so good.
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:36:54
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| You know I have their record "10 Man Mop"..(now what does that mean???) Anyway, if one sees it you'd swear it was made just yesterday. For some reason, that album cover was made so well and different. It's like a packaged work of art that hasn't aged in my closet. None of my records look like that after all these years. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:51:54
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Originally posted by rocker
You know I have their record "10 Man Mop"..(now what does that mean???) Anyway, if one sees it you'd swear it was made just yesterday. For some reason, that album cover was made so well and different. It's like a packaged work of art that hasn't aged in my closet. None of my records look like that after all these years.
TEN MAN MOP, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again
"The album's curious title and subtitle require some explanation. A 'mop' or 'mop-fair' is a late medieval term for a job fair, where labourers come looking for work. (The song "Copshawholme Fair", from the band's first album, is about such a fair.) The conceit was that the band was out of work and job-hunting. A 'ten man mop' would be a very poor show, since there would be few potential employees to choose from. The even more curious subtitle is a reference to Reservoir Butler, who had originally performed one of the songs covered on the album. The band was so struck by his unusual name that they decided it needed to be saved from obscurity.
On THE COVER ART....
The album was notable for having a textured "gatefold" sleeve and inner pages on its original release. This was paid for by the band but cost more to print than the album generated in profits, meaning the band lost money on each album sold. None of the re-releases have included the original number of pages of liner notes.
The photograph on the sleeve was taken c. 1900 by John Benjamin Stone. Entitled "Sippers" and "Topers", it is of two villagers at the Bidford Mop, an annual fair held at Michaelmas in the village of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. The village has a centuries-old reputation for heavy drinking. --wiki
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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Dukie
Fifth Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/02/2012 : 23:28:08
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| My friend's band (Palladinos) supported Steeleye on tour in 1994 I think it was and I managed to catch one of the shows in Wales. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 29/02/2012 : 16:44:09
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| very good lk..that's it!...real fine photos and descriptions... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 29/02/2012 : 16:45:43
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| and wondering what kind of 'brew" is in those cups the gentlemen are holding!.... |
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Ashrob
Second Love
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Posted - 10/03/2012 : 20:53:32
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Looking for something else, I have found 3 albums that I must confess I had forgotten about:
Please to see the King
Ten Man Bop
Below The Salt
Ten Man Bop cover is in excellent condition.
Time to get reacquainted with the music.
Don't think I saw them live.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 10/03/2012 : 22:16:12
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Originally posted by Ashrob
Looking for something else, I have found 3 albums that I must confess I had forgotten about:
Please to see the King
Ten Man Bop
Below The Salt
Ten Man Bop cover is in excellent condition.
Time to get reacquainted with the music.
Don't think I saw them live.
Does your TEN MAN MOP have the original booklet/liner notes inside the textured cover? See the above posts about the rarity of the original UK vinyl.
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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Ashrob
Second Love
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Posted - 11/03/2012 : 11:19:02
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Yes LK - released by Pegasus PEG 9 and the disc is dated 1971.
On the inside sleeve the number 1489 is very neatly handwritten in blue biro on the top right hand corner.
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 11/03/2012 : 18:45:52
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Originally posted by Ashrob
Yes LK - released by Pegasus PEG 9 and the disc is dated 1971.
On the inside sleeve the number 1489 is very neatly handwritten in blue biro on the top right hand corner.
Very cool. One of those rare first presses paid for out-of-pocket by the band! I wonder if they also stuffed the records in each jacket? Those were the days!
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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rocker
Old Love
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Kula John
Old Love
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Posted - 12/03/2012 : 16:45:17
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Great band! Saw them live last year with my parents (probably the only time my parents and I will end up at the same gig!!). It was their 'Now We Are Six' tour. I've been playing a fair bit of 'The Span' in recent weeks.
For the time that I've been given's such a little while and the things that I must do consist of more than style....
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STEELEYE SPAN--such brilliance
...and this was on one of their finest records...