The Golden Hour record label was a budget offshoot of the Pye label, and – at least as I remember it – tended to concentrate on novelty compilations by has-been singers or TV actors trying to be crooners.
Man had been signed to the Dawn record label – also a subsidiary of Pye – in 1968 to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Man’
10-31-09
(1974 Album) Man – Golden Hour of Man
09-04-09
November 25th 1973
“Recorded Ziggy + Man”
Phew!
Those last couple of posts have been quite the mammoth writing tasks so it’s nice to return to a semblance of ‘mundanity’ here and let the diary entry speak for itself…
09-02-09
November 20th 1973
“Borrowed Live Man. Man on Old Grey Stoker’s Vest – smart!”
“Live Man” must refer to the “Live at Padget Rooms, Penarth” album, a three track concert recording which, in retrospect, has been described by some as the sound of Man at their musical peak.
Not by me though. The album never stuck with me over the [...]
08-20-09
November 4th 1973
“Re-recorded Do You Like it Here again”
I refer regular – and not-so-regular – 70’sTRO readers to the review of this album wot I wrote eleven months ago.
08-19-09
November 2nd 1973
“Bort 2 cassettes from Comet – Recorded 2Man – Work, out on bike in pitch black darkness (figures!)”
The music piracy and piss-poor grocery delivering continue unabated!
08-18-09
November 1st 1973
“Bort recording lead + Record Cleaner. Recorded 1Man”
Remember all those albums I recorded by placing the tape recorder’s microphone in front of the speaker of my parent’s portable record player?
Well, now it looks like I have to record them all again, this time using a ‘recording lead’ patched from my new amplifier straight into the [...]
08-13-09
October 22nd 1973
“Man/Iceberg – TOP RANK
FANTASTIC!”
I have already seen Man this year, back on July 3rd.
However, this time the support act was none other than ex-Man front…erm..man Deke Leonard with his Iceberg.
Given that I had probably played “Iceberg” to death in the previous week or so, (see previous diary entry) what’s the betting that my “FANTASTIC!” review [...]
08-12-09
October 16th/18th/19th 1973
• “Borrowed Iceberg off Trev – absolutely brilliant”
• “Gonna get Iceberg”
• “Gave Iceberg back”
I know what you’re thinking … “that’s a BIG picture of the album cover…. he must REALLY like this one?!”
… and you’d be 100% correct
In fact, I’d go so far as to state that Deke Leonard’s “Iceberg” is one of rock music’s [...]
08-11-09
October 15th 1973
“Went to Caustons. Got me MAN ticket”
Caustons was a big printing firm in Eastleigh*.
Why did I go there I wonder?
School trip? To find out if they had any jobs? To get something printed?
Whatever the reason, it looks like the real highlight of the day was nabbing a ticket for an upcoming concert
(*Now, the site where [...]
08-08-09
October 8th 1973
“Gra came up in the evening and brought Back into the Future – Smart!”
Man’s “Back Into the Future” was a 1973 double album by the Welsh ‘jam rock’ band which suffers the same problem 90% or more of all double albums suffer from… “a tad too much filler”
Don’t get me wrong I love – most [...]
06-04-09
July 17th 1973
“Lent Focus 3 to Gra for him to tape for MP. 10p each. Also gave him C90 to record Be Good — MAN”
Surely Gra and I weren’t profiteering from our home taping were we?
*Cough*
Changing the subject rapidly, let’s just say that if I were to recommend one Man album to anyone “Be Good To Yourself [...]
05-22-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part X
A 70-odd page “History of Music” would not be complete without a closing reference to Welsh rock giants, Man, would it?
However, I do think the comment about Pink Floyd’s new concept album “Dark Side of the Moon” – considering the subsequent success and ubiquity of their 1975 opus – makes me appear to be something [...]
05-17-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part V
Yes, it’s yellow paper. No it hasn’t yellowed over the years. It was yellow form the start, from a large box of foolscap-sized paper by Dad bought for 5 shillings (25p/35¢) from British Rail some 6 or 7 years previous.
Please note gratuitous introduction of Emerson, Lake & Palmer… plus a ludicrous remark commenting that Man [...]
05-13-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part I
This is the back cover. I hope everyone can read it OK?
Please note that in amongst the plethora of big name acts (Presely, The Beatles, Dylan, Zeppelin etc) I have included such other musical giants such as Man, Deke Leonard, and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. What?
“Rock” was the main ‘fireball’ it would seem [...]
05-11-09
July 3rd, 1973
“Man Concert at Guildhall 7:30pm – BRILLIANT!
BANANAS!”
(Yes the word Bananas is in BIG writing on the diary entry)
I’ve written about Welsh rockers, Man, before. ( +1 more )
I don’t believe I have mentioned the cut Bananas. One of the band’s more popular songs.
There are some wags who think Bananas should be the National Anthem for [...]
09-13-08
December 16th 1972
“Went down Trevs + borrowed D.Purple, Man, Groundhogs, The Nice”
I have not mentioned which specific albums I borrowed from Trev, but I have more than an inkling it was the following …erm… ‘gems’….
Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn
If I even recorded this album, I doubt very much I kept it. No Ian Gillan on [...]
06-07-08
August 11th 1972
“trev rolled up here at 12.15. he carried with him Greasy Truckers Party”
Ah, the magnificent Greasy Truckers Party album.
A live double album, recorded at a show in London just 6 months earlier, it was sold by United Artists records for the (then) bargain price of £1.50 ($3.00). In an early nod to “limited edition” marketing [...]
01-01-08
The 1972 Diary
As you can see, I have decided to remain coy about my real name by fuzzing out the incriminating evidence.
Not surprising when my hand-scribbled cover of this 1972 “personal memo diary”, printed by Northern Novelties (Pencils) ltd., from Bradford, is already proving incredibly embarrassing to the 50-year-old me.
Not only do I describe myself as a [...]
