Comments on: Caedmon: the Netherbow Recordings

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:03:50 +0000

Ah, not in the same league as the AKAI AD-F 450 wot I bought for £20 from the shop round the corner then?

By: Duncan Webberley

Duncan Webberley — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:08:28 +0000

“I’ve spent the rest of the day recording the tape into the computer and trying to improve the sound. The quality is poor – it is after all an audio cassette tape which is more than thirty years old”

If you wish to improve the sound of an audio cassette then it’s best to start with a good quality deck, not necessarily “the only remaining cassette player in the house” in order to produce the best analogue signal prior to digital conversion. Even if the tape was originally recorded on mediocre equipment then a quality hi-fi deck in good condition will result in a more solid-sounding output. Why not pick up a second-hand Nakamichi -the Rolls-Royce of cassette decks- on eBay (on account of their age, and perceived obsolescence, they’re nothing like as expensive now as they were in their ’80s heyday, when they could cost anything up to ten times the cost of an upmarket record turntable!)? I have two ‘Naks’ myself, one I bought new in 1986, and the other is 28-29 years old! Both blow any iPod into the dust!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:48:54 +0000

Aha! George! I mentioned our escapades to Katrina last year, but you were moving house and incommunicado, and then she forgot. I know she forgot because I mentioned it to her a couple of weeks ago and *then* she remembered. Ken said you’d been in touch and were reminiscing. He also suggested we ought to contact Tom Morton.

By: George Anderson

George Anderson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:07:41 +0000

Sorry boys, all I have is memories. I lost all recordings,most of my hair and my sanity many years ago but I can still remember those sessions and Gordon Strachan bringing in a Women’s Guild to discover us recording in our underwear…..the heat! The recording can never have been that great as the equipment was quite basic. I remember cutting the wires to the erase heads to facilitate dubbing of harmonies. Lindsay Robertson might just have a reel to reel as we recorded Ann Mccaig at about that time and he kept some of the originals.If anything sufaces I would love to hear it. I would also love to hear from anyone who was around in those days

By: pf

pf — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:01:06 +0000

Another lost recording surfaces! This is terrific.

Give Me Jesus is my favourite recording of yours – I know you didn’t write it – followed by Beyond The Second Mile.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:45:26 +0000

I know George’s sister, or one of them anyway (ISTR there were lots). I’ll try to get in touch.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:41:24 +0000

‘Life’s all right’ is ‘Ivory Tower’ Jim… (you wrote it!). There is a version of Ivory Tower on Kissing Spell’s “Caedmon ‘Live’” but the other tracks are a find.

David Heavenor says he has reel to reel tapes of Caedmon LIVE. (see responses 1973 – 1978).
Perhaps George Anderson has the original? Or the Netherbow?
Has anyone a contact for George?

Ken