“Hi Allan, Its Allan here...
Unfortunately Eileen's tapes were much too degraded to get anything much off of. She sent them to me. My brother (NSM) and I spent many hours on trying to recover them. They finally went to Richard to see if he could do more with them, using his studio equipment. The problem was general noise and a huge amount of magnetic print through. If NSM sees this, as I am sure he will, he will be able to add any update that applies.
Sorry it's not good news, Allan.....”
“I got the picture to upload but it is entered as a different 'artifact' - I am sooo confyuzled! I think you need to go under 'Archive'/'Show All' and select 'Photographs' to see it.
“Hi Lorna, yes, we met many times - just in passing 'though. I played in a few of the Elgin bands over the years including a few who were with Albert B. The 'Shoes' and the Park Cafe were, together, my spiritual home for many years. I left Elgin around '68-ish and did quite well for a number of years playing with various bands around the south of England and doing the occasional recording session. Then, I got married and settled for the more steady income of a 'real' job when we wanted to start a family. Later, travelled the world working for various oil and telecom companies. I still miss the good times playing around the north of Scotland however.
I have a fairly recent pic of Richard and I - I just need to work out how to post it on this site!
It's great to know that someone else knows what I am bletherin' about!!!
“I had to laugh at your comment regarding Pavarotti sounding like George Formby. I also have to agree!
The Cresters were always my favourites back in the days when bands were called groups.
I left Elgin soon after the date of Malcolms passing and I only saw the Cresters play once after that. (In a club in Camberley) John was lead singer at that time and did a very good job indeed. I have a feeling that John was a big time Neil Sedaka fan. That was fine with me as I was a big NS fan too.
I saw Richard just a couple of years back in Leeds. He was playing at a R&R society thing with Mike Sagar. That was wonderful and we chatted for absolute AGES - mostly about how old we were getting! LOL
I well remember the Jacobeats too, good times Lorna...
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Unfortunately Eileen's tapes were much too degraded to get anything much off of. She sent them to me. My brother (NSM) and I spent many hours on trying to recover them. They finally went to Richard to see if he could do more with them, using his studio equipment. The problem was general noise and a huge amount of magnetic print through. If NSM sees this, as I am sure he will, he will be able to add any update that applies.
Sorry it's not good news, Allan.....”