The Good Ole` Days (maybe)

I`ve been searching for a particular few songs from my early years for ages, and you know, it`s bloody funny how certain songs bring back particular memories, either of good times, disappointingly enough, the bad times, but lets forget the latter

    But being a child of the 50`s & 60`s (no lads, not the 1850`s or 1860`s), I used to be Disk Jockey some years ago in the days of vinyl (circles of 7" plastic with a song on the A-side & the B-side for you youngsters amongst us who`s never heard of vinyl.

    It`s strange though isn`t it folks that in the very early days of The Crypt with some help of the lads then, I finally decided to give myself the handle of "Dr Jekyll", (DJ) and I used to be a disk-jockey (DJ).....anyway, that`s all immaterial at present.

    Try to imagine, I was 17 years old, I was in my 2nd year of my Painting & Decorating Apprenticeship. I was working somewhere in the sticks, the firm that I was working for was a general building firm and they were building a new Texaco garage, I was in the process of pink-priming yards & yards of garage-forecourt fencing, bloody boring I can tell you, I must have used about 40ltrs of pink primer.

    Anyway, my Painting & Decorating days isn`t what this article is about, music is the food for thought.

    While I was busy painting all this fencing I distinctly remember hearing  records by a several singers & groups, one group was called The Box Tops, and the song was called The Letter, after getting a PC and using WinMX to search music MP3 sites I finally found this track, I also found loads more, then back in my early teens I and most of my mates were bikers, every Sunday about 20 of us used to go to the local cafe called the "Bus-Station", where surprisingly enough buses ran to & from, it was the main bus terminus.

    Anyway, out of all the records my mates & me used to play most Sundays was one by a group called Hawkwind and the title was called "Silvermachine", I`ve found that via WinMX, so, The Box Tops made me remember all that bloody priming when I was an apprentice, Hawkwind made me remember my biker days, John Fred & His Playboy Band singing "Judy In Disguise (with Glasses) also made me remember my apprenticeship days so did The Monkees with "I`m a believer", Jimi Hendrix singing Burning the Midnight Lamp was the first record that I heard from this brilliant guitarist and made me want to hear more of his stuff, finally getting hold of old Vinyl LP`s called Are You Experienced, Axis Bold As Love and more, soon made me realize that although sadly passed away, he was a brilliant guitarist and talent that would/is still listened to by thousands of fans..

    I can vaguely remember when or where I was when certain records were hits, for instance, when Womack & Woman were in the charts with a hit that I think was called "Teardrop" or Teardrops, I was in Winson Green in Birmingham, no, not shopping, but in Prison. But that`s another story.

    Songs like  "New Song" & "Look Mama" which were sung by a guy called Howard Jones made me realize that I was living In Warwick and in the midst of my Disco years, songs by George & Culture Club like "Do you really want to hurt me" etc etc, Stacie Lattishaw & "Jump to the beat", I can even go back in my disco days of DJaying to Susan Gadugan & "Hurt So Good", the Bay City Rollers & Shang-A-Lang as well, The Four Seasons & Oh What a night - December 63` (I think the full title was).

    I fact, when I packed up my disco`s and was about to sell the whole lot to a couple of brothers who were starting up I manage to keep back about 50 of my more-or-less all time favourite singles, but over the years with recording technology as it was/is, most, not all of my favourite vinyl records have been fantastically transferred to CD, there`s only the odd few that up till going on the PC was only memories of how much I`d like to get hold of them again and keep on CD, Hawkwind etc.

    Up till my PC days I was a true-blue Amiga user, don`t get me wrong, the Amiga is probably "THE" best multitasking home computer ever designed & created, but being a PC user now, I realize the Amiga is a dinosaur, if I offend any of you 100% Amiga users then I`m sorry but I`ve been on the Amiga for years, and unless your a moron there`s so much that a PC can do with the minimum of ease that an Amiga could only dream about.

    The main problem with the PC is Windows (Windoze), an utterly shit operating system, but I`m digressing from my article.

  If any of you readers what to write into either me or to the mag in general with a similar article about what music reminds you of what you were doing and where you were at the time I for one would be only to pleased to read your stuff.

    So, that`s about it for now, hope you enjoy the rest of our mag, and please don`t forget that even with our staff writing team doing their best to make our mag a good read for you, we still need "YOUR" input, we can write about our own personal stuff, but we have & only will survive with continuos new input, we`ve managed for these past few years by being a 1-platform disk mag for "Amiga-Users-Only" at one time, then we shifted to a more open approach, and we`re still here, which goes to show that not only with the team, but also with the readers we seem to have found a very workable combination,

    And being one of the original founder members of TC I`d like to say a very big "THANK YOU" to "EVERYONE", that`s the staff and our readers, because basically folks, it doesn`t matter how we are, without you there would be no point in carrying on would there, so, to everyone......keep up the great work, well, that`s if you can call this work....till next time......tara 4 now......

Dr Jekyll