Analogman

They stopped allowing taping several years ago. But I don't think they ever really put out a statement about it. That's the first official word I recall seeing about it.

Wilco and Billy Bragg will finally perform the songs of Mermaid Avenue together, live for one night only on June 26, 2026 in North Adams, MA.⁠ ⁠ Call it special, call it historic, whatever you call it: Solid Sound 2026 is one you won’t want to miss.

I think Help is best that way (US). It is my favorite early Beatles album. Oddly enough - they ended up using the US version of Magical Mystery Tour as the standard going forward.

I think with The Who it's like that until The Who Sell Out.

I think I have read over the years it had to do with how much money they could make off of albums (Capitol). They were shorter and included the hit singles. The UK albums were longer and did not include the singles. There is also the sound issue - fake stereo and added echo (Capitol). There is also the The Beatles Story and Hey Jude albums. I never had those when I was a kid.

That's right. Sgt. Pepper was the first to be the same in the UK and US.

I finally got the Beatles US albums boxset on cd. So I can hear those records the way I first heard them over 50 years ago. Although - they don't sound exactly the same.

I've watched a few documentaries about Northern Soul by way of Youtube over the past few years.

There's no Wigan Casino here.

Are you yobs going to see Oasis this year?

I would love to be standing in front of Richard Thompson while be played the solo in Autopsy. If they ever do that song.

Did you guys ever go to the [Fairport Convention] Cropedy Festival?

Thank you and him.

This page isn’t working viachicago.org is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500 I keep getting the above message when I click on viachicago.org. I thought the board was gone or down - but I see there are some recent post.

That should be 2001. No source has appeared that I know of -