Ferric Archaeology: Index & Disclaimer

This blog is maintained for the sake of sharing music from my own private collection, most of which derives from tape cassettes dating from the eighties or nineties. Some of this music was recorded either by myself, or by bands of which I was a member at the time. Some of the cassettes digitised here are simply by people I knew, or people whose work I came across and which impressed me so much as to preclude the possibility of my taping over the thing. So I suppose I own the copyright of some of the material here, but not all of it. In the case of the material for which I don't own the copyright, generally I have tried and failed to track down those responsible in order to seek permission for my sharing their material (excepting people I can't fucking stand or who can't stand me), but honestly I don't even know if some of these people are still alive. I've done what I could. This material is shared purely for the love of music, and in the hope that you too, whoever you may be, will appreciate a few lost gems. I'm not trying to cash in here, and neither should you.

Also on that score, I've noticed someone selling old Trilogy cassettes for $70 a pop over on Discogs, and so I have been advised to reduce the quality of my scans, or maybe watermark them so as to prevent anyone faking vintage tapes from material obtained here and then selling them for a million quid. I'm not going to do that. My take on this is that if you're stupid enough to pay $70 for music copied onto a WHSmiths C15 back in 1984, then that's your tough shit, particularly when you can get the same thing free right here from this blog. I'd rather people didn't attempt to accrue a personal fortune by selling faked copies of ancient Tryouts masterpieces, but I'm just as keen to discourage the sort of exclusivity and collectard mentality which inevitably results in the only way to get to hear Matfield & the Pond being to sell a kidney.

...and if I've gone and shared your shit and this pisses you off, let me know and I'll take it down, mkay? Oh - and whilst we're here, please investigate my other blogs, and buy my fuckin' book!

Finally, it should be noted that, depending on what you use to play MP3s, how your computer works or whatever, these tracks will probably download in alphabetical sequence rather than the order in which they should appear as derived from the source recording. It has been suggested that I need to prefix my tracks with A1, A2, B3 and so on, but I haven't because it gets on my tits when I download other people's stuff and have to go through it editing the titles because Jonathan King never recorded a song called A7 Lad's Bums Yum Yum and it sends me into a blind rage when my PC tries to suggest that he did. Therefore I respectfully suggest that you download the shit then order it accordingly within your iTunes or whatever you use by referring to the track list provided with each blog entry.

My pleasure.

Ferric Archaeology

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Index & Disclaimer

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