The UM was very well packaged yet came with the wire to the tender broke in two.

Luckily it was very fixable, even by me, and I had my life's first successful soldering, despite the amateur-looking result. Doesn't matter; no one else will know until my widow sells it.











I think for $300 US: DCC fitted UM Class b12/3, plus DCC fitted Dapol A4, plus six Dapol Gresley coaches plus the bonus track cleaner car was a good Ebay purchase.

Interesting Martin @port perran , that's a nice first LP to have, not familiar with the Fleetwood Mac. Beachboys eh!

Here is my list of singles (fresh off the press):

Tim's Singles list - Circa 1970(13yo) to 1972(15yo)

1.   Amen Corner – If Paradise was Half as Nice?
2.   The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby?
3.   Black Sabbath – Paranoid
4.   Blue Mink – Melting Pot?
5.   The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn
6.   CCS – Whole Lotta Love
7.   CCS – Tap Turns on the Water
8.   Creedance Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend
9.   Curved Air – Back Street Love
10.   Deep Purple – Black Knight
11.   Deep Purple – Strange Kind of Woman
12.   Deep Purple – Fireball
13.   Family – The Weaver's Answer
14.   Frijid Pink – House of the Rising Sun
15.   Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky
16.   George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
17.   Hawkwind – Silver Machine
18.   Jethro Tull – The Witches Promise
19.   The Kinks – Lola?
20.   Matthew's Southern Comfort – Woodstock
21.   Mr Bloe – Grooving with Mr Bloe
22.   Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Waters
23.   Three Dog Night – Mama Told me not to Come?
24.   Traffic – 40 Thousand Headmen?
25.   Waldo de Los Rios – Mozart 40

I had a plastic singles "album" which I think contained about 20 singles. My cousin told me I was silly buying singles so by 1972 I was buying LPs with the odd exception. Those marked with an ? I cannot be 100% sure of.

My first single was Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun and LP Nicky Thomas "Love of the Common People", I think the second was Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence"... Then I discovered Black Sabbath...

Tim

Quote from: Moonglum on Today at 05:30:53 PMYes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

I too had few singles but my first two LPs were :

Renaissance (the original band) - self titled album.

Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On.

My first single (1969) was Breakaway by the Beachboys.

Yes, I had the single as well Mick @Newportnobby . You have inspired me to rack my brains to compile a list of singles that I had (not many) before I started buying LPs.

Tim

Thanks, Tim. Being an oldie, I have 'Silver Machine' on 45 with the flip side being the preferable (to me) 'Seven by Seven'

I like the green ones better than the white ones. 

"Greasy Truckers"- double live album (1972), fun fact:

"Silver Machine" by Hawkwind was recorded at this concert which took place at the Roundhouse, London during early 1972 but the song does not feature on the original vinyl album release. Robert Calvert's vocals were considered very poor and consequently Lemmy's vocals were overdubbed. Released as a single it reached No. 3 in the UK charts during the summer of '72. Hawkwind turned down the invite to appear on BBC TV's "Top of the Pops" for professional reasons. Instead, a film of a live performance recorded by the BBC at Dunstable Civic Hall was used. Although Hawkwind's biggest hit, it is not a staple of their live sets.

"Spunk Rock" is only eclipsed by the live version of "C'mon" ("Back to the Future"); which, was also recorded at the Roundhouse - IMO.

And yes Scott @scottmitchell74 all sorts on here!

Tim

As we all swelter in this 'heatwave' I deliberately took a couple of pics of my blue Brush Type 2 with blue snowplough and blue support StoveR, the aim being to create some A.I. pics
I hope the sight of them makes you feel cooler

I can't quite pin down this board's musical tastes...      eclectic?

Mine? Sublime. 

Sorry @kusojiji - not for me.

And @Newportnobby - I was a fan of Man back in the day. Still good stuff but I very rarely listen these days I'm afraid.
Greasy Truckers is/was a stand out live album though.