- Added a missing word to Everything Is Broken lyrics and updated Sessions page accordingly. Also added this song's lyrics to The Hum Of The Diesels page
- Added Righteous Rocker 7" single variant 7RR-UK5. See the singles page
- Created new song pages Highway Patrol and Mystified
- Completed Rehearsal For The Elsinore album page and promoted it to the albums menu
- Updated all relevant song pages to reflect Rehearsal For The Elsinore
- Added Elsinore Rehearsal to the videos page. (Minimal detail for now)
- Added Street Level variant SL-US32
- Added Only Visiting This Planet variant OVTP-US58
- Added I Love You 7" single variant 7ILY-US16. See the singles page
- Completed The Norman Conquest album page and promoted it to the albums menu
- Updated all relevant song pages to reflect The Norman Conquest
- Updated Pot O' Gold page per the song Day Tripper
New stuff! A shorter list for your perusal this time, but another two albums are now chalked off the list.
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Surprise! Only a month between updates this time, and dare I say it perhaps more than mildly impressive progress to round out 2024 and celebrate the tenth birthday of the site. Here's what's new:
So, several album and CD singles completed and a shedload of new song pages created. Now go check them out instead of getting crosseyed looking at this list. Happy reading! Wow. It really has been half a year since the previous devblog. I have finally attained true slackerdom. I could regail you with tales of work done in the garden, of house repairs, of hospital visits and of a trapped nerve. Whilst all of those do refer to real life events, the main reason is of course that I'm lazy. And I watch too much television. Anyway, I haven't been entirely inactive around here:
What have I been up to for the last three months you may ask... Well, I have been busy with a couple of other projects, so progress here has been slower than it otherwise would have been. Still, it's a pretty long list when all typed out - much longer than I expected actually. Lots and lots of new variants added, as well as several corrections made where I had been a bit hung-ho previously!
I just realised that at the end of 2024, this website will celebrate its tenth birthday. It's been a long road - longer than I realised - and there is still some way to go. But hopefully by then every album and every song version will be fully documented. In the meantime here's a handy list outlining progress since the start of year ten...
Here's a list of what I've been up to over the past seven or eight weeks or thereabouts. Beats me why anyone would be interested in my activities, but in that time I've also started painting some of the walls in my home with thermal paint, repaired my tumble drier and eaten some pigs in blankets. Enough about me though, you're more interested in Larry Norman. I should hope
So there you have it. I know a matrix error is huge news but I think the Kickstarter might be even more interesting. As of now the campaign is concluded, met its target and we are waiting on Charles to finish barbecuing in his back yard and get the CDs and LPs pressed. I've heard the album and genuinely believe it to be the best live Larry release of all. Very much worth the near fifty year wait! Still working away here! We're now moving into the time period (mid 2000s) where Larry released many limited run 'boutique' titles. These were often live recordings and/or sourced from bootlegs, and consequently require more time to transcribe than albums containing studio recordings do. It might appear like I'm slowing down. If so it's just because 'the going is getting rough'. ;-) This is also the time period where Larry started releasing titles exclusively available to fan club (Solid Rock Army - SRA) members. If you weren't part of that elite band of soldiers then this and the next few updates might well alert you to some cool recordings you didn't even know existed....
Anyway, since last time:
So nearly two months on and I'm reverting to type. Slackerdom. I might claim to have also been working in my garden over the summer, but is that the truth?
Slacker or not, here's what's new:
** There are several online sellers who have been listing the 'centre hole' version of this single for £30 plus for at least the past year. Please be aware that these high prices started appearing after the very rare Canadian pressing surfaced and sold for that kind of money. But, a very rare Canadian release does not equal a fairly common UK release. The latter typically sold for about £5 prior to all this. As I forged into 2003 in terms of Larry releases, I realised I had forgotten to check the various Illegal Noise CDs. Cue a little detour back to 2001 to plug what turned out to be many gaps there....
Some good progress has been made over the last month or so, even if I do say so myself. You can judge for yourself by perusing the following fascinating breakdown...
... If you reached the end of the list with the feeling that I oversold it somewhat then I would ask you to think for a moment about the numerous versions of Belfast Bootlegs, the extensive differences between them, and the sheer number of tracks they contain. Then consider that each track had to be compared across each version to identify any differences, lyrics transcribed and dozens upon dozens of song pages updated..... Still unimpressed? If so I will forever live in hope of you never becoming my manager and carrying out my appraisal. ;-) |
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