Fish x Seabass Vinyl
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2023
- Hi all, apologies for the silence but it's been particularly full on here in the last few days as we tried to get to grips with the vinyl issue. After a few glitches and gremlins since last weekend Seabass are pressing the vinyl for the '13th Star' and 'A Feast Of Consequences' box sets as I type and they will be arriving here Friday night (15th December) to be sorted and all posted out next Monday/ Tuesday so that they arrive in time for Christmas!
The albums sound incredible but the presses over at Macmerry had a couple of small issues that were leaving audible 'ticks' on the run in and run out on the discs. It took a few days to determine what was causing them and as you can see from the video the quality control at Seabass is second to none and as the first pressings the discs had to be perfect.
It's all sorted now and I acknowledge it's 5 days later than we had all hoped to have the albums out. Don't worry they are still well in the window for the Xmas post and all the orders will be on their way to you next Monday. Please don't write in asking when they have been sent as we are now totally focused on getting the albums out to you and answering mails eats into Simone's mailroom time.
Enjoy the video and I think you will appreciate exactly what goes into creating vinyl records and the meticulous process that is behind delivering real quality product that both David and Dominique Harvey and the team at Seabass vinyl pride themselves on and we here at fish music want to deliver to you apologies again for the silence and the slight delay but we are back on track and in the groove in every sense 🙂
Take care,
Fish and Simone
Order the new vinyl editions of '13th Star' and 'A Feast of Consquences' from store.fishmusic.scot
A beautiful video guys very nice and interesting to see the vinyl being made ❤❤❤
Cool beans Fish! Best format for the best musicians! You should of mentioned that pressings are 180 gram ( thicker than traditional albums) which make the more stable on the record player and therefore sound better! Cheers from the US!
Love the opening sequence: it's Seabass - with its fishy logo - and there's Fish, just like a weatherbeaten old sea captain, woolly hat, white beard and Arran jumper - he just needs "an ol' peep" to complete the picture!
Ticks,clicks,pops!
Absolutely love this. Simone does such a wonderful job and so glad you have partnered with this company Fish.
Loved this informative video ordered the vinyl for my husband’s birthday, Fish and Simone have been great with regular updates regarding postage happy to support Fish considering what he has given his fans FOF for three years which has been extremely funny and informative 😊❤
Brilliant place, amazing process!
Superb video. Thanks for actually giving a f*ck, both yourself, Fish, and Seabass vinyl. For those of us that actually have high end record playing systems, it feels good to know that with the money we're spending we're getting product where the people care!! My system will also thank you for it and my ears and wallet thank you for your pursuit of perfection!! Nothing feels worse than getting to hear something you've spent decent cash on, and it sounds crap... due to poor production or worse, poor pressing quality. Its really great when we find people in the music industry that really do care for the quality of the sound of their music. And sadly it's also quite rare. Thanks again to all involved, I know I for one was pretty gutted to hear you'd had to reject them all, at first try Fish, so I'm very glad you found a local company to help you out!! Long live that relationship!! 😊😊😊😊
Non-fill, pits, stitching! It can break your heart!
Great video, thanks for sharing this Fish, well done to everybody! Looking forward to receiving my vinyl!
Fascinating !! Great video
Notice the 2 fishes in the seabass logo👌
Bien vu !!
Interesting to look back in time. I was, at the age of 15 at Nostel Priory Folk Festival in 1982. I grew up as the son of a preacher in a strict religious household. My neighbors who were trusted with my care took me there for the weekend. I saw what a lot described as the "birth of Marillion" on that Saturday afternoon. My neighbors and I were big Tull fans and I also saw Tull for the first time. You guys definately stole the show. I'm 57 now and live in Pennsylvania, I look back on this like it was yesterday and with a big smile as it was so memorable. It was truly a great experience. Interestingly, Theakstones brewery claimed there was an average of 18 pints of Old Peck or Best Bitter consumed per person during the festival. I as an innocent (yeah right) 15 year old certainly consumed my part, at least! Today I'm a subscriber and watch with interest what is going on these days. The world has changed in many negative ways. It would be great to turn the clock back to the times when you took the stage back in 1982. Cheers mate!
I have virtually the same story … I can remember that afternoon like it was yesterday and now here we are 41 years later on the other side of the planet with the same memory!
I was there 14 years old. Tull rocked
@@garyleivers9194 Which country are you in Gary? I also remember Lindisfarne was magical that afternoon. Wang Chung should have been bottled off the stage! The Blues band was really good. It's a shame the Marillion thing didn't stay together as it was. It had a certain raw edge to it that is now lost. Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol was great on the Friday night. Then the finalle, Tull. What a show. I think if I remember right they came on with a song for Jeffrey. Great memories.
@@philstevens9914 Phil I moved to California in 1992.... thought you might enjoy reading this which was part of a 'covid' email chain in our office about everything related to music. I think you might be able to relate to some of it....
By the late 70's / early 80's, Progressive Rock's popularity in the public consciousness had waned as the punk revolution strutted on to the main stage and poked fun at the aural self-indulgence that had dominated the scene for over a decade. But from the smoldering embers, a small movement of neo-progressive bands emerged in England led by Aylesbury based, Marillion. With their charismatic frontman Fish, the comparison to Peter Gabriel era Genesis both hurt and helped them gain popularity. They released 4 albums during this period before changing singers and their sound, largely turning their backs on what had come before. But the 1981-89 era is fondly remembered, and recently a Facebook Group was formed which encouraged fans from around the world to share their connection to the band and the music that holds a special place in the hearts of many and certainly in this writer's. This was my story....
It was 1982, the Falklands War was being fought, Spain hosted the World Cup and in a small town in England's Industrial heartland, I joined the sixth form to begin my A levels studies. At the time, Progressive Rock's classic albums; Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', Genesis's 'Selling England by the Pound' and Yes's 'Close to the Edge' were less than 10 years old, but it might as well have all happened in the Middle Ages back then. Having turned 16, we donned our fatigued combat jackets, faded jeans seemingly held together by a single thread and having finally broken our parents down were allowed to grow our hair long. The Saturday afternoon trip to Nottingham's city center to buy second hand albums became an almost religious experience, and the evening would be spent just staring at the growing width of their collective spines as we immersed ourselves in the soundtrack of a decade gone by. All the classic bands had either changed beyond recognition or simply stopped performing, the one exception was Jethro Tull who were touring behind 'Broadsword and the Beast'. In August of that year, I went to my first outdoor concert at the famed Theakston Festival in Wakefield. An eclectic line up featured a new band called Marillion, and I remember seeing it listed in the program because of the similarity to the title of the Tolkien book which was required reading in between technical drawing classes. Even then, they made quite the impression and when their debut single 'Market Street Heroes' was released on 12", it wasn't the title track, but the lengthy opus 'Grendel' on the "B' side that caught my attention. Wasn't this our own 'Supper's Ready'? I can vividly recall the excitement of the debut album being released on 13 March 1983 and racing home to play it endless on my Dual turntable!
By the time the band came to town to tour two weeks later, I like the rest of the crowd had committed every word to memory and sang like our lives depended on it in the crushed first few rows of the Rock City faithful. It was just an exhilarating experience, and none of our group could quite believe it when Fish, cool as a cucumber, appeared at the back and chatted with us like he was just one of our gang. At Reading Festival that August, Marillion blew everyone else off the stage including a bizarrely Gillan fronted Black Sabbath. The band would return a few months later to Rock City to perform one of their infamous Christmas shows, and then the wait for the second album began. I know many believe that 'Fugazi' was a step down, but to the these young ears it could do no wrong. To this day every time I hear the tender opening arpeggios of 'Jigsaw' I am back in my tiny bedroom staring in to the eyes of my first girlfriend like a lost puppy dog. Only recently did I discover that my next gig at the DeMontford Hall in Leicester was actually recorded and contributed to the live EP 'Real to Real'. And then something happened and even now I'm not sure what.
ua-cam.com/video/RThsZPlOy-0/v-deo.html - The title track of the debut album.
While the first two albums had tracks that stood on their own, carefully balanced reminiscent of the golden years of Progressive Rock. Misplaced Childhood seemed like it came from another band completely. My memory is a little fogey here, but I can recall being in our local pub and everyone coming back from the gig at the Theater Royal (the natural step up from Rock City) and not being overly disappointed, and this at a time when their one main stream hit 'Kayleigh' was riding high in the charts.
ua-cam.com/video/OQ4oaLUilBc/v-deo.html - Their only hit single, that named a thousand baby girls in 1985, including the current White House press secretary.
Amazingly I didn't even purchase the follow up 'Clutching with Straws'. That's quite a shift and one that mystifies me still, as I've grow to appreciate both. I immigrated to the United States in 1991 and largely forgot about Marillion until 2005 when almost unbelievably they came over as a trio and performed in a local record store as a prelude to a small 400 person venue later that night in San Diego. To be honest, I had a hard time reconciling what I knew against what was in front of me, and it didn't help that I wasn't familiar with any of the music. The one highlight was being literally next to Steve Rothery when he performed the solo to the one song I did know, 'Sugar Mice'.
ua-cam.com/video/3Iu1JOVT0jQ/v-deo.html - I have yet to see an audience simply take over the singing like this.
That was really quite something, and chatting with him afterwards, I realized how many people must tell him... 'Hey I saw you in (fill in blanks)'. I subsequently tried some of the H stuff and like most enjoyed 'Marbles', but part of me is still stuck in those halcyon days and maybe that just blocks out the light from everything that followed. It was such a formative time in my own life that I think I recently realized the reason I'm compelled to share my own story with this band some 38 years later, is because it was the soundtrack to my own childhood and I am eternally grateful to these amazing musicians for their contribution, which was most certainly not "Misplaced'.
That's so fascinating. Amazing what goes into producing vinyl and the number of processes involved.
Es ist immer gut zu wissen mit wem man zusammen arbeitet und wer da hinter steht und wieviel Herz eingebracht ist. Sehr interessantes Video. Dir und Simone weiter viel Erfolg für eure Projekte.
Great to see how our beloved vinyl is created have a great christmas and new year Fish and Simone
so cool to see an actual pressing plant take such care in the whole production process!
Brilliant video. I’ve always been fascinated by vinyl
What a great place for vinyl, they also do small runs which is brilliant for smaller bands.
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Will share this great informative video. And very happy that those two records will be printed on new vinyl editions. I do have some old Marillion Lps and also one of your solo discs. Do still remember when i got your first solo album and took it to the radio station (Estereo Panama 106.7 FM), and we got together and put the needle on your record for the first time. The listeners favorite song was "Family Business"
Absolutely brilliant! 👍🤞👏
Great vid! Looks like a great place to work. Giving your vinyl the respect it deserves!
Absolutely brilliant to see We've ordered feast and 13th star on vinyl can't wait to receive cheers don 😊
Backt to roots❤
Great job Fish and staff!
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Great insight into what's involved 👍🏻
The big man himself
So looking forward to getting my Feast of vinyl 👍
Interesting! Have been listening to 13th Star CD in my car this past week, so, synchronicity!
Wish it was rain gods with zipos on the press 🤞
The best album art always, oh and the music ain't bad 🐠
Great
Impressive
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Nice one Fish! I just checked their pricing and its the best i've seen.
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Ortofon Red cartridge and stylus for checking?
Looks like it...
Very good cart for price.
I have been using only Ortofon carts since 1980. There may be better carts but for price, sound, quality for my Dual, Pioneer and Technics turntables, Ortofon is my only choice.
They seem to have cracked it, basic pressing now adays are not good at all, back to the 70’s for poor quality