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BHLP 002 -
DOGWATCH
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This band always pulled a good crowd, they really worked hard at it. Being an unusual band making there own type of music, it was harder for them. You have to give them give them credit, they were a successful gigging band. They approached me about recording a live album, at first i was reluctant. I thought about it and what the hell, it might help the band. It was going to cost me around the £2,000, in 1979 it was a lot of money, around the £25,000 mark with today prices. So i had to sell around 1000 albums to get my money back, which I never did. We never even sold 500, but as the old saying goes, luck favours the brave. We made it and I played it to my publishers, Martin,and Coulter and Bill Martin offered me £5,000 for the rights to it. He said he had a deal with Sony and needed a new album. So I had to take his money, we paid all the bills and me and the band spilt the rest, £1,500 each. So with the cash from the albums we had sold we made a nice profit. If you want to hear the flugelhorn and guphonium played for you by John Trelawney, find this album; Penfriends by Dogwatch.
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