hmmm very interesting...
bias.
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:06:52 -0800
From: depeche <d-mode@pacbell.net>
Subject: [bong] Porky Prime Cut... Revealed!
Ever wonder what the story behind the "Porky Prime Cut..." in the runout
groove of all those records is about?
I found this today, it explains it all....
Those mysterious messages explained!
(by Adrian Deevoy)
George Peckham, record cutter by appointment, and Porky are one and the
same. 'It was a nickname I got in Liverpool during the '60s,' expands Porky
in melodic Scouse, ''cos of all the old slagbags I used to chase and the ale
I put away.'
Singer and guitarist with the Brian Epstein-managed '60s beat combo The
Fourmost, Peckham left the group to work for Epstein's rather more famous
charges when they opened the Apple studio in 1968.
<snip>
'The problem the lads were having was, they found they'd record something in
the studio and it would sound completely different, really weak. So I said
they should do an acetate on vinyl and log the information then transfer the
spec when they cut the master.'
Obviously impressed by this rather technical-sounding jargon, The Beatles
offered Peckham the position of chief Apple cutter and Porky was born.
<snip of teccie record-mastering stuff>
'Before you make the final positive,' adds Peckham, 'you have to put a
matrix number in the middle, because as far as the factory is concerned it's
just another disc. Then I sneak on the old Porky Prime Cut...'
Originally, the 'Porky' was a reference for the pressing plant should they
need to contact the cutter.
'That was the main reason I only ever wrote Porky on The Beatles' records,'
Peckham enlarges, 'but I was also scared to put any weird stuff on their
records because their fans were that crazy about them that they'd read
something into it.'
<snip about cutting George Harrison's and John Lennon's solo records>
Soon everyone wanted the now legendary Porky hallmark - preferably replete
with cryptic message - on the run-off grooves of their records.
<snip about other cutting jobs for Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Stiff
Records...>
(UL tie-in alert)
'(Monty Python's) Matching Tie and Handkerchief album was a bit of a
bastard,' he chuckles. 'Mike Palin came down and said he wanted to cut this
one track with a double groove so you put the record on and depending which
groove the needle fell into, you'd get one of two tracks. Ten goes that
took. A right bugger of a red eye job. I think I wrote, 'Dear Mum, Please
Send Another Cuppa Down, Still Cutting The Python LP, Love Porky XX' on that
one.'
Andrew
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