Skunk:
The ehm, the first record I ever bought, I got it... What I used to do was I’d
save up my pocket money and sometimes I’d skip school dinners and keep the
money Mum had given me for that, and then a couple of weeks before Christmas
I’d, actually ehm, that’s not strictly speaking true, because usually I’d be so
damn excited about the whole thing that I’d start doing my Christmas shopping
in October or something, but I’d, I had the ehm the...
putting
his hands together before his mouth as if in prayer, and yawning into them
Skunk:
..the, I would go up into town and buy all the presents on one afternoon, stuff
for my mum and for my friends, and one time I saw an album of Christmas carols,
so I bought that, you know, I hadn’t really thought about music that much
before, but my mum had a really, one of those old mono record players and I
used to sometimes play her old Elvis singles and stuff, but mostly I liked to
sit in there with the turntable going, and I’d, you know, without a record on
it, and I’d make spiral patterns on it with different coloured crayons.
Laughs.
Skunk:
Actually, that em… It reminds me of, em…
sighs.
Skunk:
I always, I always thought it would be… You know that thing where um, you see
a, sometimes you see bits of broken records, I mean, how they get there I have
no idea, but, maybe you’re walking along and you’ll see like, just a fragment
of um, of eh… vinyl, a vinyl record… lying in the street or or wherever, and I
always used to wonder, I always used to wonder em, when I saw the, what the
record was. What record did this come from? And I had an idea that I would, I
would get a, a twelve inch piece of wood
coughs
Skunk:
or a seven inch piece of wood, you know, for for singles, but… to get a twelve
inch piece of wood, a circle, and eh, particularly if, if the fragment came
from the outside edge, right, where you could just glue it in place, the curve,
curve, the… the outside curve, glue that against, onto the outside curve, you
know, so that it lined up with the ehm, so that it lined up with the, the edge
of the wooden disc. Then you could put that on a… a turntable, and play it. And
just, as it came round, drop the needle onto it for that fraction, for that
fraction of the record, and you would, hopefully from that, that little bit of information
that you got, that little piece of music, you would be able to figure out what
the, what the whole album was. Ridiculous.
