To be fair I was only 15 and it was very new, and very overwhelming. I'd never been in Manchester Free Trade Hall before and it was just full of all these hairy guys with strange smells around (um, I wonder what that was ). Anyway it was The Groundhogs we'd gone to see and they were fantastic, I still play their stuff to this day when the mood takes me. Never bought any Egg mind
Billy bones we may have been at the same concert, I was 12 months your senior, and it was my first trip to the FTH too, although there would be lots of subsequent visits.
Guilty I did by some Egg, can't remember what it was called proper proper PROG but I enjoyed it none the less. Might even dig it out later and give it a spin
Analogue
401 / PU7 / AT33ev
Longdog Audio Quartz Garrard PSU.
Longdog Audio Phono stage (MCj1) Digital
NVA BMU.
Innuos Zen / Caiman Seg and Dorado
Cambridge CXC Amps
Tron Seven Linestage.
Bel Canto Set 40, or LDA 300B Set Monoblocks Speakers
Tannoy GRF Memory.
Tannoy ST100 Supertweeters
I had a 2nd hand leather jacket that was drenched in it by the previous owner.
My cat loved the smell and would roll in ecstasy in that jacket.
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Mission 760 + Monolith 887 + German Maestro GMP 450