i once found a large red flight case, about 6' x 3' x 3'
underneath a temporary staircase leading up to the entrance to the gallery in the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane (the gallery where Gunther von Hagens performed his televised autopsy, fact fans). Quite what it was doing there I don't know.

This was about a decade ago, whilst I was on work experience and long before Brick Lane became Skinny Jean Twat with £5 Plimsolls & Plaid Shirt with Geek Glasses Central.

In it was a fuck-load of Ampex Grand Master 456 2" master tapes - I would say there was at least 25 of the buggers. A lot of them were by artists I did not recognise and not being able to cart them all home as I wanted to I disregarded most of them.

I was determined to find at least one decent tape in the whole lot to take home and, right at the bottom one tape did indeed catch my eye.

It's labelled ' "In The Sunshine" - Jamiroqua [sic] ' and is, from what I've gathered on a quick Google search, a track that must have been recorded during the 'Emergency On Planet Earth' sessions and then failed to make the final cut of the album.

I found what could possibly be a lost Jamiroquai master tape, that is probably unheard of outside of the immediacy of the band/label/studio staff and even now this makes me giggle like a schoolboy :D

And i've yet to even listen to the track myself!
( applehead herp derp, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 23:09, 1 reply)

Jeeeze!
I would have called in back-up and shifted the lot!

Lucky bugger!!

Click for what I would definately consider a priceless find! (Bet some of the other tapes were by emerging or yet to emerge artists, and possibly would have made the grade in time!
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Wed 12 Nov 2008, 14:09, closed)